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Hurricane!
By Celia Godkin. 2008
Along Florida's coast, people board up their homes and the animals head inland - a hurricane is coming. When it…
reaches land, howling winds uproot trees and homes with equal ease, and storm surges devastate the town. Then, after the eerie quiet of the hurricane's eye, the winds howl again, toppling structures that had survived the first onslaught and washing away the remains. But even as the last of the storm dies down, the process of renewal gradually begins. Grades 2-4. 2008.Fort Chipewyan homecoming: a journey to native Canada (We are still here)
By Morningstar Mercredi. 1997
Matthew, a young Native boy, spends a week with his mother in Fort Chipewyan, the northern Alberta town she came…
from. Together they meet old friends and he learns about traditional Native life. Grades 5-8. 1997.Coke stop in Emo: adventures of a long-distance paddler
By Alec Ross. 1995
In 1987, Alec Ross launched his canoe from the same spot at Lachine, just west of Montreal, which the voyageurs…
used when they set out on their quest for furs. For Ross, it was the beginning of an 8,000 kilometre journey to follow their routes, and continue to a west coast which they had never imagined. 1995.Farthest north: the epic adventure of a visionary explorer
By Fridtjof Nansen. 2018
In 1893 Norwegian zoologist Fridtjof Nansen set sail for the North Pole in the Fram, a ship specially designed to…
be frozen into the polar ice cap, withstand its crushing pressures, and travel north with the sea's drift. "Farthest North", first published in 1897, is the stirring first-person account of the Fram and her historic voyage. 2018. Uniform title: Fram over Polhavet.Following the sea
By Benjamin Doane. 1987
"Following the sea" is a manuscript written in the 19th century which describes the adventures of a Nova Scotia sailor's…
life at sea during the mid-1800s. The narration provides a unique insight into the sailing vessels of the Maritimes, and the men who sailed them. Includes an appendix which provides information on vessels mentioned in the manuscript, and a glossary of nautical and whaling terms. 1988, c1987.Funny, you don't look like one: observations from a blue-eyed Ojibway
By Drew Hayden Taylor. 1996
Half Ojibway and half Caucasian - and hoping to found a nation called Occasions, dubbing himself a Special Occasion for…
founding it - Drew Hayden Taylor presents his own take on Native affairs. Using humour to give a different perspective on contentious issues, he talks about Native life and culture, and relations with government and non-Natives. 1996.Great Bear: a journey remembered
By Frederick B Watt. 1980
For king and Kanata: Canadian Indians and the First World War
By Timothy C Winegard. 2012
At the outbreak of the First World War, Canada’s First Nations pledged their men to the Crown to honour their…
long-standing tradition of forming military alliances with Europeans during times of war, and as a means of resisting cultural assimilation and attaining equality through shared service and sacrifice. Initially, the Canadian government rejected their offer, but in 1915, Britain intervened and demanded Canada actively recruit Indian soldiers. Winegard reveals how national and international forces directly influenced the more than 4,000 status Indians who voluntarily served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force between 1914 and 1919, and how subsequent administrative policies profoundly affected their experiences at home, on the battlefield, and as returning veterans. 2012.Flight of the Vin Fiz
By E. P Stein. 1985
Gales of November: the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald
By Robert J Hemming. 1981
The loss of a ship on Lake Superior in 1975, immortalized by Gordon Lightfoot's song "The wreck of the Edmund…
Fitzgerald," is described in this book which also examines the lives of the crew and their families, and the official investigations of the tragedy. 1981.Growing up Indian
By Evelyn Wolfson. 1986
Flight of passage
By Rinker Buck. 1997
Recounts the coast-to-coast flight of two teenage aviators in 1966. Piloting a restored three-hundred-dollar Piper Cub, the New Jersey brothers…
followed the route blazed by their barnstorming father in the early 1940s. Chronicles the boys' adventures aloft and during stops en route. Strong language. c1997.Fitzgerald's storm: the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
By Joseph B MacInnis. 1997
MacInnis reconstructs the final voyage of the Edmund Fitzgerald and the events leading up to its sinking in Lake Superior.…
He also recounts the stories of the families left behind, the inquest into the sinking, and the journey to the bottom of the lake to see the wreckage over fifteen years after she went down. 1997.Grey seas under
By Farley Mowat. 1958
Godforsaken sea: racing the world's most dangerous waters
By Derek Lundy. 1998
During the 1996-97 Vendee Globe round-the-world single-handed yacht race, Canadian sailor Gerry Roufs lost his life. Fourteen men and 2…
women began the race in Les Sables-d'Olonne, France. Six officially finished, 6 others withdrew or were disqualified for seeking help, 3 were pulled from sinking boats, and one disappeared without a trace. This tale follows their round-the-world journeys from beginning to ending, successful or otherwise. 1998.Ghostliners: exploring the world's greatest lost ships
By Robert D Ballard. 1998
Robert Ballard, who discovered the wreck of the Titanic, explores other famous lost ships. The Titanic's sister ship the Britannic…
is now the largest wreck on the ocean floor, while the Lusitania, sunk by a German torpedo during World War I, is shrouded in mystery. Grades 3-6. 1998.Great railway journeys of the world
By Michael Frayn. 1982
Seven writers set out to prove that the great days of rail travel are not yet dead. After travelling across…
continents and zigzagging across familiar territory via unfamiliar routes, they testify that the romance of the rails still survives. 1982.Helpless: Caledonia's nightmare of fear and anarchy, and how the law failed all of us
By Christie Blatchford. 2010
February 28, 2006. A handful of protesters from the nearby Six Nations reserve walked onto Douglas Creek Estates, then a…
residential subdivision under construction, and blocked workers from entering. The occupiers, now in their fifth year, have been destructive, threatening, and violent, harassing the residents who live nearby and doing everything under the noses of the Ontario Provincial Police, who, often against their own best instincts, stood by and watched. Strong language and descriptions of violence. c2010.Great ship disasters
By A. A Hoehling. 1971
For Joshua: an Ojibway father teaches his son
By Richard Wagamese. 2002
Richard Wagamese had a life-long struggle for self-knowledge and self-respect. He turned to the Native doctrine of the Medicine Wheel,…
which teaches balance, introspection, sensitivity to others and, above all, responsibility to one's inner self. It is this learning process that he hoped to pass on to his son, Joshua. 2002.