Author: George Edmondson Nelson

Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

Published: 1958

Total Pages: 648

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Introduction -- Barometer rising / Hugh MacLennan -- Rigmarole / Morley Callaghan -- Mrs. Golightly and the first convention / Ethel Wilson -- A Prairie vagabond / Sir Gilbert Parker -- The worker in Sandalwood / Marjorie Pickthall -- The Czech dog / W.G. Hardy -- Read! / Lord Beaverbrook -- Jalna / Mazo de la Roche -- Dieppe / Lionel Shapiro -- The Princess and the wild ones / W.O. Mitchell -- Resurrection / Thomas H. Raddall -- The street that got mislaid / Patrick Waddington -- We hire a witch / Kenneth McNeill Wells -- The awakening / Bruce Hutchison -- The movies come to Gull Point / Will R. Bird -- The school on the little water hen / Gabrielle Roy -- White Musky / Scott Young -- Vignettes of French Canada: The first settler ; The man who was always first ; The King's girls ; The maiden at Castle Dangerous ; The two great brother ; The death of the great Bishop / Thomas B. Costain -- The little ghost / Gwen Ringwood -- The speculations of Jefferson Thorpe / Stephen Leacock -- Some are so lucky / Hugh Garner -- Beating the smuggling game / Thomas Chandler Haliburton -- This stubborn breed / Joseph Lister Rutledge -- The white mustang / Edward A. McCourt -- Four men and a box / Leslie Gordon Barnard -- The wake / Patrick Slater.