In Switchbacks, Sid Marty draws on his own memories and those of friends and former colleagues in relating a series of true mountain tales. Among his subjects are: the old guide who built a staircase up a cliff; the stranded snowshoer...
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Auteur:Marty, SidSommaire: - Auteur:Charyk, John C.Sommaire:
The author of the LITTLE WHITE SCHOOL-HOUSE series began his teaching career of forty-five years in a small rural town in Alberta. He recounts his experiences and those of others in this portrayal of the life and spirit of the one-room...
- Auteur:Russell, AndySommaire:
As one old cowboy put it, the only way you can be sure to kill a cowboy "is to cut off his head and hide it someplace where he can’t find it." The Canadian Cowboy celebrates this tough bunch of pioneers that ranched in the Canadian...
- Auteur:Fowler, MarianSommaire:
In this widely acclaimed study, Marian Fowler explores how the experience of wilderness and frontier create a psychic tension between the gentility of old-world "embroidery" and the rugged masculinity of "tent"-dwelling in the...
- Auteur:Cameron, AnneSommaire:
Anne, a fourteen-year-old runaway, befriends a prostitute and together they cross the Canadian frontier in search of a home.
- Auteur:Jewison, NormanSommaire:
The memoirs of the celebrated Hollywood director trace his forty years in filmmaking, describing such events as his unlikely appointment as a Christian Canadian director of Fiddler on the Roof, his witness to the impact of various films...
- Auteur:Reid, PatrickSommaire:
Through the mud and the blood with the North Irish Horse during World War II to the genteel parlours of international diplomacy, Patrick Reid served his nation. As a Military Police commander in the steamy jungles of postwar Malaya or...
- Auteur:Wilson, Ian, Wilson, SallySommaire:
For one year, Ian and Sally Wilson travelled 3,000 kilometres by canoe and dog team, following the trading routes of Canada's voyageurs. In this book, they combine the lively account of their wilderness journey with fascinating stories...
- Auteur:Williams, David R.Sommaire:
Beginning with the 1868 shooting of politician Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Williams chronologically examines the trials of Louis Riel in 1885, Ernest Chenoweth in 1900, Wilbert Coffin in 1953, Steven Truscott in 1959, and Peter Demeter in 1974...
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