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Project Bookmark Canada is a national charitable organization that marks the places where the real and imagined landscapes meet. We do this by installing poster sized ceramic plaques - called Bookmarks - in the exact physical locations where literary scenes are set.

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The Bookmarks

Bookmark 10 (Port Colborne): SAILOR GIRL by Sheree-Lee Olson

It was a sailors’ phone booth, smelling of tobacco and desperation. She held the receiver away from her face as she dialled Hazel’s number. Imagining the ring pealing through Hazel’s little house from the heavy black phone in the hall.
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Bookmark 09 (Hamilton): “GIANTS” by John Terpstra

There used to be giants, and they loved it here. They’d sit their giant hinds in a row along the top edge of the escarpment, and pick at the loose rock
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Bookmark 08 (Midland): THE QUEEN OF UNFORGETTING by Sylvia Maultash Warsh

I stay on the sidewalk because there are more cars on William Street than pedestrians, though few enough of either. Toronto this ain’t. The sun is warm on my back, the air fresh as it flies past my face, a pleasant change from Van’s smoky house. 
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Bookmark 07 (Mississauga) “SONG FOR THE FIELD BEHIND MISSISSAUGA VALLEY PUBLIC SCHOOL” by Jeff Latosik

The field that stretched beyond goalposts. The field that redrew lines in us.
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Bookmark 06 (Toronto): FUGITIVE PIECES by Anne Michaels

Up Grace, along Henderson, up Manning to Harbord I whimpered; my spirit shape finally in familiar clothes and, with abandon, flinging its arms the stars.
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Profile Photos Bookmark 06: FUGITIVE PIECES by Anne Michaels Bookmark 05: GARBO LAUGHS by Elizabeth Hay Bookmark 04: ESSENTIALIST by Ken Babstock Bookmark 02: ROGUES' WEDDING by Terry Griggs Bookmark 03: MEXICAN SUNSETS by Bronwen Wallace

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