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Biography & Autobiography Literary

Bon Echo

The Denison Years

by (author) Mary Savigny

Publisher
Dundurn Press
Initial publish date
Jul 1997
Category
Literary, General, General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781896219301
    Publish Date
    Jul 1997
    List Price
    $16.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781459714762
    Publish Date
    Jul 1997
    List Price
    $7.99

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Bon Echo: The Denison Years documents the era when famous artists, intellectuals and theatrical personalities visited the strikingly beautiful Lake Mazinaw area in Ontario’s rugged Land O’ Lakes district, to both play and work. From the construction of Bon Echo Inn by American Dr. Weston Price to the creation of today’s Bon Echo Provincial Park, the author has been privy to the "inside" story.

The struggles and ideals of the early Toronto feminist Flora MacDonald Denison and her author-playwright son, Merrill, are well recorded in this important book. The author, a good storyteller, obviously learned plenty from the old master during her many years as his manuscript typist, a relationship that ended with Merrill Denison’s death in 1975.

About the author

Mary Savigny was born Mary Kirby in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, in 1923. In 1942 she joined the RAF as an operations room plotter. After the war she moved to Northbrook, Ontario, where she later met Merrill Denison. In 1987 she and her husband John retired to Kingston, Ontario.

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