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No More Robert Boredom: Thrills, Chills, and Canada’s Eighth Prime Minister
If you’re like me you probably don’t really believe in the $100 bill. Oh sure, people claim to have seen or held one, some tale-tellers even purport to have spent one, but we know that’s just ridiculous. I mean, who has ever had that much money at one time? Still, I take it as a [...]
To Infinity and Beyond
True story: when I was 10 years old, I wanted to go to space camp.
This was around the time that the movie version of Apollo 13 was hitting theatres. I didn’t get to see it on the big screen, but I did rent the movie. And I was hooked. Floating around with the stars, touching [...]
Honouring History, Fostering a Future
Yesterday was the first time in close to seven years that I wasn’t able to watch the official Remembrance Day ceremony from Ottawa. Although our office did observe two minutes of silence to honour our veterans, somehow my day was a bit incomplete without watching the celebration and awaiting my favourite part: when spectators lay their [...]
The Greatest Hockey Goals and Why I’ll Never Score Any
I’m sure if you asked anyone around what Canada’s national sport is, “HOCKEY!” would be the answer blurted out. And that answer is right… partially.
Hockey is Canada’s official winter sport. Lacrosse is Canada’s official summer sport. Some people have played both (I had lots of friends growing up who played hockey in the winter and [...]
Stay Inside with a Spooky Story…. or Two
The spookiest day of the year is upon us!
Unless the thought of painted eggs and hunting for milk chocolate terrifies you (and let’s face it… who isn’t afraid of the Cadbury bunny who clucks like a chicken!?), Halloween will mark the one night of the year where ghosts and goblins roam the streets and bask in their [...]
Q&A with Lucille H. Campey, author of Planters, Paupers, and Pioneers
Tell us about your book.
Planters, Paupers, and Pioneers: English settlers in Atlantic Canada is the first comprehensive and detailed study ever to be carried out on English emigration to Canada.
This book, dealing specifically with Atlantic Canada, is the first of three books on the English that I will be writing. It describes the English settlers [...]
Self Condemned Has Been Set Free
We had so much fun with last year’s BookCrossing adventure, we decided to do it again this year (this decision has absolutely nothing to do with it being a gorgeous autumn Friday here in Toronto. Nothing. Ahem).
BookCrossing is an online community of booklovers and book-sharers. Members release books into the wild and give other [...]
