tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6512050174377678428.post3737934471318848748..comments2024-03-26T09:32:26.565-05:00Comments on Sherlock Peoria: O Baker Street! Our Holmes and Watson land!Sherlock Peoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09896656391037436805noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6512050174377678428.post-60085015054017851182018-06-12T12:54:25.535-05:002018-06-12T12:54:25.535-05:00From ‘The Athabasca Trail’, (1914) by Arthur Conan...From ‘The Athabasca Trail’, (1914) by Arthur Conan Doyle: “My life is gliding downwards; it speeds swifter to the day When it shoots the last dark Canyon to the Plains of Far-away, But while its stream is running through the years that are to be, The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me.”Howard Ostromhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07974147547261766167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6512050174377678428.post-75758200639548416932018-06-12T12:52:17.357-05:002018-06-12T12:52:17.357-05:00“Watson, ‘I should like to see a bit more of Canad...“Watson, ‘I should like to see a bit more of Canada before we sail Holmes.’ Holmes, ‘So should I Watson. Canada the linchpin of the English-speaking world. With those relations of friendly, affectionate intimacy with the United States on the one hand and with her unswerving fidelity to the British Commonwealth and the Motherland on the other, Canada the link which joins together these great branches of the human family." These lines come from the end of my all-time favorite Sherlock Holmes film, “The Scarlet<br />Claw” (1944) staring Basil Rathbone & Nigel Bruce. The setting for the film was the French Canadian village of La Mort Rouge, and Holmes gets drawn into the case from nearby Quebec.Howard Ostromhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07974147547261766167noreply@blogger.com