Nicholson clipping of Montreal Suffrage Exhibit. 1913. Edith attended and saw Mrs. Philip Snowden (sic) women didn't have first names until the 70's. She was a non militant suffragist, and Edith wrote "for this I am very sorry."Well, I just got news that the Montreal Mosaic Webmagazine (web magazine)has just been launched and I took a look.
It's a pretty interesting magazine, in that it offers up an eclectic bunch of essays, articles, poems about English Montreal, with history being a strong thrust.
I was actually asked to contribute, but I turned the invitation down, since it would be a bit redundant as I am writing this blog, Flo in the City, a novel in progress about a young woman coming of age in the tumultuous 1910 era in Montreal, based on the letters of www.tighsolas.ca my very popular social studies website.
It looks like this Montreal Mosaic webmagazine is being mounted by the Quebec Anglo Heritage Network or QAHN and from the look of it, the site is put up with the help of government money. (They were not offering to pay me for any contributions, though.) It is similar to the Eastern Townships Heritage website where I have posted stories about the Nicholsons of Richmond. Matthew Farfan has been very nice to me, in this regard.
Indeed, the two websites have very similar graphic design.
When I first found these Nicholson letters, I tried to figure out if I could get funding, I asked around, but I kept getting turned down, so I JUST DID IT MYSELF.
Now, as it turns out, this novel will incorporate a fair bit about French Montreal, (since my grandfather was Jules Crepeau, Director of City Services in the roaring twenties, as well as English Montreal, so it's not really an Anglo Heritage endeavor. It's merely an historical novel about Canadians 100 years ago, that takes place in Montreal.
My story, Flo in the City, isn't aimed at Montrealers, specifically. It is aimed at all of Canada and the US and the world. Indeed, my website, www.tighsolas.ca already reaches students and teachers and others from all over Canada and the US. It's most popular in BC for some reason.
And as soon as I can afford it, I will upgrade it myself, with my money.
My play, Looking for Mrs. Peel at www.tighsolas.ca/page745.html is read in Singapore and Australia and the UK the most (as people there are interested in reading about Changi.)Indeed, a top UK scholar specializing in British Colonialism, said it was a wonderful piece of work and passed it on to his graduate students. On top of that, the play is being perused by top theatrical agencies. And this Mrs. Peel story includes an awful lot of information about Canada and 1967, Centennial Year.
I'm a rogue historian, with no affiliations. And no government grants. The truth is my only master :)
