Warning: absolutely no hockey content. And that's a good thing.
- The flurry of vacations at work seems to have ended--wonder if we really can accomplish miracles before US Thanksgiving?
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I've been reading more about Jean Ewen and have just finished her father Tom McEwen's autobiography The Forge Glows Red: From Blacksmith to Revolutionary, his rather rambling account of his years as communist functionary. (He was one the the eight men sentenced to five years in Kingston Penn for sedition in 1931). What I learned:
- never take anything from a blacksmith if he's holding it with tongs
- RB Bennett and McEwen loathed each other and McEwen had a long memory
- a useful term: "swivel chair organizer"
- for a freakishly over-educated person, I know shockingly little about this period of Canadian history
- I feel a new interest coming on but I have no spare bookcase space. Then again, I can pick up some of the basics from one of my favourite websites: the Theses Canada Portal. (Yes wretched PDF files but free, accessible research material). Wonder if it has anything about the Hull Internment/Concentration Camp.
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