250,000 visitors later

As of today, the http://edhird.wordpress.com  blog has had 250,000 visitors in just over two years.  These are the more widely read of the blog articles:

Home page		63,585
Florence Nightingale: Mother of Nursing		24,444
Motherhood and Apple Pie		18,289
Queen Victoria and Sir James Simpson		17,724
The Unforgettable Benjamin Franklin		15,781
Winston Churchill the British Bulldog		9,406
Alexander Graham Bell: Inventing the future		7,990
Laura Secord: more than just chocolates		4,460
Jesus Loves me, This I know…		4,216
Samuel de Champlain and Sieur de Monts: Canadian heroes		3,682
Dr. James Naismith: Father of Basketball		3,649
Pain: Useless intrusion or gift of God?		3,611
Thomas Edison: Let There Be Light….		3,124
Carl Jung, Neo-gnosticism, and the MBTI		2,918
Alfred Nobel: Lord of Dynamite, Servant of Peace		2,863
Sir Alexander Mackenzie the Scottish Bulldog		2,627
Taekwondo and the Martial Arts: Mere Exercise or Trojan Horse??		2,045
Simon Fraser: Canada’s most successful failure		1,978
Louis Riel: Canadian Patriot?		1,964
Carl Jung and the Gnostic Reconciliation of Gender Opposites		1,919
Don Quixote: Chasing After Marriage’s Windmills		1,859
James Watt: Creative Genius		1,679
Good King Wenceslas last looked out…		1,660
My Fair Lady		1,530
The Gift of Courage Can Be Imparted		1,510
Sir Alexander Fleming: Countless Millions Saved		1,435
When the Saints Come Marching In		1,433
The Birth of the Book		1,395
Captain James Cook: World Explorer		1,392
Lord and Lady Baden-Powell: Character Builders		1,200
David Thompson: “Star-Gazer”		1,088

The Reverend Ed Hird, Rector

St. Simon’s Church North Vancouver

Anglican Mission in the Americas (Canada)

http://stsimonschurch.ca 

-previously published in the North Shore News & the Deep Cove Crier

-award-winning author of the book ‘Battle for the Soul of Canada’

http://www.battleforthesoulofcanada.blogspot.com

p.s. In order to obtain a copy of the book ‘Battle for the Soul of Canada’, please send a $18.50 cheque to ‘Ed Hird’, #1008-555 West 28th Street, North Vancouver, BC V7N 2J7. For mailing the book to the USA, please send $20.00 USD.  This can also be done by PAYPAL using the e-mail ed_hird@telus.net . Be sure to list your mailing address. The Battle for the Soul of Canada e-book can be obtained for $9.99 CDN/USD.

-Click to download a complimentary PDF copy of the Battle for the Soul study guide :  Seeking God’s Solution for a Spirit-Filled Canada 

You can also download the complimentary Leader’s Guide PDF: Battle for the Soul Leaders Guide