Mavis Gallant
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From  Is Mercy Killing Murder?From: Montreal Standard Time |
This chapter is Mavis Gallant’s 1950 article discussing the moral, legal, and religious questions surrounding euthanasia, set against the murder trial of Dr. Hermann N. Sander in New Hampshire. | Mavis Gallant | 7 | 2024 | $0.70 Add |
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From Is Romance Killing Your Marriage?From: Montreal Standard Time |
This chapter is Mavis Gallant’s 1947 article on marraiage and divorce rates. | Mavis Gallant | 6 | 2024 | $0.60 Add |
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From Maria ChapdelaineFrom: Montreal Standard Time |
This chapter is Mavis Gallant’s 1945 profile on how Louis Hémon crafted his 1912 novel Maria Chapdelaine, a story of pioneer life on Lake St. John. | Mavis Gallant | 6 | 2024 | $0.60 Add |
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From Meet JohnnyFrom: Montreal Standard Time |
This chapter is Mavis Gallant’s 1944 profile of Johnny, a six-year-old in a working-class Montreal neighbourhood, which captures street life during the Second World War. | Mavis Gallant | 3 | 2024 | $0.30 Add |
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From Mining Is a Tough JobFrom: Montreal Standard Time |
This chapter is Mavis Gallant’s 1946 article examining the demanding life of hard-rock miners in Canada’s underground mines, including the Val d’Or region of Quebec. | Mavis Gallant | 4 | 2024 | $0.40 Add |
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From Our Shameful Old People’s HomesFrom: Montreal Standard Time |
This chapter is Mavis Gallant’s 1948 article examining the deplorable conditions in Canadian homes for the aged, contrasting overcrowded, underfunded institutions with the growing elderly … | Mavis Gallant | 8 | 2024 | $0.80 Add |
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From Radio Finds Its VoiceFrom: Montreal Standard Time |
This chapter is Mavis Gallant’s 1944 profile of the emergence of the mature Canadian radio drama in 1944, focusing on the CBC programs Stage 44 and Stage 45 under the direction of Andrew Allan. | Mavis Gallant | 6 | 2024 | $0.60 Add |
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From Report on a RepatFrom: Montreal Standard Time |
This chapter is Mavis Gallant’s 1945 profile of Roland Langlois, a Canadian Army private, who returned to Montreal in July 1945 after the Dieppe raid and captivity in Poland and Germany. | Mavis Gallant | 5 | 2024 | $0.50 Add |
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From Sarah of SaskatchewanFrom: Montreal Standard Time |
This chapter is Mavis Gallant’s 1948 article about Paul Hiebert’s Sarah Binks, published in 1948 by Oxford University Press. | Mavis Gallant | 9 | 2024 | $0.90 Add |
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From Secret AudienceFrom: Montreal Standard Time |
In November 1948, Mavis Gallant documented how Czechoslovak citizens turned to short-wave radio after the communist regime suppressed foreign newspapers. CBC International broadcasts from … | Mavis Gallant | 2 | 2024 | $0.20 Add |
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From Stalag DiaryFrom: Montreal Standard Time |
This chapter is Mavis Gallant’s 1945 profile of the wartime captivity of Flight Lieutenant Bruce Campbell, a Canadian airman shot down in 1941 and held in German camps until his 1945 liberation. | Mavis Gallant | 4 | 2024 | $0.40 Add |
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From Success Story of a Canadian ArtistFrom: Montreal Standard Time |
This chapter is Mavis Gallant’s 1950 profile of William Goodridge Roberts, a Montreal painter who rose from $1.50-a-week poverty to a $4,000 annual income. | Mavis Gallant | 8 | 2024 | $0.80 Add |
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From The Joke’s on UsFrom: Montreal Standard Time |
This chapter is Mavis Gallant’s 1947 article examining several hundred cartoons to explore why people consistently laugh at themselves. | Mavis Gallant | 6 | 2024 | $0.60 Add |
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From The Making of a HoodlumFrom: Montreal Standard Time |
This chapter is Mavis Gallant’s 1950 profile on Johnny Young, who built a heroin distribution network in Montreal’s East End during the late 1940s. | Mavis Gallant | 12 | 2024 | $1.20 Add |
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From The Town BelowFrom: Montreal Standard Time |
This chapter is Mavis Gallant’s 1948 profile on Quebec novelist Roger Lemelin and his 1944 debut novel, The Town Below, set in the working-class parish of St. Sauveur near Quebec City. | Mavis Gallant | 6 | 2024 | $0.60 Add |
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From Traders in FearFrom: Montreal Standard Time |
This chapter is Mavis Gallant’s 1946 article on the Ideal Maternity Home in East Chester, Nova Scotia, where over 890 unmarried mothers surrendered their babies for adoption under contracts … | Mavis Gallant | 6 | 2024 | $0.60 Add |
