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They've put Winnipeg on the literary map
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Lorne Roberts
"Not far from the centre of the American Continent, midway between the oceans east and west, midway between the Gulf and the Arctic Sea, on the rim of a plain, snow swept in winter, flower decked in summer... stands Winnipeg, the cosmopolitan capital of the last of the Anglo-Saxon Empires - Winnipeg, City of the Plain, which from the eyes of the world cannot be hid."
-- The Foreigner, by Ralph Connor (1909)
A devout Presbyterian minister, Charles W. Gordon put the Canadian West on the world's literary map in the 1890s. Gordon wrote 23 novels during his lifetime, with sales of ...
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