Known as Canada’s Woodstock, the trip—including the stop at Saskatoon to buy out a trackside liquor store—was recorded on film and has since become the subject of a remarkable documentary, due to the fact that some of the hottest music was played on the train itself. Sadly, the performances at Toronto, Winnipeg, and Calgary would be some of Joplin’s last. She died only three months later.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The research and writing of this novel benefitted by funding from an Ontario Arts Council Writers’ Reserve grant.
Many thanks to Margie, Kathryn, Carolyn and everyone at Second Story Press for their ongoing support of my work. The encouragement that I have received from these hardworking and insightful women has made all the difference in both my professional and personal life.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Caroline Stellings is an award-winning author and illustrator of numerous books for children and young adults, including The Contest and the Nicki Haddon Mystery Series. She has been nominated for many prizes and has won both the ForeWord Book of the Year and the Hamilton Literary Award for Fiction. She lives in Waterdown, Ontario.
COPYRIGHT
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Stellings, Caroline, 1961-, author
Issued in print and electronic formats.
ISBN 978-1-77260-011-7 (paperback).--
ISBN 978-1-77260-012-4 (epub)
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PS8587.T4448F74 2016 jC813’.6 C2016-903533-6
C2016-903534-4
Copyright © 2016 by Caroline Stellings
Edited by Kathryn Cole, Carolyn Jackson
Cover photo © iStockphoto
Festival Express flyer photo: June 26, 1970,
Winnipeg Free Press, reprinted with permission.
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