The Dusty Bookcase

The Deadly Dames Malcolm Douglas [pseud. Douglas Sanderson] Greenwich, CT: Gold Medal, 1956 Douglas Sanderson's fifth nov...

A new Canadian Notes and Queries arrives bringing another Dusty Bookcase sur papier . This one, a bit longer than usual, focuses on th...

Tarboe: The Story of a Life Gilbert Parker Toronto: Copp Clarke, 1927 Imagine how old fashioned a fellow Sir Gilbert must have seem...

Just announced by the good folks at the Blue Metropolis festival, a month tomorrow I'll have the honour of hosting 'Montreal No...

The Quebec Saturday Budget , 2 April 1892 "He only Wore a Shamrock"   He only wore a shamrock On his faithful Irish brea...

Frank Newfeld doesn't figure in Irving Layton's memoir  Waiting for the Messiah,  he makes no appearance in Elspeth Cameron&#...

  Irving Peter Layton (né Israel Pincu Lazarovitch) 12 March 1912 – 4 January 2006 He is the light of our generation and after his 1...