tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24356046766026578432024-02-26T00:46:21.485-08:00BWL Canadian Historical BridesMichelle Houston/Houston Michaelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04046927781480479979noreply@blogger.comBlogger271125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2435604676602657843.post-85300290783366762882022-07-03T07:42:00.001-07:002022-07-03T07:42:39.290-07:00Addiction Epidemic--Just a Symptom or Something Larger?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhocxRVC8syovG506_WqQ__rvl0RhtkOFYyzOh22DGlEiiX9rXWzKfc5ZJhDhKF7ZvtUlRg_yiNnV-DqE0Jhc4_St_QmNcg6so6do3m0zzVTWpc9Zs6p2KMmKoBX1u4srGOtEexVSHkDq3_OuTI3qYOSCH4jcqNGK02c6vxNm0y3Mm_cE6FYBGjwsKN/s1280/thumbnail_CanadianBrides-NorthwestTerr%20(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="853" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhocxRVC8syovG506_WqQ__rvl0RhtkOFYyzOh22DGlEiiX9rXWzKfc5ZJhDhKF7ZvtUlRg_yiNnV-DqE0Jhc4_St_QmNcg6so6do3m0zzVTWpc9Zs6p2KMmKoBX1u4srGOtEexVSHkDq3_OuTI3qYOSCH4jcqNGK02c6vxNm0y3Mm_cE6FYBGjwsKN/s320/thumbnail_CanadianBrides-NorthwestTerr%20(1).jpg" width="213" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br />http://www.julietwaldron.com</p><p style="text-align: center;">http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B004HIX4GS</p><p>Everyone knows we are in the midst of an opioid epidemic. Recent figures (necessarily an estimate) show 16 million people are addicted to opiates world-wide; 3 million of those are here in the U.S. 500,000 in the U.S are addicted to heroin.</p><p>"Opioids are prescribed to treat pain. With prolonged use, pain-relieving effects may lessen and pain can become worse. In addition, the body can develop dependence. Opioid dependence causes withdrawal symptoms, which makes it difficult to stop taking them. Addiction occurs when dependence interferes with daily life. Taking more than the prescribed amount of licit drugs or using illegal opioids like heroin may result in death." </p><p>"Symptoms of addiction include uncontrollable cravings and inability to control opioid use even though it's having negative effects on personal relationships or finances..." www.hhs.gov/opioids</p><p>You may also become addicted to pharmaceuticals which are commonly used to treat mood disorders, such as anxiety. Valium and Xanax are two treatments doctors have become ever more wary of over-prescribing. These drugs can interfere with the workings of the autonomic system of the abuser to the point of the stopping the heart.</p><p>In western cultures, alcohol is the traditional mood-altering substance, but this, too, when abused, can have deadly consequences for users as well as for anyone who gets in the way of, say, a drunk driver, or someone's alcohol-fueled rage.</p><p>"Excessive alcohol use was responsible for more than 140,000 deaths in the United States each year during 2015–2019, or more than 380 deaths per day." </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuHfetY-3dHxcKC0FoQ4ma4TZNpC2uM5Zm2kQQ9TLUxbWURLxlAgLCOvXoblvvTVUN3ZCxMj3iIJco1kHYKJfPb-5OrHylw5Av-NsSGAGIOCq_q4gw9fwI3NybTGG1FiOULddWSjvMV1NCek6YuTyYIEdemEQBq2fg-wfwT0JWWkD4ZMEMZQ2mna17/s553/istockphoto-1282811268-170667a%20drugs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="311" data-original-width="553" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuHfetY-3dHxcKC0FoQ4ma4TZNpC2uM5Zm2kQQ9TLUxbWURLxlAgLCOvXoblvvTVUN3ZCxMj3iIJco1kHYKJfPb-5OrHylw5Av-NsSGAGIOCq_q4gw9fwI3NybTGG1FiOULddWSjvMV1NCek6YuTyYIEdemEQBq2fg-wfwT0JWWkD4ZMEMZQ2mna17/s320/istockphoto-1282811268-170667a%20drugs.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>Medical experts, however, now realize that substance addictions are not the only shape the dysfunction takes. Addictions to cell phones, to video games or to social media are a few of the categories that are currently recognized. All of these behaviors are on display inside any shopping mall or grocery store--or inside your own home.</p><p>Increasingly, too, it appears that societies too can suffer from addictions, and that these "macro-addictions" are might be the gravest of all. Exactly as in substance abuse, these societal addictions can cause many members of those societies to suffer great emotional and physical damage. </p><p>There is also another addiction, one to control, which appears to be an integral part of western civilization. Control, in and of itself, is not necessarily a bad thing in a world of 8 billion people (now straining our planet's resources to the breaking point), but that too is another subject too large for this small blog. </p><p> "Those who do not understand their past are doomed to repeat it" An apocryphal quote by now, but having a lifelong fascination with history/society, I have spent much of my life studying it . Although raised with a Euro-centric view, I have remained to open to changing my mind, to learning and expanding my understanding.</p><p> When European colonists came to America, they met people who lived in completely unfamiliar social systems. Certainly, in the context of history, there was no way for Europeans to see those new people other than as "savages." They did not share our traditions or our religious beliefs. Arriving on these shores having been born and raised within rigidly hierarchical systems of class--with Kings whose powers were still assumed to be God-given--and still carrying on brutal, atrocity filled wars of religion among Christian groups, Europeans could not see Indigenous people any other way. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibdJCsp4-u2bRCYKnA5Tul7D9YqZSYMoklOTmW_A3od76aP2eSvQ8zD0gHOlWbCz-ppN_U3RupngjLvhcYU4KI6r2V6NxXJcU1nHDJDTUcHGP4HZ8eq6QKFRicjy1ygv0Optn3iTqnGFVA79kSngQqO6W5TXrrW9cHPjq92P3zX0B1OZ9Zq30FsiV7/s4608/P9120131%20Iroquois.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibdJCsp4-u2bRCYKnA5Tul7D9YqZSYMoklOTmW_A3od76aP2eSvQ8zD0gHOlWbCz-ppN_U3RupngjLvhcYU4KI6r2V6NxXJcU1nHDJDTUcHGP4HZ8eq6QKFRicjy1ygv0Optn3iTqnGFVA79kSngQqO6W5TXrrW9cHPjq92P3zX0B1OZ9Zq30FsiV7/s320/P9120131%20Iroquois.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>Fly Away Snow Goose, set among nomadic hunter-gatherers, was my attempt--alongside my co-author, John Wisdomkeeper--to address this brutal cultural collision between colonizers and colonized. The various religious groups who arrived in The Northeast Territory- what was then one of the last frontiers in North America--may have believed that they were bringing "the blessings of civilization" to their small pupils in those reservation schools, but that is not the story we hear from ever so many of those who were removed from their families and marooned in places with inadequate food and none of the familial warmth and affection into which they had been born. Siblings were separated, and the children all kept away from their famiy's home for most of the year, further disrupting family bonds and separating them from their culture.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0boPQ3vwbXxJy9bLfbYEwQ-SQlenL0VOAD3Ag4caxdMQOjIV5zN3gRo3BoeOyxSF-npV6-5BKgH7eqKn7Ij5VNhWX4tWWr3zNou-R7K1UIa3opjRbwvOhT-o1YX7WCdVdGL6nYdJOVlXeukMqBpxSPjEeMNT4WRDu_zZcL_Qw2_6eeSCEePcNR0MJ/s236/95691a99915e5e83b57912357288e02b%20cree%20boy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="157" data-original-width="236" height="157" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0boPQ3vwbXxJy9bLfbYEwQ-SQlenL0VOAD3Ag4caxdMQOjIV5zN3gRo3BoeOyxSF-npV6-5BKgH7eqKn7Ij5VNhWX4tWWr3zNou-R7K1UIa3opjRbwvOhT-o1YX7WCdVdGL6nYdJOVlXeukMqBpxSPjEeMNT4WRDu_zZcL_Qw2_6eeSCEePcNR0MJ/s1600/95691a99915e5e83b57912357288e02b%20cree%20boy.jpg" width="236" /></a></div><br /><p>If they were taught anything beyond religious formula, it was to perform tasks such as scrubbing, ironing, sewing, manual labor. They were taught that only European ways,--and people-- had value, that they belonged to a "lesser race" doomed to be always inferior, no matter what they learned or achieved. Their stories, myths, and especially their languages, were forbidden. The cold strange religion (with rites conducted in a foreign language) they were forced to accept offered little solace. Unsurprising that in a few generations their heritage, their language and their stories vanished, leaving only broken souls behind. Alcoholism, domestic abuse, and violence plague today's reservations, and these are all symptoms of a vast cultural trauma and individual pain. </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfQ--zXp6GC1S_dlJkvxvlKwJp5KqrFWd7zQJVLTcyjVBTtII_0hECjL_asRyljk3mk8xEB9YsJkvw7FXrsCAxWilY-GubMOjjreujVRHNi1I1c5EIxQ3JnO4cqDyYxj9Pxvm7Ausa2qGdPE6CPkYyHnyutCV3swNZGr4j1qIC_nNCiBqoUNC0BXvv/s236/b6f8dfe16f130ae31da401ad129bbf4b%20boardng%20schools.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="189" data-original-width="236" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfQ--zXp6GC1S_dlJkvxvlKwJp5KqrFWd7zQJVLTcyjVBTtII_0hECjL_asRyljk3mk8xEB9YsJkvw7FXrsCAxWilY-GubMOjjreujVRHNi1I1c5EIxQ3JnO4cqDyYxj9Pxvm7Ausa2qGdPE6CPkYyHnyutCV3swNZGr4j1qIC_nNCiBqoUNC0BXvv/s1600/b6f8dfe16f130ae31da401ad129bbf4b%20boardng%20schools.jpg" width="236" /></a></div><br /><p>And this pain seems to have become endemic in our modern world, and, as we know, this pain doesn't spare rich countries. We have more material comforts than we ever had, but we appear to be ever-more dissatisfied and greedy. </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl5mdF1jj7iBVNhsgH52YdYVg6leH01hu6z5jxZY29WidPXpx18_3cqFYXKu4rziDN1S1q4FfzXAIPdsIf36cBiONDercspRPiQ6ZnCLx4_cPhyMa4oXMujGfTPEFTeFm0PLKvccuA_YMt42vW2Y3_i8lCsKPtGXXnuRx6bDbcqR4iyu_ck7yb85pA/s236/b38bb0222c96593e3c39c24bf2302bac%20nwt%20residential%20school.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="184" data-original-width="236" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl5mdF1jj7iBVNhsgH52YdYVg6leH01hu6z5jxZY29WidPXpx18_3cqFYXKu4rziDN1S1q4FfzXAIPdsIf36cBiONDercspRPiQ6ZnCLx4_cPhyMa4oXMujGfTPEFTeFm0PLKvccuA_YMt42vW2Y3_i8lCsKPtGXXnuRx6bDbcqR4iyu_ck7yb85pA/s1600/b38bb0222c96593e3c39c24bf2302bac%20nwt%20residential%20school.jpg" width="236" /></a></div><br /><p>Consider the words of the Wendat Philosopher and Statesman Kandiaronk, as related to future historians by an impoverished French aristocrat named Louis-Armand de Lom d'Arce, known to posterity as Lahontan who published several popular accounts of his many years in New France. Lahontan, who had become fluent in Algonkian, Wendat and other tribes 1703 book,titled: Curious Dialogues with a Savage of Good Sense Who has Traveled) would become foundational to the later works of Rosseau and other Enlightenment and revolutinary thinkers. </p><p>In the late 17th Century, Kandiaronk was a famous negotiator among the tribes--Mik'maq, Haudesaunee, Algonkian, and others, as well as with the French. He was frequently at the Governor of New France--the Comte de Frontenac-- table and attempted through reasonable discourse, oratory, and persistent negotiation to save his people and their way of life from the ever-encroaching, insatiable Europeans. His thoughts provoked revolutions and inspired political philosophers for the next 200 years. </p><p><i>"For my part, I find it hard to imagine how you could be much more miserable than you already are....</i></p><p><i>I have spent six years reflecting on the state of European society and I still can't think of a single way they act that's not inhuman, and I genuinely think this can only be the case, as long as you stick to your distinction of "mine and thine"...</i></p><p><i>I affirm that what you call money is the devil of devils; the tyrant of the French, the source of all evils....</i></p><p><i>Can you seriously imagine that I would be happy to live like one of the inhabitants of Paris, to take two hours to put on my shirt and make-up, to bow and scrape before every obnoxious fool I meet on the streets who just happened to born with an inheiritance? Do you really imagine I could carry a purse full of coins and not immediately hand them over to people who are hungry; that I would carry a sword but not immediately draw it on the first band of thugs I see rounding up the destitute to press them into naval service?"</i></p><p><br /></p><p>~~Juliet Waldron</p><p><br /></p><p>https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/fly-away-snow-goose-canadian-historical-brides-collection-book-8-juliet-waldron/1127581811?ean=2940158604010</p><p><br /></p><p>http://amzn.to/2jZPtIR</p><p>https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/fly-away-snow-goose-nits-it-ah-golika-xah-1</p><p>https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/752162</p><p>I am indebted to David Graeber & David Wengrow's new book: The Dawn of Everything, for this introduction to the words of Kandiaronk, Wendat Chief, Warrior and Diplomat, and a truly</p><p><br /></p>Juliet Waldronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03636134924133019654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2435604676602657843.post-18700682875332090642020-08-26T13:54:00.000-07:002020-08-26T13:54:00.326-07:00In Memory of The Milne Ice Shelf<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ellesmere Island hasn't been this hot for 115,000 years, centuries before the Inuktitut arrived. Today t</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">he </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Canadian Arctic temperature is a distressing 9 F (5 C) above the thirty year average. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sea ice this year was the lowest it's been since records have been kept.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2020 summer brought even higher temperatures, resulting in more open, warmer water. The Milne no longer had the thick buffer of sea ice it had once possessed. In August, strong off-shore winds </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">began to blow</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. Satellite images showed startled scientists that f</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">orty percent of the ice shelf had broken up in just two days. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Due to the pandemic, the scientists who are usually on the ice at this time of year were absent. They kept their lives, but lost $90,000 worth of monitoring equipment when their base camp went into the sea. All those unique freshwater worlds so recently discovered by scientists have probably vanished as well.</span><br />
