The Diary Review

‘Bouts of sinus, headache, nausea, and cold sweats have left me unwell for the day. Brenda and I lay on sofas and read. Went for short walk....

‘The road was alive with ox carts returning from the fields, vendors selling coconuts - signaled by an upright palm frond - and women walkin...

‘To the Eastward & the Westward the Ice breaks up but soon freezes again. The Eskmeaux saw large Canoes full of White Men to the Westwar...

’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 ...