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Fiction Historical

A Canadian Bankclerk

by (author) John Preston Buschlen

series edited by Douglas Lochhead

Publisher
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Initial publish date
Dec 1973
Category
Historical, Post-Confederation (1867-), Social History, 20th Century
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781442652170
    Publish Date
    Dec 1973
    List Price
    $34.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442651128
    Publish Date
    Dec 1973
    List Price
    $38.95

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Of this novel of Canadian business life and village and city social conditions in the early twentieth century, the author explains that his object is 'to enlighten the public concerning life behind the wicket and thus pave the way for the legitimate organization of bankclerks into a fraternal association, for their financial and social (including moral) betterment.'

About the authors

John Preston Buschlen (1888-1966) was a Canadian author. He also wrote under the pseudonyms A Flyer's Dad, Don Juan, Jack Preston and John Preston. His works include: A Canadian Bankclerk (1913), The War and Our Banks (1914), The World War (1914),Behind the Wicket (1914), The Drummer (1915), Peter Bosten (1915), Finding His Balance; or, The Bank Clerk Who Came Back (1915), Romance and the West: Falling Petals (1918), The Donkey, the Elephant and the Goat (1920), Screen Star (1932), Curtain of Life (1934), Not Ashamed: A Romance of the Tropics (1934), Heil! Hollywood(1939), Senor Plummer: The Life and Laughter of an Old- Californian (1942),Assembly Call (1943) and The Desert Battalion (1944).

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In the spring of 2001, Douglas Lochhead received the Alden Nowlan Award for Excellence in English-language Literary Arts from the Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a Member of the Order of Canada, the recipient of honorary doctorates from several universities, Professor Emeritus at Mount Allison University, Senior Fellow and Founding Librarian at Massey College, University of Toronto, and a life member of the League of Canadian Poets. After beginning his career as an advertising copywriter, he became a librarian, a professor of English, a specialist in typography and fine hand printing, and a bibliographer, scholar, and editor — indeed, he has characterized himself as “an unrepentant generalist.” At Mount Allison University, he was a founder and the director of the Centre for Canadian Studies, and he held the Edgar and Dorothy Davidson Chair in Canadian Studies.

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