The Dusty Bookcase

Last Tuesday's post marked the one thousandth since this blog began. I saw it coming, took my eye off the ball, and didn't notic...

Motion Picture News , 1 September 1923 In the opening scene of The Patriot , the 1998 motion picture adaptation of William C. Heine'...

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 ...

Glengarry School Days:      A Story of the Early Days in Glengarry Ralph Connor [pseud. Rev. Charles W. Gordon] Toronto: Westminster,...

It's no great secret – and certainly no deadly secret – that this spring's Ricochet Books title will be John Buell's masterf...

Hooked Ernie Hollands with Doug Brendel Toronto: Mainroads Productions, 1987 A stolen car took me there. Hollywood was a grotesque p...

Word from Toronto yesterday that the Canadian Notes & Queries "Games Issue" has been nominated for a National Magazine Aw...