Today at midnight is the last day to vote for the best Canadian Political book of the past 25 years. Chris Moore’s 1867 How the Fathers Made a Deal is on the short list and you can vote by clicking on the link to the right.
The thing to me that is so important with such a book is not only is it essential information for any thinking Canadian to be aware of, it is of crucial importance to all those of us writing of the past – fiction and poetry included. I think we forget that writers of the more nonfiction kind are indebted to and use primary and secondary sources to inspire and inform our work – and this one was crucial to the inspiring and informing of my novel about the beginning of Canada (http://www.totheedgeofthesea.blogspot.com/ ). Not only that, 1867 is elegantly and entertainingly written.
To all those writing of the past, don’t forget to vote too.
