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Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Marking 50 years on the legislature floor

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George MacMinn photographed by Deddeda White. With renewed attention being paid to the position of the clerk of the B.C. Legislature, he...
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Friday, January 11, 2019

Jim Taylor (1937-2019), sportswriter

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By Tom Hawthorn The Globe and Mail January 11, 2019 Jim Taylor was a sportswriter more entertaining than the teams he covered...
Tuesday, June 5, 2018

The Old Ball Game: Ontario crossroads site of historic backwoods matchup

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Players recreate the 1838 game between Beachville and Zorra as described by Adam Ford. Photo from the Beachville (Ont.) District Museum.  ...
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Thursday, April 26, 2018

A beauty of a ballplayer

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By Tom Hawthorn Special to The National Post December 22, 2003 Mary Baker was a model and store clerk who left Regina in 1943 to become...
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Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Sinclair gets another crack at Major League dream

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By Tom Hawthorn The Times Colonist September 28, 1997 Not so long ago, Steve Sinclair had called it quits, had hung 'em up, ha...
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Saturday, November 25, 2017

Peter Trower (1930-2017), bard of the British Columbia backwoods

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The poet Peter Trower reads from a manuscript. By Tom Hawthorn The Globe and Mail November 25, 2017 To some poets, a tree is ...
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Tom Hawthorn is a senior writer for the Government of B.C. He spent more than 40 years writing for newspapers and magazines in Canada and the United States. His most recent books are "Play Ball!," an anecdotal history of baseball in Vancouver, and "The Year Canadians Lost Their Minds and Found Their Country: The Centennial of 1967."
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