It describes and illustrates the development of the downtown, with its banks, shops, hotels and music halls, as well as its industrial history, which included flour and woollen mills, furniture factories, carriage works, creameries and salt operations. It also covers the town's sports heritage, its celebrations and its setbacks, among them the fire of 1876 that wiped out 12 acres of the business section. The Stratford Hockey Club has been one of the most successful in the world . Photos and stories tell the development of the town of Mitchell, Ontario. We should buy lousy Canadian novels instead of importing lousy American ones.
Historians repeat each other.
It would have a cast of thousands, it would be multicultural, it would feature 600 adjectives for snow. The reason there isn't a Moby Dick is that if a Canadian did a Moby Dick, it would be done from the point of view of the whale. I'm wanting to read novels that jump across national boundaries, ethnic boundaries, racial boundaries. In Canada there is no pay. If you want success, or three squares per day, write about sitting in a New York bar and thinking about Regina or Ottawa.