This writing is "as stalwart and generous as it has been significant." The title, A Charm Against the Pain, expresses "the power of literature to navigate travellers through the valleys and peaks of life" – Joan Clark Contributors: Lillian Bouzane; Michael Bruce-Lockhart; Roberta Buchanan; Lillian Bursey; Grace Butt; Libby Creelman; Eileen Dicks; M. T. Dohaney; Danette Dooley; Anne Ferncase; Geraldine Flannigan; Maggie Heneghan; Fran Baird Innes; Kathleen Knowles; Peggy Smith Krachun; Janet McNaughton; Alison Melvin; Bernice Morgan; Jennifer Morgan; Trudy J. Morgan-Cole; Hilda Chaulk Murray; Paul O’Neill; Helen Fogwill Porter; Marilyn Porter; Georgina Olivere Queller; Geraldine Chafe Rubia; Joan Scott; Esther Slaney-Brown; Laura Morry Williams