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- CBC
H.A. Cody, one of New Brunswick's first literary sensations
In 2025, Codys is known as a quiet rural community about 30 kilometres northwest of Sussex in southern New Brunswick. It's named for the Cody family, United Empire Loyalists who opened several businesses in what became for a while a booming community with its own railway station. Most of the family's accomplishments have been lost over time, but one Cody stands out above the rest. Hiram Alfred Cody, known as H.A. Cody, wrote 25 novels, some of the most popular Canadian fiction at the time. Cody was born in Codys in 1872, some 90 years after his ancestors fled the American Revolution for New Brunswick. While he would eventually become a man of letters, his early years at school were unsettled. He did not like school and preferred the great outdoors to more indoor scholarly pursuits. "Cody did not really have an interest in school as a younger person," said James Upham, a popular historian and contributor to CBC's Roadside History. "[He] tried to leave school. His family just kind of railroaded him back into it." Long gone to the Yukon After his formal education, Cody was ordained as an Anglican minister. According to the Anglican Church of Canada archives, his career as a minister would take him through New Brunswick, from small churches in Doaktown and Ludlow, to Fredericton's Christ Church Cathedral and the former St. James Church in Saint John. But it was Cody's posting in 1904 that probably piqued the interest of the adventurous young minister. He was sent to Dawson City to preach in the middle of the Klondike Gold Rush. The departing minister told Cody he would be expected to spread the gospel, not just within city limits but throughout the Yukon territory. "You're going to be canoeing and you're going to be dog sledding and you're going to be snowshoeing," Upham said. "You just kind of imagine Cody sitting there pinching himself, going like, 'Have I died and gone to heaven?" So Cody, along with his pregnant wife, Jess, moved north. "Not totally sure that she was enjoying it quite as much as he was, but he seems to have really enjoyed himself up there," Upham said. While he was in the territory, he hobnobbed with a giant of early Canadian literature, Robert Service, eventually establishing a friendly rivalry. "He and Robert Service were actually pretty good buddies in the Yukon," Upham said. "Cody seems to have had it in mind that he was going to like, civilize this youngster and sort of show him what's what. To the degree that Cody's book of poetry is … called Songs of a Blue Nose as a direct response to [Service's] Songs of a Sourdough." 'God, king and country' Upham said Cody's work was in keeping with the times, featuring many archetypal characters popular in early English Canadian literature. "They're the kind of stories that your grandma would buy if she was a member of the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire and wanted you to grow up in a particular God, king and country kind of a way," Upham said. Examples include the RCMP constable Norman Grey in The Long Patrol d escribed as a man who "fears neither man nor devil." In a similar vein, Cody created Keith Steadman, a "hardy northman and trailsman" in The Frontiersman, who befriends a dog by giving it scraps from his supper of "bacon, a few beans, a taste of sourdough bread, with some black tea for a relish." While Cody did write stories about the Yukon, he also wrote plenty of stories about his home province. "There's one particular book called the The Unknown Wrestler, which takes place in a mythological community called Rookston, which is definitely not Rexton, even though it is obviously Rexton," Upham said. Cody returned to New Brunswick after a coupe of years and lived much of his life in Saint John. He continued to write until the end of his adventurous life in 1948. "Kid grew up on a farm, didn't really want to go to school, liked being in the woods," Upham said.
CTV News
17 hours ago
- CTV News
Edmonton's Food Bank wants to ‘bridge some of the gaps' at this year's Heritage Festival
The number of people relying on Edmonton's Food Bank has almost doubled in three years, so the organization is hoping Edmontonians will come through.
CTV News
2 days ago
- CTV News
Free outdoor yoga a way to bring community together and make most of short summer weather
A community league in Edmonton is making use of the recent hot weather to connect people with their neighbours through outdoor yoga. The Cumberland Oxford Community League (COCL) hosts summer yoga classes on Thursday evenings in the summer. COCL president Donna Emsley said it is a great way to bring people together. 'Summer is always shorter than what we'd like it to be and we have such great green spaces, so it's nice to give an opportunity for people to get out, exercise and enjoy those spaces,' she said before the Thursday session at Hudson Park. Community members practicing outdoor yoga Community members practice yoga outdoors at Hudson Park on July 31, 2025. The event is hosted by the Cumberland Oxford Community League in Edmonton. (Dave Mitchell/CTV News Edmonton) Emsley said the summer yoga classes have been going on for six years in the community, with some pauses due to the COVID-19 restrictions. She said the community response has been great and it has grown over the past few years. 'Every class, you see an extra few people,' she said, adding they mainly promote the event on social media but are also seeing numbers grow with people passing by the park and wanting to join in. Yoga instructor Savannah Stuermer said the turnout for this year, in particular, has been 'awesome' with around 20 or more people at each class. She started yoga herself as part of her own mental health journey, and after seeing its benefits first-hand, wanted to share it with others. 'Taking time for yourself and learning that you can slow down and do what you need to take care of yourself and your well-being,' Stuermer said, explaining how yoga helps ground you. She teaches outdoor yoga for the community league and said the classes are accessible for anyone, even those who have never practiced it before. Outdoor yoga at Hudson Park in Edmonton Yoga instructor Savannah Stuermer teaches yoga to community members at Hudson Park in Edmonton on July 31, 2025. (Dave Mitchell/CTV News Edmonton) The COCL said they put on several events to bring the community together, including a boot camp on Wednesday mornings at Cumberland Park in the summer, a movie night in September and a 'haunted forest' in October during Halloween. While the classes are free for anyone to join, Emsley encourages people to support their neighbourhood by purchasing a community league membership. 'We're a small group of volunteers, so we're always looking for more people to bring their ideas for the neighbourhood and join us in putting on different events and activities.' The outdoor yoga sessions run 7 p.m. to 8 p.m on Thursdays until the end of August. More information about upcoming events can be found on the COCL website. With files from CTV News Edmonton's Sasha Pietramala and Dave Mitchell
