’Are you sure you’re not doing some African black magic?’
George Blake came to Canada to treat alcoholism
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Canada's Stories
‘We want the biggest damned painting you can do’
Daphne Odjig, celebrated Aboriginal painter, on her epic masterpiece
’I didn’t give them any coaching advice. I kept my mouth shut.’
Len Kropioski is an optimistic Winnipeg Jets fan
’As long as I was outdoors, it didn’t matter’
Frank Appleby, from muskrat to ministries to marriage
‘Every jukebox that came into Vancouver, I checked out’
Fred Titcomb on fixing Wurlitzers across B.C.
’When I landed in Canada [at] I was an old woman’
Isabella Brearley on falling in love with her adopted home
‘Our family was poor, like everyone else’
Joyce Cundict on pioneer life in rural Alberta
‘We sold everything from medicine to men’s boots’
Clara Auckland on life in Ontario in the early 1900s
‘I smoke, I drink, I dance. What can I say is my secret?’
Rita Buttiri on finding a home and living a long life in Alberta
‘Marguerite is beautiful and bright’
Marguerite Nerny left Switzerland for a new life in Canada