Lois Simmie was born in Edam, Saskatchewan in 1932. Filled with awe and wonder at the bountiful and remarkable world unfolding around her Simmie takes us on the journey of her life and the events that shaped her into a writer. She describes her whimsical youth in Saskatchewan in a bygone era of Frank Sinatra on the radio, Amos 'n' Andy, the jitterbug, jazz, square dances, and Hollywood movies every Friday night in the town hall. Simmie's magical delight in all things transports us through the Depression and war years to childhood summer visits to Hopkinsville, Kentucky in her relatives' Gone With the Wind-style southern mansion, an adventure in the lush beauty of Brazil, and to Scotland while writing her first non-fiction book, The Secret Lives of Sgt. John Wilson, about the murder of a young Scottish woman by her RCMP husband. Simmie fell in love with words at a young age but it isn't until later in life that she takes up her calling as a writer while living in Saskatoon. She describes the burgeoning Saskatchewan writing scene as electric as she enters an exciting community of like-minded writers and poets, a hotbed of creativity and inspiration that is the impetus of her finest writing and the culmination of an astonishing life story.
Authors
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- CaOOCEL
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- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C818/.5403
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- n-cn---
- ISBN
- 9781550507942 9781550507935
- LCCN
- PR9199.3.S5185
- LCCN Item number
- Z46 2019eb
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- CaBNVSL
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- CaBNVSL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (302 pages)
- Published in
- Regina, Saskatchewan
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- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)thg00979725 (OCoLC)1102811529 (CaOOCEL)457479
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- CaBNVSL
Table of Contents
- Mervin 10
- Pyramid 12
- Glimpses 13
- Crime Doesnt Pay 17
- Falling in Love With Words 20
- The Elevator 24
- Bing 26
- The Farm 30
- Sleepwalking 35
- Sundays 38
- Dads Girl 41
- The Playhouse 46
- Going to the Lake 49
- Going to the Dentist 53
- The Binnses 56
- Floating 63
- Going to See the Queen 66
- The WarMaurice 69
- A Visitor 72
- Rheumatic Fever 80
- Livelong 84
- The Move 86
- Livelong School 91
- The Doolittles 97
- Hollywood 101
- First Drink 104
- City Girl 107
- Livelong Saturday Night 109
- Blind Drunk 112
- Sammys Café 117
- Hitchhiking 121
- Saskatchewan Hospital 130
- Calgary Brazil 138
- Calgary Years 140
- My Skirt 145
- Unforgivable 148
- Getting There 152
- Señor Cotta 159
- The Buzzard 162
- Hurricane Hazel 165
- North Battleford Saskatoon 176
- CJNB 178
- Marriage 184
- Teddy 195
- Anne Szumigalski 200
- Victoria 205
- Finding a Family 215
- Going On 218
- Westgate Books 223
- Auntie Eva Knitting 227
- Bowled Over by Poems 230
- You Cant Miss It. Cows. 238
- Auntie the Play 243
- Mining for Stories 246
- Unknowables 250
- You Cant Miss It. Cookies. 252
- Wonderful Times 256
- The OBC 260
- Betty Lee and Oliver 262
- You Cant Miss It. Wild Rose Country. 265
- Meeting Sergeant Wilson 270
- Trip to Scotland 278
- The Stories I Missed 290
- Meeting Got To Go 293
- You Cant Miss It. Paynton. 297
- Unknowables. Ghosts. 302
- What Im Trying to Say is Goodbye 310
