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Football Fables

The beautiful game bestrides the world like a colossus

Richard Poplak

But Blind They Were

The fallacy of an empty continent

Elaine Coburn

Alberta and Me

From a land of oil, true enough

Amanda Perry
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Katharine Lochnan

Katharine Lochnan is senior curator and the R. Fraser Elliott Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

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Katharine Lochnan

The Secret Life of Flowers

A 21st-century poet meets an 18th-century artist in her garden March 2011
I will never forget the thrill of disbelief when I first encountered Mrs. Delaney’s floral “mosaics” in the British Museum. This took place in the hushed inner sanctum of the Print Room, which is lined, on two levels, with mahogany cases holding solander boxes filled with prints and drawings. During the year I spent there as a volunteer assistant…

A Canadian Visionary

Research into the life of Holman Hunt unearthsan intriguing and important figure April 2009
Henry Wentworth Monk was born in 1827 on a farm along the Ottawa River in the community of March, Upper Canada (present-day Kanata), on land that had been awarded to his father, Captain John Benning Monk, by the British government in recognition of military service during the Napoleonic Wars. Monk’s godfather, Hamnett Pinhey of March, a governor of the Blue Coat…