Why a Booktrail?
1910s: The story of how Vaudeville developed in Canada in the early 1900s is very interesting. Reminiscent of the vaudeville circuits in Alberta, Montana and Saskatchewan.
The Little Shadows
What you need to know before your trail
The story of 3 Canadian sisters’ travels through early 1900’s Vaudeville. The bond between these four women in a challenging time was interesting.
Come on to the brightly lit stage but be careful of the shadows that lurk behind the curtain. For the art of vaudeville — in all its variety, madness, melodrama, hilarity and sorrow — echoes the art of life itself.
Travel Guide
What could be a more enraptured setting than the vaudeville theatre of days gone by. Where dancers would fight for prime position and travel miles on tours around Canada and America. Many of the original theatres still stand and can be visited today but if you want to visit them in their prime, smell the greasepaint, feel the tickle of the feather bower on your neck and the thrill of the curtain rising for the start of the show then this is it –
Tips of shoes show beneath the bobble fringe – a quiet rumpus, that must be the girls.
The bandmaster taps his stand
It is about to start.
Breathe in….
Even the book is separated not just into chapters but via an overture, act one and two, an intermission and then acts three and four before coming to a grand crescendo in the finale. the blurb says that ‘ you’ll be wanting to throw flowers at the end and this is quite an apt descriptions for the way it makes you feel.
See the map of the complete vaudeville circuit shown in the novel here
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: The Little Shadows
Author/Guide: Marina Endicott Destination: Alberta Departure Time: 1910s
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