Was re-reading the delightful, charming Where Nests the Water Hen and chatting with a friend about it so put this together for him and now the blog.
(her 2nd, 1950 novel which is based on her teaching experiences in remote rural MB; postcard and bookmark and black woven fabric bag with water hen motif; this is the first novel of hers I read in 1969 in a CanLit course at U of Wpg.)
(a nice one of my dress short-sleeve shirts)
(her 1st book which won the Governor-General’s award in 1945; like all of her books, translated from the original French into English)
(dj of her 1954 novel, Alexandre Chenevert in French)
(dj of 1961’s La Montagne secrete, a novel based on a real-life French-Canadian artist she knew)
(1979’s Cliptail which won Canada Council’s Prize for Children’s Literature; I am very fortunate to have a rare inscribed copy of the French original)
(upper left: the restored childhood home in St. Boniface across the Red River from Winnipeg; right: brochure from the home that is open for tours; bottom left: sculptured head of Roy in Assiniboine Park’s walk of historic Manitobans, Winnipeg)
(a neat documentary, also in English which contains the only available film footage of Roy)
I also have an old Canadian $20 bill with her quote on it: “Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts?”