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Gregory McCormick, Director of English Programming for the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival, admires the works of Hugh MacLennan.
I was thrilled to see McGill-Queen’s Press re-releasing some of Hugh MacLennan’s most well-known books the last couple of years. MacLennan, though his reputation has somewhat dimmed since the height of his career, is certainly one of Canada’s brightest literary stars, and the neglect that befell his work into the sixties and seventies was a testament to the issues of the day that required intellectuals to look forward and not backward.
His work, The Watch That Ends the Night, is set in the “Golden Square Mile” area of downtown Montreal. The term itself is anachronistic and refers to the fact that some of Canada’s wealthiest families built mansions along Sherbrooke Street – few of which are still standing today, in fact. By the 1930s and 40s, most of these families had gone, taking their wealth and ostentatious lifestyles with them. There are few remnants of this world of privilege and class left though on the street one can see traces in the few remaining stone houses and the occasional church.
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