Trains and Tradition

  • Donald MacKay and Lorne Perry
    Train Country: An Illustrated History of Canadian National Railways. Douglas & McIntyre
  • Vi Plotnikoff
    Head Cook At Weddings and Funerals and Other Stories of Doukhobor Life. Polestar Book Publishers
Reviewed by Bryan N. S. Gooch
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This review “Trains and Tradition” originally appeared in Women and War. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 151 (Winter 1996): 150-152.

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