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Bookmarking Ontario
Photo courtesy of Project Bookmark Canada.
Have you ever stood next to a Canadian landmark and thought, “Damn, this experience would be so much better if I could read a complementary passage by a great Canadian author?” Writer and communications consultant Miranda Hill did. And with that, she launched Project Bookmark Canada.
Founded in 2009 and run out of Hill’s Hamilton home, Project Bookmark Canada is a national program working to pair Canadian geographical locations with powerful literary passages. These sites, known as “Bookmarks,” feature a plaque with a literary excerpt and background information about the author, quoted book, and site. The first site was unveiled last April when a passage from Michael Ondaatje’s In the Skin of a Lion was erected in the east end of Toronto’s Bloor Street Viaduct.
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