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Showing posts with label Hoaxes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hoaxes. Show all posts
01 October 2021

Dustiest Bookcase: S is for Slater (not Mitchell)

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The Dustiest Bookcase: Short pieces on books I've always meant to review (but haven't). The Water-Drinker Patrick Slater [John Mitch...
01 March 2021

Madge Macbeth's Great Gold Rush Hoax

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The Long Day: Reminiscences of the Yukon W.S. Dill [pseud Madge Macbeth] Ottawa: Laurentian Press Syndicate, [c. 1926] 245 pages I can't...
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06 December 2017

'Halifax in Ruins' by Stanley Burton Fullerton

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Verse for the one hundredth anniversary of the Halifax Explosion by Stanley Burton Fullerton of Amherst, Nova Scotia. A carpenter by tra...
24 November 2016

Kenneth Orvis Cover Cavalcade (and a mystery)

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What follows fails. It was intended as a visual feast of first edition covers for every book written by the  mysterious Kenneth ...
12 September 2016

Grant Allen Dons a Woman's Blouse

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The Type-Writer Girl Grant Allen (writing as Olive Pratt Raynor) Peterborough, ON: Broadview, 2003 Juliet Appleton is a Girton girl;...
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16 March 2015

A Very Canadian Succès de scandale

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The Parliamentary Librarian chased after "Gilbert Knox". Conservative MP Alfred Fripp joined in the hunt, intent on having the...
05 May 2014

L’enfer c’est les autres: Crad Kilodney, 1948–2014

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It's my honour to present this guest post, a tribute to the late Crad Kilodney by his friend Ruth Bradley-St-Cyr. The photo of Crad ...
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01 April 2014

The Erotic Michael Ondaatje

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Related posts: The Erotic Brian Moore The Erotic Mordecai Richler The Homoerotic A.E. van Vogt The Homoerotic E.J. Pratt The P...
23 December 2013

Christmas Comes Early

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My newest acquisition: Maria Monk's Daughter: An Autobiography Mrs. L. St. John Eckel New York: Published for the Author b...
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