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The Canadian people are more practical than imaginative. Romantic tales and poetry would meet with less favour in their eyes than a good political article from their newspapers.

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Susanna Moodie
Age: 81 †
Born: 1803
Born: December 6
Died: 1885
Died: April 8
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