October 11, 2011—Tomorrow, Port Colborne will become home to the tenth installation in the Project Bookmark Canada series when a Bookmark plaque is unveiled at Lock 8 on the Welland Canal. This Bookmark will feature a fictional scene set right at the lock, from the novel Sailor Girl by Sheree-Lee Olson, published by The Porcupine’s Quill.

October 5, 2011—On Thursday, October 6, Hamilton will become home to the ninth installation in the Project Bookmark Canada series, when a plaque bearing Hamilton writer John Terpstra’s poem “Giants” is unveiled in Sam Lawrence Park. “Giants” is featured in Terpstra’s poetry collection Two or Three Guitars, which is published by Gaspereau Press.

October 3, 2011—Tomorrow, Little Lake Park in the Town of Midland will become home to the eighth installation in the Project Bookmark Canada series. This Bookmark will feature a passage set right in the park, from the novel The Queen of Unforgetting by Sylvia Maultash Warsh, published by Cormorant Books.
“We’re very pleased to bring this portion of The Queen of Unforgetting to the community where it’s set,” says Miranda Hill, Founder and Executive Director of Project Bookmark Canada.

September 30, 2011—The City of Mississauga is now home to the seventh installation in the Project Bookmark Canada series. This Bookmark features “Song for the Field Behind Mississauga Valley Public School,” a poem from the Trillium Book Award-winning collection Tiny, Frantic, Stronger by Jeff Latosik, who grew up in the Bloor and Cawthra area. The collection is published by Insomniac Press. 
“We’re very pleased to bring Jeff Latosik’s beautiful poem to the community where it’s set,” said Miranda Hill, Founder and Executive Director of Project Bookmark Canada. 

September 13, 2011—Project Bookmark Canada is unveiling four new installations this fall, one each in Midland, Port Colborne, Hamilton and Mississauga. At each site, Project Bookmark Canada will install a poster-sized ceramic plaque bearing a significant piece of text from a story or poem set in that exact Ontario location.

The Bookmarks are: