The Dusty Bookcase

Patriotic and personal verse for the day by William Mackay MacKeracher (1871-1913), the very same man who wrote that old favourite  'My ...

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

Yet another gloriously sunny September weekend, I spent most of it stacking firewood in preparation for winter. The high point came early Sa...

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 ...