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<b>#1 The Rite A**** Husband </b><o:p></o:p></div>
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Her husband has to go to Rite A****. He <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">needs</b> to drive his car more than he actually needs get something. There is a (bitchy?)
micro- manager voice in her head wondering why he didn’t use that trip he
undertook earlier today into the feral space (anywhere beyond this house) to get the whatever
X or Y he believes he needs now. She feels as if every jaunt into the world of shopping—out
there in those wide macadam spaces—will bring home Armageddon, which would
certainly be more than he bargained for.<br />
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And her auto-immune system was an
on-again, off-again proposition these days, so she’s got a reason to be a bit on
edge, doesn’t she? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> And of course, after he comes in, she has to say "Please remember to wash your hands," even though it's going to annoy him.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b> With Anthony</b><br />
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"Ow! Tony! Stop!"<br />
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"Quit that, Tony! It hurts."</div>
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"Tony, get down from there."<br />
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"Tony! Off the table.<br />
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"Tony! Those are my toes you're biting..."<br />
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“Stop that! Hey!”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“C’mere you.” I pick him up carefully. The windowsill is
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local habit. These days I’d hesitate to call them, as my mother did, “German
windows,” but if you don’t think that’s fair, take a look at pictures of the local
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Willy’s fluff and bone body was stepped on
before we rescued him. His back end has a permanent sag. He wants to escape because he knows what’s next—me
grabbing him—<i>no, no that’s not right</i>—I’m
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“Wait a minute, Willyum. Gotta get a tissue.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Hunkered down on the sill,<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Conversation with P.J. </b><br />
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One of my grandgirls is autistic. Although she is twenty now, we cannot really talk to her, as in holding a conversation. It's a bridge too far to connect with P.J. face to face, much less on the phone where we cannot see one another. While on the telephone with her Dad yesterday, I overheard her singing. I often hear her talking and singing during our conversations. I have a feeling this is a way she has of participating in the world around her.<br />
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This time she sang "The Sound of Silence." She knew all the words. It felt profound, that she should like this song and know it so well, shining a little light into her submerged mind. I am always grateful to learn more about her, and perhaps to know her just a little better, our family's Trans Neptunian object.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>An Excerpt from Fly Away Snow Goose-</i>The runaways have braved the wilderness together, hunting, evading capture, often hungry, often footsore. Now, after an entire summer of traveling, and encountering many dangers, they have entered the Tlicho homeland. Here they've found safety and a delicious supper at the campfire of an old man and his wife. Falling asleep in one another's arms, the young couple experience powerful dreams. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They walked among the stars, she
and Sascho. They went hand in hand, their feet upon a shining path that led
across the night. As one, they gazed downward, and Yaot’l saw all the paths
they had walked, all the way from Dehcho, following the Horn River until it
turned west, and then their wandering through the little groves, the bush and
the muskeg, where the animals had watched them pass. </span><br />
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his head, leapt across their path and vanished among the stars. He too, was now
a soul, wandering the sky. He would travel there until he faded into the body
of the Great Spirit, which contained earth and all its creatures, both
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And although his hand was gone, she saw that, there, flashing beside hers was another
wing, tipped in black, bravely sculling the heavens! A pure joy welled inside,
for she knew that she and her husband were but two among a great flock of
others, flying just below the stars, as she and her tribe went soaring toward True
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central fire. Fire—a strange companion for a bear—but in this case it was blue
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The strange cool fire set the shadows dancing. Sascho wanted to hang his head,
but it was soothing to stare into the light. The great bear slowly eased his
front legs down until his belly too rested on the ground. Then he curled his
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA">“Now you feel the burden of
leadership. You and all your friends might have died in that flood. Never
forget; as you walk through the </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Tłı̨chǫ</i><span lang="EN-CA"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">dèè</i></span>, trials of life and death are always
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shower of small glowing objects fell all around him. They reminded Sascho of
hail, except for the glitter. They hissed as they landed, and when Sascho
reached a curious paw to touch one, it was cool. As he gazed at it in wonder,
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“You are a young bear with much
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Netflix, the other night, popped up an interesting title: <b>Indian Horse</b>. As soon as I discovered that this was a Canadian offering that had premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film festival, I was more than ready to give it a try. My first guess, from the image, was that it was a hockey story with a First Nations' protagonist.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">All I know about hockey is--not much! I watched the "big boys" play on Skaneateles Lake long ago. These young men played with vigor, a lot of shoving, falling and shouting. It was an exciting game to watch, which is what I did from a venue well beyond the area marked out for the game. No walls led to occasional danger for onlookers, as you can imagine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I loved to be out-of-doors, even in the coldest weather. That 1950's lake, once frozen to a gleaming sheet, was a fabulous playground, as long as there hadn't been too much sticky snow to cover it up. Hockey is a sport of fabulous grace and violence, pretty equally mixed. We all know the ancient joke: "I went to see a fight, but then a hockey game broke out."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It turns out that hockey is an important part of <b>Indian Horse</b>, but it wasn't "embattled underdog, Saul Indian Horse, finds glory and acceptance through sports" kind of tale. Instead, the central subject is racism and the related residential school cruelty. None of the abuse portrayed in the film--or in the original book, brilliantly written by Richard Wagamese--was new to me because of the things I'd learned -- from John Wisdomkeeper and from research -- in order to become part of the Canadian Historical Brides project and work on <b>Fly Away Snow Goose.</b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Familiarity with these stories, however, doesn't stifle the horror of the medieval punishments inflicted upon terrified children who have just been ripped away--often by men with guns--from the only world they've ever known. Residential Schools, in the U.S.A. and in Canada, have a lot of sins to answer for.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Much of the film was set in a stark, industrial wasteland, which could be anywhere in North America, those dark working men's bars in mining/lumbering towns whose business is to chew up the landscape for money and spit out earthly ruin. "Glory" is a word which reoccurs. It is used by Indian Horse's abuser, the Catholic priest who also introduces him to a game where he can fly. "Glory" also appears in the scenes at God's Lake, the secret place where his ancestors once lived and to which Saul travels in one of the penultimate scenes of his spiritual rebirth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The movie was beautiful and sad, but I knew from the hurry at the end that the source would have even more to say. I am just now finishing the book, read in the last twenty-four hours in one giant bite. What a powerful, spare writer was Richard Wagamese, for, sadly, he's already gone. I'm looking forward to reading more of his work and truly sorry he's not still here, busy sharing his hard-won wisdom and poetic prose.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The life of the author seems to have been as full of suffering and struggle as that of Saul Indian Horse. One of four children abandoned in the bush by parents gone off on a drinking bout, the older ones took the younger to shelter in a railway station when their supplies ran out. Here the children were found and taken into custody. Richard and the others went to foster homes. He was adopted at nine by Presbyterian zealots who refused to allow him to connect with his 1st Nations past and attempted to beat the Indian out of him. At sixteen he ran off to live on the streets. Here, drugs and drink claimed him, and he went to prison a couple of times. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sheltering in libraries, he began to read, and through reading found his way to his talent for writing. Against such terrible odds, eventually, Mr. Wagamese became a successful journalist. He published his first novel <b>Keeper 'n' me</b> in 1994. When he died in his sleep in 2017, he was sixty-two and had published thirteen books, some meditations on life, some novels. Richard Wagamese was born Ojibway, of the Wabasseemoong tribe of Northwest Ontario, and how deeply grateful I am to have discovered his true and graceful writing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Canada celebrated its 150<sup>th</sup>
anniversary in 2017. To commemorate the occasion my publisher, Books We Love,
Ltd (BWL) brought out the Canadian Historical Brides Series during 2017 and
2018. There are twelve books, one about each province, one about the Yukon, and
one combining the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. Each book was written by a
BWL Canadian author or co-authored by a Canadian and an international BWL
author.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Each province and territory of Canada has
spawned many well-known authors and my series of posts this year will be about
them-one or two from the past and one or two from the present, the present-day
ones being the authors of the Brides book for the corresponding province or
territory. The posts are in the order that the books were published.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">British Columbia</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Stephen Reid</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was born
in Massey Ontario (ON) on March 13, 1950. He is the author of two books but his
main claim to fame is that he belonged to Canada’s notorious Stopwatch Gang of
bank robbers. The gang which also included </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lionel Wright and <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Patrick Michael "Paddy" Mitchell
who was the leader, was given its name because of the stopwatch Reid carried
during the robberies. The gang was also known for their politeness to their
victims and their non-violent methods.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During
the 1970s and 1980s the three men stole an estimated $15 million from more than
140 banks, gas stations, and shops across Canada and the United States. With
the help of an inside man they robbed the Ottawa, ON, airport of $750,000 in
gold in 1974. They were arrested but by 1979 they had all escaped from prison.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stephen
Reid was arrested in Arizona in 1980 and returned to Canada where he began
serving a twenty-one year sentence at the Kent institution in Agassiz, B.C. He
started writing in 1984 and sent his manuscript to Susan Musgrave who, though
her home was on Haidi Gwaii off the coast of the B.C. mainland, was the
writer-in-residence at the University of Waterloo at the time. They developed a
relationship and were married at the prison in 1986. Reid’s first book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Jackrabbit Patrol</i> was published that
year.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When
Stephen was released on full parole in 1987 the couple lived in Sidney, B.C. where
he taught creative writing at Camosun College. He also worked as a youth
counsellor in the Northwest Territories. Unfortunately, he became addicted to
heroin and cocaine and returned to his old ways, robbing a bank in Victoria in
June 1999. This time he was sentenced to eighteen years in prison. In 2007, a
National Film Board of Canada produced a documentary film titled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Inside Time</i> about Stephen Reid’s life.
