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Leacock on Life

Canadian cultural icon Stephen Leacock was as wise and witty as he was prolific, and as sharp as he was humane. A professor of political economy, author, and social critic, Leacock has long been considered ...

Judge's Wife, The

By (author) Eunice M.L. Harrison
Foreword by Jean Barman
Categories: Biography: general

These memoirs offer a compelling account of life in early British Columbia from the 1860s to the first decade of the 20th century. The wife of Judge Eli Harrison, one of the province’s foremost lawyers ...

Better to Have Loved

Judith Merril was a pioneer of twentieth-century science fiction, a prolific author, and editor. She was also a passionate social and political activist. In fact, her life was a constant adventure within ...

Censorship in Canadian Literature

Cohen critiques Timothy Findley’s broad anti-censorship position; he traces Margaret Atwood’s evolution from implicit support for the censorship of pornography in Bodily Harm to the rejection of censorship ...

Native Poetry in Canada

Edited by Jeannette Armstrong & Lally Grauer
Categories: Poetry

Native Poetry in Canada: A Contemporary Anthology is the only collection of its kind. It brings together the poetry of many authors whose work has not previously been published in book form alongside ...

The Moosehead Anthology 8

An intertwined history binds Matrix and The Moosehead Anthology. Both appeared in The Eastern Townships of Quebec: Matrix in 1975 and the original Moosehead Review in1977, now a regular release from DC ...

Le temps premier

La présente rétrospective réunit les trois premiers recueils publiés par Gatien Lapointe, alors dans la vingtaine : «Jour malaisé» (1953), «Otages de la joie» (1955), «Le temps premier» (1962). ...

Beyond Remembering

By (author) Al Purdy
Edited by Sam Solecki
Foreword by Margaret Atwood
Categories: Poetry

By the time Al Purdy succumbed to lung cancer at his waterfront home in Sidney BC on April 21, 2000, he was universally acknowledged to be one of the greatest writers Canada has produced. In five decades ...