Raise the Flag & Sound the Cannon
$24.00The period was 1842 – 1849. The diary started in England where a bankrupt solicitor named John Rumsey from High Wycombe, was banished to America. The diary covered the sea voyage to New York, the canal boats to Lake Ontario and the steamers and barges to Canada. During Rumsey’s lengthy stay in Montreal he met an Irish servant who had fallen on hard times. Rumsey tried to help him. According to his diary: This being a country in which great things sometimes come from little beginnings, I suggested to a poor Irish servant, the vending of a corn medicine. I gave him a recipe, a fine name for it and an elaborate account of its merits. I mixed up the first fourteen bottles, the Queen’s Printer gave publicity to it and after sending the bottles among the Canadians, my Irish friend is now practising his profession in the wide spread and free soil of the Yankee.The diary ended the day his lodgings and the Montreal parliament buildings burnt down in 1849. While I wrote the biography, I felt that it was no way to end a book — and so began the birth of the novel, Raise the Flag & Sound the Cannon …
John J. Davison
Remembering the Rose
$20.00Remembering the Rose is the journey of a community: Stanstead the 45th parallel, where I call home. The more I learned the more questions I had. I became aware of the uniqueness of this border town as well as discovering the many first in inventions, industry and education. The Rose became a symbol of growth. A rose now opened fully at maturity to reveal its beauty and completeness. To lose a historic place or a part of history we lose a part of who we are. Remembering the Rose captures pieces of this community’s soul. (94 pages of photos)
Barbara Heath
Richmond Now & Then: An Anecdotal History from the Eastern Townships
$25.00
Ridley’s War
$25.00
Roads To Richmond: Portraits of Quebec’s Eastern Townships
$15.00
Rough Angel-Ange Écru / bilingual
$16.00Wendy Jean MacLean celebrates the wisdom that poetry is ultimately about very practical and ordinary experiences, like life and death and geese and tomatoes. Her life as a mother, daughter, friend and sister, and minister in a small church keeps her surrounded by inspiration and delight. Wendy encourages her two sons, Angus and Chester, to reach for the stars and also tries to take her own advice.
Wendy Jean MacLean
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Salmon Creek Days, Memories of Dance Halls
$10.00Available in book and DVD format
Keith Whittall & Victoria Moulton
Savouring Our Past
$20.00
Smileyville
$20.00
Spirit Song in Ancient Boughs
$16.00Think of a lively, intimate conversation with a thoughtful friend and you are already into this captivating collection of poems. There is mystery here, a passion for Creation throughout, a joyful whimsy, a solid foundation of knowledge, and an obvious command of the language. Readers will find themselves regularly ambushed by both beauty and a profound sense of a compassionate God. Rev. Dr. Jim Sinclair
Wendy Jean MacLean
Take Off your Shoes
$20.00The story of youth work pioneers and the amazing impact their efforts made for so many youth. A success story, this book encompasses the passion, joy and vitality that for more than thirty years characterize this work of the United Church of Canada in the Eastern Townships And the North Shore regions of Quebec. The book gives insight into the roots of the network as well as a selection of personal stories written by youth, who took part in the programs between the years 1973 and 2000
Tom Edmonds