The Best of Billy Bock

Pocket book format. Card covers, 185 pages, 4.25x6.25 in - 11x16.50 cm.

Covers worn and rubbed. Loss and ink markings to front cover, back cover lightly soiled. Spine creased, bumped and rubbed at head and heel. Top and fore edge soiled, black [remainder?] marks to bottom edge. Hinges starting. Pp.168-173 discolored from newsprint laid in.

William George “Billy” Bock arrived in Saskatchewan to homestead in 1902, later serving as a Member of Parliament for the Maple Creek riding 1927-1930. Bock authored two humorous memoirs – 1958’s “The Book of Humbug” and 1960’s “The Book of Skeletons” – as well as a recurring column in the “Eastend Enterprise.” This volume presents stories from Bock's previous publications, selected by John H. Archer and Robert Peterson (first President of the University of Regina and a Saskatchewan Senator, respectively). Congenial and humorous, Bock’s recollections and reflections range from his childhood in Ontario to his work for the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration. Laid in is a “Historically Speaking” newspaper column by Leith Knight concerning John Doane and his descendants.