The Diary Review

’The ice we are amongst is chiefly this years, but fragments of older floes are intermixed and some heavy pieces of berg. A large one is lyi...

‘For a brief interval he had no questions to answer, no justifications to proffer, no explanations to make. The contrast with the general te...

Dr Nigel Rusted, a Canadian doctor much honoured and credited with having made outstanding contributions to the medical profession in Newfou...

It is 150 years since the death of the soldier William Swabey. Having served in the British army, he spent twenty years farming and politick...

‘This being the New Year’s Day of practice, as distinct from theory, I paid tribute to it by buggering around aimlessly all morning, and the...

‘My paintings are always disasters while I am doing them. It isn’t until I see them later, and someone else likes them, that I can see their...

It’s 70 years to the day since William Lyon Mackenzie King died. He was one of the leading Canadian politicians of the 20th century, having ...

’The present they brought was a package of beaver skins and about 100 lbs. of beef fat. I gave them in return one sack of corn and sixteen f...

‘Started about sunrise, crossed a singular slough. Crossed a hard bottom covered knee deep with liquid black stagnant marsh mud, through whi...

‘The  sea may be open both above and below, and even if open off-shore, may never release this ship from her present prison  until every mat...