The Dusty Bookcase

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 ...

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...