Category Archives: Heritage

The gift certificate for a one-night stay at Ottawa’s Fairmont Chateau Laurier had sat in a drawer for nearly a year, along with a couple of grocery gift cards and one to a shoe store. Some 10 months ago, I had been the highest bidder in a silent auction and walked away with the certificate,… Read more »

Canadian author Margaret Laurence has fascinated me ever since the late Professor Laura Groening of Concordia University introduced The Diviners to our class, along with the NFB documentary First Lady of Manawaka, a lifetime ago in the year 2000. Since then I’ve also read The Stone Angel, alongside James King’s biography of Laurence. This morning,… Read more »