{"id":195324025,"date":"2026-06-12T15:09:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T19:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianspelling.com\/oldsite\/?p=195324025"},"modified":"2026-06-12T15:09:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T19:09:14","slug":"do-archives-have-an-echo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianspelling.com\/oldsite\/2026\/do-archives-have-an-echo\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Archives Have an Echo?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fsn-row full-width-row fsn-6a32328c1c56c light\" style=\"background-repeat:repeat;background-position:left top;background-attachment:scroll;background-size:auto;\"><div class=\"container-fluid\"><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-sm-12\"><div class=\"fsn-column-inner fsn-6a32328c1c770 light\"><div class=\"fsn-text fsn-6a32328c1c922\">\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', monospace;\">Knowing there might be only one person (other than myself) reading this makes it interesting to keep publishing. You might think I would stop. But, there is the idea of having a writing discipline. Keeping to the schedule of posting it all once a week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', monospace;\">I also have no one complaining, debating, or whatever else. I can write anything, any topic (Canadian content), and any opinion. I know people would not like all my opinions and ideas. Of course, but I&#8217;m not an AI, created to be agreeable while &#8216;borrowing&#8217; everything they find. I&#8217;m just me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', monospace;\">Also, some day someone else may find it, even years (centuries?) into the future. With that much time to work with, it seems likely it will be found. If the Internet Archives can last in one form or another, there&#8217;s hope.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', monospace;\">I do enjoy the researching and writing and planning and sharing what I find for this ezine too. So, that&#8217;s what keeps me working on it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', monospace;\">I&#8217;ve been trying to get this working with all Canadian made software too. But, that could be just a bit more than I can manage, in a practical sense. Still, no WordPress. I&#8217;ve been helping a non-profit who believe they MUST use WordPress and it&#8217;s a real headache, literally at this time. I spent an hour updating a page there. Trying to get it to look the way they wanted it. It would be simpler if they did not use an MS Word file which does not work well with HTML, or the WordPress version of it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', monospace;\">I&#8217;m thinking to change everything to pdf files. It would also mean less bloated HTML and excessive image files on my web host. WordPress can&#8217;t do that any more. I&#8217;ve ranted about WordPress before and likely will again. Hope you are doing well, who ever reads this far.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fsn-text fsn-6a32328c1c933\">\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', monospace;\">Please help me support my fondness for groceries and the occasional new print book.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', monospace;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/paypal.me\/laurabrownca\">PayPal Me<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', monospace;\">Buy me a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/thatgrrl\">ko-fi<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', monospace;\">Thank you.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-sm-12\"><div class=\"fsn-divider fsn-6a32328c1c947\"><hr><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fsn-text fsn-6a32328c1c952\">\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-family: 'andale mono', monospace;\">Canadian Inspiration<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', monospace;\">DPC (see below) is saving Canadian content as it becomes public domain. You can offer to volunteer with them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', monospace;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pgdpcanada.net\/\">Distributed Proofreaders Canada<\/a> (DPC) was founded in 2007 by Michael Shepard and David Jones to support the digitization of Public Domain books. DPC now provides many of the books for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fadedpage.com\/\">FadedPage<\/a> (FP) that started on March 22, 2012. All our proofreaders, managers, developers and so on are volunteers. The main principles of our mission are to: (1) preserve Canadiana, one page at a time, (2) take advantage of the favourable copyright laws in Canada to make books written by authors who died before 1972 more available to the public.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', monospace;\">Take a look at their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pgdpcanada.net\/wiki\/index.php\">newsletter<\/a>. Some of these online volunteer projects disappear &#8211; this one is still active as of June, 2026!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-sm-12\"><div class=\"fsn-divider fsn-6a32328c1c95e\"><hr><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fsn-text fsn-6a32328c1c977\">\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-family: 'andale mono', monospace;\">Canadian People<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', monospace;\">Katherine Hale (1878-1956) is the pen name for Amelia Beers Warnock Garvin.\u00a0 Born in Galt, Ontario. Canadian poet, critic, short story writer, and opera singer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', monospace;\">She toured as a soprano recitalist and gave lectures including Canadian literature. She had a position as Editor of Contemporary Literature with the, The Mail and Empire (Toronto newspaper). She adopted the pen name Katherine Hale, for her mother. Active as a journalist, musician, lecturer, and critic. Her first book of poetry, Grey Knitting and Other Poems, ran into four editions of a thousand each, before it had been on the market for six weeks. Several of her poems were set to music, including &#8216;In the Trenches&#8217; by the\u00a0 composer, Gena Branscombe. The title of the song is &#8216;Dear Lad o&#8217; Mine.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', monospace;\">She was a member of various associations and served as President of the Heliconian Club, the Women&#8217;s Press Club, and the Women&#8217;s Canadian Club.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', monospace;\">She married publisher and teacher, John William Garvin, of Toronto, in 1912.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', monospace;\">I&#8217;m posting links to her some of her books\/ writing. Several are old enough to become public domain and I was able to find links for them.