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 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...
by Laurie Ness Gordon | Apr 17, 2014 | Writing
Last week I visited a friend in Ottawa. After a great dinner at The Table (gluten free, vegetarian, and delicious – for those so inclined by necessity or choice) we went for a walk along Wellington Street. There we came across a large, old building that had seen...