His second book, </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A Crowbar in the Buddhist Garden: Writing from Prison,</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was published in 2012. It is a number of essays
about his life in prison and he won the Victoria Butler Book Prize for it in
2013. Reid was granted full parole in 2014. He lived on Haidi Gwaii with his
wife, Susan, until June 12, 2018 when he died from pulmonary edema and third
degree heart block.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Note: Patrick Mitchell wrote his autobiography
titled, </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">This
Bank Robber's Life</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">, while he was in prison. He died of lung
cancer on January 14, 2007 and his manuscript was published posthumously in
2015.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lionel
Wright, was nicknamed ‘The Ghost’ because he had the ability to blend into a
crowd and disappear. He was released from prison in 1994 and his whereabouts are
unknown.<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></span></div>
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<b>Emily Carr</b> was born on December
13, 1871, in Victoria, B.C. She was the second youngest of nine children and
she and her siblings were raised by parents who kept the English customs they
had been used to in England. Their home had high ceilings, decorative
mouldings, and there was a parlour. Sunday mornings were for prayers, and there
were evening Bible readings. Emily’s mother died in 1886 and her father in
1888.</div>
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</span>Emily’s father had encouraged her in her artistic pursuits but it wasn’t
until two years after his death that she enrolled at the San Francisco Art
Institute. She returned to Victoria in 1892 and over the next twenty years she
alternated between travelling to aboriginal villages in British Columbia to
sketch and paint their lifestyle and going to England and France to study art.
During that time she took a job teaching at the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ladies Art Club</i> in Vancouver but the students didn’t like her
because she smoked in class and cursed them. She left after a month.</div>
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</span>She continued to paint and even opened a gallery in Vancouver. However,
it was not a success so 1913, she once again moved to Victoria. For the next
fifteen years Emily ran a boarding house called the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">House of all Sorts</i>. She continued to do a little painting and over
time her work was recognized by influential members of the art world and she
put on an exhibit at Canada’s National Gallery. She is best known for her
paintings on Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest and later in life her
modernist and post-impressionist styles.</div>
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</span>Emily Carr suffered heart attacks in 1937 and 1939. She had a serious
stroke in 1940 and another heart attack in 1942. These left her unable to paint
so she concentrating on her writing. Her first book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Klee Wyck</i> was published in 1941 and she won the Governor-General
Award for non-fiction for the book. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Book of Small</i> came out in 1942 and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
House of all Sorts</i>, named after her boarding house which provided material
for the book, was published in 1944.</div>
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</span>Emily Carr died from a heart attack On March 2, 1945. She had three
books published posthumously: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Growing
Pains</i> (1946); <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pause, The Heart of a
Peacock</i> (1953); and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hundreds and
Thousands</i> (1966).</div>
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</span>As an author, Emily Carr was one of the earliest story tellers of life
in the province of British Columbia.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #292d3d;">Book 4 of the Canadian Historical Brides Series:
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Barkerville Beginnings (British
Columbia) - A.M. Westerling) - June 2017</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0b090a;">A.M. Westerling</span></b><span style="color: #0b090a;"> grew up in a small Alberta town. She loved to read and
when she was in her teens, her mother introduced her to romance novels, then
her father got her reading historical romance novels. Historical novels are
still her favourite today. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Chemical
Engineering, from the University of Calgary, married and worked in the oil
industry. She tried writing but when she and her husband had two children and
began an engineering business in Calgary she set that aside.</span><span style="color: #292d3d; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b090a;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After selling the business years later,
A.M. began her full-time writing career, concentrating on action-adventure,
historical romance. Her aim is to take her readers away from their every-day
lives and transport them into a different time. Her first two novels, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Countess’ Lucky Charm</i> and Her <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Proper Scoundrel</i> both came out in 2012.
Since then she has had three more books published with Books We Love, Ltd. </span></div>
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</span><span style="color: #0b090a;">Besides writing, she enjoys gardening,
camping, yoga, going for walks, and watching sports, especially her hometown
Calgary Stampeders and Calgary Flames. She belongs to the Romance Writers
of America, and is active in the Calgary chapter of the RWA. </span></div>
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</span>As she says: “History is romantic. To combine history with a love story
is my ultimate joy and, I hope, yours as well.”</div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My Mother, a staunch Anglophile, would have been 100 this year. On April 21, a woman she very much admired, Queen Elizabeth II, became 94. Queen Elizabeth II has had the longest reign of any English monarch. A few years ago, she also became the world's oldest living head of state.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I can trace my own love of English history back to the year of 1952, the year Elizabeth came to the throne. My parents subscribed to the Sunday New York Times. That early morning car trip to the drug store to pick up the paper with my Dad, into the picturesque lakeside town of Skaneateles, NY., was part of our weekly routine. I went along to ogle little china animals that were for sale there and to attempt to wheedle a candy bar out of Daddy before he'd picked up the paper. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As the coronation approached, The NY Times was full of historical pieces about the royal families who had preceded the Windsors. There were images of the many monarchs who were her predecessors, and lots of snippets about the famous and the infamous. I was a voracious reader and sufficiently interested in the historical background they were printing to not only read, but scissor out and paste into a scrapbook I'd begun, everything I could find pertaining to the royals and the coming coronation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course, the tales of Henry VIII and his doomed Queen Anne Boleyn, made for exciting reading, as did the stories</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> of their daughter, Elizabeth I. The first Elizabeth, I learned, had almost as many lives as a cat as she survived various plots to dispose of her during the reigns of her half-brother, Edward VI, and her half-sister, Queen Mary. The later was the most dangerous enemy, because Mary's mother had been dispossessed of both husband and crown by Anne Boleyn. It wasn't long after that I was cutting my historical novel teeth on "Young Bess," "Elizabeth, Captive Princess," and "Elizabeth and the Prince of Spain" by Margaret Irwin, one of my favorite writers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Second World War was only seven years distant in 1952. My Mom was very proud of the way the English royal family had comported themselves during the German bombing campaign. At one point, after Buckingham Palace was bombed, it was suggested that the Queen Mother and her two daughters should leave England for the safer Canada, which was more closely enmeshed with the English government than it is today. The Queen Mother refused to leave the country, saying:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The children won't go without me. I won't leave without the King. And the King will never leave."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;">At sixteen, the war ongoing</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;">, Elizabeth signed up with the British Labour Registry, even though her parents, King George and Queen Elizabeth, had to be persuaded. In this "all hands on deck" moment, the Princess was soon in military coveralls, working as a truck</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"> driver and a mechanic. Today, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;">Elizabeth II is the only living head of State who served in World War II. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Canadian Authors Past and Present</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Canada celebrated its 150<sup>th</sup>
anniversary in 2017. To commemorate the occasion my publisher, Books We Love,
Ltd (BWL) brought out the Canadian Historical Brides Series during 2017 and
2018. There are twelve books, one about each province, one about the Yukon, and
one combining the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. Each book was written by a
BWL Canadian author or co-authored by a Canadian and an international BWL
author.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Each province and territory of Canada has
spawned many well-known authors and my series of posts this year will be about
them-one or two from the past and one or two from the present, the present-day
ones being the authors of the Brides book for the corresponding province or
territory. The posts are in the order that the books were published.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></h2>
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<b>Yukon</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pierre Berton</b> was born on July 20 in Whitehorse, Yukon. His family
moved to Dawson in 1921 and then to Victoria, British Columbia, in 1932. He
attended the University of B.C. and during the summers returned to work in the
Klondike mining camps to earn money. He became a journalist in Vancouver and at
the age of twenty-one he was the youngest city editor on any Canadian daily
newspaper.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Berton moved to Toronto in 1947 and went
on to write for, and was an editor at, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Maclean’s</i>
magazine. He appeared on many television shows including the long-running <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Front Page Challenge</i> (1957-1995) for
thirty-nine years. His first book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Royal Family</i> was published in 1953 and his second, a young reader novel, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Golden Trail: The Story of the Klondike
Rush, </i>came out in<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>1954. Between
then and 1993 he wrote more than fifty fiction and non-fiction books about
Canadian history and popular culture, including coffee table books, children’s
books, and historical novels for young adults. He received over thirty literary
awards one of which was the Governor-General’s Award for Creative Non-fiction.
