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  • Reliving the Trenches

    Memory Plays by Veterans of the Great War

    Edited by Alan Filewod ...
    In Reliving the Trenches, three plays written by returned soldiers who served in the Great War with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in France and Belgium appear in print for the first time. With a critical introduction that references the authors' service files to establish the plays as memoirs, these plays are an important addition to Canadian literature of the Great War.Important but overlooked ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • The CTR Anthology

    Fifteen Plays from Canadian Theatre Review

    Edited by Alan Filewod ...
    Series series Heritage
    Since its inception in 1974, Canadian Theatre Review has been one of the most important publishers of new Canadian plays. With a script in each issue, CTR has introduced new writers and advocated new approaches to Canadian drama.This volume brings together fifteen of the most significant plays published in CTR between 1974 and 1991. Most have been out of print since their appearance in the journal ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Eight Men Speak

    A Play by Oscar Ryan et al.

    by Oscar Ryan, Edward Cecil-Smith, Frank Love, Mildred Goldberg ...
    Series series Canadian Literature Collection
    This volume comprises a reprinting and gloss of the original text of the 1933 Communist play Eight Men Speak. The play was banned by the Toronto police after its first performance, banned by the Winnipeg police shortly thereafter and subsequently banned by the Canadian Post Office. The play can be considered as one stage–the published text–of a meta-text that culminated in 1934 at Maple Leaf ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Donnellys

    by James Reaney ...
    Series Book 9 - Voyageur Classics
    Based on the true story of an Irish family with seven sons and one daughter immigrating to Biddulph Township near London, Ontario, in 1844, The Donnellys tells the tale of mystery and truths stranger than fiction. It is the story of a secret society and a massacre that shocked the Canadian public, a story overlooked by the artistic community until Reaney's play elevated the events to the level of ... Read more

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  • The Donnelly Album

    The Complete & Authentic Account of Canada’s Famous Feuding Family

    by RAY FAZAKAS ...
    The Donnelly Album By now everyone in Canada knows at least one version of the brutal slaying of members of the Donnelly family on the night of February 3, 1880. The Donnelly Album tells in compelling detail the story of the Donnellys—James and Johannah and their seven sons and one daughter. Arriving in Canada from Tipperary, Ireland, in the 1840s, the family settled in the boisterous Irish ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • In Search of the Donnellys

    Second Revised Edition

    by RAY FAZAKAS ...
    The massacre of the Donnellys by their fellow church members has fascinated the public in the English-speaking world for well over a hundred years. Contained in this book are intriguing new photographs never before published and significant new information, which will pique the interest even of those who have been familiar for years with this bit of North American folk history with Irish roots. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Black Donnellys

    by Thomas P. Kelley ...
    "When that Donnelly glares at you, you hear the sound of shovels digging your Grave"Not far from London, Ontario, even brave men feared to ride at night. The Donnellys were feared and hated, but their reign of bloodshed and terror persistently prevailed...until one man planned a terrible revenge. Here is the story of the most savage feud, tales of past terrors and lawlessness almost beyond belief ... Read more

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  • Blood of the Donnellys

    by David McRae ...
    Jason Stevens is an angry 15-year-old when his parents decide to move from Toronto to Lucan, Ontario, site of the notorious 1880 massacre of the Irish-Canadian Donnelly family. In the big city, Jason's spate of petty thievery earned him a sentence of community service under the tutelege of his grandfather, an eccentric retired school teacher, who is building a museum devoted to the history of ... Read more

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  • Ghost Town Stories of Ontario

    by Maria Da Silva, Andrew Hind ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    Ontario is rich in ghost towns, communities that were once thriving but which have been reduced to mere shadows of their former selves. Nine villages -- including silver camps, fishing ports, crossroads hamlets, and farming settlements -- come alive on the pages of this book. The term 'ghost town' invariably conjures up images of fog-shrouded cemeteries, buildings with sinister visages, and of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Haunted Hamilton

    The Ghosts of Dundurn Castle and Other Steeltown Shivers

    by Mark Leslie ...
    From the Hermitage ruins to Dundurn Castle, from the Customs House to Stoney Creek Battlefield Park, the city of Hamilton, Ontario, is steeped in a rich history and culture. But beneath the surface of the Steel City there dwells a darker heart — from the shadows of yesteryear arise the unexplainable, the bizarre, and the chilling.Lock the doors and turn on all the lights before you settle down ... Read more

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  • A Private Disgrace: Lizzie Borden by Daylight

    by Victoria Lincoln ...
    Lizzie Borden took an axe,And gave her mother forty whacks,When she saw what she had done,She gave her father forty-one.Lizzie Andrew Borden (b.1860 – d.1927) was tried and acquitted in the 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. Media coverage of the case created a furor throughout the United States reminiscent of the Rosenberg, Claus von Bulow and O.J. Simpson ... Read more

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  • Deadly Women of Ontario

    Murderous Tales of Deceit and Treachery

    by Cheryl MacDonald ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    Crimes of passion, brutal slayings, infanticide, and revenge: here are eight gruesome and often tragic stories of women accused of murder. Many are little known or long forgotten, such as Mary Osborn, the first woman to be hanged in Upper Canada, executed for poisoning her disappointing husband. Read about the crimes and subsequent trials of Mary and seven other women in this collection of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD