Wilderness: The Story of the Yukon Telegraph
Can$19.95
1-894384-58-X
Author-Bill Miller
This is the tale of how Canada’s high northern wilderness was brought into civilization’s fold through a frail network of wires laboriously strung between poles and trees for hundreds of desolate miles. It started in 1897, when gold was discovered in the Yukon and the government needed a faster way to communicate with its remote northern territory. The isolated residents, too, wanted a more reliable connection with the outside world. Thus was born the Yukon Telegraph.
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Frontier Days in the Yukon
$14.95
0-919531-32-6
In tribute to Garnet Basque, 1 of 3 volumes.
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The Lost Patrol – The Mounties Yukon Tragedy
Can$16.95
1-895714-70-2
Dick North
Using techniques similar to those of a skilled detective, author Dick North pieces the evidence together in an attempt to solve the mystery of the doomed journey that has gone down in Mountie annals as the Lost Patrol.
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BC-Yukon Sternwheel Days
Can$14.95 Can$8.95 On Sale!
0-919214-63-0
Author-Art Downs
Over 300 sternwheelers were to ply B.C. - Yukon waters, a record matched nowhere else in North America. Despite being ripped open in rapids, gutted by fires, swamped in storms, crushed by ice and torn apart by boiler explosions, they served where needed and for as long as required - 100 years.
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Wires in the Wilderness: The Story of the Yukon Telegraph
Can$19.95
1-894384-58-X
Author-Bill Miller
This is the tale of how Canada’s high northern wilderness was brought into civilization’s fold through a frail network of wires laboriously strung between poles and trees for hundreds of desolate miles. It started in 1897, when gold was discovered in the Yukon and the government needed a faster way to communicate with its remote northern territory. The isolated residents, too, wanted a more reliable connection with the outside world. Thus was born the Yukon Telegraph.
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Robert Service: Under the Spell of the Yukon
Can$32.95
Author-Enid Mallory
foreword by-Jack Whyte
Dressed in cowboy garb acquired in a Scottish auction room, a naïve but committed young Robert Service stepped off the CPR train in Vancouver, sustained only by his sense of adventure. Sixteen years later, he would leave Canada as the author of the most commercially successful poems written in the 20th century.
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A Journey to the Northern Ocean: The Adventures of Samuel Hearne
Can$19.95
Author- Samuel Hearne
forword by Ken McGoogan
Widely recognized as a classic of northern-exploration literature,
A Journey to the Northern Ocean is Samuel Hearne's story of his three-year trek to seek a trade route across the Barrens in the Northwest Territories. Hearne was a superb reporter, from his anguished description of the massacre of helpless Eskimos by his Indian companions to his meticulous records of wildlife, flora and Indian manners and customs. As esteemed author Ken McGoogan points out in his foreword: "Hearne demonstrated that to thrive in the north, Europeans had to apprentice themselves to the Native peoples who had lived there for centuries-a lesson lost on many who followed."
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