Tony Cashman
"Edmonton: Stories from the River City may be the best yet for
Edmonton's chronicler of history made entertaining and accessible.
Tony would credit his material: certainly Edmonton boasts as many
colourful characters and daring deeds as any Canadian city. But
surely no other Canadian city can point to such a collection of
tales well told.. Here, brought to life, among the mud and dust,
the clamour of fire bells and the clanking of streetcars, are free
trader John Norris, who bamboozled the mighty Hudson's Bay Company;
Dick Rice, who turned a zany city loose on the radio; Bill Noak the
butcher, whose end-of-week meat auctions kept many Depression-era
families from malnutrition. These tales are uniformly entertaining.
They are historically accurate. They portray a public spirit unique
to our frontier tradition." The Honourable Jim Edwards, from the
Foreword
"Cashman, a former CJCA broadcaster, has a personal way of writing
about people such as Lawrence Garneau, John Walter and John Milner
as if they were acquaintances... This is a story more about people
and personalities than it is about history. And some of the black
and white photos are fascinating, particularly a reproduction of an
Emily Carr drawing of Edmonton in its infancy." Susan Jones, St.
Albert Gazette
"Cashman has in the past given readers some of the finest stories
ever written about the capital city. It's been too long since his
last series of stories, but he has not lost his touch. His stories
are as entertaining, pithy, and as accurate as ever." Hugh Dempsey,
Alberta History, Autumn 2002
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