(photo of T.B.R. and the extremely rare dust jacket of the book to win the first Governor General’s Award in 1936 for non-fiction; this dj was so rare I found it on a fluke in a Victoria bookshop a few years back–I don’t believe there were that many copies of this title printed in the first place)
Glasgow-born Thomas Beattie Robertson (1879-1936) arrived in Canada to work as a farmer, printer, and literary editor. He was a fixture at the Winnipeg Free Press for 18 years where he wrote many articles, some of which were collected here in this volume, which came out in the same year he died and won the Award.