Author: MACLEOD, CHARLOTTE
Title: Brass Pounder
Description: Boston & Toronto, Little Brown & Co. 1971, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, "Mostly true with some stretcher" memoir of author's father, Phil MacLeod, who was a brass pounder, the youngest telegraph operator in the Canadian Maritimes in the early 1900s. He relates tales of reporting elections, the sinking of the Titanic, Dublin's 1916 Easter Uprising, relaying the "Hot Line" for the first trans-Atlantic trip of a sitting U.S. President, and news of WWI. 212p. As New/Near Fine - Price Clipped.

Keywords: Canada Fiction Maritimes Telegraphy Canadian Writer


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