Mary soderstrom biography

The Words on the Wall: Robert Nelson & The Rebellion of 1837

July 25, 2014
Had the very pleasant experience last night of arriving at an event marking the opening of an exhibition about Wolfred Nelson, doctor, mayor of Montreal and Patriot, and finding a stack of my biographical novel of his brother Robert Nelson prominently displayed in the museum's store.

My book was published 15 years ago in English and in French, and I've been told that it still is read with interest by those interested in the history of the Rebellions in Upper and Lower Canada. This episode in 1837-38 was the closest Canada ever came to revolution, and set the stage for responsible government, and the establishment of Canada as a separate country 30 years later.

The Nelsons were among the many Anglophones who took up the cause of independence. Unfortunately their contribution is frequently forgotten in Quebec: the rebellions are more often glossed as a fight between the British and French Canadians. In Upper Canada, the Patriot leader was William Lyon MacKenzie, who also made his mark later in the new

Mary Soderstrom is a Montreal-based writer of fiction and non-fiction. She is the author of seven works of non-fiction, three short story collections, six novels and one children's book. In addition over the years she has done a wide variety of reporting on science, urbanism, politics and writing. The University of Regina Press published her Concrete: From Ancient Origins to a Problematic Future in October 2020. The year before the press brought out her Frenemy Nations: Love and Hate in Neighbo(u)ring States. Follow her Twitter account for updates @frenemynations. In 2017 the University of Regina Press published her Road through Time: The Story of Humanity on the Move. Publishers' Weekly said: "Soderstrom constructs a competent layperson’s guide in bright, conversational prose, skillfully using her own experiences and just-so stories about the peoples of the past as springboards to exploring humankind’s long history of migration." Her novel River Music was published by Cormorant Press in 2015. The Montreal Review of Books said: "While the life of a promine

Mary Soderstrom

Novelist, short story and nonfiction writer

Mary Soderstrom (born 1942) is a novelist, short story and nonfiction writer.[1]

Career

Her novel, The Violets of Usambara (Cormorant Books, March 2008), was supported by a grant from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec which allowed her to do research in East Africa. That experience also shows up in her book Green City: People, Nature and Urban Places (Véhicule Press). Tanga, Tanzania, the gateway to the East Usambara Mountains, is one of the 11 cities she uses in Green City as points of departure for discussing the way people have brought nature into cities over history. This travel, as well as what she did for her non-fiction book The Walkable City: From Haussmann's Boulevards to Jane Jacobs' Streets and Beyond (Véhicule Press, 2008) prompted her to consider the role of the Portuguese over the last 700 years in the European exploration of the world. Their story lies at the heart of Making Waves: The Continuing Portuguese Adventure (Véhicule Press, Fall 2010).

The Universi

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