Strange Days
Amazing Stories From Canada's Wildest Decade
- Publisher
- NeWest Press
- Initial publish date
- May 2011
- Category
- General, General, Post-Confederation (1867-)
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781897126820
- Publish Date
- May 2011
- List Price
- $21.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781897126967
- Publish Date
- May 2011
- List Price
- $11.99
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Description
The 1920s were one of the wildest decades in Canada’s history, a time of frivolous fads, shocking crimes, and political and social changes that definitively yanked the country out of the 19th century and into the modern age. In Strange Days, Ted Ferguson revisits dozens of stories that could only have happened in the ’20s — tales of serial killers, athletes, con men, crackpots, prime ministers, bathing beauties, and more — all of them nearly too amazing to believe and too entertaining to be forgotten.
About the author
Ted Ferguson was born and raised in Victoria, BC. For ten years, he worked as a newspaper reporter, television critic, sports columnist, and magazine writer in several cities across Canada, before becoming a full-time freelance writer 30 years ago. His articles have appeared in the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, Reader 's Digest, Canadian Business, enRoute, and the Imperial Oil Review. He has published seven books, including the Alberta Non-Fiction Book Award winner, Desperate Siege. His last book, Blue Cuban Nights, was published in 2006.