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Saturday, October 21, 1989

Marshall McLuhan to Sheila Watson | 21 October 1969


The "little film" is BURNING WOULD, made with the well-known American urban critic, Jane Jacobs, ostensibly about the proposed plans for the Spadina Expressway which McLuhan was not happy about.

Which foreign intelligence is intruding?

In 1961, Watson was hired as a professor of English at the University of Alberta. "In Edmonton the Watsons became part of an active circle of writers and established the literary magazine,The White Pelican in 1970 along with Douglas Barbour, Stephen Scobie, John Orrell, Dorothy Livesay, and artist Norman Yates."[2] Watson remained the founding editor of the White Pelican for its brief existence (1971–1975).[3] White Pelican Publications published Lions at her Face, the first book by Miriam Mandel, which won the Governor General's Award in 1973.

In 1984 Watson edited the Collected Poems of Miriam Mandel.[7]Watson retired in 1975. In 1976, she and her husband moved to Nanaimo, where they died in 1998

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