The St. Joseph and Area Historical Society decided to commission and produce a theatrical play, drawing almost exclusively on the talents and skills of its own citizens to recount the story of Narcisse Cantin.The production took to a live outdoor stage where nine sold-out performances drew an attendance almost triple the community’s population.
Book Review: Greg Oliver’s Father Bauer and the Great Experiment tells two intertwined stories. It begins as a biography of Hockey Hall of Fame member Father David Bauer. When the focus shifts, it tells the stories of many players in the national program.
Fiction Feature: Lynn Johnston is one of the world’s best-known cartoonists. This story is based on facts, but it’s a fictional version of how we imagine Canada’s most famous comic strip might have got its start.
Book Review: Asleep in the Deep draws on the letters or diaries of other nurses — such as Loggie’s best friend, Clare Gass — to flesh out details of what Stamers’ three years of service might have been like.
One of the first officers of the newly formed North-West Mounted Police, Francis Dickens, son of novelist Charles Dickens, was noted for his famous parentage, if not much else.
Book Review: David Bercuson captures his theme well in the latest edition of his old standby Maple Leaf Against the Axis, now revised, updated, and re-released as Our Finest Hour. Bercuson has rewritten some sections, believing he had been too harsh in his judgment in earlier versions of the original.
