The Dusty Bookcase

One month after the Armistice, the post-war world is in many ways unrecognizable. Consider this from the front page of the December 7, 1...

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

Florence Randal Livesay 1874 - 1953 RIP Florence Randal Livesay was a remarkable woman. Born, raised and educated in the small Quebec t...

The "Globe 100" of its time, I've long been interested in the Globe & Mail's  "Season's Best Books in Rev...

For this first day of the season, two century-old poems of the Great War, both titled "Autumn, 1917," both written by women on...

A 100-year-old poem for the sesquicentennial, written during the dark days of the Great War by Horace Bray of Thamesview, Ontario. A rec...

Verse written on the occasion of the greatest Canadian victory of the Great War by one who was there. This version of Scott's poem ...

Century-old jingoism to begin a New Year by Minnie Henrietta Bethune Hallowell Bowen (1861-1942) of Sherbrooke, Quebec, from John W. G...

The Globe , 2 December 1916 The 2016 Globe 100 was published last week. As with any other, one could quibble with this year's lis...

Century-old verse by Captain Theodore Goodridge Roberts, younger brother of Sir Charles God Damn, inspired by  the Canadian victory at C...

Miss Ruth Strong Torontonensis, 1918 Century-old verse by Ruth Strong of Hamilton, an undergraduate of the University of Toronto, f...

Century-old verse by Miss Elspeth Honeyman, whose brothers served in the 29th Battalion (Vancouver). From Canadian Poems of the Great Wa...

The Globe , 25 December 1915 A CHRISTMAS STAR                     Christmas chimes across the snow,                          Can ...

'Thanksgiving' by Douglas Leader Durkin Canadian Poems of the Great War John W. Garvin, ed. Toronto: McClelland & Ste...