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For Immediate Release—On September 2nd, Owen Sound received a permanent literary tribute when Mayor Ruth Lovell Stanners and author Terry Griggs unveiled a new plaque at the city’s waterfront. The plaque bears approximately 500 words from Terry Griggs’s novel Rogues’ Wedding (published by Random House of Canada in 2002), depicting a scene that takes place at the Owen Sound harbour, on the exact site where the plaque was installed. 

August 12, 2010—Four Ontario literary settings are about to find a visible place in the province’s landscape. In September and October, the cities of Owen Sound, Toronto and Kingston will each unveil a permanent marker (called a “Bookmark”) bearing text from a story or poem. The Bookmarks will be installed in the exact physical locations where the literary scenes are set. The four installations are the next steps in a series of tributes to literature set in cities and towns across Canada, created by Project Bookmark Canada.

ONTARIO: READ IT HERE:
NEW PROJECT PUTS ONTARIO LITERATURE ON THE MAP

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

TORONTO, February 12, 2010—Ontario is about to secure a fresh and prominent place in the literary landscape through a new initiative called Ontario: Read It Here.

Over the next two years, Ontario: Read It Here will install eight permanent exhibits of literature on the exact geographic sites where literary scenes take place. A sophisticated online mapping project, including travelogues and reading lists, will enhance the installations, driving Ontario book lovers and tourists from all over to visit the installations at cities and towns across the province, to read the featured books and authors and to further explore Ontario’s literary scene.