If You Hear Not My Word I Will Be The First To Wage War Against You

2/4 Second tale of Pattersons of Canada origins

They came at night, an army of 1,500 Iroquois warriors, overwhelming the Québec village of Lachine and terrorizing Montréal a couple of…

Ab ovo

1/4 First tale of Pattersons of Canada origins

A Century Standing By

4/4 Fourth tale of Pattersons of Canada origins

In 1832 the population of York (Toronto) was 5,000, Kingston was 4,200 and Bytown (Ottawa), which didn’t exist six years earlier, was 3,200. It was the beginning of urban society in Ontario but not yet an urban…

While my great-grandson was being born I was sitting on a bench by the canal.

Métis Muddle: 600,000 newcomers circling round and round

Great Peace of Montreal Saved The Nation

Canadians who have lived here through the generations are among humanity’s pre-eminent survivors. It’s not easy, even now, to get through the long, cold dark of winter. It was immeasurably harsher way back when, not to mention the Indigenous welcome that…

What a chance is Hazel, what wonders to behold

I’m much looking forward to holding Hazel, my great-granddaughter born on Sunday, also the birthday of her cousin Olivia from Yellowknife, who was here last week and walked with me beside the canal as we usually do and I told the story of Jim…