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A JOURNEY THROUGH CANADA'S FORGOTTEN, NEGLECTED AND SUPPRESSED WRITING

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Showing posts with label Montreal Gazette. Show all posts
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08 November 2025

Wild Geese on Film (Part 3): After the Harvest

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The third of three addendums to  the recent post about Martha Ostenso's 1925 bestselling novel . The only film adaptation of  Wild Geese...
01 November 2025

Wild Geese on Film (Part 1): Wild Geese

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The first of three addendums to the recent post about Martha Ostenso's 1925 bestselling novel . Released in the autumn of 1927, Wild Gee...
10 June 2025

Looking Back on Looking Forward

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The Daily Witness , 16 May 1913 An addendum to last week's post on Looking Forward by Hugh Pedley . Looking Forward  features cub repor...
02 June 2025

Towards a Canada of Light

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Looking Forward:  The Strange Experience of the Rev.    Fergus McCheyne Rev. Hugh Pedley, B.A., D.D. Toronto: Briggs, 1913 294 pages The cov...
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06 August 2024

An Expo 67 Murder Mystery?

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So Long at the Fair Janet Gregory Vermandel New York: Dodd, Mead, 1968 186 pages Canadian publishers really messed up with Expo 67;  McClell...
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18 March 2024

Quick! To the Customs House!

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Montreal Customs House, c. 1916 I've been on something of a Constance Beresford-Howe kick this past week, all to do with her 1947 novel...
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Brian Busby
A writer, ghostwriter, écrivain public, literary historian and bibliophile, I'm the author of Character Parts: Who's Really Who in CanLit (Knopf, 2003), and A Gentleman of Pleasure: One Life of John Glassco, Poet, Translator, Memoirist and Pornographer (McGill-Queen's UP, 2011; shortlisted for the Gabrielle Roy Prize). I've edited over a dozen books, including The Heart Accepts It All: Selected Letters of John Glassco (Véhicule, 2013) and George Fetherling's The Writing Life: Journals 1975-2005 (McGill-Queen's UP, 2013). I currently serve as series editor for Ricochet Books and am a contributing editor for Canadian Notes & Queries. My most recent book is The Dusty Bookcase (Biblioasis, 2017), a collection of revised and expanded reviews first published here and elsewhere.
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