Lily Fairchild follows the life of a pioneer woman, born in the backwoods of Lambton County in 1840, throughout her long life, ending in 2019. During that time, she is witness to historical events that impinge on her life: the Underground Railroad, the coming of the railways, the discovery of oil, the Fenian raids, the first and second Riel Rebellions, the construction of the tunnel under the St Clair River, the Great War, and the flu pandemic of 1919. Lily struggles against the f...

In the midst of the Great Depression, the townsfolk of Port Eddy are looking forward to the annual diversion: a horseshoe tournament against nearby Petroleum City. When a ringer, a hotshot outsider illegally brought in to help the City win the contest, is murdered, Constable Stan Garrett, the recently appointed village cop, is surprised that he might be involved in something more than jaywalking. However, when the uncle of his new lady friend, Susan Shaw, is suddenly arrested by the City p...

Don Gutteridge approaches his home town of Point Edward, Ontario, with an array of listening and recording devices, mixing poetry, documentary newspaper collage, interviews and photography. A milestone in the documentary poem.

ENDUEDWhen you pulled upin that brand-newVolkswagen with the sunroof, my heartbeatabrupted, as the girl with theclementine curls, a smilefestooned with freckles and aglance that rhymed with romancestepped into the autumnal lightin her lemon-yellow dressand I was smitten breathless,bitten by love’s bite,and needed no prooffor my endued delight ormy sublime obsession.

Don Gutteridge’s collections of poetry celebrate the poet’s childhood in Point Edward, the small town nestled under that yawning bridge teeming with cars dashing to places only dreamed about by those young villagers. One gets to know the wiles of the local fish and the best fishing places, and then sits and wonders at the woodworking skills of the poet’s grandfather or the eerily brilliant skating of his father. As I’ve read his collections, I’ve come to view the sands of Canatara as my ow...

In Toronto’s rough days of 1839, several elite citizens harbor dark secrets, offering rich compost for a sleazy blackmailer. Caught in the muck is the gallant young Brodie Langford who is desperate to protect his sweetheart from disgrace. When Brodie is arrested for the extortionist’s murder, Marc Edwards, now a barrister, struggles to save him from the gallows and to reunite the couple.

Lily Fairchild is born in southern Ontario in 1840 and leads a life of constant struggle against the historical forces of her time: the coming of the railroads, the discovery of oil, the Riel Rebellions, the Great War and the influenza pandemic that followed. Three marriages and two children complicate her life and against all the odds she struggle and survives, always deciding on love whenever she can.

"The poems in this collection span the decades of the poet’s existence, beginning with his childhood in the small village of Point Edward, Ontario. The poems celebrating his youth are filled with contrasts; images of the endless sands of the beach at Canatara that are “svelte and summering as/seven Saharas” and speak of perpetual summers, even as the actors in those long-ago memories were reaching out all-too-swiftly past their childhood innocence and entering the uncertain waters of their...

Stubborn Pilgrimage traces both the development of new teaching methods (what I call the post-Diltzian paradigm) and the resistance of English teachers to the serial attempts to have their programme hijacked by well-meaning psychologists and sociologists and a Ministry of Education increasingly in opposition to the kind of programming B.C. Diltz promulgated as long-time instructor and later principal of the Ontario College of Education; that is, the aesthetic appreciation of our b...

Winter’s Descent takes up where “Summer’s Idyll” left off. The time is 1945. Will and his mother have moved to a new town. Will is growing up. His story is one of loneliness, of finding girls, of discovering books, of learning to write. A story told with rare insight and gentle humour.

Praise for Don Gutteridge’s poetry:The Sands of Canatara:"Gutteridge has a divine gift; he crafts visions with an elegant ease, splashing colors on the canvas of the mind’s eye and recreating the past so vividly it argues for the concept of time standing still. Each poem is a treat, a moment to be savored, a contradiction of permanence and the passage of time. My favorite moments in this collection would have to be those spent with Uncle Potsy in “Leavened” an...

Praise for Don Gutteridge’s Poetry: "There is no doubt the poems collected in this svelte volume have been memorially ‘lived in’; they must negotiate a world with – and without – words. Gutteridge’s poetic offerings do not rely on complex conceptual acrobatics, but are seemingly designed as accessible snapshots of life. Each tells a story in the form of a vignette, its context established quickly like the flash of a photographer’s bulb. Accented with very memorable...