Crocus, the small prairie town that W. O. Mitchell has created in his novels and stories, like Stephen Leacock's Mariposa, has been mapped in the Canadian imagination. The original of this mythic place is Weyburn, Saskatchewan, a town of about five...

Mitchell, W. O. Mitchell: The Life of W. O. Mitchell: The Years of Fame, 1948-1998. Ormond Mitchell and Barbara Mitchell. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2005. 477 pp. $39.99. "Ormond and Barbara Mitchell have at last completed the final half of their biography...

Creating traditions. That's what Bob Plasse, president of Westfield on Weekends, says is the group's most important mission. "We're making connections between people, businesses, and neighborhoods," he said. "The overriding goal is to market the city as a great place to live,...

The place, the bald-headed prairie of southern Saskatchewan…. The time, the present … the principal characters, Jake and the Kid. And here, as the first episode in a new series of radio plays by the Canadian writer W. O. Mitchell is the story of the Oldest Old-Timer…. The date was Tuesday, June 27, 1950. And so began the radio series that was to run for six seasons and over two hundred and fifty scripts, and which was to make Crocus, Saskatchewan one of the enduring towns of the Canadia...

In studies of Canadian Prairie literature and in surveys of the development and outstanding achievements of Canadian fiction, W. O. Mitchell's novel Who Has Seen the Wind has been uniformly praised for its lyrically evocative style. (p. 221) There are many passages in the novel that haunt the reader's imagination because of their rhythmic qualities and musical sounds. (p. 222)

The title of W. O. Mitchell's new novel alludes to the pictorial device by which converging lines, meeting at a "vanishing point" on the horizon, create the illusion of depth; and the novel itself is concerned with the lines men draw for themselves and for others in their desire to impose order, purpose, direction, on human life. That this is at best an illusory goal is the conclusion reached by The Vanishing Point, which describes the uneasy relations between an Indian band and white a...