GEORGE H. HAM.
(From a recent photograph)
REMINISCENCES
OF A
RACONTEUR
Between the ’40s and the ’20s
BY
GEORGE H. HAM
Author of “The New West” and “The Flitting of the Gods”
TORONTO
THE MUSSON BOOK COMPANY
LIMITED
Copyright, Canada, 1921
THE MUSSON BOOK CO., LIMITED
PUBLISHERS TORONTO
MUSSON
ALL CANADIAN PRODUCTION
To
RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD SHAUGHNESSY, K.C.V.O.,
of Montreal, Canada, and of Ashford, County
Limerick, Ireland,
This book is respectfully dedicated
in grateful remembrance of many
kindnesses in the vanishing past.
CONTENTS
| I. | Seventy Years Ago—My Early Days in Kingston and Whitby—Boyhood Friends—Unspared Rods—Better Spellers Then than Now—A Cub Reporter—Other Jobs I Didn’t Fill—Failure to Become a Merchant Prince—Put Off a First Train |
| II. | A Momentous Election—Meeting Archie McKellar—Go on the Turf—A Sailor Bold—A Close Shave—Stories of Pets—An Exaggerated Report—Following Horace Greeley’s Advice—And Grow Up with the Country |
| III. | Winnipeg a City of Live Wires—Three Outstanding Figures—Rivalry Between Donald A. and Dr. Schultz— Early Political Leaders—When Winnipeg was Putting on its First Pants—Pioneer Hotels—The Trials of a Reporter—Not Exactly an Angelic City—The First Iron Horse—Opening of the Pembina Branch—Profanity by Proxy—The Republic of Manitoba ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! |