An informative sidekick to Stan Shadick's annual award-winning Skywatchers calendars, Skywatcher's Companion presents fascinating stories for skywatchers of all ages.
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Author:Shadick, Stan
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Author:Willems Snopek, Roxanne
Summary:Dogs, horses and other animals have long shown courage, trust and loyalty to the people in their lives, but they also inspire selfless love in return.
Genre: Anecdotes, Canadian nonfiction, Pets and animalsAvailable Formats:
Author:Cameron, June
Summary:Buying Saffron, a 24-foot racing sailboat, was an act of desperation meant to help single parent June Cameron and her youngest son validate themselves. It did that and more.
Genre: Biographies and autobiographies, Canadian nonfiction, Sports and recreation, True adventure storiesAvailable Formats:
Author:Andra-Warner, Elle
Summary:Since 1873, the Mounties have brought the law to the furthest reaches of the Canadian frontier.
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Author:Seagrave, Jayne
Summary:BC’s bestselling camping guidebook—now expanded to include the national parks of the Canadian Rockies in honour of the 150th anniversary of Canadian Confederation.
Genre: Canadian nonfiction, GuidebooksAvailable Formats:
Author:Denny, Cecil E.
Summary:Like many other pioneering North West Mounted Police officers, Cecil Denny was a colourful, independent man with a career full of conquest and controversy.
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Author:Raby Dunne, Susan
,Morrison, Edward
Summary:The never-before-published memoir of Major-General Sir Edward Morrison, a true Canadian hero of the First World War.The First World War marked a turning point in Canadian history and in Canada’s se
Genre: Biographies and autobiographies, Canadian nonfiction, History and geography, War and militaryAvailable Formats:
Author:Bunney, Gayle
Summary:What do you do when there are goldfish in the horse's water tank, a baby magpie in the bedroom, a cow in the kitchen and a half-dozen small dogs rolling in the dirt to get rid of the smell of skunk
Genre: Anecdotes, Canadian nonfiction, HumourAvailable Formats:
Author:Bryan, Liz
Summary:Stone by Stone takes readers on a fascinating journey across the short-grass prairie of southern Alberta and Saskatchewan in search of tangible evidence of the region’s ancient past—a civilization
Genre: Canadian nonfiction, GuidebooksAvailable Formats:
Author:Septer, Dirk
Summary:Just before midnight on February 13, 1950, three engines of a US Air Force B-36 intercontinental bomber caught fire over Canada’s northwest coast.
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Author:McEwen, Joan
Summary:In early-1980s Vancouver, Ivan Henry was an ex-convict still adjusting to civilian life when he was detained on a break-and-enter charge.
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Author:Mole, Rich
Summary:In October 1935, three prairie farm boys embarked on a deadly trail of robbery and murder that stretched across three western Canadian provinces and made newspaper headlines from coast to coast and
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Author:Peterson, Jan
Summary:An insightful look at the first mayor of Nanaimo, BC, drawing heavily on his prolific and insightful written observations.Mark Bate, elected Nanaimo’s first mayor in 1875, was a renaissance man.
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Author:Fontaine, Theodore
Summary:Theodore (Ted) Fontaine lost his family and freedom just after his seventh birthday, when his parents were forced to leave him at an Indian residential school by order of the Roman Catholic Church
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Author:Antonson, Rick
,Antonson, Brian
Summary:Slumach’s Gold chronicles what is possibly Canada’s greatest lost-mine story.
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