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	Mairuth Sarsfield Definition / Mairuth Sarsfield Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Mairuth Hodge Sarsfield (born at Montreal Montreal or Montréal1 (IPA: in Canadian English, in French) is a major Canadian city.
		Mairuth Sarsfield is a creative communicator responsible for global information themes for the United Nations Environment programme in Nairobi, Kenya.
		Mairuth Sarsfield is a journalist, film maker, TV host and a much sought after speaker.
	www.elresearch.com /Mairuth_Sarsfield (378 words)

	Mairuth Sarsfield
		Mairuth Hodge Sarsfield (born at Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian author, activist journalist, researcher and television personality.
		Sarsfield has had a long, varied and distinguished career.
		Author of a number of books, Sarsfield is retired and lives on Vancouver Island.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Mairuth_Sarsfield (183 words)

	050228 - Forever Young - The many colours of Little Burgundy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		No Crystal Stair, written by first-time author Mairuth Sarsfield and published in 1997, was one of five novels criticized by a panel of celebrity advocates in what CBC Radio calls a "literary Survivor." The series was to be aired the week of Feb. 21 to 25.
		Sarsfield, now 74, already had a lengthy resume that included stints as a consultant and coordinator for Canadian pavilions at Expo 67 and 70, a published children's author, a journalist and researcher, a communications consultant for the United Nations and a CBC researcher and board member when she started research for No Crystal Stair.
		Sarsfield's heroes are not so much engaged in perpetual clashes against white Montrealers as they are struggling to achieve dignity, resist temptation and find the strength to move up the economic ladder.
	www.cityparent.com /foreveryoung/archive/20050228/6260.html (990 words)

	Rotary Club of Qualicum Beach Sunrise
		Our speakers this morning were Mairuth and Dominick Sarsfield who spoke to us of their interesting careers in international work of various kinds.
		Mairuth's career was with External Affairs and the United Nations.
		Dominick Sarsfield, a chartered accountant by profession, was quick to explain that, though born in London, he is from Ireland.
	members.shaw.ca /qbsunrise/20040601.htm (559 words)

	Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
		'''Mairuth Hodge Sarsfield''' (born at Montreal, Quebec) is a Canada Canadian author, activist journalist, researcher and television personality.
		Born and bred in Montreal, she has worked as host for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation CBC, CTV, and TV Ontario.
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	www.mauspfeil.net /Mairuth_Sarsfield.html (254 words)

	CBC.ca - Canada Reads - Author - Mairuth Sarsfield (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This tribute stems from Sarsfield’s time as senior information officer for the United Nations Environment Program in Nairobi, Kenya, when she developed and launched a worldwide campaign known as "For Every Child a Tree".
		That’s only one of many positions Mairuth Hodge Sarsfield has held in a long and distinguished career.
		Sarsfield has lived all over the world, including New York City, East and West Africa, Washington DC, Papua New Guinea, Japan and Ottawa.
	www.cbc.ca /canadareads/author/mairuthsarsfield.html (190 words)

	Artists & Artisans of Craig Bay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Mairuth Sarsfield being congratulated by Foreign Affairs Minister Andre Oullet after she was awarded the United Nations 50th Anniversary Medal at a Parliament Hill ceremony.
		In 1982, Mairuth organized the United Nations campaign "For Every Child a Tree." Briefly, this campaign called for countries to donate and plant a tree for every child born on June 5, 1972, which was the opening day of the Stockholm Conference (on Human Environment).
		He and his wife, Mairuth, noticed the Craig Bay signs while on their way to visit friends in Qualicum Beach.
	www.lifestyles.craigbay.com /Artists/Artist-Sarsfield/Artist-Sarsfield.htm (590 words)

	Bermuda Sun Weekend Life:March 12,1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Mairuth Sarsfield to read at the National Gallery
		Sarsfield is accomplished in a number of other areas.
		Mairuth Sarsfield to read at the National Gallery, The dance of inspiration, The New Pollution, Berkeley Institute play explores teen themes
	www.bermudasun.org /issues/mar12_99/bermudalife.html (1861 words)

