The Globe and Mail — November 27, 2004 – Page D3.
Mary of Canada: The Virgin Mary in Canadian Culture, Spirituality, History and Geography, by Joan Skogan, published by the Banff Centre Press, is on the Globe’s list of the top 100 books published in Canada in 2004.
Chronicling the presence of the Virgin Mary in Canada, Joan Skogan finds that she saturates the country, from an image that came in with Jacques Cartier to the prayer object of B.C. fishermen. Her book is accessible, non-academic, ranges over geography and literature (Diane Schoemperlen, Margaret Atwood, Katherine Govier and other literary Madonnas) and is “full of tender acts of mercy, gleanings from a millennium of history and brilliant flashes of insight, which taken together add up to sacred meaning.”