
NETHERHILL, SASK. — The letters would arrive as if by magic carpet — a folded sheet of ink-blotted paper borne across an ocean of fear. It was the Canadian prairie in 1957: the grit of the homesteaders, the groan of the wind, the tight-clenched grip of winter.
Suddenly, late at night, a telephone call from Jean Morrison, postmistress of Netherhill, Saskatchewan, a speck on the plains southwest of Saskatoon, three streets wide and two avenues tall. Gravel streets, a railside grain elevator, a dozen houses, a hockey rink, a curling sheet, a tiny dinette on the shoulder of No. 7 highway...
December 10, 2024 - 09:24 | Allen Abel | National Post
You can’t go wrong with pizza. From coast to coast to coast, in small towns and big cities alike, pizza brings people together. What started as a flatbread with tomato sauce, with or without cheese, brought to Canadian shores by Italian immigrants has become a staple. It all began with the Italians, but since Canada’s first pizzeria,
Pizzeria Napoletana
, opened in Montreal in 1948, countless communities have made pizza their own. The Greeks created regional...
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