	No Crystal Stair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Mairuth Sarsfield was born and bred in Montreal and has lived in New York, East and West Africa, Washington, D.C.; Papua, New Guinea and Japan.
		She is the recipient of the Chevalier de l'ordre national du Quebec, and was honoured in Cleveland, Ohio with a "Mairuth Sarsfield Day".
		Mairuth worked as a Foreign Service Officer, as a communications expert on global information themes for the United Nations Environment Programme in Nairobi; and served on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for many years.
	www.cspi.org /womenspress/books/n/nocrystal.htm (415 words)

	The Official Black History Month Poster: 2005 (French) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Le 22 octobre est le « Jour Mairuth Sarsfield » à Cleveland, en Ohio.
		Sarsfield est diplômée de l’Université McGill et de la Columbia School of Journalism.
		En 1985, Sarsfield est devenue l’une des rares femmes à être reçue membre de l’Ordre du Québec, le plus grand honneur décerné par la province pour les oeuvres de création.
	www.exodusimages.net /2005%20Poster%20(French).htm (792 words)

	Where have all the good jazz clubs gone? - The McGill Tribune - features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Mairuth Sarsfield invokes this era in her 1997 novel No Crystal Stair, discussing the theme of high and low culture through music in 1942.
		Two characters in Sarsfield's novel debate the style of Oscar Peterson, who was emerging as a renowned jazz pianist in the early 1940s.
		A white character feels that Peterson's talent comes from the influence of European composers such as Liszt, while a fl character argues that Duke Ellington and the fl community served as an inspiration for one of Montreal's most famous musicians.
	www.mcgilltribune.com /news/2003/11/25/Features/Where.Have.All.The.Good.Jazz.Clubs.Gone-567290.shtml (1027 words)

	The Link \| Finding black in page and periodical (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The problem, she explained, was that "the material is really invisible." Despite the fact that fl literature has been analyzed it has never been systematically collected and archived.
		Sarsfield told Williams that as a little girl, she and her sister rescued some of the last existing copies of Free Lance.
		Sarsfield's father, who distributed the paper at the time, came home one evening frustrated that nobody would buy the paper and started throwing them into the fireplace.
	thelink.concordia.ca /lit/03/12/02/0329238.shtml (758 words)

	SYMPOSIUM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Mairuth Sarsfiled is an internationally acclaimed Afro-Canadian writer.
		She is working on a screenplay for the book while completing her second novel.
		Ms Sarsfield is the recipient of the Cavalier de l'Orde de National du Quebec and has been honoured in Cleveland, Ohio, with a 'Mairuth Sarsfield Day' in recognition of her concerns for the environment.
	www.wellesley.edu /Africana/SYMPOSIUM.html (181 words)

	Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Mairuth Hodge Sarsfield was inundated with autographing her first novel, No Crystal Stair, a poignant novel about life in Montreal's "Little Burgundy," in the mid-forties.
		The strength of the characters as they struggle to retain their own colorful identities without being submerged into Canadian culture of so called proper norms, makes this a charming, easy to read novel.
		Cutline: Pictured signing autographs for her first novel is Mairuth Hodge Sarsfield, who wrote No Crystal Stair,
	www.stmarys.ca /administration/publicaffairs/thetimes/may1997/caribbean.html (361 words)

	Work//Life: ACAA's achieving women (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Among the list are CFTO TV newscaster Karlene Nation, Order of Quebec-honouree and author Mairuth Sarsfield, and Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister Jean Augustine.
		Pauline Thomas, Arts & Entertainment -- she is also known as Aunty Comesee, a classical singer, dramatist and storyteller whose work in theatre has entertained many members of the Carribean and Guyanese community.
		Mairuth Sarsfield, Community Service -- she has received a medal for outstanding service from the United Nations among her many other recognitions.
	www.canoe.ca /LifewiseWorkLife00/0424_women.html (940 words)

	Cultures Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Sprinter Donovan Bailey and Mairuth Sarsfield bring different approaches to the subject of heroes in the fl community.
		Sarsfield, a Canadian of Bermudian heritage, may be best known as a novelist.
		Her book, No Crystal Stairs, is a fictionalized account of her growing up in Montreal.
	www.culturescanada.ca /media/news.php?detail=n1012931100.news (479 words)

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	BIBLIOGRAPHY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		No Crystal Stair has all the ingredients for an incredibly powerful, yet wistful film, exposing as it does the inner strength of Black women, pitted against the pressure to submerge their cultural colours for Caucasian acceptance.
		Mairuth Sarsfield's distinction is in her acute, yet tender and delicate perception of the people about whom she is writing.
		Few people today realize the approbation given, in the '40s to the music and culture of the Harlem renaissance, which spread from New York to Montreal, led by Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Count Basie and Oscar Peterson...
	collections.ic.gc.ca /freedom/bib3.htm (239 words)

