During the Great Depression, three lost souls meet one another at Boulder Dam, a massive engineering project in the midst of the Nevada desert. The story begins with Filius Poe, an engineer coping with a grave personal loss. Lew Beck is...
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Author:Murkoff, BruceSummary: -
Author:Koops, SheenaSummary:Onja Claibourn is almost fifteen. Her world is one of sage, buffalo bills, brown-eyed susans, cactus, flax, buckbrush, foxtail and orange moss -- the world of the valley just beyond the family farm. Old roads twist like a game of snakes...
- Author:Pollon, Earl K., Matheson, Shirlee SmithSummary:
This Was Our Valley was a phenomenal success when first released in 1989, winning the Alberta Culture Nonfiction prize as well as the Silver medal for the Roderick-Haig Brown BC Books award. Construction of the W.A.C. Bennett Dam...
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Author:Smith, Michael V.Summary:In a small working-class town, the building of a new dam uproots everyone and everything including the graveyard and those who rest beneath it.
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Author:Doyle, BrianSummary:Winner of the IODE National Chapter Award, and Horn Book Fanfare Top Ten List selection. In this brillant and poetic novel, Brian Doyle returns to the Gatineau River near Ottawa, the world of his novels Up to Low and Uncle Ronald. Mary...
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"Beginning with the Grand Rapids Dam in the 1960s, hydroelectric development has dramatically altered the social, political, and physical landscape of northern Manitoba. The Nelson River has been cut up into segments and fractured by a...
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Author:Rayner, RobertSummary:When heavy November rains threaten to flood the small town of Black River, New Brunswick, the community calls on the hydroelectric company to open the gates of its dam and drop the water level. But local management has been overruled by...
- Author:Waldram, James B.Summary:
In past treaties, the Aboriginal people of Canada surrendered title to their lands in return for guarantees that their traditional ways of life would be protected. Since the 1950s, governments have reneged on these commitments in order...
