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IN SYNC WITH SELWYN (Chapter 4 of 6)
4 ̶ Through a Glass Darkly After a hiatus of five years, the haze clears, and I can see my way clear to finish this post. Selwyn Dewdney’s memoir suggests the origin of its title, Daylight in the Swamp. In … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbotsford B.C., Air Cadets, airmen, canoeing, daylight in the swamp, Geraldton, it's daylight in the swamp, keewatin dewdney, Kenora, Lac Seul, Lloydminster, Nakina, painting soldiers, Prince Albert, Red Lake Ontario, red ochre, rock art, rock pictographs, sailors, Saskatchewan, selwyn dewdney, swamps, teaching, wilderness
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CHASING HISTORY (Chapter 8 of 10)
MANITOBA UNPLUGGED Sunday morning, July 10th, Prince Albert. Visitor information centre closed. John and I spent the better part of an hour trying to find the museum. We found one sign, but it gave no directions. We asked at a … Continue reading
CHASING HISTORY (Chapter 7 of 10)
BATOCHE TODAY What happened here, at the National Historic Site of Batoche in May of 1885, has influenced the course of Canadian history for a century and a quarter. In my novel-in-progress, The Batoche Crossing, it is my goal to … Continue reading
Posted in THE BATOCHE CROSSING, WRITING
Tagged 1869, 1870, 1885, Batoche, graveyard, Louis Riel, mass grave, Metis, museums, National Historic Site, North-West Rebellion, Red River Resistance, Saskatchewan
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CHASING HISTORY (Chapter 6 of 10)
JUST DUCKY On Friday afternoon, July 8th, John and I stopped at the Fred Light Museum in Battleford (on the south side of the North Saskatchewan River, across from North Battleford). I was looking for Douglas Light, son of the … Continue reading
CHASING HISTORY (Chapter 4 of 10)
ABOUT PARADISE, AND LOONS, AND A BIG BEAR From Tuesday to Friday the three of us, I and brother John and sister Grace, indulged ourselves. We pried open the dusty cerebral archives of our relatives and we visited our family’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Bear, Frenchman Butte, Loon Lake, Makwa Lake, museums, NWMP, ox-cart, Paradise Hill, Red River cart, Sam Steele, Saskatchewan, St. Walburg, Steele Narrows
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CHASING HISTORY (Chapter 3 of 10)
ROCKS IN A FIELD = PROVINCIAL PARK Sunday evening, I phoned around till I found someone to open Fort Qu’Appelle museum for us in the morning. Ted met us at 10:00 a.m. The museum comprises a decrepit log building from … Continue reading
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Tagged alkali, Fort Qu'Appelle, Gen. Middleton, HBC post, Lloydminster, Marr Residence, museums, North Battlefored, Provincial Park, Raymore, Red River cart, ruts, Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Touchwood Hills, Western Development Museum, wooden grain elevators
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CHASING HISTORY (Chapter 2 of 10)
BROADVIEW, BULLETS, & BELLS Just inside the Manitoba boundary we stopped at the Saskatchewan Visitor Centre. We chatted up the attendants. Locals tend to know more about their region than experts in Toronto or Winnipeg. Sure, said an older lady. … Continue reading
NORTH GULLY SCHOOL
“Gully” is a word we have little use for nowadays; “ravine” is the fashionable term. But out West, “gully” is a common word, as is “coulee”, and “bluff” – not the bluff in Scarborough Bluffs or in Council Bluff, Iowa, … Continue reading
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Tagged biography, Canadianisms, place names, Saskatchewan, Skunk Hollow, toponymy
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THE OLD FARM
I remember how the wind scraped the land clean across the stubble and the hills stretched tight to the land and brushed the evergreens and poplars stiff that lingered on the horizons and left the land pure and hard and … Continue reading
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Tagged Alphabet, James Reaney, literary magazine, Lloydminster, poem, poetry, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Sherbrooke, work in progress
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