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This digital document is an article from Toronto Life, published by Toronto Life Publishing Co. Ltd. on October 1, 2003. The length of the article is 14579 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Drama queen: soon after the momentous day when Oprah picked Fall on Your Knees for her book club, Ann-Marie MacDonald sold her second saga-length novel for a reported million dollars. Now, with the release of The Way the Crow Flies, the pressure is on for another big hit. So why does MacDonald seem so relaxed?(Biography)
Author: Sylvia Fraser
Publication: Toronto Life (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2003
Publisher: Toronto Life Publishing Co. Ltd.
Volume: 37Issue: 10Page: 78(8)

Article Type: Biography

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This digital document is an article from Canadian Woman Studies, published by Canadian Woman Studies on September 22, 1996. The length of the article is 3435 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Multiple loyalties: a great-granddaughter's reflections on the life of Ida Lewis Siegel.
Author: Gail Labovitz
Publication: Canadian Woman Studies (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1996
Publisher: Canadian Woman Studies
Volume: 16Issue: 4Page: 95-8

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This digital document is an article from Quebec Studies, published by American Council for Quebec Studies on March 22, 1999. The length of the article is 8545 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: "Enfants de Refus global" by Manon Barbeau: from official commemoration to memory as mourning process.
Author: Ginette Michaud
Publication: Quebec Studies (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 1999
Publisher: American Council for Quebec Studies
Volume: 27Page: 105-17,139-140

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Privateer and adventurer Martin Frobisher undertook the search for a northwestern route to Asia under orders from Queen Elizabeth I. A few days after enduring a terrifying storm in July 1576, Frobisher sighted the most easterly outlier of Arctic North America and for the first time England became aware of this vast northern region. Over the next three summers it would be the scene of an adventure involving the fruitless search for a northwest passage, the first attempt by the British to establish a settlement in the New World, and the first major gold-mining fraud in North American history. Over 1200 tons of rock were mined from Baffin Island and shipped to England, where they were found to contain not an ounce of gold. Yet Frobisher's claim of possession established British interest in northern North America and was the first step in the eventual establishment of British sovereignty over the northern half of the American continent. Using reports from the men who participated in the venture, details preserved in the oral histories of the Inuit, and archaeological information recovered from the sites of Elizabethan activities on Baffin Island, Robert McGhee describes Frobisher's expeditions and offers new insights into this audacious venture. The story ends on an ironic note--the capital of the new Territory of Nunavut, which restores to the Inuit a measure of the sovereignty claimed for England by Frobisher, lies at the head of the bay named after him, where over four centuries ago the English first ventured into Arctic America. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from American Review of Canadian Studies, published by Association for Canadian Studies in the United States on March 22, 2002. The length of the article is 10593 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Algonquin revisited: biography to hagiography to label.
Author: Dennis Duffy
Publication: American Review of Canadian Studies (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2002
Publisher: Association for Canadian Studies in the United States
Volume: 32Issue: 1Page: 67(31)

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This digital document is an article from Performing Arts & Entertainment in Canada, published by Performing Arts and Entertainment in Canada on June 22, 1998. The length of the article is 454 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: The Canadian music community mourns the death of Douglas Voice on Jun 29, 1998 after struggling with cancer. Voice was an active official of the Canadian Music Competitions and a recognized music teacher dedicated to the creation of music opportunities for students at the University of Ottawa.

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Title: Tribute to Douglas Voice.(Canadian Music Competitions Fall News)(music teacher and official of the Canadian Music Competitions)
Author: Verna Jacobson
Publication: Performing Arts & Entertainment in Canada (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 1998
Publisher: Performing Arts and Entertainment in Canada
Volume: 32Issue: 1Page: C5(1)

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This digital document is an article from Toronto Life, published by Toronto Life Publishing Co. Ltd. on July 1, 2004. The length of the article is 3443 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Tusk force: launched with much hype and buzz last year, The Walrus billed itself as Canada's answer to Harper's. Nine months, five issues and two editors later, the magazine has proven one thing: its ambitions lie beyond its grasp.(Media)(Biography)
Author: Robert Fulford
Publication: Toronto Life (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2004
Publisher: Toronto Life Publishing Co. Ltd.
Volume: 38Issue: 7Page: 61(4)

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This digital document is an article from Toronto Life, published by Toronto Life Publishing Co. Ltd. on January 1, 2004. The length of the article is 2514 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Body work: when Dr. Michael Clarfield graduated from med school in 1980, there wasn't a single sports medicine clinic in Toronto. Today, his midtown practice sees up to 1,500 patients each week. His biggest clients? The Maple Leafs, the National Ballet of Canada and a growing contingent of injury-prone weekend warriors.(Health)(Interview)(Biography)
Author: Michael Posner
Publication: Toronto Life (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2004
Publisher: Toronto Life Publishing Co. Ltd.
Volume: 38Issue: 1Page: 45(4)

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This digital document is an article from Quebec Studies, published by American Council for Quebec Studies on March 22, 1999. The length of the article is 1251 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Fils du notaire. Jacques Ferron (1921-1949). Genese intellectuelle d'un ecrivain.
Publication: Quebec Studies (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 1999
Publisher: American Council for Quebec Studies
Volume: 27Page: 131-3

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Convincing proof that Canadian history is anything but dull, this book recounts the action-filled careers of some of the country's most successful and violent adventurers, licit and illicit.

