This play is a retrospective look to 1952 when Charlotte Whitton of Renfrew was first elected Mayor of Ottawa. She struck... More > some people as a cantankerous soul, a bit of a curmudgeon. She was a pioneer in that she was the first female to be elected Mayor of Ottawa. The play is based on the 1910 Renfrew Millionaires hockey season. Charlotte (Lottie) was the team's mascot and for her 14th birthday, she was guest of honour on the bench and the game against Ottawa was dedicated to her. In the play, Charlotte states that evrything she learned about competing in a man's world she learned during that hockey season of 1910. Perhaps her most famous quote is: "Whatever women do they must to twice as well as men to be considered half as good. Luckily, it's not that difficult." < Less

Meshing reality with fiction, Hail Mary Heaven Sent is a novel set in the Cold War era. It was a time when nuclear powers,... More > the USSR and the West, were attempting to demonstrate the "superiority" of their system, culture and society.
Along with the space race and scientific achievements, international sport - the Olympics, soccer in the U.K., basketball in the U.S.A., hockey in Canada- on the surface friendly, benign competitions, took on new importance in this "war without weapons" for the minds and souls of citizens in both camps.
When a Soviet parallel "diabolical" plot is uncovered, the result is the "inevitability of communism" in a head-on collision with the "Message of Fatima." The result: the fall of the Soviet Union. Coincidence or Divine intervention? < Less

Meshing reality with fiction, Hail Mary Heaven Sent is a novel set in the Cold War era. It was a time when nuclear powers,... More > the USSR and the West, were attempting to demonstrate the "superiority" of their system, culture and society.
Along with the space race and scientific achievements, international sport - the Olympics, soccer in the U.K., basketball in the U.S.A., hockey in Canada- on the surface friendly, benign competitions, took on new importance in this "war without weapons" for the minds and souls of citizens in both camps.
When a Soviet parallel "diabolical" plot is uncovered, the result is the "inevitability of communism" in a head-on collision with the "Message of Fatima." The result: the fall of the Soviet Union. Coincidence or Divine intervention? < Less

This play is a retrospective look to 1952 when Charlotte Whitton of Renfrew was first elected Mayor of Ottawa. She struck... More > some people as a cantankerous soul, a bit of a curmudgeon. She was a pioneer in that she was the first female to be elected Mayor of Ottawa. The play is based on the 1910 Renfrew Millionaires hockey season. Charlotte (Lottie) was the team's mascot and for her 14th birthday, she was guest of honour on the bench and the game against Ottawa was dedicated to her. In the play, Charlotte states that evrything she learned about competing in a man's world she learned during that hockey season of 1910. Perhaps her most famous quote is: "Whatever women do they must to twice as well as men to be considered half as good. Luckily, it's not that difficult." < Less