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Our Soldier’s Stories
I was honoured to be asked to read from my book , Private Sully Goes to War, at an event commemorating our soldiers for Remembrance Day. Excellent analysis from Tim Cook, author of The Necessary War and Fight to the Finish, about Canadian soldiers fighting in WWII. Big thanks to host Ann Archer, and the…
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Our Soldiers’ Stories
Join me for an Ottawa Public Library event, November 9, 2017, to talk about understanding war history through soldiers’ letters.
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The Canadian Nightingale Sings Again! Celebrating the life of a forgotten Canadian opera star
October 6, 2017—Local singers to recapture a lost Canadian voice in concert. Announcing a concert to launch a new Canadian historical biography, The Canadian Nightingale: Bertha Crawford and the Dream of the Prima Donna, to be held January 21, 2018, 2:00 pm at the Church of St John the Evangelist, 154 Somerset Street West, Ottawa.…
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Crowdfunding Campaign Proves Canadians Will Invest In Their Cultural History
The Canadian Nightingale Will Be Published Through FriesenPress For Canada150 July 23, 2017—A new Canadian historical biography will be released this fall, thanks to the commitment of 90 Canadians to invest over $5,000 in the publication. More than 100 copies of the book have been pre-sold, with new orders coming in daily. Ambition. Fame. Betrayal.…
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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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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.