A Rejected Preface
Abstract: In 1936 appeared the historic anthology, New Provinces,, which has always been re- garded as one of the most important ...
A Residential School Memoir: Basil Johnston’s Indian School Days
Abstract: The publication in 1988 of Basil Johnston’s Indian School Daysinitiated an explosion of writing about residential schools in Canada. A ...
A Righteous War? L. M. Montgomery’s Depiction of the First World War in Rilla of Ingleside
Abstract: On March n, 1919, Lucy Maud Montgomery wrote in her journal: “I began work on my tenth novel today. It ...
A Rose Grows in Whylah Falls: Transplanted Traditions in George Elliott Clarke’s “Africadia”
Abstract: George Elliott Clarke’s WhylahFalls is a collection of poems, prose paragraphs, letters, photographs and fictionalized newspaper clippings focusing on life ...
A Short History of Indians in Canada
Abstract: (from Toronto Life, August 1997) Can’t sleep, Bob Haynie tells the doorman a t the King Edward. Can’t sleep, can’t ...
A Size Larger than Seeing: The Poetry of P. K. Page
Abstract: A POET’S IDENTITY MAY BE FOUND in the habits of feeling and insight that are particularly, almost obsessively, her own ...
A Space to Play In; Or, Telling the (W)hole Story: The Recent Poetry of Robert Gibbs
Abstract: I, IN A 1986 REVIEW ARTICLE for Canadian Literature Maritime writer, poet, editor, critic, teacher (and gourmet cook) Robert Gibbs ...
A Special Tang: Leacock’s Canadian Humour
Abstract: AWELL-KNOWN ODDITY of Canadian literature is the fact that, out of all our authors, the two who have achieved the ...
A Tendentious Game With An Uncanny Riddle: A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder
Abstract: IVIost of the critics of James De Mille’s A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder are inclined towards defining ...
A Trick with a Glass: Michael Ondaatje’s South Asian Connection
Abstract: You tell me to pack up my bags and go But where? I turn my face towards Country after country ...