The Dusty Bookcase

The Dustiest Bookcase: Short pieces on books I've always meant to review (but haven't). They're in storage as we build o...

Gee, but it's hard when one lowers one's guard to the vultures. They began tearing down the old school next to our home last w...

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

For this year, at least. Not only will budget not allow, I'm running out of room. I shouldn't complain. These past eleven ...

Adding insult to insult and injury, Gardner Auctions Inc open what might just be the final chapter in the sorry story of Arthur Meighen Publ...

True story: Three years ago, during our last months in Vancouver, I was working on an anthology of historic Canadian speeches. Among the thi...

Our ninth prime minister, Arthur Meighen, died fifty years ago this month. The anniversary itself, August 5, passed unnoticed, even in his l...

Arthur Meighen wasn't such a bad looking fellow, and as depicted by the good folks at Crayola he appears quite harmless. Would that th...

The Greatest Englishman of History Arthur Meighen Toronto: S.B. Gundy/Oxford University Press, 1936 It's been eightee...