The Canadian publisher McClelland and Stewart, founded 1906, is celebrating its centenary this year. Congratulations -- a publisher that lives a hundred years is something special, and look at the books they have done. Actually they are dying to show you. They have set up a website listing the 100 great M&S titles from one hundred years of publishing.
I'm happy to say my Louisbourg Portraits is one of the hundred. The impressive roster of titles is heavy on (some pretty good) fiction, but history titles include George Blackburn's The Guns of Normandy, Barry Broadfoot's Ten Lost Years, Richmond Hobson's wonderful BC memoir Nothing too Good for a Cowboy and a few others.
At their website www.mcclelland.com/100years you can see the whole list of 100. And they invite you to vote for your own personal favourites. Just by voting, you can win a library of all 100.
Looks like voting is a little light right now -- serious voting action on only a handful of titles. If you all log on and vote for Louisbourg Portraits, your favourite Canadian title (and still in print from McClelland and Stewart), you just might be able to move its stats a little. Go for it!