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', monospace;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fadedpage.com\/showbook.php?pid=20240409\">Canadian Cities of Romance<\/a> &#8211; Published 1922. (<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4g3NX2e\">Amazon link<\/a>).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', monospace;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/openlibrary.org\/books\/OL32083499M\/Canadian_houses_of_romance\">Canadian Houses of Romance<\/a> &#8211; Published 1926. (<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4v1fyWA\">Amazon link<\/a>).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', monospace;\">Historic Houses of Canada &#8211; 1952. The Ryerson Press (<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/43TXxgU\">Amazon link<\/a>).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', monospace;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fadedpage.com\/showbook.php?pid=20211216\">This is Ontario<\/a> &#8211; 1937. The Ryerson Press. (<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4uSfoAH\">Amazon link<\/a>).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', monospace;\">Toronto: Romance of a Great City &#8211; 1956.\u00a0 Published by Cassell. (<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3SpzJim\">Amazon link<\/a>).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', monospace;\">Legends of the Saint Lawrence &#8211; 1926. Published by the Canadian Pacific Railway.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', monospace;\">The White Comrade &#8211; 1916. (<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4odyBKw\">Amazon link<\/a>).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', monospace;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fadedpage.com\/books\/20231254\/html.php\">Unlit Decembers<\/a> &#8211; 1920 . The story of three women on the Prairies.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', monospace;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fadedpage.com\/books\/20230750\/html.php\">The Ghost Widow<\/a> &#8211; Published in 1918, The Canadian Home Journal.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', monospace;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141123085312\/http:\/\/www.canadianpoetry.ca\/hidden_rooms\/katherine_hale.htm\">Poetry<\/a> found on the archive for Canadian Poetry Press.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', monospace;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/digital.library.upenn.edu\/women\/garvin\/poets\/hale.html\">Poetry<\/a> found in the archive for A Celebration of Women Writers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', monospace;\">Isabella Valancy Crawford &#8211; Writing about a woman like herself, a fictional biography. (<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4ocPJQJ\">Amazon link<\/a>).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', monospace;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-195324046\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianspelling.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/oldcanadadominantunchanging-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1097\" height=\"621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianspelling.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/oldcanadadominantunchanging-1.png 1097w, https:\/\/canadianspelling.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/oldcanadadominantunchanging-1-150x85.png 150w, https:\/\/canadianspelling.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/oldcanadadominantunchanging-1-768x435.png 768w, https:\/\/canadianspelling.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/oldcanadadominantunchanging-1-640x362.png 640w, https:\/\/canadianspelling.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/oldcanadadominantunchanging-1-883x500.png 883w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\">In one of her books about Canada (1926) she wrote &#8220;Old Canada stands here&#8230; dominant and unchanging&#8221;. I think Canadians have to be stubborn (dominant and unchanging) to still be Canadian.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-sm-12\"><div class=\"fsn-divider fsn-6a32328c1c996\"><hr><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fsn-text fsn-6a32328c1c9a0\">\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-family: 'andale mono', monospace;\">Canadian Places<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', monospace;\">Carcross, Yukon is known for the <a href=\"https:\/\/destinationcarcross.ca\/project\/carcross-dunes\/\">Carcross Desert<\/a>, the tiniest desert in the world. But, it gets a bit too much rainfall to be a true desert. It is a series of sand dunes created 11,700 years ago during the last glacial period, from lakes which dried up and left silt. Sand still comes from the wind at Bennett Lake. The surrounding mountains keep the dunes dry, not getting rainfall. The dunes are habitat for some rare\/ unusual plants: Baikal sedge and Yukon lupine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', monospace;\">Photograph by <a href=\"https:\/\/davebrosha.com\">Dave Brosha<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/brosha\/140646779\">Flickr<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', monospace;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-195324045\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianspelling.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/carcrossdesertflickr.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"933\" height=\"627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianspelling.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/carcrossdesertflickr.png 933w, https:\/\/canadianspelling.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/carcrossdesertflickr-150x101.png 150w, https:\/\/canadianspelling.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/carcrossdesertflickr-768x516.png 768w, https:\/\/canadianspelling.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/carcrossdesertflickr-640x430.png 640w, https:\/\/canadianspelling.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/carcrossdesertflickr-744x500.png 744w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', monospace;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-195324043\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianspelling.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/carcrossyukon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1010\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianspelling.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/carcrossyukon.png 1600w, https:\/\/canadianspelling.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/carcrossyukon-150x95.png 150w, https:\/\/canadianspelling.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/carcrossyukon-768x485.png 768w, https:\/\/canadianspelling.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/carcrossyukon-640x404.png 640w, https:\/\/canadianspelling.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/carcrossyukon-792x500.png 792w, https:\/\/canadianspelling.