Project Bookmark Canada is pleased to welcome over thirteen new members since January! Our members include publishers, agents, booksellers, writers, students and individuals -- all of them great fans of reading.

Now is a great time to become a Bookmark member, because you can join us at our AGM on April 6, from 6:30 - 8:30 at Ben McNally Books. Come and get involved!

Project Bookmark Canada is now installed in its new office in Hamilton, Ontario. When I say new office, I mean new home office, so not only is Hamilton our organization’s new centre, but also my new home. When I move to a place, I like to see it through the eyes of its writers, so I am spending time this summer with writer John Terpstra’s poetry, much of which features Hamilton locales, and his book Falling Into Place, about the history of the Hamilton land formation called the Iroquois Bar.

Thanks to the folks at CBC Radio's Q for allowing us to post their take on Project Bookmark Canada. From Monday's show, here's what Jian Ghomeshi had to say about Bookmark:
 
"Hi There. Happy Monday.
 Let's start this week by talking about... plaques. Yeah...stick with me. A plaque was unveiled last week on the Prince Edward Viaduct here in Toronto. 
 

Thank you every one who came out for the launch of Project Bookmark Canada. It was wonderful to see so many enthusiastic people at the Bloor Street Viaduct for the unveiling of our inaugural Bookmark: a passage from Michael Ondaatje’s In the Skin of a Lion in which a nun falls from the bridge during its construction.
 

After ten years of dreaming and planning, Project Bookmark Canada is ready to launch. On April 23rd at 11 a.m., Toronto Mayor David Miller and author Michael Ondaatje will unveil our first Bookmark, a passage from Michael Ondaatje's legendary Toronto novel In the Skin of a Lion, at the Bloor Street Viaduct.
 

Thanks to Mary Wolfe of The Village Bookshop in Bayfield, Ontario, Project Bookmark Canada has received its first donation. Each year, The Village Bookshop in Bayfield, Ontario runs a satellite Canada Reads celebration, with local readers presenting and defending the shortlisted books. This spring, a portion of the proceeds of that event were designated for Project Bookmark Canada. Thank you to proprietor Mary Wolfe and the readers of Bayfield for giving Bookmark your vote of confidence.