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Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig's war against big oil
By Andrew Nikiforuk. 2002
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Dutch-born Wiebo Ludwig, former leader of a Christian Reformed Church in Goderich, Ontario, and his entourage, which consisted of his…
ever-growing family and a few sympathizers, decamped for Alberta in 1985 and bought a place called Trickle Creek - in oil country. What ensued was a long, nasty, and often violent conflict between Ludwig and the oil and gas industry over its legal right to drill on private land, regardless of landowners' concerns over the contamination of air and water by the pollutants that spew out of the wells. Some strong language and descriptions of violence. Winner of the 2002 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. 2002.The private capital: ambition and love in the age of Macdonald and Laurier
By Sandra Gwyn. 1984
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Award winning fictionAward winning non-fiction, Historical biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian history, Humour, Canadian politics and government
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A compelling account of private life in the age of Macdonald and Laurier. The author has used personal letters, diaries,…
scrapbooks, memoirs and social columns. 1984 Governor General's Award winner. c1984.The shining mountain: two men on Changabang's west wall
By Peter Boardman, Joe Tasker. 1984
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Recounts the endurance and determination of two British mountain climbers in making a forty-day ascent up the treacherous west wall…
of Changabang Mountain in the Indian Himalayas. Winner of the John Llewelyn Rhys Memorial Prize. 1984.