05 August 2014

Of the German Attack on Nova Scotia, the Battle of New Jersey and the Edmonton Real Estate Market



One day after Canada's entry into the Great War, the Edmonton Journal works to sell papers.


Meanwhile, realtors recognize opportunity.


Update: Where I see misinformation, another sees misunderstanding. Mark Reynolds, son of Cole Harbour, writes:
Nova Scotia's shores are shelled: mussels, clams, snails – it's quite dangerous, you can cut your feet if you're not careful.
Coincidentally, Mark reviewed The Sixth of December, Jim Lotz's less than middling novel of the Great War, for this very blog.

04 August 2014

The Great War: The Call



On this, the hundredth anniversary of Canada's entry into the Great War, patriotic verse drawn from Douglas Durkin's The Fighting Men of Canada (Toronto: McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1918).


A professor of literature at the University of Manitoba, the poet did not answer the call.

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01 August 2014

Victorian Psycho



The Devil's Die
Grant Allen
New York: F.M. Lupton, [1893]
271 pages

This review, revised and rewritten, now appears in my new book:
The Dusty Bookcase:
A Journey Through Canada's
Forgotten, Neglected, and Suppressed Writing
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