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The dolphin's tooth: a decade in search of adventure
Par Bruce Kirkby. 2005
Stuck in an engineer's cubicle and tormented by doubts and boredom, Kirkby quit his job to bicycle the Karakoram Highway…
in northern Pakistan. Over the next fifteen years, he undertook some of the most challenging expeditions the world has to offer, including running Africa's Blue Nile Gorge, climbing Mount Everest, or learning to embrace the wilderness on the Tatshenshini River of Canada's Arctic. 2005.The rebel league: the short and unruly life of the World Hockey Association
Par Ed Willes. 2004
The WHA began as the scheme of two California lawyers, and it introduced 27 new hockey franchises, a trail of…
bounced cheques, fractious lawsuits, folded teams, and the crackpots, goons, and crazies that are so well remembered as the league's bizarre legacy. But the WHA also drove hockey into the modern age, ended the NHL's monopoly, freed players from the reserve clause, ushered in the 18-year-old draft, moved the game into the Sun Belt, and put European players on the ice in numbers previously unimagined. Some strong language. 2005, c2004.On the road again
Par Wayne Rostad. 1996
Rostad revisits some of most interesting guests on his television show, "On the Road Again." Some of the extraordinary people…
he introduces are a Newfoundland man who is a connoisseur and salesman of fine iceberg ice, a couple in British Columbia who won the lottery but kept on running the town garbage dump, an Alberta man who eats bugs, and a Quebec woman who has adopted 24 disabled children.The ice passage: a true story of ambition, disaster, and endurance in the arctic wilderness
Par Brian Payton. 2009
Four and a half years after the disappearance of Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin and his two ships, HMS Investigator…
sets sail in search of them. Instead of rescuing lost comrades, the Investigator's officers and crew soon find themselves trapped in their own ordeal, facing starvation, madness, and death. If only they can save themselves, they will bring back news of a great achievement: their discovery of the elusive Northwest Passage. 2009.The Montreal Canadiens: 100 years of glory
Par D'Arcy Jenish. 2008
The Habs were the NHL gold standard for years, with 24 Stanley Cups and an almost unbroken line of stars,…
from Georges Vézina and Newsy Lalonde to Ken Dryden, Guy Lafleur, and Patrick Roy. Jenish traces not just the century-old équipe des habitants, but the events of the day that affected hockey and the world away from it, including two world wars, the flu outbreak of 1918, and the Quiet Revolution of Quebec nationalism. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2008.The years 1942-1967 are considered by many to be the Golden Era of the National Hockey League. The six-team years…
produced some of hockey's legendary rivalries and some of the sport's most beloved players. Here all the great goals, great players, and great moments of that era are described. 1994.Winter
Par Pierre Berton. 1994
Pierre Berton considers what it means to live in the north, what we do to survive the season, ways we…
celebrate it and how, specifically, we hate it. The book is filled with personal reminiscences, popular history, "big storm" statistics, and seasonal sports, including the attempt to deny winter altogether by escaping to malls and Miami. 1994.Wind, whales and whiskey: a Cape Breton voyage
Par Silver Donald Cameron. 1991
In 1990 Cameron, along with his wife and son, sailed their cutter the "Silversark" around Cape Breton Island. At each…
stop along the way, they discovered a place rich in history and filled with extraordinary inhabitants. A detailed and engaging account of a different sort of summer vacation. 1991.Wilderness mother: The Chronicle Of A Modern Pioneer
Par Deanna Kawatski. 1994
In 1978, the author began a job as the first female fire tower attendant in BC, in the remote Ningunsaw…
Valley. In this setting she met her woodsman husband and brought up two children. An account of living life to the fullest in the challenging northwest wilderness of British Columbia. 1994.Wilderness seasons: life and adventure in Canada's north
Par Ian Wilson, Sally Wilson. 1987
The authors relate how they fulfilled their dream of leaving the city to live in isolation in the wilderness. They…
tell of building a log cabin to survive the harsh winter, and their other experiences. c1987.Wild stone heart: an apprentice in the fields
Par Sharon Butala. 2000
Writer Sharon Butala and her husband, Peter, decided to let a field on their Saskatchewan land return to its natural…
state. Over a twenty-year period, she ruminated over its secrets, travelling back in time from the dinosaur period and the Ice Age to the more recent life of the Amerindians and the arrival of the settlers, ranging over prehistory, natural history, Amerindian custom, the farming and ranching ways of life, and the politics of the West today. As she tried to understand its lessons, the field became a tabula rasa on which she could project her own dreams and imaginings. 2000.Why I didn't say anything: the Sheldon Kennedy story
Par James Grainger, Sheldon Kennedy. 2006
In 1996, Sheldon Kennedy rocked Canadian hockey by announcing that his former minor league coach, Graham James, had sexually abused…
him more than three hundred times. While portrayed as a hero in the media, Kennedy's hockey career, plagued by rumours of drugs and alcohol, a string of injuries, and the demons of his abuse, did not materialize. Ominously, Kennedy tells his story as coach Graham James is now out of prison and coaching hockey in Europe. Some descriptions of sex and violence, strong language. 2006.Why we act like Canadians: a personal exploration of our national character
Par Pierre Berton. 1982
In this essay which takes the form of letters written to an American friend, Berton's conviction is that Canadian culture…
has its own unique origins and that we are a people quite distinct from Americans. 1982.Whose puck is it, anyway?: a season with a minor novice hockey team
Par Ed Arnold. 2002
Ed Arnold decided that little league hockey desperately needed a change from the yelling, fights, and put-downs that occurred at…
practices and games, and reinvented the rules surrounding the team in Peterborough. There would be no more yelling, no fighting, and the kids would get equal opportunities to play - and the changes worked. 2002.Whatever happened to Maggie and other people I've known
Par Edna Staebler. 1983
This collection of pieces read like fiction, but have the impact of real life. Ranges from Memmonites in Kitchener, Hutterites…
in Alberta, an orphanage in Nova Scotia, and the fishermen on Cape Breton Island. 1983.For her 50th birthday, Jane Christmas finds herself leading fourteen women along the Camino de Santiago de Compostela, a centuries-old…
European pilgrimage route. Before she leaves, Christmas consults with a psychic, who warns of catfights, lost jewelry, encounters with celebrities, a visit from Death, and a fair-haired man. After less than a week, Christmas sets out on her own, battling loneliness, hunger, and exhaustion while encountering charming villages, forests, more compatible pilgrims - and a fair-haired man. Some descriptions of sex and violence, strong language. 2007.The author focuses on the part of the CPR which was built through the Rocky Mountains. He describes the various…
routes, the problems faced by engineers, and the construction of bridges and tunnels. 1987.Western and eastern rambles: travel sketches of Nova Scotia
Par Joseph Howe, M. G Parks. 1973
In 1828, Joseph Howe, still only in his early twenties, began publishing a series of travel sketches in his newspaper,…
the "Novascotian." Written during his frequent travels in his province, they provide a unique account of the Nova Scotia of the nineteenth century. c1973.Welcome home: travels in smalltown Canada
Par Stuart McLean. 1992
Wayne Gretzky: the great goodbye
Par Ed Morrison Scott. 1999
A compilation of articles from the Toronto and Edmonton Sun newspapers about the career of hockey player Wayne Gretzky. From…
his start as a pre-teen goal-scoring phenomenon through his NHL years in Edmonton, Los Angeles, St. Louis and New York, Gretzky's glittering career is described. Listing his many records and achievements, the book culminates with Gretzky's retirement from hockey in 1999. 1999.