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Walking with legends: the real stories of Hockey Night in Canada
By Mike Brophy, Ralph Mellanby. 2007
A driving force behind Hockey Night in Canada , television executive Ralph Mellanby recalls his association with some of the…
most instrumental men in the hockey industry, as well as his involvement in some of hockey's greatest events ever. Includes five sections on 25 of hockey's biggest names and two of the greatest events in hockey history, the 1972 Summit Series and the 1980 Winter Olympics. Some strong language. 2007.Voice of the pioneer
By Bill McNeil. 1978
Pioneers of all sorts - prospectors, scientists, homesteaders, bush pilots, teachers, and many others - tell their fascinating stories here,…
as they have told them on Canada's best-loved radio programme. 1978.Voices from the wilderness: the frontiersman's own story
By Thomas Froncek. 1974
True accounts of America's frontiersmen who traveled in search of independence, adventure, and freedom. A few of the resourceful characters…
included are Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, Kit Carson and Buffalo Bill Cody. 1974.Une enfance bleu-blanc-rouge
By Gilles Archambault, Marc Robitaille. 2000
Un collectif rend ici hommage au hockey d'antan. Les auteurs dont plusieurs sont des personnalités québécoises racontent leurs souvenirs d'enfance,…
représentant les valeurs sociales de ce sport: contact humain, réconfort, refuge, prétexte, catalyseur, soupape, rêves de gloire, objet de discussions animées. 2000.Tropic of hockey: my search for the game in unlikely places
By Dave Bidini. 2000
Author, musician, and hockey fan Bidini decided to seek out Canada's export sport in the far corners of the world.…
His quest led him to a rink on the eighth floor of a Hong Kong shopping mall, the gritty city of Harbin in northern China, to Dubai and even Transylvania. He discovers that hockey is a powerful connector around the world, and glories in its exhilaration and moments of grace. Some strong language. 2000.Trail to the interior (Laurentian library ; #27)
By R. M Patterson. 1966
Through the use of diaries, letters, newspapers and personal narratives, Patterson tells the history of the Cassiar District of British…
Columbia, and of the men and women who pioneered the area. 1970, c1966.Tough calls: NHL referees and linesmen tell their story
By Dick Irvin. 1997
Tiger: a hockey story
By James Lawton, Tiger Williams. 1984
Williams, raised in small-town Saskatchewan, has played professional hockey in Toronto, Vancouver and Detroit. In this book, he describes the…
realities of life for a hockey player who literally had to fight to get to the top of his profession. c1984.They call me Gump
By Gump Worsley, Tim Moriarty. 1975
The silent song: a daughter's tribute to a reluctant pioneer
By Marjorie Wilkins Campbell. 1999
The stick: a history, a celebration, an elegy
By Bruce Dowbiggin. 2001
Consider the London schoolteacher whose basement is a treasure trove of old sticks, the Calgary handyman who turns broken ones…
into children's furniture, or the NHL owner whose rec room floor is made of hockey sticks. The hockey stick, from the earliest ones carved from tree-roots by the Mi'kmaqs of Nova Scotia to today's scientifically precise models, is an iconic symbol of the place that gave it birth, a tangible bit of Canadian culture, a link to Canada's past. Dowbiggin introduces us to the people and legends of the distinctly Canadian stick. 2001.The rancher takes a wife: a true account of life on the last great cattle frontier
By Richmond P Hobson. 2015
The interior of British Columbia in the early 20th century is a jungle of swamps, rivers, and grasslands. It's a…
vast and still barely explored wilderness, whose principal citizens are timber wolves, moose, giant grizzly bears, and the odd human being. Into this forbidding land, Rich Hobson, Pioneer cattle rancher, brings Gloria, his city-raised bride. Her adjustment to life in the wilderness is sure to be difficult, as is her relationship with Rich and his backwoods cronies. Will Gloria ever find that she belongs in this strange, harsh land? Sequel to "Nothing too good for a cowboy". 2015.The real Klondike Kate
By T. Ann Brennan. 1990
According to the author the real Klondike Kate was not the boisterous dance hall queen of legend, but a young…
woman from New Brunswick named Katherine Ryan. Adventurous for her time, she walked into the North over the rugged Stikine Trail and was an early suffragette who became an important political figure in the North. 1990.The promised land: settling the West 1896-1914
By Pierre Berton. 1984
The physics of hockey
By Alain Haché. 2002
You don't have to be a rocket scientist to play hockey, but consider this: the same universal principles that sent…
men to the moon also go into launching a slapshot, crashing into the boards, accelerating across the blue line, or cutting down a shooter's angle. The author, a physicist, explores and explains the science behind the game, including how a sharpened blade glides on ice, or why Bobby Hull's slapshot zipped through the atmosphere so much faster than his modern counterparts' did. Haché even includes explanations on how a Zamboni works. 2002.The perilous journey of the Donner Party
By Marian Calabro. 1999
1846. Letters and diary entries describe twelve-year-old Virginia Reed and her family's journey by wagon train to California with the…
Donner clan. The group is stranded in deep snow in the Sierra Nevada mountains, and some desperate travelers resort to cannibalism. Traces the survivors' remaining years. Grades 5-8 and older readers. 1999.The life and legacy of Annie Oakley (The Oklahoma western biographies ; #7)
By Glenda Riley. 1994
A portrait of the legendary sharpshooter and archetypal western woman. Explores the life of this complex personality who overcame shyness…
and poverty to become an international star in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show. Evaluates her influence on the development of feminism. 1994.The judge's wife: memoirs of a British Columbia pioneer
By Louise Wilson, Jean Barman, Eunice M. L Harrison, Ronald B Hatch. 2002
An account of life in early British Columbia from the 1860s to the first decade of the 20th century. The…
wife of Judge Eli Harrison, one of the province's foremost lawyers and judges, Mrs. Harrison gives intimate glimpses into daily life in Victoria, Nanaimo and New Westminster, and her visits as a young woman to Granville (as Vancouver was then called) for dances and picnics. She also includes descriptions of her husband's many hazardous trips over the Brigade Trail into the interior of the province to dispense frontier justice. 2002.Young Leafs: the making of a new hockey history
By Gare Joyce. 2017
Auston Matthews made history on October 12, 2016 by becoming the first player in the modern game to score four…
goals in his NHL debut. It was a momentous occasion for the talented young All-Star, but it was equally important for his newly adopted city and its storied, century-old team. That night marked the dawn of a new era for the Toronto Maple Leafs. The team had a long and colourful history, and it had always been foundational to the city's image. But years of losing seasons had tarnished the team's reputation and left even the most diehard fans questioning their loyalty. It seemed that each passing year brought more of the same: more mediocrity, more heartbreak, more disappointment. But the team's management had a plan, one that would take them where others feared to go: a total rebuild. Piece by piece, they were assembling a group of young, talented players who would reshape the team. 2017.Clearing in the West: my own story
By Nellie L McClung. 1965
Trekking west with her family in 1880, the author grew up on a Manitoba homestead and taught in prairie schools…
until her marriage. Also provides a clear picture of the important role women played in the frontier communities. 1965.