“Of Montreal, I can say but little. The cholera was at its height, and the fear of infection, which increased the nearer we approached its shores, cast a gloom over … Continue reading OTR Celebrates Canada Day with Susanna Strickland Moodie
“The day was warm, and the cloudless heavens of that peculiar azure tint which gives to the Canadian skies and waters a brilliancy unknown in more northern latitudes. The air … Continue reading OTR Celebrates June with Susanna Strickland Moodie
“The want of education and moral training is the only real barrier that exists between the different classes of men.” Susanna Strickland Moodie Susanna Moodie was not one to stand … Continue reading OTR Celebrates June with Susanna Strickland Moodie
“Ah, Hope! What would life be, stripped of they encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild … Continue reading OTR Celebrates June with Susanna Strickland Moodie
Life is worth living as long as there’s a laugh in it.” L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables Lucy Maud Montgomery fell in love with Reverend Ewen MacDonald, the minister of … Continue reading OTR Celebrates April with Lucy Maud Montgomery
“Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.” L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables Lucy Maud Montgomery qualified for her teacher’s … Continue reading OTR Celebrates April With Lucy Maud Montgomery
“It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to it.” L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables As a child, Lucy Maud Montgomery spent much of her time … Continue reading OTR Celebrates April With Lucy Maud Montgomery
All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.” L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island Lucy Maud Montgomery, Maud to her friends, writes from her life … Continue reading OTR Celebrates April With Lucy Maud Montgomery
We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it’s grand and … Continue reading OTR Celebrates April with Lucy Maud Montgomery
