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Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign set to launch May 25
Forgotten Canadian Opera Star Brought Back to Life Through Crowdfunding. Ambition. Fame. Betrayal. The Canadian Nightingale: Bertha Crawford and the Dream of the Prima Donna, reveals the untold story of a gifted young woman from small-town Ontario, who rose to unprecedented success on the opera stages of Russia and Poland, only to be forgotten for…
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Carleton University Learning-in-Retirement Course uses Private Sully Goes to War
April 2016. PhD. candidate, Dorothy J. Smith, will be using Private Sully Goes to War as one of her teaching resources during a six-week Learning-in-Retirement Course, “Putting a Face on the Great War”, at Ottawa’s Carleton University, April and May 2016. See her video description of the course on YouTube.
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Library lecture and workshop, based on Private Sully Goes to War
April 2016. Jane Cooper will be speaking about Private Sully Goes to War, and the process of researching and writing about historical letters, at the Greenboro Branch of the Ottawa Public Library, April 23, 2016 at 2:00 pm.
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Companion web site for Private Sully Goes to War
The companion web site for Private Sully Goes to War was profiled in the Ottawa South News, September 1914.
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Researching in London
January 2014. On a visit to the National Archives in London Jane found traces of Bertha Crawford’s trail in 1918 and 1919 correspondence of the Foreign Office. Canadians were looking for Bertha then, and the search continues today. Editing the full draft manuscript of The Canadian Nightingale continues this month.
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We all have to collect something.
My library and archives card collection. January 2014, added the National Archives, London.
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Bertha Crawford, ‘The Canadian Nightingale’: Re-constructing the Life of a Forgotten Canadian Singer
Read about the research behind The Canadian Nightingale in the November 2013 Issue of the Canadian Antique Phonograph Society (CAPS) Newsletter.
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Favorite research resources
My favorite research resources, (in no particular order): The Internet Public libraries and archives OCR and how it allows for searchable databases of digitized old newspapers Librarians and archivists Microfilm readers which let you scan and save to file The flash drive Google Transcontinental jet travel Google Translate, Prompt, ABBYY Lingvo My library card(s) –…
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Researching in St. Petersburg
December 2012, Jane returned from St. Petersburg, Russia where she spent a month digging through the resources of state libraries and archives and unearthing further clues about the life of Bertha May Crawford. Jane will begin writing the chapters on this part of BMC’s life for The Canadian Nightingale early in the new year.
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Researching in Warsaw
May 2012, Jane spent ten days in Warsaw visiting libraries and archives collecting information about Bertha May Crawford’s life in Warsaw before and after the First World War.