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Showing posts with label Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dictionary of Canadian Biography. 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...
11 November 2023

Remembrance Day

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Daniel Issac Vernon Eaton was the father of novelist Evelyn Eaton, whose 1940 international bestseller  Quietly My Captain Waits  was review...
14 April 2023

A Very Acadian Scandal

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Quietly My Captain Waits Evelyn Eaton New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [c. 1943] 355 pages I first learned of Louise de Freneuse last autumn ...
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15 November 2021

No Weddings and Three Funerals

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Quebec in Revolt Herman Buller Toronto: Swan, 1966 352 pages The cover has all the look of a 1960s polemic, but  Quebec in Revolt is in fact...
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01 August 2019

Margaret Murray Robertson Matrimonial Mystery (& Canadian literature's most tear-stained novel)

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Summertime, and the livin' is busy. Many irons in the fire add to the heat, the pressure is on, and I'm enjoying each and every ...
30 January 2019

Sam Steele: Himself Not God

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Major General Sir Samuel Benfield Steele KCMG CB MVO died one hundred years ago today. A man of great accomplishment, Steele's Dicti...
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18 January 2016

Falling Hard for May Agnes Fleming

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The Midnight Queen Mrs May Agnes Fleming New York: Hurst, [n.d.] 256 pages This review now appears, revised and rew...
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