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Showing posts with label Blewett. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blewett. Show all posts
25 December 2025

Wishing a Merrie Christmasse Untoe Ye

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Verse on this Christmas Day by daughter of Southern Ontario Jean Blewett from her debut collection,  Heart Songs , first published 1897 by G...
13 September 2025

Laura Secord at 250: What is Good and Brave

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Laura Secord was born 250 years ago today. She was the very first figure in Canadian history I knew by name, though family lore has it that ...
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06 December 2019

The Twenty Best Book Buys of 2019

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Never has there been a year like this. I visited few used bookstores, ignored library book sales, spent no more than a couple of hours p...
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07 October 2018

Jean Blewett's 'Thanksgiving Song'

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From Canadian Poets , John W. Garvin, ed (Toronto: McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart) From  Jean Blewett's Poems  (Toronto: McC...
23 July 2018

The Promise of a Man, a Mother in So Much Pain

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Blencarrow Isabel Mackay Toronto: Thomas Allen, 1926 307 pages The author's final novel, published two years before her death, ...
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21 May 2018

The Queen is Dead

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Verse for Victoria Day, composed by Jean Blewett upon news of the monarch's death. This version is taken from The Cornflower and O...
09 October 2016

Jean Blewett's 'Thanksgiving Prayer'

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From Jean Blewett's Poems (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1922) Related posts: Thanksgiving in the Midst of War ...
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27 March 2016

'Easter Dawn' by Jean Blewett

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Jean Blewett's Poems Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1922 Related posts: 'The Easter Parade, 1915' by Robert Sta...