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The third book in a trilogy of Canadian Historical Novels. It is about a family called MacIntosh and the stories are true - from their memoirs. The author adds enough make you feel a part of the family.
The family in previous books (1 and 2)have moved from PEI, to Alberta in Western Canada, then north in that province to the bushland. Now, still in the bushland they finally move to their first homestead where they live through the 'Dirty Thirties' which, according to the young growing up through them, are really not all that 'dirty'!
As they grow up they understand that as part of a large family of thirteen others think of them as 'poor'. They did not know that they were poor. They have all they need and create their own adventures, hilarity, entertainment and work.
Sibling rivalry, n | |  | | Cougar's Crossing Second Edition
This is creative non-fiction and is a true historical event that happened in the Canadian Northwest. Cougar is a loud, brash, irreverent logger who emigrated from Wisconsin to find land for himself and his family.
Most of the characters actually existed and helped to carve out a homestead for themselves in Canada's Northwest. Cougar, who inherited his name from his temperament when he got into a fight, builds and operates the first ferry crossing on the Pembina River. He and his family's dance with destiny would shake their lives to the foundation.
Odilon Gusal and his family emigrated from Oklahoma looking for a cheap homestead and a chance to help tame the wilderness. Their lives become entangled with Cougar's with disastrous results.
Billy Jarvis arrived in the Northwest having come | |  | | Gandy Dancer
The first wave of settlers came with the fur trade, the second with the railroad. A flood of settlers including the gandy dancers, the builders and maintainers of the steel rails became dependent on the railroad for survival as they struggle to claim a piece of the surrendering land.
The Gandy Dancer and the girl who chose to share his passion for the land test their love and strength to the limit as together they chase their dreams through the Depression and World War Two that stole the men from their land and their families.
This is the sequel to Mewassin: The Good Land and the story of the next generation to John and Lucy Lenny. John and Lucy's daughter Caroline and her daughter, Mary, who married the Gandy Dancer, survive life in the Convent and find that life on a homestead is not as free and independent as they hoped it would be.
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This is a memoir of a very funny man and happens to be the third in a trilogy 1/Mewassin: The Good Land, 2/Gandy Dancer, 3/ I kept Falling in the Sink
Reg Ross is 16 when his father dies (The Gandy Dancer) and he sets out to find a new place for himself in this land of opportunity. It comes at a time when the war is over, economy and jobs have opened up, and boom towns erupt across Western Canada. People were saying: " I'm Fired? Well, I was looking for a job when I found this one." Life was good! Travel was easy and people were on the move as never before. The Oil Boom was replacing coal and money jingled in the pockets of young men on the move and looking for adventure. The times were rapidly a-changing! | |  | | Mewassin: The Good Land
Two men come to Canada in the mid 1800's. One was a Scot who joined the Fur Trade heading West and one a French sixteen-year-old who stowed away aboard a ship and followed a missionary across the ocean.
This is a true story of Alberta at the time of Father Lacombe and Louis Riel. John Lenny, a red-bearded, red headed Scot following the Highland Clearances meets a Metis girl and decides to settle in the West.
Adolphe Perrault, after following the missionaries to St. Albert plans to become a priest but is torn when he falls in love with a young Metis girl from the Red River Settlement in Manitoba. No names of people or places have been changed; the book contains historical events from 1869 to 1895: the Metis struggle to be a distinct culture are devastated when the government labels t | |  | | The Gentle Gamblers
A family leaves Eastern Canada gambling everything on a new life in the West. Instead of waving wheatfields they encounter drought and misfortune.
Black blizzards, hail storms, and new babies born every year don't discourage this prairie family. They accept every misfortune as a challenge and every change in their circumstances as an adventure. | |  | | The Tender Years
This is the second in the trilogy of historical novels of pioneer adventure with The Gentle Gamblers being the first. It takes place in Northern Alberta and the stories are true - taken from the memoirs of the characters involved. The MacIntosh Family has left the prairies where they were dried out, hailed out and starved out and load all they have on a boxcar looking for a homestead where the burgeoning family of nine can settle down but there are many hardships to face, hard times but funny incidents as well. The children do not know that they are poor and they enjoy every day even though it may sometimes be difficult.
Donald, the father of the family, can not find a homestead but he locates homes to rent. Every year Sadie has another baby and they make room in the little house. Willie, one of the boys, peeks through a crack in the floor and in horror watches his baby sister being born.
A former priest who lives alone on a homestead covets the boys in the family as he watches them grow and work. Even the truant officer gets into the act demanding that Donald send his older boy to school - it is against the law to keep them working on the farm when they should be in school.
And the dreaded pneumonia s |
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Footsteps
by Brendan O'Brien
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 Ireland 1967. The Summer of love. Or was it?
A holiday weekend. Amazing weather. American student Dakota Lacey is hiking around Kerry.
But there’s a sinister, dark side to the atmosphere. Lone female hikers are being brutally attacked. |
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