Though quite different, these books have more in common than happening to geographically bookend Canada, with PEI on the East Coast, and BC on the West Coast. One a romantic fiction, one a real-life adventure, both are by great Canadian authors, with distinct natural settings, and an uplifting outlook on life.
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“rode madly off in all directions”
On this day, March 28, in 1944, Stephen Leacock, humorist and professor of Political Economics at McGill, died. One day last summer, I was possessed of the need to determine where the phrase “he rode off in all directions” originated. A quick Google search introduced me to Stephen Leacock, writer and economist of the last… Continue reading “rode madly off in all directions”