In 1994, Canada’s National History Society established the Pierre Berton award
to be given to an author who has written about Canadian history in an absorbing
and charming way. Berton was the first recipient.</span></div>
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</span>Pierre Berton’s childhood home in Dawson has been restored and is now
called the Berton House. It opened as a writers’ retreat in August of 1996.
Four writers a year are chosen to reside in the house for three months each.
During that time they can work on their newest manuscript while giving writing
workshops and readings in Yukon communities.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pierre Berton passed away in Toronto
on November 30, 2004.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Edith
Josie</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was born on December 8, 1921 in Eagle, Alaska, and
moved to the small village of Old Crow, Yukon, when she was sixteen.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Old Crow is 193 kilometres (120 miles) south of the Arctic Ocean and 129
kilometres (80 miles) north of the Arctic Circle and is occupied mainly by the Loucheaux
Indians of the Vuntut Gwich’in peoples. The sun doesn’t set for two months in
the summer and the temperature can reach as high as +35C. In winter it is total
darkness for three weeks and the temperature can drop to -50C. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Miss Josie was appointed
Justice of the Peace for Old Crow in 1957 and served for seven years. She began
her writing career as the Old Crow Correspondent for the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Whitehorse Star</i> late in 1962. Her column for the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star</i> was called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Here Are The News </i>(sic) and Edith reported the events of the
village in an unpretentious and informal way, much like she spoke English.
Correct grammar and punctuation were not part of her writing, it was the story
that was important. Her stories were published exactly the way she composed
them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Edith wrote for the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star</i> for thirty-eight years and during
that time her column was syndicated to papers in Edmonton Alberta, Toronto Ontario,
Fairbanks Alaska, and in California. In 1965 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Life</i> magazine did a feature on her, titled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Everyone Sure Glad</i>. The article brought her world-wide recognition
and her stories were translated into German, Italian, Spanish, and Finnish. She
received letters from fans in Texas, Florida, New Zealand, and the Philippines.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Edith Josie received the Canadian
Centennial Award in 1967, the Yukon Historical Museums Award in 1994, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was awarded the Order of Canada<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>in 1995, and was honored by the National Aboriginal Achievement
Awards (now the Indspire Awards) in 2000. She died on January 31, 2010</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Here are some examples of her work as she wrote them: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Even now the spring has come cause it is
daylight around 11 o'clock p.m. Pretty soon we won't use light for night time.
Everyone glad to see plane every day. Even the same plane come in one day, they
all have to go down to see what is going on and what come in on plane.</i></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">John Joe Kay and his family
and Dick Hukon and family came into town from their ratting camp. They reported
no rats around there but they say too many mosquito. Too bad no prize on
mosquito.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Since last week all the
leaves are getting yellow. That mean autumn is coming. When the leaves grow
green sure nice but at fall time it’s turn to yellow-more beautiful.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I go to McPherson on Friday
and went back to Inuvik Sunday afternoon. When I was there I went to visit my
Auntie Sarah Simon she was happy to see me and also myself too.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I write my big news. That’s
how all of the people know where is Old Crow. Before the news go out nobody
know where is Old Crow. Just when I send my news people know where is Old Crow.</span></i></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Romancing the Klondike (Yukon) - Joan
Donaldson-Yarmey - May 2017</span></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Joan
Donaldson-Yarmey</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> began her writing career with a
short article, progressed to travel and historical articles, and then on to
travel books. She called these travel books her Backroads series and <span style="color: black;">the research for them had her camping throughout Alberta,
B.C., the Yukon, and Alaska. </span>While researching her <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Backroads of the Yukon and Alaska</i> book, Joan and her husband hiked
the Chilkoot Trail from Skagway, Alaska, to Lake Bennett, the Yukon. The year
was 1997, one hundred years after the Klondike Gold Rush. They did it in the
summer time with one 35lb backpack each as opposed to the Klondikers who are
pictured hauling their 1200lbs of supplies in the winter. On the hike she
passed many artifacts that were left by the men and women on their way to the
gold fields.<span style="color: black;"></span></span></div>
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mystery novels, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Illegally Dead</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Only Shadow In The House</i>, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Whistler's Murder</i> in a series called the
Travelling Detective Series and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Gold
Fever</i> her stand-alone novel which combines mystery with a little romance;
three Canadian historical, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Romancing the
Klondike,</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">West to the Bay, </i>and<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> West to Grande Portage</i>; two science
fiction <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Criminal Streak</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Betrayed</i> in her Cry of the Guilty-Silence
of the Innocent series; and a holiday romance/comedy titled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Twelve Dates of Christmas</i>.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Joan’s
story, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Capital Offence,</i> was
published in Ascent Aspirations Magazine and won first place in their flash
fiction contest.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Joan was
born in New Westminster, B.C. Canada, and raised in Edmonton, Alberta. She
married soon after graduation and moved to a farm where she had two children.
Over the years she worked as a bartender, hotel maid, cashier, bank teller,
bookkeeper, printing press operator, meat wrapper, gold prospector, warehouse
shipper, house renovator, and nursing attendant. During that time she raised
her two children and helped raise her three step-children.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since she
loves change, Joan has moved over thirty times in her life, living on acreages
and farms and in small towns and cities throughout Alberta and B.C. She now lives
on an acreage on Vancouver Island with her husband and two cats.<span style="color: black;"> When she is not writing she is picking fruit, walking on
the boardwalk through the tall trees on her property, dragon boating, entering
5K and 10K walks and runs or playing with her two cats.</span></span></div>
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in Pennsylvania I watch with trepidation the progress of COVID19 across the
world. I'm isolating, as most folks in the 60 and up age group have been
advised to do. I've already spent plenty of time in my local hospital,
and have no great yen to return--under any circumstances.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I will end with this lovely video. I've read that young women from many 1st Nations have begun this spiritual work, performing a dance which is prayer for healing called The Jingle Dance. Each step upon the earth draws up energy from our Mother. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Canada celebrated its 150<sup>th</sup>
anniversary in 2017. To commemorate the occasion my publisher, Books We Love,
Ltd (BWL) brought out the Canadian Historical Brides Series during 2017 and
2018. There are twelve books, one about each province, one about the Yukon, and
one combining the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. Each book was written by a
BWL Canadian author or co-authored by a Canadian and an international BWL
author.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Each province and territory of Canada has
spawned many well-known authors and my series of posts this year will be about
them-one or two from the past and one or two from the present, the present-day
ones being the authors of the Brides book for the corresponding province or
territory. The posts are in the order that the books were published.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ontario</span></b><span lang="EN-US"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">William Robertson
Davies</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">
was born August 28, 1913 in Thamesville, Ontario (ON). He grew up surrounded by
books and he participated in theatrical productions, developing a lifelong love
of drama. He attended Upper Canada College then studied at Queen’s University
at Kingston, ON. He moved to Oxford, England where he received a Bachelor
Degree in Literature from Balliol College in 1938. His thesis, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shakespeare’s Boy Actors</i>, was published
in 1939 and he began acting in London.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>William married Brenda Mathews, an
Australian who was working as a stage manager. They moved to Canada in 1940 and
he began a career as literary editor at <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Saturday
Night </i>magazine. Their first child was born in December 1940. Two years
later he accepted the position of editor of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Peterborough Examiner</i> in Peterborough, ON. During this time he
wrote humorous essays under the name Samuel Marchbanks and wrote and produced
many stage plays.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1947, several of his essays were
published in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Diary of Samuel
Marchbanks, </i>and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Table Talk of
Samuel Marchbanks</i> came out in 1949. Davies used his early upbringing to
provide themes for his novels and his first novel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Tempest Tost</i> was published in 1951. His second, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Leaven of Malice,</i> came out in 1954. In
1955 he became publisher of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Peterborough
Examiner</i> and his third novel, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A
Mixture of Frailties </i>was published in 1958.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Besides novel and play writing, and being
a newspaper publisher, Davies taught literature at Trinity College at the
University of Toronto from 1960 until 1981. He left his post as publisher of
the Peterborough Examiner in 1962 and became a Master of Massey College, the
University of Toronto’s new graduate college, in 1963. Along with his father
William Rupert Davies and his brother Arthur Davies, William bought the
Kingston Whig-Standard newspaper, CHEX-AM and CKWS-AM radio stations, and
CHEX-TV and CKWS-TV television stations. His third book of essays, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Samuel Marchbanks’ Almanack</i> was
published in 1967.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>William Robertson Davies wrote a total of
eighteen fiction and non-fiction books, plus fifteen plays. He won many awards
for his writing including the Governor-General’s Literary Award and the Stephen
Leacock Award for Humour. He was named a Companion of the Order of Canada.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>William Robertson Davies died on December
2, 1995, in Orangeville ON.</span></div>
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<b>Josiah Henson</b> was born on
June 15, 1789, into slavery in Port Tobacco, Charles County, Maryland. When his
family was separated by each being sold to different plantations, his mother
pleaded with her new owner, Isaac Riley, to buy her youngest son so she would
have him with her. Riley agreed and Josiah came to work for him. Josiah was
twenty-two years-of-age when he married. He also became a Methodist Minister
and was made the supervisor of his master's farm.</div>
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</span>In 1825, Mr. Riley fell on hard times and was sued by a brother-in-law. Henson
guided eighteen of Riley’s slaves to Riley’s brother’s plantation in Kentucky.
When he returned and asked to buy his freedom from Riley for $450.00 (350.00
cash and $100.00 IOU), Riley added an extra zero to the IOU. Cheated of his
money, Henson returned to Kentucky. In 1830, he learned that he might be sold
again so he, his wife, and their four children escaped to Kent County, in Upper
Canada (now Ontario), which had been a refuge for slaves since 1793. That was
the year Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe passed: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">An Act to prevent the further introduction of Slaves, and limit the
Term of Contracts for Servitude within this Province</i>. While the legislation
did not immediately end slavery, it did prevent the importation of slaves and
so any United States slave who entered the province was automatically free.</div>
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</span>Josiah Henson worked on farms in Upper Canada before moving with friends
to Colchester to set up a Black settlement on rented land. He eventually was
able to buy 200 acres in Dawn Township and made the community self-sufficient.
