Geist

...thanks to Donald Smith’s excellent biography, we get a chance to look down a road not taken and to wonder how things might have been different in western Canada if the voices of the indigenous people had not been silenced. Read more


Literary Review of Canada
June 2008

What Smith has accomplished here is the product of a skilled and seasoned historian at the height of his craft. Read more...


New Breed Magazine
Winter 2008

With Honoré Jaxon: Prairie Visionary, Calgary Historian Donald Smith...has written a masterful book. Read more...


Toronto Star
December 9, 2007

But he wasn't a real imposter like Archie Belaney or Sylvester Long. He did little to hide his tracks. He kept in contact with his family, made trips back to Canada, saw old friends. His appeal, and the appeal of Smith's book, is not in Jaxon's subterfuge but in his personality and view of the world. Read more...


Regina Leader-Post
November 7, 2007

Honore Jaxon was a man eager to stand with pickets and challenge the status quo. Relatively unknown, he has peppered the news pages since 1885. Read more...


Focus Magazine
October 5, 2007

When he died in New York City on January 10th 1952, the old man must have seemed like just another homeless beggar. However, the lonely death of Honore Jaxon in his 91st year marked the end of an era in Canadian history as the last living member of Louis Riel's inner circle. Read more...


Prairie Dog
August 2007

Born in Toronto in 1861, William Henry Jackson led a fascinating life. Read more...