Women were not allowed. The ritual became a Belleville institution, one not fondly embraced by all the city's residents. Strangely enough, it was a woman who raised enough money to save the club when it was forced to make some expensive upgrades to the old dockside clubhouse. The story of the Wharf Street Debating Club is a saga of local politics and the women's movement in the conservative old city of Belleville. 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.