The settlement reached a population of 500 at its height, earning money by exporting
black walnut lumber to the United States and Britain. Henson purchased an
adjoining 200 acres for his family to live on.</div>
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</span>Henson served in the Canadian Army as a military officer. He led a black
militia unit in the Canadian Rebellion of 1837-38. When slavery was abolished
in the United States many residents of the Dawn Settlement returned to their
original home. Josiah Henson and his wife had eight more children in Upper
Canada and he remarried a widow from Boston when his first wife died. He continued
to live in Dawn for the rest of his life and many of his descendants still live
in the area.</div>
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</span>Henson wrote his autobiography <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as
narrated by Himself</i>. It was published in 1849 and many believe he inspired
the main character in Harriet Beecher Stowes’ <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Uncle Tom’s Cabin </i>(1852). Henson then expanded his memoir and
published it as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Truth Stranger Than
Fiction. Father Henson’s Story of His Own Life </i>which came out in 1858. Since
people were still interested in his life, in 1876 his story was updated and
published as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Uncle Tom’s Story of His
Life: An autobiography of the Rev. Josiah Henson.</i></div>
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<b><span style="color: #292d3d;">Book 2 of the Canadian Historical Brides Series:
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His Brother's Bride (Ontario) - Nancy
Bell - March 2017</span></b></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Nancy M Bell</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> calls herself a proud Albertan
and Canadian. She lives near Balzac, Alberta, with her husband and various
critters. Her fiction novels include three historical romances, three young
adult, and twelve romances. </span></i><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Laurels Quest</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> (2014) is the first of three
young adult novels in The Cornwall Adventure Series. Another young adult
series, Arabella’s Secret, has two novels.</span></i></h2>
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<i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nancy has also written
numerous articles, short stories, and poems. Her first book of poetry </span></i><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Through
This Door</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> was
published in 2010 and she has read her poetry at the annual Poetry at Stephan’s
House, at the </span></i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Stephansson House Provincial Historic Site <i><span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">in Markerville</span></i>,
Alberta. (Stephan G. Stephansson was born in Iceland. He and his family moved
to Canada and settled in the Markerville area in 1889. He is considered to be
Iceland’s greatest poet since the Middle Ages. His popular, <i>Andvokur</i>, or
“Wakeful Nights,” is a 6-volume set of poetry. His historic house has been
restored to its 1927 look and the annual poetry reading began in 2003.)<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i><span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Nancy is a presenter at various writers’
conferences and has won many awards. She is a member of The Writers Union of
Canada and the Writers Guild of Alberta. When she isn’t writing she works with,
as well as, fosters rescued animals.</span></i></span></h2>
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<i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.bookswelove.com/canadian-historical-brides-collection/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">http://www.bookswelove.com/canadian-historical-brides-collection/</span></a></span></i></h2>
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<i><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p>In this excerpt, the two Tlicho children, </o:p></span>Yaot’l and Sascho, return from a happy afternoon of fishing, only to find the bustling village they are visiting now seems strangely subdued. </i></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">They walked back to łık'àdèè k'è,
proudly holding their string of fine fish, only to discover an unusual silence.
Yaot’l wondered what made the place so strange. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">An answer did not take long in
coming. There were no children, romping with their dogs—no little ones—no ‘tweens
like themselves—‑not anywhere! There were only a few old women and men, slowly
going about the usual chores of food or hide preparation. A woman oddly indoors
on this fine afternoon, peered out her cabin window and then, when she saw
them, quickly turned away. In the distance, some very old men with battered
hats sat under a tree where they played cards. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">“What’s wrong?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">They felt as if they’d come to a
different campground. When they’d left, just a few hours ago, it had been
bustling with autumn visitors. People were meeting and greeting relatives and some
late arrivals were still pitching tents in open spaces. The feeling of
uneasiness grew as they hurried along toward their camping area.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Ordinarily, they’d take the
shortest way. That meant passing the church, crossing the road and then
tramping down toward the widening arm of the river. All at once that did not
seem such a good idea. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Sascho put a restraining hand on
her arm and they turned as one to see who was running after them. Here came a
young pretty Métis woman, apparently the one from the cabin they’d just passed.
As soon as they’d seen her, she stopped and began to beckon, urgently signing
that they should follow her. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">“Come! Follow! The truck is right
over there!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Catching fear was easy. They followed,
breaking into a trot. . A man now stood in the open door and held it wide. When
they entered, though, they could see no welcome in his eyes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">They startled as the door closed.
Breathless, holding the dripping fish and gear, they looked around at these strangers
and the inside of the cabin. It was one room with a single window. A bed on one
side was over-hung by a baby in a hammock. An oil-can stove occupied the other.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">“Didn’t you hear the warning?”
The woman spoke.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA"> Her husband crossed her arms and regarded them steadily. At
last he said:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">“You shouldn’t have brought them
in, Donna, and you know it. Don’t we have enough trouble already?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">These strangers were kin of a
kind, part Dene, perhaps, and they were also married people who would have
assumed labor on behalf of their kin group. Younger people now owed them a good
measure of respect, so Sascho did not like to speak first.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">“We—we do not understand what is
happening.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">“The call—the goose call! All the
others heard it and are gone into the bush.” The man was impatient.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">“Can’t you see? They are
visitors; they didn’t know.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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“Everyone knows the Métis agents
come at this time of year, even visitors.” He glowered at Sascho. “Didn’t your
family explain it?”</div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">“We—we’ve not been here for a
long time,” Yaot’l said. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">“Métis agents?” Sascho spoke. “Like
the man with the scarred face we saw this morning?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">“Yes. They’re here to take our
children to school. Mountie and the priest both say that’s the law—all our
children must go. People who hide their children are punished. They lose their
government money.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">He turned an angry face toward
his wife and added, “I’m leaving. If those kids bring the Mountie here, expect
trouble.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">“Don’t go my husband.” The woman
caught at his checked shirt, but he pulled his arm away. The door swung and he
passed through, never looking back. Sascho noted how carefully he closed it.
Obviously, he didn’t want neighbors to notice his departure. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Now there were tears in the
woman’s eyes. She covered her mouth with her hand. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">“We—are sorry to bring trouble!
We will go away.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">“You can’t.” She returned to peer
through the window. “There’s an agent and a big Mountie too.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Yaot’l leaned forward again, in
order to see. She scanned what she could see of the street, and sure enough,
there in the distance, by the idling truck, was a red uniformed man. He
appeared to be speaking to someone through the vehicle’s window.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">After a few moments, the woman touched
Yaot’l’s hand, gazing at her with wonder. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">“Haven’t you two ever been to
school, grown as you are?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Sascho shook his head. “Our
parents needed us.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">“Yes, we must go find our family
at once. They will know what to do.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">They edged toward the door again,
but the woman stood in the way, extending her arms.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">“No! You can’t! It’s not safe.
Sit and wait.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">“We—we have made your husband
angry,” Yaot’l replied. “We should leave.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">“He won’t return until he’s sure
the Mountie has gone.” Her expression signaled anxiety about the mood of the departed
husband. For some reason, though, she’d chosen to risk his displeasure and
bring them inside. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span lang="EN-CA">“My husband has come from working
on the road. It is difficult for him to be away.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Sascho had heard stories of the
misunderstandings that arose between his people and the kwet’ı̨ı̨̀. These tales
were told in the evenings around the fire. The elders often had ideas about how
to resolve such disputes, especially if they might resume next summer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Just as Yaot’l’s father did, more
and more men went to work in the mines or on the roads or in timber for half
the year. They only hunted now during winter. It was a change in how the people
lived, a change Uncle John sometimes illustrated with stories of the old days,
when they’d been free of interference and had simply followed the footsteps of
Yamǫǫ̀zha on his yearly travels throughout Tłı̨chǫ dèè.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">In the end, they accepted her
invitation and cross-legged on her floor—she gave them sweet tea and
bannock—and they offered her the Inconnu. She refused those, saying they should
take those to their own families. She did take the dripping string outside and
hang it up on a drying rack right behind the house. Up high, they would be out
of any roaming dog’s ambitious reach. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA">“Wait a little more. Then it will
be a good time to run back to your folks.” She went on to warn that the agents
and the Mountie would next scour the campsites of the visitors. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Yaot’l spied toys piled in corner
basket and asked about her children. Donna said they were hid with older
cousins, all of whom had run off into the bush at the first alarm. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">“Still, if we are threatened with
losing our government script by that Indian Agent, we will send them. They are
so young! One is five and the other is seven. Sometimes I think to leave this
house and runaway into the bush beside them. I remember that school.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">“Was it very bad?” Yaot’l’s heart
raced waiting for the answer. The response left her even more frightened than
before. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">“I was seven. It was hard to be
away from my family in a place where they do not like Indians.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Sascho felt he should acknowledge
only with nod, but instead he asked another question:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Did—did you learn English?” Kele’s words
still rankled. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">“Yes, at Fort Providence, where
you will be sent if they catch you.” Above her gray eyes, Donna’s smooth brow
furrowed. Her memories were not good. “But mostly what they teach is prayers
and songs and proper ways to speak to their god. Now we all follow Him, for He
is very strong. We shall never die but instead go to live in his big house in
the sky.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her eyes turned toward a wooden cross hung
upon the wall, with the carving of the suffering man. The sight of his torment did
nothing to reassure Yaot’l. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">“Since we live here, so close to
the church, we must follow their ways. If you attend their ceremonies, the
priest and their women will sometimes help with food if winter is hard and the
men are away for too long and supplies run out.” She sighed and then turned her
eyes back to that lone window. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">“At that school I was frightened
without my family, and kwet’ı̨ı̨̀ ways are not like ours. I swore I would never
let the school take away my children …but, my new husband…well, this is his
house and he says school is the law.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Donna’s voice trailed away. Then,
as Yaot’l watched, she straightened and squared her shoulders, a woman resigned
to all hardships, both the past and those to come.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">The street stayed quiet as the
neighborhood made supper. When she peeped out the window, Yaot’l saw men here
and there, seated outside their cabins checking over fish nets. Women prepared
food. The only children present were babies, the newest walkers, and infants
back-packed inside shawls. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">It seemed a good time to go. After
studying the street, Donna agreed. Together, she and Sascho gathered up their
gear. The Inconnu were not mentioned, so they remained behind, hanging where
they had been placed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">They had planned to go back the
way they’d come in, and then walk a long arc through the brush outside the town.
