by Laurie Ness Gordon | Mar 8, 2024 | Finding Home, Home Page, Writing
Historical fiction magnifies particular moments in time, provoking deeper thoughts about issues and opening a dialogue about how past circumstances may apply to our contemporary context. Finding Home is a novel set in the 1870s. How do its themes of: class...
by Laurie Ness Gordon | Feb 10, 2024 | Home Page
I took a sign language course in the early 1980s, as part of a Recreation Leadership Diploma. Although I have only used this method of communiation occasionally since then, I was still able to read this message. Can you figure it out?
by Laurie Ness Gordon | Jan 14, 2024 | Finding Home, Home Page, Writing
Annie Macpherson, a Scottish evangelical Quaker, was educated in Glasgow and London. Appalled by the poverty in London’s East End, she set up several missions to provide meals and classes for children, and eventually opened the Home of Industry in Spitalfields,...
by Laurie Ness Gordon | Jan 13, 2024 | Writing
The Canadian government proclaimed 2010 The Year of the British Home Child, and issued a commemorative stamp to honour the thousands of waifs and orphans transplanted from the urban slums of England to Canada to work as cheap farm laborers or domestic servants. In...
by Laurie Ness Gordon | Jan 6, 2024 | Finding Home, Writing
Finding Home follows the lives of two young people in early Canada. Sarah Phillips, a servant orphaned by cholera in 1869 London crosses the ocean desperately seeking her family. Richard Breeze, the disgraced son of an Ontario sawmill owner, must redeem himself in his...
