The Prairie Fiddler

One hundred years ago to the second, whistles sounded across the trenches of Vimy Ridge.  Tens of thousands of Canadians streamed over the top and

On December 5, 1933, a young RCMP constable came across a grisly scene in the Avalon schoolyard near Rosetown, Saskatchewan.  A child was dead and

He’s done it again!  The nine stories in this collection could blend almost seamlessly with Vanderhaeghe’s first collection of short stories, ‘Man Descending’, published more

In April of 1917, Edwin and Edison Greenhow of Balcarres, Saskatchewan, fell on Vimy Ridge in France.  The upcoming centennial commemoration of the battle of

Winner of the Governor General’s Award for Fiction in 1982 I came across this little gem a while ago and just had to share, though

The history of the Dakota Sioux band that inhabits the Whitecap Reservation south of Saskatoon is intriguing.  Realizing that the Dakota did not really dovetail