Perhaps if they did this, it would bring them, unnoticed, to the Lynx campsite
by the water. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">After skirting the last cabin,
they entered an area they’d seen before, a place where old birch bark canoes,
now rotting down to the frame, had been discarded. There was an open pit too, where
junk was eventually buried—broken household items like furniture and dishes as
well as bits of engines, metal, sawdust, and, naturally, rotting food stuff. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">It seemed a place more likely to
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coat, he stepped onto the path. Gloved hands rushed at them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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seized both her wrists and twisted them behind her. It was the same man they’d noticed
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Juliet Waldronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03636134924133019654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2435604676602657843.post-67930952487706166882020-01-24T03:30:00.000-08:002020-01-24T03:30:00.846-08:00Canadian Authors Past and Present by Joan Donaldson-Yarmey--Alberta<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> http://www.bookswelove.com/donaldson-yarmey-joan/</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Canadian Authors Past and Present</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Canada celebrated its 150<sup>th</sup>
anniversary in 2017. To commemorate the occasion my publisher, Books We Love,
Ltd (BWL) brought out the Canadian Historical Brides Series during 2017 and
2018. There are twelve books, one about each province, one about the Yukon, and
one combining the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. Each book was written by a
BWL Canadian author or co-authored by a Canadian and an international BWL
author.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Each province and territory of Canada has
spawned many well-known authors and my series of posts this year will be about
them-one or two from the past and one or two from the present, the present-day
ones being the authors of the Brides book for the corresponding province or
territory. The posts are in the order that the books were published.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Alberta</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Henrietta Louise Muir</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">
was born in Montreal on December 18, 1849, into a middle class family. When she
was twenty-six-years old she and her sister founded a Working Girls’
Association to provide meals, reading rooms, and study class for young women.
It became one of the first Young Women’s Christian Associations (YWCA) in
Canada. Henrietta and her sister also published a periodical titled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Working Women of Canada</i>. It
highlighted the terrible working conditions of women in Montreal. The two young
women financed these two projects from money they earned as artists.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Henrietta married Dr. Oliver C. Edwards in
1876 and in 1883 they and their three children moved to Indian Head, Northwest
Territories, now the province of Saskatchewan. She continued to advocate for
women’s rights and when Dr. Edwards became ill in 1890, they moved to Ottawa,
Ontario. There, Henrietta took up the cause of female prisoners. In 1893, she
worked with the wife of the Governor General of Canada, Lady Aberdeen, to
establish the National Council of Women of Canada. They also founded the
Victoria Order of Nurses (VON) in 1897.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dr. Edwards was posted as the medical
officer to the Blood Tribe in 1904 and they moved to Fort Macleod, Northwest
Territories, now Alberta. She wrote <i>Legal Status of Canadian Women</i> (1908)
about the legal problems she was trying to overcome for women. Near the end of the
First World War, 1914-1918, when supplies and moral were low, the Government of
Canada selected Henrietta Muir Edwards, as the only woman to be on an advisory
committee on how to bring in stricter conservation measures. This was the first
time that a woman had been appointed to review public policy with the
government.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Henrietta joined four other women’s rights
activists, Louise McKinney, Irene Parlby, Nellie McClung, and Emily Murphy, to
lobby the Alberta government for dower and matrimonial property rights for
women. They became known as The Famous Five. Henrietta wrote and had her second
book published, <i>Legal Status of Women in Alberta</i> in 1921.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Famous Five joined together again to
fight the Persons Case in the late 1920s. Until then, women did not have the
same rights as men to hold positions of political power. The case, officially
known as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Edwards v. A. G. of Canada</i>,
fought for the right of women to be appointed to the Senate. In 1928, the
Supreme Court of Canada ruled that women were not considered ‘persons’
according to the British North America Act and therefore could not be appointed
to the Senate. The women took their appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy
Council in London, England. The council reversed the Court’s decision in 1929
and this opened the Senate to women, enabling them to work in both the House of
Commons and the Upper House.</span></div>
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</span>Henrietta died on November 10, 1931 and was buried in Mount Pleasant Municipal
Cemetery, Edmonton. For some reason the memorial erected in her honour lists
her death as Nov 9.</div>
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<b>William Patrick "W.
P." Kinsella </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">was born on<b> </b></span>May
25, 1935, in Edmonton, Alberta. His first ten years were spent on a
homestead west of the city where he was homeschooled. His family moved into
Edmonton when he was ten and he started school in the fifth grade. His first
story won a YMCA contest when he was fourteen. After high school he worked at
various jobs in Edmonton, then moved to Victoria in 1967 where he drove taxi
and ran a pizza restaurant. Three years later he enrolled in writing courses at
the University of Victoria and received his Bachelor of Arts in Creative
Writing in 1974. He moved to Iowa and earned his Master of Fine Arts in English
from the Iowa Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1978.</div>
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</span>Kinsella’s two favourite subjects for his stories were Indigenous
peoples and baseball. While in Iowa, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dance
Me Outside,</i> a collection of stories as told by a young Cree boy, was
published in 1977. It describes life on a native reserve in Alberta. W.P.
returned to Alberta and taught English at the University of Calgary until his
writing career took off. In the mid-1980’s, he moved to White Rock, B.C.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Kinsella won the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship award and the Books
in Canada First Novel Award for his most famous baseball novel, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shoeless Joe</i> (1982). It was also made
into a movie titled, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Field of Dreams</i>
in 1989 starring Kevin Costner. Another collection of Indigenous short stories,
<i>The Fencepost Chronicles</i>, (1986) earned W.P. the Stephen Leacock
Memorial Medal for Humour<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>in 1987.</div>
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</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Box Socials</i> (1991) combines
baseball and life in rural Alberta in the 1940s. That same year Kinsella
received an honorary Doctor of Literature degree from the University of
Victoria. In 1993, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">.</i> Kinsella's eight books of short
stories about life on reserves were the basis for the 1994 movie <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dance Me Outside</i> and the CBC television
series <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Rez</i>, which aired on CBC
Television from 1996 to 1998.</div>
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</span>In 1997, W.P. Kinsella was struck by a car and suffered a head injury.
He lost his ability to concentrate as well as his sense of taste and smell.
Unable to write his own stories he did keep in the writing community by writing
book reviews. He was awarded the Order of British Columbia in 2005 and was
presented with the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009.</div>
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</span>In March 2010, Kinsella’s unpublished manuscript, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Butterfly Winter</i>, won Winnipeg publisher, Enfield and Wizenty’,
Colophon award. They published the novel in September, 2011, fourteen years
after his accident.</div>
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</span>Kinsella spent the last years of his life in Yale, a small village along
the Fraser River northeast of Vancouver. He had suffered from diabetes since
the 1980s and in failing health he opted for the assisted dying provisions of
Bill C-14. He passed away on Friday 16, 2016 at 12:05pm.</div>
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<b><span style="color: #292d3d; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Book 1 of the Canadian Historical Brides Series: Brides of Banff Springs (Alberta) -
Victoria Chatham - January 2017</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #030303;">Victoria (Vicki) Chatham</span></b><span style="color: #030303;"> was born </span><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #1f1b16; padding: 0cm;">in Bristol, England and now
lives near Calgary, Alberta. She </span><span style="color: #030303;">grew up in
an area rife with the elegance of Regency architecture. This, along with the
novels of Georgette Heyer, engendered in her an abiding interest in the period
with its style and manners and is one where she feels most at home.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #030303;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vicki </span><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #1f1b16; padding: 0cm;">mostly
writes historical novels but now and again will tinker with contemporary
romance. Her stories are laced with a little mystery to keep her characters on
their toes and, of course, in the end love has to conquer all. </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #030303;">Cold Gold</span></i><span style="color: #030303;"> (2012), <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">On
Borrowed Time</i> (2014) and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shell
Shocked</i> (2014) are the three books in her Buxton Chronicles series set in
the early 1900s. She switched time eras for her next book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Loving That Cowboy</i> (2015) which is a contemporary novel that takes
place in Calgary during the Calgary Stampede.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #030303;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apart from her writing, Victoria is an
avid reader of anything that catches her interest, but especially Regency
romance. She also teaches introductory creative writing. Her love of horses
gets her away from her computer to volunteer at Spruce Meadows, a world class
equestrian centre near Calgary. She goes to movies often and visits her family
in England when she can.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #030303; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is </span></span><span style="color: #1f1b16; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">a long time member of Romance Writers of America and her local RWA
chapter, CaRWA, the Calgary Association of Romance Writers of America.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f1b16; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.bookswelove.com/canadian-historical-brides-collection/">http://www.bookswelove.com/canadian-historical-brides-collection/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://victoriachatham.blogspot.com/">http://victoriachatham.blogspot.com/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I -- American and predictably insular -- became fully aware of the huge pool of creative talent to the north when I became a fan of <b>Due South</b> and it's star, Paul Gross. My mother was the one who insisted that I watch. She fell for Mr. Gross's good looks and the faithful wolf/dog who kept the noble Mountie hero company. She was always a sucker for a romantic tale with a handsome hero. Eventually I, her daughter, fell for the whole thing too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At this juncture in my mother's life, the dog hero was more important than Paul Gross and his pretty face. Mom had always been a big fan of dogs and they reliably loved her back. When the four-footed actor who portrayed the fierce and faithful beast Diefenbaker, was changed three times in the course of the four year series, it upset her no end.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Newman, the dog actor in the pilot, was a genuine wolf/dog cross. The dogs in seasons 1-2 (Lincoln) and 3-4 (Draco) were both Siberian Huskies. Mom knew when they changed up dogs and made sure to tell me how different the dogs looked. She also said that she, for one, had <b>not</b> been fooled by the swap.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I loved to relax into <b>Due South</b>'s (almost) Happily Ever After World. There was the cross-cultural slant in that the Mountie, just a guy-from-Nunavut-exiled to work with and for brash noisy Chicagoans. Due South told stories that were environmentally smart and politically edgy and they took stands on important issues. I probably sound like a conspiracy theorist, but perhaps their principled storytelling had an adverse effect on the way the show was marketed--or rather <u>not</u> marketed--by CBS, who kept changing the time slot until the audience gave up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The limited series, <b>Slings & Arrows</b>*, which was first seen in U.S. on our PBS , was in my book at least, is a perfect example of what I think of as engaging T.V. The characters are, by turns, witty, erudite, cynical, honorable, ignoble, passionate, and even occasionally ecstatic. The mood from theater low to theater high kept shifting, much like the Shakespearean plays the cast is shown struggling to get on stage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anyone who has ever been in a theater group of any size knows how the personalities clash in such an ego-packed artistic environment. Interpersonal dramas - contemporary culture wars too, came in from the outside world - and charged each episode. </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Sometimes the show was just Punch & Judy hilarious. The opener, set in a rundown theater's grotty loo, will either turn you off or (literally) suck you in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Orphan Black</b>, a modern day Toronto set S/F series, became my next t.v. obsession. In the first episode, Sarah, the troubled, larcenous heroine discovers that she has a twin, but the truth which she begins to unravel proves to be even stranger than that. Sarah eventually discovers twelve (?) lookalikes, who are all the result of illegal human cloning. As the story proceeds, a sinister corporate plot with nightmarish global implications gradually comes to light.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nurture has overcome Nature in each of these clones, so that although they are all tough cookies, like our heroine Sarah, each one is also different in a host of ways--there is a yuppie, a scientist, a homicidal maniac, a computer hacker, a privileged criminal mastermind, a party girl, etc. Tatiana Maslany is a sensation in each and every role, and was subsequently nominated for both Golden Globes and Sag Awards. She won a Prime Time Emmy award, and was the first Canadian actor in a major dramatic category in a Canadian series to do so. I was happy to hear it, because Maslany had certainly earned recognition after this marathon feat of multiple characterization.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Canadian's do great comedy, too. More recently than the all time dramatic favs above, I've enjoyed the heart-warming <b>Kim's Convenience Store, </b>the quirky, philosophical <b>The Sensitive Skin</b>,<b> </b>and the black humor of <b>Schitt's Creek</b>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Since publishing <b>Fly Away Snow Goose</b> with John Wisdomkeeper, I've been writing blogs for BWL Canadian Historical Brides and learning a whole lot about Canada, America's big neighbor to the north, a country which has its own history, its own art, and its own special national character. I have also gained a healthy appreciation for the talent of my Canadian fellow writers at BWL, as we work together to tell a series of historical stories about each province. </span><br />
