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The library of Morrin Centre, Quebec City, dates back to 1868; photo Dylan Page Photography/Morrin Centre Besides being thankful for you, I am thankful for the library. As a kid, I went through thirty or so Hardy Boys books, later brought home books with my children for them to read, and now, most of the books I read in any of the forms come from our library here in Halifax. I'm working to make my books available there for others, too. Yet Public libraries in North America

Funerals and school reunions — not good companions in a sentence when it was your 45th reunion — have kept me busy the past two weeks. Yet The Briars Befogged has received a lot of attention. After years of effort, the manuscript came together. After I said, “It’s done!”, there was a mix-up with my editor. In the lull, I found a few things to clean up. For example, the snow I added falling overnight Saturday was needed for the windstorm on Sunday: Did the scenes in between in

Greetings from the port of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon [SPM], a French territory south of Newfoundland's eastern shores. This unexpected trip satisfies a desire my wife and I have had since childhood, fuelled by CBC's show St.-Pierre. Their famous old lighthouse on Pointe aux Canons, taken when entering the harbour on the ferry to Saint-Pierre from Miquelon. No, mine is not a travel blog, but with 500 years of European and Canadian history and a new television "cop and robber" s

School's out, and there's so much to do. Will part of that exploring be with books? Through young eyes, middle-grade books explore the future, the past, and now, how people survive difficulties and mistakes, and what makes the world, people, bugs, animals, and machines tick. I've been looking for authors writing fiction similar to mine. Most of what I've read is by Canadian authors whose middle-grade works were available at the Halifax Public Library. Some are available as eB

Now four per cent of Canada's population, Ukrainians have been escaping difficulty at home over the past 130 years.

Doughnuts have been around for centuries, but the Great War make them a commercial success.