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/carcrossyukon-1536x970.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-195324044\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianspelling.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/downtowncarcrossyukon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1060\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianspelling.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/downtowncarcrossyukon.png 1600w, https:\/\/canadianspelling.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/downtowncarcrossyukon-150x99.png 150w, https:\/\/canadianspelling.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/downtowncarcrossyukon-768x509.png 768w, https:\/\/canadianspelling.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/downtowncarcrossyukon-640x424.png 640w, https:\/\/canadianspelling.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/downtowncarcrossyukon-755x500.png 755w, https:\/\/canadianspelling.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/downtowncarcrossyukon-172x113.png 172w, https:\/\/canadianspelling.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/downtowncarcrossyukon-555x369.png 555w, https:\/\/canadianspelling.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/downtowncarcrossyukon-1536x1018.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\">Carcross, Yukon &#8211; vintage postcards.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-sm-12\"><div class=\"fsn-divider fsn-6a32328c1c9b2\"><hr><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fsn-text fsn-6a32328c1c9ba\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', monospace; color: #ff0000;\">Canadian Things<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', monospace;\">What do you think of first, when you think about Canadian music? For me, its almost always fiddlers from the East Coast. That happy, jumpy, music that makes you feel like dancing. I can remember an ice skating competition, possibly the Olympics but I&#8217;m not sure, there were two young people skating to the music of the fiddle with all the folk dancing steps you could hope for. I loved it. I don&#8217;t remember who they are\/were but I remember watching it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', monospace;\">For today I found a harpist playing &#8216;Early One Morning&#8217;. I had remembered the\u00a0 name of the music as &#8216;Greensleeves&#8217; for years but I was wrong. I will post fiddlers another time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', monospace;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpistkt.com\">Kristan Toczko<\/a> &#8211; Canadian harpist playing the theme from <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Re4T2e9o8kQ?si=2U2VW_tsb2qapUI1\">The Friendly Giant<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-sm-12\"><div class=\"fsn-divider fsn-6a32328c1c9c4\"><hr><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fsn-text fsn-6a32328c1c9cb\">\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-family: 'andale mono', monospace;\">Canadian Links<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', monospace;\">The following links are people and projects I have donated to\/ supported on BuyMeACoffee.com. Note, if you think to become a creator on the BuyMeACoffee site, make sure you post the URL\/link to your site somewhere on the page for your donations.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', monospace;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/buymeacoffee.com\/craigu\">Craig Baird<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/canadaehx.com\">Canadian History Ehx<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', monospace;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/buymeacoffee.com\/windowswap\">Window Swap<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.window-swap.com\">Open a window somewhere in the world&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', monospace;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/buymeacoffee.com\/firesidecanada\">Fireside Canada<\/a> &#8211; David Williams &#8211; A<a href=\"https:\/\/firesidecanada.ca\"> podcast about Canadian legends and folklore<\/a> (inactive now).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', monospace;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/buymeacoffee.com\/asciiart.website\">Christopher Johnson<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/asciiart.website\/\">Christopher Johnson&#8217;s ASCII Art Collection<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', monospace;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-195324033\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianspelling.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/unshovellingcanadian.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"436\" height=\"786\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianspelling.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/unshovellingcanadian.png 436w, https:\/\/canadianspelling.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/unshovellingcanadian-83x150.png 83w, https:\/\/canadianspelling.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/unshovellingcanadian-266x480.png 266w, https:\/\/canadianspelling.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/unshovellingcanadian-277x500.png 277w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\">Winter is done (for now). Do people in other countries <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/r\/1Fi7M1icPt\/\">unshovel the driveway<\/a> to help the snow melt faster?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":195324046,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianspelling.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195324025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianspelling.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianspelling.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianspelling.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianspelling.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195324025"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/canadianspelling.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195324025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195324063,"href":"https:\/\/canadianspelling.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195324025\/revisions\/195324063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianspelling.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195324046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianspelling.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195324025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianspelling.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195324025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianspelling.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195324025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}