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Novelist Anthony Trollope left England in 1861 for a grand tour of North America. He wrote a travelogue and Prescott, Ontario, Canada was not the highlight of his trip. Today Prescott is an exit on Highway 401 that I’ve never used. I suspect it’s changed a bit in the past 148 years.

From Ottawa we went [...]

Tags: Anthony Trollope, Canada, Prescott

At the height of the Great Depression when jobs were scarce, and quitting one was ill-advised, Reg Smith quietly took out his frustrations at work by writing this on the underside of his desk:
140 King East
Toronto
Reg Smith
3 November /34
a hole of a place to work
The scrawl is on the underside of a printer’s drawer (see [...]

Tags: Canada, great depression, toronto