Been 31 years old, the French-Canadian photographer and author Bertrand Lemeunier crossed Canada alone by bike from May 2007 to January 2008 to raise funds for the Children’s Wish Foundation. He managed to raise 30 000 $ for them.

During his trip, he took thousands photos in the 10 Canadian provinces and in the Northern Canadian Territories (Yukon, NWT and Nunavut).

Then, with Éric Clément, reporter at La Presse, he produced this book, O Canada, 10,000 miles from Coast to Coast, which is their second collaboration after Français de Montréal, a coffee table book published in 2005, at Les Éditions La Presse.

A 250 pages bilingual book, O Canada, 10,000 miles from Coast to Coast shows the beauty of Canada, its most amazing and unique landscapes from one ocean to the other and introduces the reader to 30 Canadians, all of different origins and professions, whom Bertrand Lemeunier met throughout his trip and which Éric Clément interviewed from Montreal by phone.

From the Newfoundlander saviour of oil-stricken birds, Stan Tobin, to the first female Nunavut Prime minister, Eva Aariak, including Constable Egan Henderson, recruit instructor for the RCMP in Regina, Kelly Saxberg and Ron Harpelle, international film directors from Thunder Bay, worldwide famous sculptor Joe Fafard from Saskatchewan, Gilles Martin, biologic farmer in New Brunswick, or Catherine Hennessey, Miss Heritage of Charlottetown, all express their deep attachment to their roots and their love for Canada.

As we both do in this book…

My favorite lens for Portraits : Canon 85 mm f/1,8
My favorite light : natural – no flash
My favorite moment : everytime

Les espèces qui survivent ne sont pas les espèces les plus fortes,
ni les plus intelligentes, mais celles qui s’adaptent le mieux aux changements.
Charles Darwin

Fondée en 1642 par le Français Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, Montréal a bénéficié des apports réguliers d’immigrants d’abord européens puis venant du monde entier, faisant de la métropole une des villes les plus cosmopolites du monde. La France a toujours conservé un attachement fort à Montréal. Dans ce livre de photographies de Ville-Marie, des Français qui ont choisi d’y vivre et qui sont devenus des personnalités marquantes de l’histoire contemporaine de Montréal nous font partager leur amour pour cette ville.
Format : 25cm x 28cm – 272 pages – plus de 300 photos

Pour commander : bertrand.lemeunier@gmail.com

“Ce livre se parcourt comme une longue lettre d’amour à Montréal écrite par des Français qui ont choisi d’y vivre…”
LA PRESSE, Rima Elkouri

« On rêve trop souvent les yeux fermés, il faut plutôt rêver les yeux ouverts. » Mike Horn

My favorite lens : fish eye 15 mm f/2,8
My favorite time : sunset – sunrise
My favorite place : everywhere