Fort York is offering a free lecture on Saturday, February 27, 2010 from 7 pm to 9 pm. The Great War Authors' Night features Ward McBurney - author of And After This Our Exile and Bruce Cane - author of It Made You Think of Home: The Haunting Journal of Deward Barnes, CEF 1916-19.
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Great War Authors’ Night
Fort York National Historic Site
Saturday, February 27, 2010 7 pm to 9 pm
100 Garrison Road
Toronto ON M5V3K9
416-392-6907
Email:fortyork@toronto.ca
Website:www.toronto.ca/fortyork
FREE Light refreshments
Ward McBurney 'Away Back: Canada's Epic and the Great War'
Ward McBurney will discuss & after this our exile, his novel of the First World War and soldiers returning to postwar Toronto, in the context of Homer, Milton, and the epic tradition. He will discuss the making of the book, the importance of home, and the meaning of remembrance to those with no memory of the war.
Bruce Cane 'This Story Shall the Good Man Teach His Son: The Great War Diary of Deward Barnes'
Bruce Cane both edits and comments upon the fascinating diary of an 'ordinary' soldier, and thereby disrupts the usual top-down narrative of Canada in the First World War. Cane began researching and writing articles on military history while a curatorial assistant at Historic Fort York, Toronto. In 2004, he published his first book 'It Made You Think of Home: The Haunting Journal of Deward Barnes, CEF, 1916-1919.'
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