Aurore of the Yukon


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After the death of her father, Aurore, her mother and little brother have set off from Montreal for Uncle Thibault's lodge in the Yukon, little knowing they are headed for the Klondike Gold Rush. Based on the reali-life story of Aline Arbour Cyr, the author's grandmother.




Yukon River Ghost


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Aurore, Kip and the gang are back in the third book in the MacBride Museum Yukon Kids Series! An idyllic Yukon River trip turns into a mysterious adventure as the kids discover a gold rush ghost town that seems to have a ghost! Putting to work the sleuthing skills that foxed Alaskan bandit Soapy Smith in their first adventure, your favorite Yukon kids soon learn there is more afoot at Canyon City than just a few eerie noises in the night. Why is Sourdough oldtimer Hard Luck Henry obsessed with the Lucky Eight gold nugget? What happened to the nugget and the miner that found it? And why does little sister Papillon seem to know so much? With each clue, a mysterious force pulls the kids closer to the dangerous waters gushing through Miles Canyon and the dreaded Devil's Punchbowl. Will the Yukon kids solve the mystery before whatever happened to Lucky Eight happens to them? * * * * * Praise for Aurore of the Yukon and Yukon Secret Agents "A wild ride equal parts historical fact and pure entertainment." The Yukon News "Colorful Yukon characters raucous adventures." The Whitehorse Star




Aurore of the Yukon


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"She's just a girl!" shouted Windy Bill. When Aurore hears these words, she knows notorious Alaskan bandit Soapy Smith is about to find out everything. How will she get her mother's money back now? How will she expose Soapy and his gang? How will she escape? Aurore, her mother and little brother have set off for Uncle Thibault's lodge in the Yukon after the death of Aurore's father, little knowing they are headed for the Klondike Gold Rush and the adventure of a lifetime. The hardships of the Chilkoot Trail. The roaring rapids of the Yukon River. The grasping greed of Soapy's gang. Aurore must dig deeper, think harder and be braver than she ever thought possible to show Soapy and his gang what a girl-and her new Tlingit friend Louise and a Yukon river boy named Kip-can do. "Well, she outsmarted you!" replied Soapy Smith with a snarl, opening the door to Aurore's hiding place Set in the historic Klondike Gold Rush of 1898, and inspired by a real girl's story, Aurore of the Yukon is an exciting adventure written to both entertain and educate young readers. Part of the MacBride Yukon Kids Series. "Real fun real history!"-Patricia Cunning, MacBride Museum




Game on Yukon!


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Aurore, Yves, Kip and the gang are back, this time fighting to save the Stanley Cup! Its 1905 and the Dawson City Nuggets have challenged legendary One-Eyed Frank McGee and the Ottawa Silver Seven for hockeys most famous trophy. It just seems like more fun to the hockey-crazed kids of Dawson City, until mysterious accidents start to knock out the Nuggets stars one by one. Yves and Kip join Joe King of the Klondike Boyle and the Nuggets as stick boys. They follow the team on its staggering four-thousand-mile trek to the Cup. The team suffers one mishap after another as they travel by dogsled, bike, train and ship across frozen rivers, impenetrable forest and deadly sixty-below-zero cold snaps. Can the Yukon kids find out whats happening before its too late? Was Captain Bennets sled accident really an accident? What did Malamute Mike mean about the Sheriffs Curse? And who can explain the mysterious disappearance of the Stanley Cup itself?




Children of the Gold Rush


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In yet another previously untold chapter of the gold rush era, Murphy and Haigh have gathered individual stories, vintage photographs, and historic memorabilia to tell what life was like for children in the harsh and sparse gold-mining camps a century ago. Illustrations.




Un/Covering the North


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Despite setbacks and cutbacks, Canada leads the world in northern and Aboriginal communications. This book provides a comprehensive survey of communications in the circumpolar region, focusing on the Canadian Arctic and sub-Arctic but also looking at the circumpolar North (Alaska, Siberia, Greenland, and the Nordic/Saami nations). Radio, television, magazines, newspapers, and web sites are all covered. As technologies and access improve, Aboriginal people are increasingly taking control of their own representation and consolidating their presence in northern media. Alia concludes that Canada will maintain its leadership in northern communications in the years ahead, given the topic's far-reaching importance and international context.




Canadian Almanac & Directory


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The Canadian Almanac & Directory contains sixteen directories in one - giving you all the facts and figures you will ever need about Canada. No other single source provides users with the quality and depth of up-to-date information for all types of research. This national directory and guide gives you access to statistics, images and over 100,000 names and addresses for everything from Airlines to Zoos-updated every year. Each section is a directory in itself, providing robust information on business and finance, communications, government, associations, arts and culture (museums, zoos, libraries, etc.), health, transportation, law, education, and more. Government information includes federal, provincial and territorial-and includes an easy-to-use quick index to find key information. A separate municipal government section includes every municipality in Canada, with full profiles of Canada's largest urban centers. A complete legal directory lists judges and judicial officials, court locations and law firms across the country. A wealth of general information, The Canadian Almanac & Directory also includes national statistics on population, employment, imports and exports, and more. National awards and honors are presented, along with forms of address, Commonwealth information and full color photos of Canadian symbols. Postal information, weights, measures, distances and other useful charts are also incorporated. Complete almanac information includes perpetual calendars, five-year holiday planners and astronomical information. Published continuously for over 160 years, The Canadian Almanac & Directory is the best single reference source for business executives, managers and assistants; government and public affairs executives; lawyers; marketing, sales and advertising executives; researchers, editors and journalists, and is a must for all Canadian libraries and universities




Canadian Almanac and Directory 2021


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The Canadian Almanac & Directory is the most complete source of Canadian information available - cultural, professional and financial institutions, legislative, governmental, judicial and educational organizations. Canada's authoritative sourcebook for almost 160 years, the Canadian Almanac & Directory gives you access to almost 100,000 names and addresses of contacts throughout the network of Canadian institutions.




The Legacy


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The Legacy is several stories, intertwined and layered, that reveal more and plumb deeper than any one story could alone. It is set against the tableau of a heroic mush to save Nome during the great diphtheria epidemic of 1925. It is a story of Philippe Morrell and his lead dog, Balto, who made the run and the people, places and events that made his life stand out above those who had condemned him to the life of a social outcast. It is also a story that spans one hundred years in the lives of the Morrells, a prominent Canadian family who built and controlled a powerful financial empire, but also of what they owed to the man who was their patriarch. Philippe faced the harsh elements and his own demons during a ragging blizzard in subzero temperatures, driving his dogs and himself with superhuman effort to deliver the diphtheria vaccine from Nenana to Nome across 650 miles of rough pack ice and frozen rivers. Near the end of a life filled with tragedy and triumph, at the extreme limit of human endurance where sanity and madness meet, on the verge of death itself, he finds redemption in himself. The Legacy is both a sprawling adventure, a powerful love story and an intimate character study where past, present and future are inextricably joined. In the end, it reveals what beats in the heart of a great family.