The Dusty Bookcase

The Magpie Douglas Durkin Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1974 351 pages Craig Forrester has received a telephone call from Mrs Gilber...

Wild Geese Martha Ostenso New York: Dodd, Mead. 1925 358 pages The winner of the inaugural $13,500 Dodd-Mead-Famous-Players-Pictorial Review...

Laura Secord was born 250 years ago today. She was the very first figure in Canadian history I knew by name, though family lore has it that ...

Arcadian Adventures With the Idle Rich Stephen Leacock Toronto: Bell & Cockburn, 1914 310 pages On my most recent visit to Montreal I ...

Between Friends/Entre amis [Lorraine Monk, ed.] Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1976 276 pages Somewhat worse for wear, my copy of Betwee...

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