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Andrew Lafleche: Kenmore Square
Ken Newport: No Dress Rehearsal
Grey Owl: Gitchie Meegwon, The Big Feather
It may also say something about the times, and the times to come, that Archie Belaney’s books were hugely popular. Here is a short story from Grey Owl’s third book, a collection of short stories entitled The Adventures of Sajo and her Beaver People.
Ron Corbett: The Bad-Eye Incident
In mid-December of 2011 Frank Kuiack awoke with a sore eye. It was his left eye, and he rubbed at it, blinked, rubbed at it again but the eye remained sore. He lay in bed trying to remember if he had done anything to the eye -- splashed it, poked it -- but nothing came to him. When he got out of bed and stood he was surprised to discover his vision was blurry as well. Not up close or mid-distance, mind, and not far-away all the time, but throughout the morning and at times of the day afterwards that...
Charles Roberts: The Canadian Guidebook
We will suppose that the tourist has taken the direct route from Toronto to Ottawa, by the Canadian Pacific, already described. If he has gone first to Montreal, he may go thence to Ottawa by the Canadian Pacific, the Canada Atlantic, or by boat up the Ottawa River. We should advise the route up by rail, and the return by boat. Ottawa, the capital of the federated provinces of Canada, is in the province of Ontario, on the south shore of the Ottawa River, 126 miles from its mouth. For picturesque grandeur the site of Ottawa is second only to...