This is the story of the author’s great great grandparents, Edward Lewis and Sarah Crosby, who were convicts transported to Van Diemen’s Land in the 1840s. It is told from the perspective of a detective agency searching for what happened to Edward, w
Since winning the 2009 Gold IPPY award for his fiction work about bush pilots, Ed has spent hundreds of hours interviewing real people who worked in the aviation industry. His new book Ontario Central Airlines - The Kenora Years re-lives the lives of these men and women as they opened up the vast wilderness of Northwestern Ontario.
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I have always beleived that bush pilots are true Canadian legends. My latest book is the story of owners, pilots, managers, dock workers , dispatchers, and maintenance people who worked for Ontario Central Airlines.
Ontario Central Airlines - The Kenora Years is about the people who worked for Barney Lamm. Through tragedy and triumph, it reveals the adventure that always draws line pilots back to talking about their bush flying days.
Twenty-four glossy inserts containing fifty pictures portray everyday life from the Kenora dock, to the maintenance facilities at Lakeside and later Redditt, Ontario. The book comes with an index of the all the people mentioned in its pages.
Here is a view of the book's cover
How I Survived My Husband's Writing
- Read how Marian and I became a writer/editor team while colaborating on five novels
Visit Ed at his website
www.EdZaruk.com
Accomplishments
GOLD MEDAL winner - On May 29, Altar and Throne was awarded the Gold Medal for best fiction in Western Canada by the Independent Publishers Awards committee. (IPPY Award 2009) (IPPY) Best Fiction in Western Canada region.
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