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Showing posts with label Maclean's. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Maclean's. Show all posts
02 July 2024

My First Canadian Book of Lists List: Ten Lists That Have Aged Poorly (Featuring Barbara Amiel!)

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Being the second post on The First Original Unexpurgated Authentic Canadian Book of Lists .   I read Barbara Amiel's columns in Maclean...
04 March 2024

Too Soon?

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Son of a Meech: The Best Brian Mulroney Jokes Mark Breslin, ed. Toronto: Ballantine, 1991 113 pages News of Brian Mulroney's death last ...
01 January 2024

Start the Year with Stringer!

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The 1924 New Year's edition of Maclean's . What is suggested? A year of excitement? Terror? Is there not something disturbing in thi...
01 January 2023

A One-Hundred-Year-Old New Year

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09 December 2022

This Blog Brought to You by General Electric

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Maclean's , 1 November 1920
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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25 December 2020

'A Mother at Christmas' by Edna Jaques

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Maclean's , 15 December 1934 Merry Chrismas! Joyeux Noël! Related posts: 'A Christmas Fantasy' by Bernard Freeman Trotter 'W...
24 December 2020

'Old Lady Christmas Shopping' by Edna Jaques

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Edna Jaques, Poet Laureate of the Home, as captured by J.W. Tetlow for the 1 September 1951 issue of Maclean's magazine. This poem come...
23 June 2020

Arthur Mayse: The Gift of His Extraordinary Life

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  At ten, The Beachcombers  consumed a steady portion of my week – one half-hour each Sunday evening – and yet Arthur Mayse's name m...
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02 June 2020

Rhyming Leads to Ruin (and a correction)

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Ballads of a Bohemian Robert W. Service New York: Barse & Hopkins, 1921 220 pages It would be interesting to see sales figures ...
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31 December 2018

An Old Year's Audience with Our Lord

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Post-war verse for a year's end by Ida Randolph Spragge, wife of Maclean's editor Thomas B. Costain, from the magazine's Ja...
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03 December 2018

Robert W. Service's Revised Christmas Miracle (with the poet's forgotten reading instructions)

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Much of this past weekend was spent in preparation for Christmas, but I did manage a couple of hours with the December 1918 edition ...