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Pioneers of all sorts - prospectors, scientists, homesteaders, teachers, bush pilots, and many others - tell their fascinating stories here, as they have told them on Canada's best-loved radio

They laughed at Roberto Valdez and then ignored him. But when a dark-skinned man was holed up in a shack with a gun, they sent the part-time town constable to gun the fugitive down.

Matt Cohen left us all a gift when he decided, in the last six months of his life, to write a memoir.

Autobiography of deaf-blind woman in Canada who pioneered deaf-blind services. Hilarious, self-deprecating style.

Contains three complete novels : The Scarlet Pimpernel (originally published : London : Greening and Co., 1905).

As they seem to be at the bottom of every prank at Macdonald Hall, the headmaster decides to separate roommates Bruno and Boots, but to little avail. Bruno and Boots are always in trouble.

Ten classic stories about cunning plans and daring escapades. Of all the crimes that human beings commit, stealing is probably the most common.

Selected and new poems offer glimpses of a private world in which images of horror are viewed through mirrors and prisms and in which madmen and animals inhabit a landscape of fearful natural beaut

An account of the author's experiences accompanying her husband who was filming the relocation of a colony of sea otters from Canada to Alaska during the summer of 1970.

The witch canoe, The spectre, The serpent of Lorette, La corriveau, A la Sainte-Catherine, The man from Labrador, The three devils, The loup-garou, How the devil got his cat.

In defying the ignorant opinion of the local Puritan community in a Connecticut village in 1687, a compassionate young woman risks being labelled a witch when she helps a widowed Quaker woman and a

Seven short studies of men and women whose fame has someting to do with the Canadian frontier.

In 1915, Robert Ross, a young Canadian, enlists in the army as an officer.