My story is set in New York City during the second World War. My main character is a Jewish woman who grew up in the city and is very passionate about the war effort, because she has relatives in Europe ( Read more... )

My story is set in 1930 or 1931. One of my main characters is Quebecois, living in Wisconsin (or at least based out of there at the time of the story; he's a rum runner and moves around a bit). He speaks English around the Americans he has to talk to, but he slips back into French fairly often ( Read more... )

Would the technology for tracing a telephone call (pin-pointing the caller's location) be available in 1950, even if not commonly in use by the police ( Read more... )

Setting: Toronto, 1980 (the year, not the decade).
Search stringsLittle Details: clothing ( Read more... )

So I have a character that was displaced from time when he was 25 in 1873 which means he was born in 1848. He is a scholarly character that is a second generation (subject to change) Canadian (United Providence of Canada). I am currently trying to fine tune his ancestry. He has a very English name but his surname in Moraeu so I wanted his British ( Read more... )

I'm writing a story set at a girl's school in a made-up country that shares similarities with both England and Canada. The time period is similar to the early 1900's to 1930's, although info from as late as the 50's would still be helpful ( Read more... )

When/setting: Sometime in the 1500s when Canada is still a French colony (as in there's no Britons around ( Read more... )

Time and place -- Klondike Gold Rush, 1898. I've googled some, but I'm not sure what terms to use -- I've googled a lot about the Klondike in the last few months, and gotten a lot of useful information, but I haven't run across this sort of thing except for a few fuzzy pictures. I also have a fair amount of printed research material on that Gold ( Read more... )

Setting: Toronto in the early 1920's

My main character is a young woman who grew up in the countryside, but moves to Toronto to get an education as a teacher. It seems like she could've gone to the Toronto Normal SchoolI want to know ( Read more... )

It's 1932 in British Columbia. There's a town of about 120 people built on an island between the mainland and Vancouver Island. This town is wealthy enough to have its own church ( Read more... )