Christl Verduyn: 3 books
Beyond "Understanding Canada"
Transnational Perspectives on Canadian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
The dismantling of “Understanding Canada”—an international program eliminated by Canada’s Conservative government in 2012—posed a tremendous potential setback for Canadianists. Yet Canadian writers continue to be celebrated globally by popular and academic audiences alike. Twenty scholars...
Marian and the Major
Engel's "Elizabeth and the Golden City"
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Rains, a former soldier in the Napoleonic Wars, immigrated to Canada at the same period as Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. He brought with him his wards, sisters Frances and Elizabeth. The three settled on St Joseph Island in northern Ontario, where their unusual domestic arrangement caught...
Must Write
Edna Staebler’s Diaries
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
Long before she became the renowned author of the best-selling Schmecks cookbooks, an award-winning journalist for magazines such as Macleans, and a creative non-fiction mentor, Edna Staebler was a writer of a different sort. Staebler began serious diary writing at the age of sixteen and continued...