The Time of Civilized Bears & The World of Witagg
To celebrate “Random Acts of Kindness Week” from February 12th – 19th, author H.D. Ronay is accepting random acts of kindness as payment for his new book MAGOO AND HIS MAGIC POO. “During the week that inspires good deeds and selfless acts, the first 100 people to share their random act of kindness on Instagram […]
Posted on Canada Day, 2022 in honour of the heroic men and women who have served in the red serge uniform as members of the historic Force known today as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police… The RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police, originally called the North-West Mounted Police) have been written about since their creation […]
SPIRIT-OF-IRON, Manitou-Pewabic: An Authentic Novel of the North-West Mounted Police – A Mountie Secret Revealed NOTE: Harwood Steele wrote his classic novel, SPIRIT-OF-IRON, based on the life of his famous father — Sam Steele of the Mounted. This exciting excerpt from the novel is based on the real incident that occured at the Mounted […]
Northern Canada Book review The Canadian Northern (or Northwestern) novel once had a high place in the Best Seller fiction lists — back in the first half of the 20th Century. From the release of Jack London’s masterwork THE CALL OF THE WILD in 1903, stories of the Land of the Northern Lights drew an […]
Patriotic voices… Patriotic Voices: We were living in Post-War Yorkshire then. It had been a few months since we’d moved from Canada, but my memories of that forevergreen land were strong and I missed it. I had started school outside Mirfield, just turned age 5. When Dad saw I wasn’t being taught much about our […]
Our Two Great Canadian Literary Genres “The animals are us.” – Margaret Atwood When Charles G D Roberts created the Realistic Animal Story in the 1890’s, he gave the world the first Canadian Literary Genre. When the Reverend Charles William Gordon followed with his Corporal Cameron novels, he perfected the second great Canadian […]
THE DOG STORIES OF MAX BRAND Today, we think more of dog stories by James Herriot than by a popular pulp fiction writer. But listen… Frederick Faust has been called “The Shakespeare of the Western Range.” (Kirkus Reviews). Faust published over 300 Western novels in his lifetime, using nineteen pseudonyms, of which he’s […]
“Just you and the love of your life and a happy team of sled dogs, alone together in the Great White North — that’s the last act of pure Freedom still available on the planet.” – Brian Alan Burhoe CALL OF THE NORTHWESTERN GENRE: BEST BOOKS, ANIMAL STORIES & MOUNTIE FICTION The […]
TOO MANY COOKS It’s been 10 years since this ol’ cook looked at the Great Culinary Series. And it’s a treat to see just how many of these titles are still available today. Food, of course, has been in literature from the beginning. Eve served a scrumptious Pomme d’Eden appetizer to Adam that […]