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On the 22nd December, 2019, it was -28 in the early morning. By noon time it had roared up to -24, and this is an average December day day.<br />
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That is darn cold by my U.S. standards. Some of the coldest U.S. mornings I've experienced were in January, 1969, in western Massachusetts, in a little woodland cabin with minimal insulation (read none) and a wood stove in the kitchen. On one memorable morning, it was -30, although, thank-fully, this was a one-off. We could sit at the kitchen table and extend a hand toward the outer wall and actually feel a slice of cold penetrating. However, that being said, this -28 is just an ordinary December day in NWT.<br />
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They have 4 hours and 57 minutes of daylight, which, on top of the temperature, has to be stressful. From an astronomy site, I learned : "Geomagnetic field conditions will be mostly quiet, with unsettled periods overnight. Watch for gentle auroras above the northern horizon and overhead." As usual, "peak activity expected in the hours before and after midnight." The higher the latitude, the higher probability you'll see the magic of our atmosphere's protective shield.<br />
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It's okay for us moderns to exclaim about cold, but imagine the people who came here between the glaciers, ever so long ago. These folks, and their descendants, until fairly recently, spent their winters in family groups sheltering beneath tents of caribou hide, and resting upon beds of spruce bows and furs. Only imagine the work that was necessary to collect the food and fuel that would be necessary to get through a long season of daunting temperatures and snow.<br />
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Before the Europeans got well dug into the north -- and that's apt, as Europeans are mostly interested in the north nowadays for what they can remove from the ground, things like diamonds and uranium -- winter was the time you spent all the warm months getting ready for. It was easy to starve if you weren't prepared--and, sometimes, even if you were. Fish were dried, meat laid in, furs tanned and cut for clothes. Wood was gathered from the more southerly areas still inside the tree line. You were stocking up not just for the human members, but for the dogs, the original pack animals of the north. <br />
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In the long dark, snowbound, in intense cold, family members gathered. Calorie conservation would have been necessary for everyone in this world of now limited resources, so originally, the people did not gather into large groups, but rather dispersed. Some men went with dogs to tend trap lines; keeping the fur and surviving on the flesh of whatever they caught. </div>
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Story telling was one of the activities in the lodges, stories to teach the children and stories to pass the long frigid nights. Here was the time of teaching life-ways, transmitting skills involved in making tools of bone and stone. It was also a time for telling ancestor tales and tales about the spirits who inhabited the land. Prayers were offered to the sleeping roots, plants, to the four legs and to the fish as well as to the spirits of ancestors who danced over their heads in the aurora. Animal stories were told now, as it wasn't considered respectful to tell the stories when the animals were awake and might overhear people talking about them. In a world where survival depends upon animals (such as caribou) willingly giving themselves to men for food, this respect and sense of circle-of-life community is of prime importance. </div>
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incessantly and our fridge is redolent of hot sauce, curry, Garam Masala, cumin
etc. I decide, therefore, to clean before next week when I will be attempting
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withered cucumber and the lone apple, staring at me are four quarter full bottles
of wine, cluttering the top shelf. We are not big wine drinkers and so, if we
have guests who do like it, we buy a bottle to be sociable but usually end up
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burgundy, and the white wine with baked fish or chicken recipes, but, somehow,
as we’ve been conscientiously eating less meat this year, none of these “plan-overs”
have come to fruition. Now the bottles face me, accusing me of wastefulness. I
am after all, a Yankee, raised with an ethic of “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Use it up. Wear it out. Make do or do without.”</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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decision now faces me, a test of my frugality. After some hesitation, an inner
voice instructs: “Bite the bullet!” I pick up the first bottle, Beaujolais, and
look at it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some sediment in the bottom.
I uncork it; I smell it, then take a swig. Not worth spitting out, but nah! Down
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last February, so it’s been around for a while. A hopeful swig, ‘cause I like
Champagne a lot, but it’s flat as a pancake, and so it follows the Beaujolais
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“fall back.” I notice the last, perfectly ripe pear in the center bowl. It
would be shame to let it go over. Perhaps I’ll get up again and collect a knife
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>"It's the land that keeps things for us. Being our home, it's important for us to take care of the dwelling--the land--for wherever you go is home."</i> ~Rosalie Tailbone</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Of course, the time in which <u>Fly Away Snow Goose</u> is set, the early 1950's, was actually the beginning of enormous changes in the NWT. Roads were built and bush plane travel became more common. There was an influx of outsiders prospecting for diamonds, gold, natural gas and oil, all the commodities so precious to the ever-needy Western world. The new settlers and the industries they brought with them have been a mixed bag for the original inhabitants. The elders became concerned at the growing water pollution and loss of game. They directed the next generation to find new ways to protect the land, as well as their culture, language, and way of life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In a recent <b>Audubon</b> article, "Guardians of the North" by Hannah Hoag, I read (happily!) about the newly established protected area, Thaidene Nëné, encompassing more than 6.4 million acres of land stretching from the easternmost tip of Great Slave Lake northeast toward the Arctic Territory of Nunavut. The result of 30 years of careful, on-again-off-again negotiation between a host of parties--the Canadian Government, the government of the NWT, the Yellowknives Dene, The Northwest Territory Métis Nation, the Deninu K'ue First Nation and the Lutsël K’é Dene First Nation--is that this enormous area will be preserved to not only feed but to spiritually nourish future generations of Canadians of every heritage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is hoped that this arrangement, achieved by the traditional method of consensus building, will not only preserve something of the tribal, ancient ways of life but serve to conserve the many species who share the environment. Protection for one of the few remaining great Northern Boreal forests will not be an easy task, but it is the kind of dramatic step that is needed in the 21st Century, where "Mother Nature is on the run." Sacred sites will be respected, water will remain clean and full of the fish--trout, inconnu, pike, burbot--and that the forests, unbroken by transmission lines, will continue to give protection to the caribou who enter them to birth their young. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This new agreement is a monumental achievement for the 1st Nation's who were involved, as well as for the governments of NWT and Parks Canada. I hope the establishment of such a "park," this wild Thaidene Nëné with its thousands of species, will prove to be such a success that it will become the accepted pattern of conservation for governments the world over. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We have arrived at the Equinox again, when our local star appears to circle the earth's equator. This is a time of speedy sunsets and a twilight that creeps in earlier day by day. To compare, back on July 23rd in Yellowknife it was 18 hours, 15 minutes and a few seconds, but today, September 23, it's only 12 hours and 17 minutes. On December 23rd, there will be only 4 hours and 57 minutes of light in the city, and most of that will be better defined as "twilight". Old Sol can barely haul himself above the horizon in December, peaking around at a mere 27 degrees.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The seasons change with emphasis in the North. It's time for that last big hustle of animals, birds and those humans who still take much of their living from the land to stash what they need in fat and fur in order to get through the coming winter. So things have been in the NWT for a very long time, through ebbs and flows which the First Nation's noted as feast or famine. Now, here in 2019, it's become obvious that the old cycles are in flux.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Northwest Territories are warming at 3x the global rate. The worst warming is during winter/spring so now the traditional ice roads become passable later and turn to mud--or water--much sooner than they used to. The permafrost is thawing, knocking over homes and emptying lakes. The permafrost melt water contains carbons and many other chemicals which have been locked and stored within for thousands of years. Today these are entering the Arctic Ocean at ever increasing rates, changing the chemistry of the sea water. This will eventually affect not only the red blood denizens of the landscape--mammals, birds, fish--and the green/red plant photosynthesizers with who knows what consequences.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On the Arctic coasts and along riverbanks there is greater erosion because, due to the activities of liquid water, they are suddenly in a new, ice-free world. At the same time, new species are arriving from the south; the moose and caribou and the Jack Pine forests alike are sickened by year round insect infestations. It all reminds me of that old advertisement (for margarine?) where a voice, accompanied by wind, thunder & lightning and summoned by a wave of an angry mother goddesses' hand, declares: "<i>It's not nice to fool with Mother Nature.</i>"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Never mind, on we go, miraculously alive on this uniquely welcoming planet, spinning on our way around the sun. We're heading into the dark times if we are in the northern hemisphere, or moving into spring and new life if we live in the southern one. We'll be doing the things human beings do every day as we scuttle around, busy, busy, busy! Inside the confines our global cultural shell, we sometimes don't see the big changes, at least, not until water fills up our basement.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Down south of the Canadian border, I rejoiced to see another new thing on Friday last--young people in the streets, carrying signs and asking for some real thoughtful science to be put to the task of dealing with what are the genuine, speedily escalating problems which threaten our world. I was so HAPPY to see those kids out there beside me, full of anger and ideas and so full of hope that they can save our beautiful planet in all its wonder and diversity--as well as themselves. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Their presence made me want to take some time away from "Mundania" to reflect upon the great and holy mysteries inside the oldest stories. These are the ones mankind mustn't stop telling--the one about the beating heart of All-the-Waters hidden in the cold clean depths of Great Bear Lake or the one about the muskrat who "will be swimming," because she, though small and humble, is the one among all creatures who will be able to do Creator's bidding.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"We did not weave the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web we do to ourselves. All things are bound together..." Chief Seattle.</span><br />
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<i><br /></i>Juliet Waldronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03636134924133019654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2435604676602657843.post-52433706396147120712019-08-25T00:30:00.000-07:002019-08-25T00:30:05.528-07:00On Writing Barkerville Beginnings by A.M. Westerling
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Some books are easier to write than others and I don’t know
why that is. I write historical romance so maybe it’s the volume of research.
