The Dusty Bookcase
A JOURNEY THROUGH CANADA'S FORGOTTEN, NEGLECTED AND SUPPRESSED WRITING
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23 March 2011
Poet Names Newspaper Editor as Lucifer's Heir
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The New York Times, 28 March 1875 John J. MacDonald's hate for Charles Chiniquy spreads. Here the target is John Dougall, whose paper...
21 March 2011
A Mildly Eccentric Man Turns Nasty
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Much of this past weekend was spent working on a limited edition chapbook of verse by John J. MacDonald – a modest fundraiser for the St Mar...
17 March 2011
D'Arcy McGee's Query (with a response)
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The Poems of Thomas D'Arcy McGee Montreal: D & J Sadlier, 1870 A response from 'Thomasine' (Miss Olivia Knight), ...
13 March 2011
Getting to the Fenian Raids
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In the Midst of Alarms Robert Barr New York: Stokes, 1894 With St Patrick's Day on the horizon thoughts turn to the Fenians. And why not...
07 March 2011
Selling The Nymph and the Lamp
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The Americans show us how it's done with this 1952 Popular Library edition of Thomas H. Raddall's big book. Compare, if you will, w...
01 March 2011
Kelley Pulls a Fast One
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Bad Men of Canada Thomas P. Kelley Toronto: Arrow, 1950 Scott Young, Neil's dad, had a pretty good story about Thomas P. Kel...
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