Brian Alan Burhoe

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MAN SCENT by Samuel Alexander White – Northern Canada Book Review

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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 […]

When Canada Had Its Own Culture: Wild Animals & Mounties

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    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 […]