In the fall of 1917, a woman named Elsa Gidlow published a letter in The Montreal Daily Star announcing her desire to form a writing group. She invited anyone interested to attend the first meeting.

This story was first published on Dec. 7, 2003, in the Montreal Gazette. ‘That the day of the sex novel is nearly done and that we are passing out from a long obsession with this subject into a new, ...

Some had just returned from fighting overseas for Canada during the First World War. Others were recent immigrants from the Caribbean. They had dreams of finding promising jobs and earning the respect ...