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Léon Lorrain 1855 - 1892 RIP Verse for the day from Léon Lorrain's Les Fleurs poétiques, simples bluettes (Montreal: Beauchemin, 1890)....

Armand Durand; ou, La promesse accomplie     [Armand Durand; or, A Promise Fulfilled] Madame Leprohon [Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon;     t...

Montreal's Crystal Palace as it was in preparation of the 1874 fête St-Jean-Baptiste,  sixteen years after this verse was composed b...

The Cashier [Alexandre Chenevert] Gabrielle Roy [trans. Harry Binsse] Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1955 I wonder how much slee...

Farewell My Dreams [La fin des songes] Robert Élie [trans. Irene Coffin] Toronto: Ryerson, 1954  Farewell My Dreams isn't a titl...

The Angels of Mons,  R. Crowhurst, c. 1920 This day marks the centenary of perhaps the most extraordinary event in the Great War. The ...

For this day, the 147th anniversary of the birth of the Dominion of Canada, patriotic verse by the ever-charming Ethel Ursula Foran . A ...

Delightfully charming, unconventionally sentimental schoolgirl verse from Ethel Ursula Foran , whose "New Year's Day" h...

Twenty-two lines of celebration from Poems (Beauchemin, 1922), the first volume by young Ethel Ursula Foran (1900-1988). The daughter o...

François-Réal Angers was a truly remarkable man. A lawyer, a gentleman of letters and a strong, articulate voice against slavery in...

Just returned from a week-long trip to the mining town of Chibougamau. With a population of just over 7,000, it's considered the largest...