The Dusty Bookcase

A Romance of Toronto (Founded on Fact) Mrs Annie G. Savigny Toronto: William Briggs, 1888 229 pages The first chapter, 'Toronto a Fair M...

An old poem for the New Month by daughter of Woodstock, Ontario Isabel Ecclestone MacKay. This one comes from  Between the Lights , her 1904...

For the month,  the ninth of ten poems I  find interesting, amusing, and/or infuriating. What could be considered romantic verse from W.M. (...

For the month,  the third of ten poems I find interesting, amusing, and/or infuriating. Thaddeus A. Browne had a decades-long career as an O...

The Untempered Wind Joanna E. Wood Ottawa: Tecumseh, 1994 354 pages In Henry James Morgan's  Types of Canadian Women , published in 1903...

The Dustiest Bookcase: Short pieces on books I've always meant to review (but haven't). Marjorie's Canadian Winter: A Story ...

Verse for the day by son of Antigonish J.D. Logan. This version is taken from his Songs of the Makers of Canada and Other Homeland Lyrics (...

For this Easter Sunday, 'In Memoriam—H.W.L., A Noble Teacher' by  Agnes Maule Machar, "first of Dominion poetesses." I...

Not as our home looks today, but as it did late last April. It will again. For now, this from Archibald Lampman's Poems ...

The Silver Poppy Arthur Stringer New York: Appleton, 1903 291 pages Educated Englishman John Hartley has seen much sadness in his y...

Verse for Victoria Day, composed by Jean Blewett upon news of the monarch's death. This version is taken from The Cornflower and O...

The Toronto Daily Mail 25 May 1881 John Wilson Bengough's poem on the wreck of the Victoria  on Victoria Day, 1881, off the banks ...