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Reading...memoirs of mid-century working lives [such as] Margaret Norquay's leads to a first conclusion: what happened to people like this? It is a cliche that our culture with its steady diet of celebrity vanity fails to notice quiet lives of service and integrity.... [M]eeting [her] if only in print, is refreshing and welcome.... Norquay's gift is her lack of sentimentality.... Hers is not a personal book, rarely touching on what might be the difficulties of raising four children; instead, she relates memories of starting a lending library, sitting on community boards, dealing with her husband's head injury, and organizing a children's camp. These bracing tales are told by a woman who looks back on her life with little sense of self-importance and a good deal of humour.''--Kathryn Carter Canadian Literature, 207, Winter 2010

``Reading...memoirs of mid-century working lives [such as] Margaret Norquay's leads to a first conclusion: what happened to people like this? It is a cliché that our culture with its steady diet of celebrity vanity fails to notice quiet lives of service and integrity.... [M]eeting [her] if only in print, is refreshing and welcome.... Norquay's gift is her lack of sentimentality.... Hers is not a personal book, rarely touching on what might be the difficulties of raising four children; instead, she relates memories of starting a lending library, sitting on community boards, dealing with her husband's head injury, and organizing a children's camp. These bracing tales are told by a woman who looks back on her life with little sense of self-importance and a good deal of humour.'' -- Kathryn Carter -- Canadian Literature, 207, Winter 2010, 201108 ``A lot can happen in seven years, even in a small town. Broad Is the Way: Stories from Mayerthorpe is a compilation of anecdotal stories by author Margaret Norquay, about the time she spent in Mayerthorpe, a small village in Alberta in western Canada. She speaks of the toil of orphaned children, the challenges of everyday life, and encouters with Mounties investigating teh church. A somber but inspiring view of small town life, Broad Is the Way: Stories from Mayerthorpe is a virtual window on small-town Canada's past, and a top pick for community library memoir collections.'' -- Midwest Book Review, July 2008, 200808

``Reading...memoirs of mid-century working lives [such as] Margaret Norquay's leads to a first conclusion: what happened to people like this? It is a cliche that our culture with its steady diet of celebrity vanity fails to notice quiet lives of service and integrity.... [M]eeting [her] if only in print, is refreshing and welcome.... Norquay's gift is her lack of sentimentality.... Hers is not a personal book, rarely touching on what might be the difficulties of raising four children; instead, she relates memories of starting a lending library, sitting on community boards, dealing with her husband's head injury, and organizing a children's camp. These bracing tales are told by a woman who looks back on her life with little sense of self-importance and a good deal of humour.'' -- Kathryn Carter -- Canadian Literature, 207, Winter 2010, 201108 ``A lot can happen in seven years, even in a small town. Broad Is the Way: Stories from Mayerthorpe is a compilation of anecdotal stories by author Margaret Norquay, about the time she spent in Mayerthorpe, a small village in Alberta in western Canada. She speaks of the toil of orphaned children, the challenges of everyday life, and encouters with Mounties investigating teh church. A somber but inspiring view of small town life, Broad Is the Way: Stories from Mayerthorpe is a virtual window on small-town Canada's past, and a top pick for community library memoir collections.'' -- Midwest Book Review, July 2008, 200808

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A lifelong pioneer, Margaret Norquay has always been involved in community development, first with Farm Radio Forum and then with the Canadian army, where she served as a welfare officer. Postwar, in Dunnville, she was the first woman in Ontario to be appointed a community recreation director. Her marriage took her to Mayerthorpe, Alberta, as a minister's wife and community volunteer. Later she wrote documentaries for CBC's Take Thirty and became the director of studies for Open College, Ryerson.

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