Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jonathan Hullah is from Sioux Lookout which, he tells us, lies "nearly 2000 miles northwest of Toronto." Although this sounds to an American like code for the North Pole, the narrative stays in the township long enough to give the young Hullah a youthful bout with scarlet fever (childhood disease is a favorite repeated trope of Davies), the friendship of an Indian healer and wise woman named Mrs. Smoke (who saves him with neither scalpel nor the Merck Manual) and a lifelong interest in medicine, especially non-traditional medicine...
...Davies doesn't take long to whisk us away to Toronto, where at Colborne College we are introduced to the young Brocky Gilmartin, who will become a professor of literature as the narrative unfolds, and Charlie Iredale, future Anglican priest. Hullah's two friends take opposite positions within the book: Brocky is clever and laughing, Charlie plodding and serious. We follow their progress into adulthood, and Dr. Hullah's exploits in war, in love, in theater...
...past flashing in and out as they relate to the events of the present. The impetus of his memory--and memory does comprise the bulk of the novel--is a series of articles by the journalist Esme Barron (later Esme Gilmartin--she marries Conor, Brocky's son) about old Toronto and for which she is interviewing Hullah. This narrative strand, the present, which brings about the memory aspect of the novel, continues on its own for years. Brocky, Charlie, and Hullah are middle-aged...
WESTERN CONFERENCE Central W L T Pts GF GA Home Away Div. x-Detroit 29 8 4 62 158 94 15-3-3 14-5-1 15-3-2 x-St. Louis 24 12 4 52 151 11315-5-1 9-7-3 11-7-2 Toronto 19 16 7 45 116 122 14-7-2 5-9-5 10-8-4 Chicago 19 18 4 42 132 104 7-9-3 12-9-1 4-12-3 Dallas 15 19 8 38 117 1097-9-5 8-10-3 6-12-1 Winnipeg...
Anaheim at Toronto...