Year-End CanCon

    There are rumours that Bill C-11 may allow for the manipulation of algorithms so that searches done in Canada will yield more CanCon. Although some people and companies are upset about that prospect, I thought I had better throw in some Canadian items to satisfy the CRTC. As well, the attempt to make CanCon more discoverable may benefit Mulcahy's Miscellany which has yet to find more than a few readers from anywhere. Since I did recently offer a couple of posts about B.C., I will focus on the East Coast. 

Anne of Green Gables

   Every year for almost the last sixty of them (excluding the last couple of pandemic ones), one has been able to go to P.E.I. and watch "Anne of Green Gables - The Musical" in Charlottetown. Many tourists visited the Island for that purpose and then travelled on to Cavendish. A lot of them came all the way from Japan. When it was announced recently that the play would only be offered every second year, there were many complaints and they are still coming in. One couple from Vero Beach, FL., who have a summer home on P.E.I. wrote: “Anne represents the essence of P.E.I. to us and put P.E.I. on the global map,” the couple wrote. “Big mistake, folks.”

  I learned of this from this article in the NYT, Dec.3, 2022 by Ian Austen: "After Half a Century, Prince Edward Island's Musical Tradition Takes a Break." For Canadian content and the complaints see issues of Saltwire, starting with this one: "Commentary: Decision About Anne of Green Gables - The Musical, Based on Money, Alix MacLean, Nov. 29, 2022. 

  A Lucy Maud Montgomery industry is well-established on the Island and you can learn about it here at the L.M. Montgomery Institute. I have mentioned before in Mulcahy's Miscellany that entire journals dedicated to single authors are published and you can add to the list the, Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies. You can read issues by clicking on the link and this one explains why Anne is popular in Japan: "Red Hair in a Global World: A Japanese History of Anne of Green Gables and Prince Edward Island." For additional examples of such journals see my "Single Author Journals."