	Mairuth Hodge Sarsfield (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Montreal-born Mairuth Hodge Sarsfield evolved from journalist into research writer and on-camera host (CBC, CTV, and TVO).
		During a major chunk of her professional career as an information officer, she enlivened topics ranging from U.N. Law of the Sea and Expo '70, Japan, to sustainable development of the earth's resources, earning awards and recognition for her creativity.
		Now, with two more books underway, Sarsfield divides her talent between public readings and her typewriter.
	www.writersunion.ca /s/sarsfeld.htm (113 words)

	Writers Festival 1998 Authors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		She is the recipient of the Chevalier de l'ordre national du Québec and was honoured in Cleveland, Ohio, with a "Mairuth Sarsfield Day".
		Retired, she now lives in Ottawa with her husband, Dominick.
		Purchase: The Gathering: Stones for the Medicine Wheel
	www.writersfest.com /oldsite/html/9825.html (118 words)

	African-Canadian students conference focuses on unity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Some 100 delegates from across Canada and as far away as Brazil gathered at the Sandy Hill Community Centre on opening night for an evening of African and Caribbean cuisine and Afrocentric entertainment.
		The evening festivities were opened with welcoming speeches by Carleton University personalities including Mairuth Sarsfield, a member of Carleton's Board of Governors, Dr. Daniel Osabu-Kle, Assistant Professor of Political Science, and Lisa Marshall, from Admissions and Academic Records.
		The next day, a great deal of enthusiasm and energy was displayed at workshops on the destiny of formal education and its relevance and advantages for Black students.
	www.carleton.ca /prinfo/twac/97/mar20/s5.html (439 words)

	Montreal Mirror : NOISEMAKERS 2005 : Art : No Crystal Stair
		Jacques Poulin would stand a better chance were it not for residual terror of French language books from the Aquin debacle.
		Born and bred in Montreal, Sarsfield is better known as an international environmental activist who has a day named after her in Cleveland, Ohio.
		Her book is an easy, informative read set amidst the complicated race, linguistic and class alliances in Montreal's fl community at the height of the jazz age in Little Burgundy.
	www.montrealmirror.com /2005/010605/no_crystal_stair.html (324 words)

	Summary of 'No Crystal Stair' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Summary of 'No Crystal Stair' by Mairuth Hodge Sarsfield
		A powerful first novel by Montreal-born Sarsfield, who was one of Canada's most creative communicators and who served with Canada's foreign service and at the United Nations, it chronicles the dynamics of a 'global village' which mainstream society preferred to believe was a Black ghetto.
		Its charm is in the resilience of the three girls who circumvent the 'glass ceiling' that threatens to restrain them because they are fl.
	www.equatoriacollection.org /stair_sum.html (132 words)

	Wiarton Echo, Wiarton, ON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Wiarton Echo — For the fifth straight year, Wiarton Friends of the Library again has taken up the Chesley Library Challenge to find out which library branch will have the most readers of this year’s CBC Canada Reads program winner -- Rockbound, by Frank Parker Day.
		The winning novel, published in 1928 and long out of print, was a surprise finalist on the final day over second place Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, and three other novels selected: No Crystal Stair by Mairuth Sarsfield, Volkswagen Blues by Jacques Poulin, and Leonard Cohen’s Beautiful Losers.
		Over the five-day program all were voted off by their defenders, except for Day’s novel on the final day, last Friday.
	www.wiartonecho.com /story.php?id=146027 (358 words)

	January 21, 2005 2005 Canada Reads Finalist to Speak at Carleton --Mairuth Sarsfield to deliver a talk and reading ...
		--Mairuth Sarsfield to deliver a talk and reading entitled "No Crystal Stair"
		Noted author, Mairuth Sarsfield, will deliver a talk and reading entitled “No Crystal Stair” at Carleton University on Wednesday, January 26, at 1:00 p.m.
		With humour and sensitivity, No Crystal Stair reveals both the conflict and the human heart of the proud, tightly knit Black community of the Little Burgundy district of Quebec in the mid-forties.
	www.carleton.ca /duc/News/news01210501.html (228 words)

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