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  1938 in Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Franklin Roosevelt becomes the first president of the United States to visit Canada.
April 8 - John Hamm, Premier of Nova Scotia
June 4 - John Harvard, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1938_in_Canada   (143 words)

  
 A Literary History of the American West   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
On his third and last expedition, the great British explorer James Cook found the harbor of Nootka on the west coast of Vancouver Island in 1778, which became for the subsequent quarter century a crossroads of trade, particularly in the fur of the sea otter, and a center for international political struggle.
One literary curiosity of this period is the diary of John Jewitt, a flsmith captured after the massacre of his Boston shipmates by the Nootka Indians in 1803.
American enterprise in the Pacific trade centered in John Jacob Astor's fort on the Columbia, established in 1811 and captured and purchased by the Nor'westers in 1813.
www2.tcu.edu /depts/prs/amwest/html/wl1000.html   (3981 words)

  
 The Parliamentary Poet Laureate - Poem of the Week   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
John Newlove grew up in small town Saskatchewan, lived on both coasts of Canada, and spent the last two decades of his life in Ottawa.
A constant reader of Wallace Stevens, Newlove always demanded accuracy and a kind of calm in the face of terror.
Herménégilde Chiasson is a true Acadian renaissance man. He has five degrees from four universities in three countries.
www.parl.gc.ca /information/about/people/poet/poem-of-the-week/poets-e.htm   (5821 words)

  
 Siemens: Canadian Literary Awards and Prizes, from The Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Launched by the Canadian Authors Association and administered by the CAA until 1971, the awards were at first non-monetary prizes; the prestige of the prizes was complemented by a small cash award of $250 in 1951, to be increased in 1966 to $2,500, in 1975 to $5,000, and in 1989 to $10,000.
The John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer ($2,500): Established at the bequest of John hirsch, founder of the Manitoba Theatre Company, to be presented annually to the most promising Manitoba writer.
Short Fiction: Lois simmie, A Shortage of Mourners; Poetry: John V. hicks, The Atmosphere on the Peak is Rarefied.
www.mala.bc.ca /~soules/english/awards.htm   (8100 words)

  
 Northwest Passages - Canadian Literature Online bookstore! We ship worldwide.
John Metcalf: a Biocritical Essay by Louis K. MacKendrick
John Newlove from Writing Canada into the Millennium
John Ralston Saul's Opening Address to a meeting of the International Council Council of Canadian Studies Meeting
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Cowper, William - The Diverting History of John Gilpin
David, John G. David - Just David''s Poetry
Irvine, John - Poems of Love and Reflection
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