His morally bankrupt Anglophile uncle, Geoffrey Wain, the former colonel of his regiment, has blamed him for the failure of an attack and MacRae is under threat of prosecution and execution for cowardice. Protagonist Neil MacRae returns to Nova Scotia from the battlefields of Europe, where his body, mind and reputation have been battered. The mythological template of Homer's Odyssey is clearly in evidence throughout the book the tale of a hero's return and redemption is also the narrative of a culture's coming of age. ' Barometer Rising is an allegory of Canada's shift away from the political and cultural influences of colonial, Imperial Britain to a decolonized independence and emergent national consciousness throughout the course of the First World War. In the early 1950s, the Greer Allens returned to Toronto, and Rita began her prolific freelance scriptwriting career, writing and researching her own radio scripts for the CBC, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).Her writing for radio included scripts for documentary series 'As children see us', and dramatic adaptations of 'Barometer rising' and 'The Duchess of Malfi'.Rita Greer Allen died in Toronto on. Rita Greer 'Rita Greer Allen, writer, broadcaster and artist, was born Marguerita Foulger Wayman in Erith, Kent, England, on 25 September 1918.In collaboration with her husband Robert Greer Allen, who worked for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) radio during the war, Rita wrote and submitted dramatic radio scripts for broadcast with some success, with a number of scripts broadcast on Trans-Canada Network radio program 'Stage 45'. The Halifax Explosion website brings together a wide range of resources from CBC Television, CBC Radio and CBC.ca from major research bodies, community groups and individuals. Nine thousand more would be injured and maimed in the biggest man-made explosion the world had ever seen. Before darkness fell, more than a thousand people would die, with another thousand to follow.

'Barometer Rising' Canada's most famous explosion Barometer Rising By Hugh MacLennan Adapted For Radio By Rita Greer 'Canada's most famous explosion - Halifax, Decem– became in the skillful hands of author Hugh MacLennan an integral part of one of the best-known Canadian novels, 'Barometer Rising.' The tragedy and devastation of this great disaster has been arranged as the climax to a tangled story involvingHalifax people, all of them living under the strain of World War I.' Decemdawned clear and sunny in Halifax.

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