As I entered the first grade at Ecole L’Ardoise in 1978, I wasn’t reading full-length chapter books on a regular basis. It would take another three years before… Read more “Canada 1978: Could This Be Happening To Gordon Korman?”

I’m sure Anne Murray has probably lost track of how many times she’s sung “You Needed Me” since it topped the Canadian and American singles charts in… Read more “Canada 1978: Why I Needed Anne Murray’s “You Needed Me””

Since my childhood years in the back half of the ’70s included the presence of my younger sister, that meant we got to share a lot of… Read more “Canada 1978: Elephants and Earworms with Sharon, Lois and Bram”

Nearly two months before my sixth birthday, I joined several of my cousins and a couple of family friends on a parade float for our hometown summer… Read more “Canada 1978: Learning (and Loving) Our National Anthem”

Every Sunday morning, after we attended Catholic Mass services in L’Ardoise, my parents would take me and my sister down the hill to my grandparents’ house for… Read more “Canada 1977: Launching 40 Fabulous Years of Parliamentary TV!”

I’ve told several people over the past decade that I’d love to be Stuart McLean when (and if) I grow up. So I hope you’ll indulge me… Read more “Canada Today: Memories of Stuart McLean”

Even at the age of five, I knew that music had the capacity to amuse, inspire, delight and entertain. But I was also aware that some music… Read more “Canada 1977: Defending Dan Hill’s “Sometimes When We Touch””

Living in a rural Atlantic fishing village with a population of under 1,000, I would discover early in my life that occasionally my family needed to venture outside… Read more “Canada 1977: Workin’ At The Woolco”

With my first day of school and my fifth birthday both fast approaching as September 1977 drew near, my daily doses of The Friendly Giant, Mr. Dress-Up… Read more “Canada 1977: Buffy Sainte-Marie – Chatting With A Trailblazer”

So far on this blog, I’ve posted extensively about some of the giants (literal and otherwise) of Canadian children’s television – shows like The Friendly Giant and… Read more “Canada 1976: Bees, Bobs, Clowns and Leprechauns Conquer Children’s TV”