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Showing posts with label Campbell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Campbell. Show all posts
23 September 2024

Of Poets, Poetry, Politicians, and Parliament Hill

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Yet another gloriously sunny September weekend, I spent most of it stacking firewood in preparation for winter. The high point came early Sa...
02 December 2022

Best Books of 1922: Amidst a Flood of Mediocrity

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Published one hundred years ago today, the 1922 Globe round-up of the year's noteworthy books doesn't display much by way of enthus...
28 June 2014

Mackenzie King Attends the Funeral of Peregine Acland's Mother & Visits Wilfred Campbell's Grave

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I had a half hour's rest after luncheon before going into the city to attend Mrs. Acland's funeral. Went in with Hendy by statio...
08 July 2013

A is for Amtmann

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I complain. The narrow focus of this exercise – this casual exploration of our suppressed, ignored and forgotten – has prevented comme...
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28 December 2012

Mistake at Beechwood Cemetery?

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As 2012 draws to a close, I find myself wondering whether this was the year in which we should have been celebrating the sesquicentennia...
01 January 2011

A New Year

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'Te Deum Laudamus" by Francis Sherman from The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse (1913), Wilfred Campbell, ed. Related posts:...
12 December 2009

Mystery at Beechwood Cemetery

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Back in March, Jim Prentice introduced legislation recognizing Ottawa's Beechwood Cemetery as the national cemetery of Canada. Amongst...
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