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Strange Days

Amazing Stories From Canada's Wildest Decade

by (author) Ted Ferguson

Publisher
NeWest Press
Initial publish date
May 2011
Category
General, General, Post-Confederation (1867-)
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781897126820
    Publish Date
    May 2011
    List Price
    $21.95
  • 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.

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