I found the following in DorothyL tonight, as I wandered . .
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Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 20:39:14 -0600 From: "P.L. beuerlein"
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plbeuer@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> Subject: Raymond
Chandler in The Beaver magazine
I'll bet that subject line raised a few eyebrows.
The Beaver is a Canadian history magazine. The name comes
from it's origin as an in-house magazine for the Hudson Bay
Co. when it was still in the fur trade< Later it added
company and fur trade history, finally becoming an
independent magazine of Canadian history.
So how did Raymond Chandler get into The Beaver?
The latest issue has a story on Americans joining the
Canadian Expeditionary Force in the First World War, before
the U.S. entered the war. It includes an interesting sidebar
on Raymond Chandler's service in the CEF, with speculation on
how the war coloured his later writing.
If you go to http://www.archives.ca/02/02010602_e.html
and search Raymond Chandler, you can see his attestation
papers.
Maybe The Beaver's editor is a mystery fan. Not long ago they
carried a big article on Leslie McFarlane, the Canadian
writer who ghosted a number of early Hardy Boys books,
beginning in 1927 with The Tower Treasure.
Pat email:
plbeuer@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
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