In the News
For 40 years, Barbara Rusch has been assembling an extraordinary array of Victoriana. “A Queen Victoria collection, 40 years in the making,” Toronto Star, Sun., Jan. 30, 2022
Bootmaker and prolific author Craig Copland appears in Electric Mermaids: Live Reads. From the Alberni Valley News, December 7, 2020.
Bootmakers Angela Misri and Terry Fallis unite to launch Angela’s new book, “The Detective and the Spy”, the fourth in the Portia Adams series, October 28, 2020.
Current president of the Bootmakers of Toronto, Mike Ranieri, is interviewed about his involvement in the world of Sherlock Holmes on Rob Nunn’s blog “Interesting Though Elementary,” October 1, 2020.
Charles Prepolec is interviewed about his life, his interest in Sherlock Holmes, and what it is to be a Sherlockian. In the blog “Interesting Though Elementary,” August 23, 2020.
HomeEquity Bank “Homes Are Everything” series features historian and author, Barbara Rusch, who turns your home into a classroom with her fascinating lesson on Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle: The Creation and the Creator, June 23, 2020.
A special screening of “The Doctor’s Case”, an original film co-directed by James Douglas and Leonard Pearl, was held at the Toronto Reference Library. Article found in Mimi Okabe’s blog, February 25, 2019.
Jessie Amaolo, Curator of the Arthur Conan Doyle Collection, talks about the collection at the Toronto Reference Library, CBC, December 28, 2018.
Prolific author Chris Redmond announces plans for new anthology “Sherlock Holmes is Like”, in I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere, March 9, 2018.
Master Bootmaker and Queen Victoria afficionado Barbara Rusch is interviewed on CBCNews.ca on May 22, 2017.
The Other London, an article by Christopher Redmond about our newest Scion Society: The Cesspudlians of London, in I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere, February 10, 2017.
2016 Meyers James Reese on the set of Houdini & Doyle with Rebecca Liddiard, who plays the role of Constable Stratton in the show, March 2016.
Calgary Master Bootmaker and publisher Charles Prepolec is interviewed on the Nine Day Wonder blog about his upcoming book, Professor Challenger: New Worlds, Lost Places, September 1, 2015.
“Toronto Bootmakers share their passion for all things Sherlock” in thestar.com, July 12, 2015.
“Demystifying The Bootmakers of Toronto” video on YouTube, July 8, 2015.
Author and Bootmaker Angela Misri radio interview on CBC.ca Daybreak Alberta show, May 30, 2015.
Honorary Lifetime Member Terry Fallis wins 2015 Stephen Leacock Award in thestar.com, April 30, 2015.
Eminent Bootmaker Peter Calamai admitted to Order of Canada in the Ottawa Citizen, December 26, 2014.
Author, lawyer, and Bootmaker Hartley Nathan featured in Canadian Lawyer, September 2, 2013.
The Editors of Canadian Holmes, Mark and JoAnn Alberstat, featured in The Chronicle Herald, June 28, 2013.
“Devotees rejoice at renewed interest in Sherlock Holmes” in thestar.com, January 12, 2010.
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