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Showing posts with label Montgomery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Montgomery. Show all posts
21 December 2025

Dusty CanLit Autumn Reads

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What a difference a season makes, twenty-two thousand little hours. Three months ago, I was bemoaning the slim summer haul . Well, this past...
02 December 2025

The Best Canadian Books in English (as of 1925)

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One hundred years ago today, the Toronto Globe published a short article about a YMCA book contest. The Association had asked participants ...
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25 June 2025

On Abebooks' '20 must-read Canadian authors'

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My first Abebooks transaction took place in 1997, roughly two years after the site launched. I purchased a copy of Mordecai Richler's St...
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01 December 2021

The 1921 Globe 100 206: Don't Mention the War

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The Globe , 3 December 1921 The 1921 edition of 'Recent Books and the Outlook,' the  Globe's  annual list of best books, begins ...
21 December 2019

The Globe 100 One Hundred Years Ago: Poets are Struck Dumb and Capitalism Proves Embarrassing

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The Globe , 6 December 1919 Last month, the Globe & Mail published  'The Globe 100' , its annual list of the year's...
01 July 2018

Laura Salverson's 'For Canada' for Canada Day

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A poem – and prayer – by Laura Salverson, from Wayside Gleams , her only collection of verse, published in 1925 by McClelland & Stew...
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05 December 2016

The Season's Best Books in Review — A.D. 1916

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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...
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04 April 2016

Passing Go with Canadian Notes & Queries

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Ce soir à Windsor , the launch of Canadian Notes & Queries #95. "The Games Issue", it features contributions by Tobias Ca...