Canada's Greatest Storytellers: 1950 -1960s

The 1950's were when Canada prospered, with new TV sets and washing machines filling houses in new suburbs, as immigrants continued to arrive. This was the decade when Glenn Gould's recording of Bach was sent into space, and Lester Pearson won the Nobel Peace Prize. At home, John Diefenbaker rose to power, and I acquired a behind-the-scenes story about him by sitting on his wife's hat.  This decade saw the rise of Robertson Davies, who later was to transform Canadian writing with his 1970 novel Fifth Business. This was the decade when James Houston (author of Confessions of an Igloo Dweller many years later), changed the Inuit Art World for ever. Meanwhile, in 1958 Yves Theriault wrote the great Arctic novel, Agaguk.