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Football Fables

The beautiful game bestrides the world like a colossus

But Blind They Were

The fallacy of an empty continent

Alberta and Me

From a land of oil, true enough

Diana Kuprel

Diana Kuprel is the online editor of the LRC. Raised in a northern sawmill town in British Columbia and in Vancouver, she is now based in Toronto. She is the translator of Zofia Nalkowska’s short story collection, Medallions and Ryszard Kapuscinski’s selected poetry, I Wrote Stone.

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Strange Things Done in the Midnight Sun

The borderline between myth and reality in Canada’s North September 2011
A decade ago, I was camping on the shores of Atlin Lake, tucked in the north-western corner of British Columbia, just outside the sleepy, eponymous town that was founded after gold was discovered in Pine Creek in 1898. This remote area of glacier-blanketed mountains and vast wilderness is the site of the last great gold rush in Canadian…