Nancy Payne, editor of Kayak, speaks with Joseph Trivers, Music Acquisitions Librarian, about a song that at one time served as Canada’s unofficial national anthem, and a song from a Norwegian play sung by a celebrated Canadian soprano.
Open Book: Irene Gammel’s I Can Only Paint draws from archival research as well as previously unpublished letters to place Mary Riter Hamilton’s work in the context of the artist’s life and in relation to other art and war art.
Book Review: Hamilton writer, historian, and arts curator Andrew Hunter has written a historical account of the life and times of Sophia Burthen Pooley, a Black enslaved Upper Canadian woman.
