Made in Montreal

It was a cold morning in early June when I visited McGill University's Redpath Museum, located on the McGill campus. I remember visiti...

Here we are back in April 1, 1992 in Kingston, Ontario, at the funeral of my Auntie Muriel. That's my son, Jake, on the far left; my ...

My grandfather's car, his wife Bertha Parker in the front seat; Uncle John in the back seat. In Woodstock, Ontario: Irene Holden ...

Hilda Parker on a snowy day near the Mother House (corner Atwater Street and Sherbrooke Street West) where she was a secretarial student. ...

.Here is my mother, Hilda Parker (Morrissey), at her First Communion at St. Jude Anglican Church in Montreal; the dress was borrowed from ...

My uncle John Parker, in the Royal Canadian Air Force, during World War II; he was stationed in Prince Edward Island. My uncle John Pa...

Bertha Chew, mother of young Bill, her son, in the backyard of her mother-in-law, Bessie Richards Parker.. .Bessie Richards, grandmoth...

The F.R. Scott Memorial, 12 October, 2011, at St. James the Apostle Church, Montreal A commemorative plaque for F.R. Scott will be unveiled ...

"Sailboats off Kitsilano" by Nellie McClung Nellie McClung at the Art Gallery of Vancouver, 1993 Herbert Read writes: Tolstoy...

Herbert Read writes: Celtic art is one of the most intrinsically interesting phases in the whole history of art. By various historical acc...

  2010 "...the Greeks were wiser than we, and their belief, which always seems so paradoxical to us, that beauty is moral goodness, is ...

Patrick Kavanagh I am always shy of calling myself a poet and I wonder much at those young men and sometimes old men who boldly declare the...

Fire destroys the famous Motel Raphael, August 2011. No longer can you dream of the Motel Raphael as a last resort, a safe harbour in the...

Living room at 4350 Montclair Avenue . . . posterity has no use For anything but the soul           --Patrick Kavanagh           "I...

For some of us, the Jean Paul Gaultier exhibition currently at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is of only peripheral interest. Gaultier...