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BOOKMARK HIGHLIGHTS OWEN SOUND AS LITERARY SETTING

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For Immediate Release—On September 2nd, Owen Sound received a permanent literary tribute when Mayor Ruth Lovell Stanners and author Terry Griggs unveiled a new plaque at the city’s waterfront. The plaque bears approximately 500 words from Terry Griggs’s novel Rogues’ Wedding (published by Random House of Canada in 2002), depicting a scene that takes place at the Owen Sound harbour, on the exact site where the plaque was installed. 

ONTARIO: READ IT HERE - FOUR LITERARY LOCALES TO SHOWCASE THEIR STORIES

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August 12, 2010—Four Ontario literary settings are about to find a visible place in the province’s landscape. In September and October, the cities of Owen Sound, Toronto and Kingston will each unveil a permanent marker (called a “Bookmark”) bearing text from a story or poem. The Bookmarks will be installed in the exact physical locations where the literary scenes are set. The four installations are the next steps in a series of tributes to literature set in cities and towns across Canada, created by Project Bookmark Canada.

Welcome to New Members and AGM News

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Project Bookmark Canada is pleased to welcome over thirteen new members since January! Our members include publishers, agents, booksellers, writers, students and individuals -- all of them great fans of reading.

Now is a great time to become a Bookmark member, because you can join us at our AGM on April 6, from 6:30 - 8:30 at Ben McNally Books. Come and get involved!

Announcing ONTARIO: READ IT HERE

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ONTARIO: READ IT HERE:
NEW PROJECT PUTS ONTARIO LITERATURE ON THE MAP

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TORONTO, February 12, 2010—Ontario is about to secure a fresh and prominent place in the literary landscape through a new initiative called Ontario: Read It Here.

Over the next two years, Ontario: Read It Here will install eight permanent exhibits of literature on the exact geographic sites where literary scenes take place. A sophisticated online mapping project, including travelogues and reading lists, will enhance the installations, driving Ontario book lovers and tourists from all over to visit the installations at cities and towns across the province, to read the featured books and authors and to further explore Ontario’s literary scene.

Reading Local

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Project Bookmark Canada is now installed in its new office in Hamilton, Ontario. When I say new office, I mean new home office, so not only is Hamilton our organization’s new centre, but also my new home. When I move to a place, I like to see it through the eyes of its writers, so I am spending time this summer with writer John Terpstra’s poetry, much of which features Hamilton locales, and his book Falling Into Place, about the history of the Hamilton land formation called the Iroquois Bar.

Quintessentially Canadian, says Q

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Thanks to the folks at CBC Radio's Q for allowing us to post their take on Project Bookmark Canada. From Monday's show, here's what Jian Ghomeshi had to say about Bookmark:
 
"Hi There. Happy Monday.
 Let's start this week by talking about... plaques. Yeah...stick with me. A plaque was unveiled last week on the Prince Edward Viaduct here in Toronto. 
 

Lift Off!

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Thank you every one who came out for the launch of Project Bookmark Canada. It was wonderful to see so many enthusiastic people at the Bloor Street Viaduct for the unveiling of our inaugural Bookmark: a passage from Michael Ondaatje’s In the Skin of a Lion in which a nun falls from the bridge during its construction.
 

Ready to Launch

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After ten years of dreaming and planning, Project Bookmark Canada is ready to launch. On April 23rd at 11 a.m., Toronto Mayor David Miller and author Michael Ondaatje will unveil our first Bookmark, a passage from Michael Ondaatje's legendary Toronto novel In the Skin of a Lion, at the Bloor Street Viaduct.
 

READ IT HERE: PROJECT BOOKMARK CANADA PUTS STORIES IN OUR SPACES

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TORONTO ⎯ On Thursday, April 23, 2009, Mayor David Miller and author Michael Ondaatje will be at Toronto’s Bloor Street Viaduct to launch Project Bookmark Canada, a national initiative to bring the imagined landscapes of stories and poems into our physical spaces.

The Village Bookshop Becomes Bookmark’s Inaugural Donor

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Thanks to Mary Wolfe of The Village Bookshop in Bayfield, Ontario, Project Bookmark Canada has received its first donation. Each year, The Village Bookshop in Bayfield, Ontario runs a satellite Canada Reads celebration, with local readers presenting and defending the shortlisted books. This spring, a portion of the proceeds of that event were designated for Project Bookmark Canada. Thank you to proprietor Mary Wolfe and the readers of Bayfield for giving Bookmark your vote of confidence.

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