Yukon River Ghost


Book Description

The Yukon kids, Aurore and Kip, take a trip down the Yukon River and discover a gold rush ghost town that seems to have a ghost. The kids use their sleuthing skills to solve the mystery at Canyon City. Set in 1902, after the Klondike gold rush has ended. Illustrated with photographs from the MacBride Museum collection.




Yukon River Ghost


Book Description

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







Great Canadian Ghost Stories


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A compelling collection of iconic ghost stories from all across Canada. Time and place are infused with ghosts and hauntings. From coast to coast to coast, Canada’s provinces and territories teem with the supernatural—phantoms obscured in the mists of time, spectres that delight in wreaking terror, and spirits destined to linger forever at the edge of the veil. Visit the far-flung corners of Canada to discover the folklore and legends behind: the ghost of a Newfoundland outlaw that leads blizzard-blind men to safety A poltergeist infestation that gleefully tortured an entire Nova Scotia family A fleet of phantom ships that haunt the coastline of New Brunswick the haggard spectre of a murderous witch in historic Quebec City Saskatchewan’s ghost-ridden military cadet academy an Alberta cabbie’s encounter with a silent shadow of a man in black the headless railway brakeman of Vancouver a moaning, man-shaped mist that haunts a Yukon cabin From east to west to way up north, bestselling author and renowned storyteller Barbara Smith traverses Canada’s provinces and territories to unearth more than 100 supernatural tales that careen between heartwarming, horrifying, sorrowful, and spine-chilling.




Sessional Papers


Book Description

"Report of the Dominion fishery commission on the fisheries of the province of Ontario, 1893", issued as an addendum to vol. 26, no. 7.




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?




Going Places


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Successfully navigate the rich world of travel narratives and identify fiction and nonfiction read-alikes with this detailed and expertly constructed guide. Just as savvy travelers make use of guidebooks to help navigate the hundreds of countries around the globe, smart librarians need a guidebook that makes sense of the world of travel narratives. Going Places: A Reader's Guide to Travel Narratives meets that demand, helping librarians assist patrons in finding the nonfiction books that most interest them. It will also serve to help users better understand the genre and their own reading interests. The book examines the subgenres of the travel narrative genre in its seven chapters, categorizing and describing approximately 600 titles according to genres and broad reading interests, and identifying hundreds of other fiction and nonfiction titles as read-alikes and related reads by shared key topics. The author has also identified award-winning titles and spotlighted further resources on travel lit, making this work an ideal guide for readers' advisors as well a book general readers will enjoy browsing.




Sessional Papers


Book Description

"Report of the Dominion fishery commission on the fisheries of the province of Ontario, 1893", issued as vol. 26, no. 7, supplement.




Sessional Papers of the Dominion of Canada


Book Description

"Report of the Dominion fishery commission on the fisheries of the province of Ontario, 1893", issued as vol. 26, no. 7, supplement.




Haunted Inside Passage


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A collection of twenty stories showcasing the supernatural legends and unsolved mysteries of Southeast Alaska, with a focus on the region between Yakutat and Petersburg, where the author has lived his entire life, writing, teaching, guiding, commercial fishing, and investigating ghost stories. Each chapter is rooted in Bjorn’s own adventures and will intertwine fascinating history, interviews, and his reflections. Bjorn’s writing, sometimes poignant and often wickedly funny, brings to mind Hunter S. Thompson and Patrick McManus. Chapters touch on legends such as Alexander Baranov, Soapy Smith, James Wickersham, and the Kóoshdaa Káa (Kushtaka) to lesser known but fascinating characters like “Naked” Joe Knowles and purported serial killer Ed Krause. From duplicitous if not downright diabolical humans to demons of the fjords and deep seas and cryptids of the forest, Bjorn presents a lively cross-section of the haunter and the haunted found in Alaska’s Inside Passage.