From Elizabethan privateers seeking fortune off the coasts of Newfoundland to the courtly warriors of Acadia, from the wildly successful letter-of-marque ships of Liverpool, Nova Scotia to the vicious sea fights of the War of 1812, Horwood and Butts reconstruct the lives of the country's finest fighting seamen. Inland, they consider the less reputable careers of the gangs who fought for control of gold and timber in the raw frontier settlements that would one day be Canada.

Featuring plently of fast-paced action Bandits and Privateers brings the excitement of Canadian history to life.
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UNDER POLARIS, AN ARCTIC QUEST. By Tahoe Talbot Washburn. Se
This marvelous book is a blend of adventure story, scientific diary, and ethnographic study. The author, Tahoe Talbot Washburn, accompanied her husband, Lincoln Washburn, to the Canadian Arctic in 1938-1941, helping him do his graduate field work in the glacial geology of the region. The author was a keen observer of native people and their way of life. She recorded what we now see in retrospect as the waning years of a nomadic way of life for the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Prior to World War II, many Inuit roamed freely across the high Arctic, camping in snow houses (igloos) constructed along the trail at the end of the day. The Canadian Arctic Inuit were still essentially nomads; they did not live in or visit permanent settlements, except for a few important events each year. Accordingly, governmental authorities and missionaries had to go on expeditions to meet with the Inuit. Soon after the war, this pattern changed dramatically, and seemingly irrevocably, towards a more settled way of life. This book is made all the more fascinating because it provides many glimpses into a way of life perched on the cusp of radical change. The Washburns were much more than casual visitors to the Canadian Arctic. They lived there for months at a time, including one extended stay from August, 1940 to February, 1941. They spent precious little time indoors, preferring to move about the Arctic islands, hiking, boating, camping, and dog-sledding in winter. The scientific aim of this multi-year project was to determine the extent of regional glaciation in the late Pleistocene, a much-debated topic of that day. By collecting marine fossils and mapping traces of glacial scouring in bedrock, Lincoln Washburn was able to begin the process of reconstructing the extent of ice sheets during the last glaciation. This thesis project marked the beginning of his long and illustrious career in glacial geology. However, geologic research is only incidental to this book. It brought the Washburns to Arctic Canada, but once there, they fell in love with the land and its people. Both Lincoln and Tahoe relished the arduous Arctic lifestyle, where physical endurance and mental acuity often make the difference between survival and death. They marveled at the ingenuity, patience, and sense of humor that seemed to sustain the Inuit through manifold hardships. Tahoe Washburn spent many months emulating the role of Inuit women, including daily food preparation (for both people and sled dogs), sewing of leather garments, and hide preparation (including chewing caribou hides to soften them). Although limited by not understanding the Inuit language, she learned by observation. Her Native companions appreciated her efforts to follow their ways, and took the time to teach her many skills that few outsiders ever learned. The book is richly illustrated, with 107 photos and six maps. Although the material in the book was taken from diaries, it has been well-edited, never becoming dull or repetitive. I heartily recommend this book to readers interested in the natural history and ethnography of the Arctic.

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Born into a comfortable middle-class German family, Paul Hertel left Germany in 1929 for a taste of adventure in the Canadian wilds before he was to settle down to run the family business. For the next five years he had the ultimate adventure. He rode the rails across Canada, homesteaded north of Burns Lake, picked fruit in the Okanagan and punched cattle in the Nicola Valley. Just after the Nazis won their first election, Paul returned to Germany.Urged by his bride-to-be, Grete, but over the protests of his family, Paul returned to BC with Grete, but as the World War II approached they faced rising anti-German sentiments. Feeling uncomfortable and unwanted in the south, they moved to the wilds of northern BC where they homesteaded in the Smithers area.Wilderness Beginnings is an amazing story - partly because it is a true one which shows how recent our frontier actually is-but also because it is a story of courage, of an individual who wouldn't say "enough already" and pack it in. Paul Hertel just picked himself up again and kept on. ... Read more

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Learning about my own past
I truly loved this book. For once, because it's part of my own past, Paul Hertel was my mother's uncle. And second, I like Mrs. Falkenhagens style. It was great for me to learn about my ancestors. Now I understand much better my own urge to discover the world.

A German-Canadian Adventure
"Wilderness Beginnings" is truly an adventure story about two people facing seemingly insurmountable odds both in Pre-WWII Germany and in the wilderness of British Columbia during the 1930's. This true-life book is extremely well written and an easy read. The story draws you in from the start and holds your attention throughout the remarkable journey. There are times it is difficult to believe this is not fiction. I highly recommend this book to readers of all ages.

A personal wilderness adventure
A true life adventure of a young German immigrant who migrates to the wilderness of British Columbia during the mid 1930's. The adventures and brushes with death from the natural elements remind me of Jack London's "Call of the Wild".

Human interest story of a young man's wilderness adventures.
A wonderful true-life story of the adventures of a young German immigrant who becomes a 20th century pioneer in British Columbia. After falling in love with the BC landscape and learning to live in harmony with the forces of nature, he returns to his home in Germany to marry his sweetheart. They both return to BC to share the natural beauty of the country and indure the challenges of the Great Depression, which are intensified by the general distrust of Germans in Canada as Hitler invades Europe, and Canada and the United States are drawn into World War II. Inspite of these obstacles, Paul and Grete Hertel raise a family and eventually settle on a farm on Vancouver Island.

It was with a sense of sadness when I finished this story, knowing that I could no longer look forward to reading any further adventures of the Hertel family. I wish to thank the author for sharing this fasinating story of her father's early years in British Columbia. ... Read more