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Autobiography of James H. Gray
Typescript of autobiography.
The Winter Years
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James Gray (Brig) Papers
Collection includes United States Consulate documents pertaining to the brig James Gray, Master Charles H. Plumer, out of Newburyport, Mass. Documentation includes: an inventory of the James Gray's crew upon their departure from Newburyport, Mass., bound for Liverpool (1860); a form certifying the arrival of the James Gray from Liverpool and listing crew members who deserted at that time, issued by the U.S. Consulate there and signed by vice consul Henry Wilding (05 Mar 1861); an inventory of crew members who deserted upon the brig's arrival in Glasgow, issued by the U.S. Consulate there and signed by Glasgow's U.S. consul (08 April 1861); two copies of an inventory of crew members who deserted upon the brig's arrival in Hamburg and a receipt for wages paid by Plumer, issued by the U.S. consulate there and signed by U.S. consul James H. Anderson (29 Dec 1861); and a letter, written by U.S. consul James H. Anderson, certifying that the brig James Gray was sold to E. Polcher (17 Jan 1862).
The Roar of the Twenties
A SOCIAL HISTORY OF CANADA'S WESTERN PROVINCES DURING THE YEARS 1920-1945.
Booze
Booze captures the wild days of the Canadian west, when battles raged between the wets and the drys. From Winnipeg to the Rockies, whisky kept the prairies in a ferment for fifty years. Taking advantage of the enormous influx of immigrants during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, hotels sprang up in the towns and cities to cater to the prodigious thirst of their patrons. The unrestricted boozing resulted in drunkenness, brawling, petty crime and the disappearance of many a paycheque. It also resulted in a vigourous and ultimately successful campaign for total prohibition, and from approximately 1916 to 1924 the three Prairie provinces were legally dry. In his characteristic lively and engaging style, James Gray writes about a little-known aspect of Canadian social history, its aftermath, and the effects it has had on our lives today. Unlike many historians, Gray focuses on the everyday lives of ordinary men and women to give an authentic picture of the early years in western Canada. Booze was an instant bestseller when it was originally published in 1972, and has sold more than 100,000 copies in Canada and the U.S.
How the West was Written
How the West Was Written is published to celebrate the centenary of James H. Gray's birth. He was born on 31 August 1906. James H. Gray was the first Canadian social historian to tackle such previously taboo subjects as the sex lives and boozing habits of the early settlers. His books were on the national and Toronto Star bestseller lists before those of Pierre Berton and have since become classics of Canadian literature. Gray's Red Lights on the Prairies stunned readers with its straight-forward approach to prostitution on the prairies and was named one of the one hundred most important Canadian books of all time by the Literary Review of Canada. In this first-ever biography of Gray, Brian ...
