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David Macfarlane

David Macfarlane is touring a play this summer entitled The Door You Came In, based on his Newfoundland family memoir, The Danger Tree.
Image (E 14-7) courtesy of The Rooms Provincial Archives Division
Feature / July/August 2016

War Wounds

July 22, 2016November 11, 2019 - by David Macfarlane

A century later, the Battle of the Somme still resonates in Newfoundland

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Feature / March 2015

Traces of Mavis

March 18, 2015April 10, 2020 - by David Macfarlane

How a great Canadian writer died penniless in Paris

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Artwork by John Hartman
September 2014 / Visual Art

The Map-Maker

September 1, 2014April 13, 2020 - by David Macfarlane

John Hartman’s Georgian Bay

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Feature / January/February 2014

Notes on Albert Schultz

January 6, 2014April 14, 2020 - by David Macfarlane

The story of a master storyteller

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Photograph courtesy City of Toronto Archives, Series 372, Subseries 58, Item 1500
Cities / September 2011

A People’s History

September 12, 2011February 24, 2020 - by David Macfarlane

On an iconic Toronto street, the past lives in the details

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Photograph by Finn O'Hara
Feature / June 2010

Welcome to Hockeyland

June 12, 2010April 17, 2020 - by David Macfarlane

Canadians think the game is ours. It isn’t

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September 2009 / Sports

The Boys of Autumn

September 12, 2009April 15, 2020 - by David Macfarlane

A Tiger-Cat childhood

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Illustration by Leif Parsons
Fiction / June 2007

Tank Talk

June 12, 2007April 15, 2020 - by David Macfarlane

“What’ll we call this lot? ” “Who are they? ” “Dunno. They just showed up.” “From? ” “The 77th.” “In? ” “Tanks.” “Don’t mention it.” “No. Men. In bloody tanks.” “Steady on.” “Quite a …

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