Or maybe it’s uncooperative characters or a matter of simply not being in the
right frame of mind to craft that particular story at that particular time. I
struggled a bit with my books A Heart Enslaved and The Countess’ Lucky Charm but </span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Barkerville Beginnings was such a pleasure to write that it almost wrote itself. Let me explain:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As far as
the heroine, Rose, I chose her name because that was the name of my accountant’s
former receptionist and I liked the historical feel of it. I imagined Rose as a
single mother because I wanted to make things as tough for her in Barkerville
as I could – single moms were frowned on in those days. I can’t remember how I came
up with Harrison’s name but I knew he had to be a Viscount as my tag line is “From
Vikings to Viscounts, Join the Adventure, Live the Romance” and up until Barkerville
Beginnings, none of my books had a viscount.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As an author of one of the Canadian Historical Brides books, I had to incorporate real people so I did. ie Wa Lee, who gives Rose a
job in his laundry, Judge Begbie, (known as “The Hanging Judge” and doesn’t
that tweak your interest!), Madame Fannie Bendixon, the hotelier and saloon
keeper (who may or may not have run a brothel!) who also offers Rose a job, Dr.
Wilkinson who treats the injured leg of Rose’s daughter Hannah, and Wellington
Delaney Moses, the barber, because Harrison needed a shave after being out in
the gold fields. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">To ensure historical accuracy of the book, I worked with one of historians from Barkerville, a lovely lady by the name of Caroline Zinz, and I hope one day to meet her. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I’ve been to Barkerville so I wanted to mention the lonely
grave you drive past on your way in from Quesnel. Here is Rose’s impression as
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><i>The wagon slowed as the road neared a fenced grave, enough
that Rose could read the headboard: Charles Morgan Blessing. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><i>“Lonely spot to be buried,” Harrison commented and he
doffed his hat as they drove past.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><i>Rose nodded. </i></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><i>“It is.” A chill tiptoed down her back at the forlorn
sight, a reminder of the fragility of life in this wilderness. She craned her neck
for one last glimpse before the road twisted away.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">L<i>ooks like we’ve arrived,” said Harrison as a cluster of
buildings came into view. Once again the mules, sensing the end of a long day,
picked up their pace and the wagon bounced and rattled down the last little bit
of the Cariboo Trail.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><i>Rose hadn’t known what to expect but her first view left
her numb. This was Barkerville? The town that gold built? This jumble of wooden,
mostly single story buildings tottering on stilts alongside a wide, muddied
creek? Surrounded by steep hills stripped bare of trees? How unattractive,
brutally so.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><i>The road through town was in poor shape, rutted and puddled
with patches of drying mud. In consideration for pedestrians, raised wooden
walkways fronted every building like planked skirts. Rose could only conclude
the creek must flood frequently. Her poor boots, already soaked through once
since embarking on the trip, would certainly be put to the test here. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><i>The closer they came, the more her heart sank. What had she
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Here I am on Barkerville's Main Street and you can see how high the sidewalks are raised because the street used to flood quite frequently.</span><br />
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readers in the proper time frame and I hope I’ve accomplished that in Barkerville
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Would you like to read Rose's, Hannah's and Harrison's story? You can find Barkerville Beginnings at your favourite online store here: <a href="https://books2read.com/u/bQB6Mv">https://books2read.com/u/bQB6Mv</a></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span><br />
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This is an attempt at retelling of a "plains Indian" story I read a long time ago in a powerful book called <i><b>The Seven Arrows</b> by Hyemeyohsts Storm</i>. These are tales of tribes called by their white man names Cheyenne, Crow and Sioux. Their actual names, according to this author, were Painted Arrow, the Little Black Eagle, and the Brother People, names with true poetry and power. I hope to honor my fellow author, John Wisdomkeeper, who has spent his life reclaiming his heritage, by offering a First Nations' tale for this month's blog. We will walk through the four directions and then upward toward the Sacred Mountain.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Little mouse was busy, as are all of his kind, searching, searching, gathering seeds, eating seeds, but today there was a new sound, a roaring, roaring in his ears.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Do you hear a noise, my brother?" He asked another mouse who was nearby, also busy with his work.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"No, no, I hear no noise. Let me be now. I am busy with my work."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But the first mouse still heard the noise and it puzzled him. He asked the same question of the next mouse he encountered, as they scrambled through the grasses, but the answer here was rude: "Have you lost your wits? I hear no noise. Go away; I am too busy now."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But the roaring did not stop. Then the mouse heard a voice.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Little Brother, I hear the noise. It is the sound of a river."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Little mouse looked up and saw a Raccoon.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Would you like me to show you?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The mouse thought when I find out it will be a help to all the others, perhaps with our examining and collecting, the work the Great Spirit has set for us. So he went with the Raccoon and soon he saw the river.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The river was astonishing. It was large; it roared; it cried; it sang. The mouse was dumbstruck.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"It is a Great Thing," said Raccoon. "Let me take you, small seeker, to meet a friend who lives here. I too need to go about my business here at the river."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They walked along the edge until they found a quiet backwater they found some lily pads. Upon one of these sat a frog.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"This is my friend," said Raccoon. "He was seeking to know about the river."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Raccoon left the mouse and went about his business of of finding food and washing it in the river. The mouse had never met a Frog before--so green and very strange, half in the water and half out of it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He as filled with wonder when the Frog spoke and said, "I have the gift of living above and below water, and my name is Water Keeper. Would you like a Medicine gift from me?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Oh! A Medicine gift for me? Yes!"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Crouch down and jump up as high as you can, look up as you jump, and you will see something," said the frog.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Little mouse did as he was told and as he jumped, he suddenly caught sight of a prairie and beyond, a most beautiful mountain. When he fell to earth, though, he slipped on the mud and fell into the river. Angry and scared, he pulled himself out, shaking off the water.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Never mind being wet," said the Frog. "Did you see the Great Medicine?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The mouse had to admit that the sight was the most wonderful thing he'd ever seen.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Now you have a new name," said the Frog. "Jumping Mouse."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The mouse returned to his people, but no one cared about what he had seen. They were all too busy. Besides, he was all wet and maybe, they thought, crazy. Still, Jumping Mouse continued to think of the wonder of the great world that he had seen.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now the prairie called to him, but because it was open, it was a dangerous place for a mouse to go. Still one day, he decided he would run out upon it and try to reach the sacred mountain. So, although he was terrified, he ran and he ran, fearing any moment that an eagle or other bird of prey would find him and eat him. At last he found a patch of sage and grasses and went in to hide. There was another mouse there and he asked Jumping Mouse to stay with him there, for there was plenty to eat and much to investigate, there under the sage. "Can you see the Sacred Mountain and the River from here?" </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"No, I cannot see them, but I know they are there."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This was not good enough for Jumping Mouse. The desire to stand upon the sacred mountain filled his mind, and he knew he'd have to go on, despite his terror of the eagles. So, after resting and eating, he dared to cross the prairie again, running this time till his heart was near to bursting, always fearing the shadow which could so fatally fall upon him. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Finally, he found another patch of grass and brush and ran in, glad to be alive and puffing and panting. When his own breathing quieted, he heard the sound of another's breath coming and going, only very hard and loud and pained. He crept toward the sound and saw an enormous Being, so huge, so very woolly, lying in the brush.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"I am Buffalo," said the Great Being, when he saw the mouse staring in wonder at him. "But I am dying."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"I am trying to reach the Sacred Mountain and wondered if you could help me get there, but now I see you cannot. I am very sorry you must die. You seem far too great a Being for such an ordinary fate."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"I can only be cured by the eye of a mouse."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jumping mouse was very frightened at that. He ran away into a mound of grass to hide and think. He thought for a long time and finally decided that he had two eyes and that he could spare one. So he returned to the Buffalo and said, "Brother Buffalo, you may have one of my eyes."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And it was gone! The mouse felt even more frightened now, with only one eye to see the world through, and so many eagles hunting everywhere.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After a time, Brother Buffalo stood up and said "Now I am well, Little Brother. I give you my thanks and the thanks of The People to whom I will be a gift because of what you have given. I will soon be a give-away Gift to the People as Creator intended. Let me take you to the foot of the Sacred Mountain. Walk beneath my belly and do not fear I will step on you, for I walk the Sun Dance Path."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So Jumping Mouse ran along beneath the belly of the Buffalo safe from eagles until they reached the slopes of the Sacred Mountain. Mouse looked up and up, seeing the rocky way ahead, but wanting to climb higher. The Buffalo spoke and said, "I can go no higher up these rocks, for now I must return to The People to become a Gift to them. You stay here, Little Brother, safe in these rocks, and another Guide will come."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The mouse was still very frightened when the Buffalo left, for above him, even with one eye, he could see the eagles circling. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After a time, a wolf came down the slope, but he was walking in circles. When Jumping Mouse spoke to him, he only said, "Wolf- Wolf -Wolf." Wolf moved slowly and stumbled as he went, like a man who had drunk too much of the stinging water and lost his mind.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In Jumping Mouse's mind a voice, said, "You must give your other eye to the Wolf, little Brother if you wish to reach the top of the sacred mountain."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jumping Mouse shed tears. How would he see the Sacred Mountain he had so longed for when he was blind? The smells, the sounds of wind and birds and trees, would be all that was left for him. Nevertheless, he would at last reach the top of the Sacred Mountain! And so he gave up his remaining eye.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Thank you, dear Little Brother," said the Wolf. "Now I have my wits again, and I will take you to the top of the mountain." Very gently and carefully, the Wolf led Jumping Mouse along, up and up, until they reached the side of a lake. Jumping Mouse could no longer see, but he could smell the clean fresh water, and he and the Wolf drank deep and refreshed themselves.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Now I must leave you here," said Brother Wolf, "for there are others I must guide to this place."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jumping Mouse understood that the Wolf followed his duty, but he was terribly afraid, for he could tell by how the wind blew that this place was without cover. He felt sure that the eagles would find him here. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He sat there, by the lake, feeling the sun on his back, until a shadow passed over him. He crouched down low and waited for the claws of the eagle. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jumping Mouse awoke. His vision was back, both eyes, but very blurry. "I can see! I can see!" he cried. All the colors were bright, so bright and beautiful that he could almost hear them. He heard a voice, saying, "Hello, my Brother. Do you want some Medicine?" </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Some Medicine for me? Yes! Yes!" Jumping Mouse replied.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Then crouch down as low as you can and jump as high you can."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jumping Mouse did so, crouching low and then jumping with all his might and main, with the pure joy of being alive. This time, the wind caught him and blew him upward, Higher and Higher. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jumping Mouse did. He was going higher and higher, wind blowing around him, sun shining. His eyesight had cleared and now he saw the Sacred Mountain with the beautiful clear lake below him and the wide prairie beyond. There, on a lily pad in the Medicine lake, he saw his old friend, the Frog, Water Keeper.</span><br />
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I've just returned from a retreat, a week of living in a cabin at an old boy scout camp with a host of other like-minded beings. The venue had some comforts, unlike the tent and bunk house communal camping I've been used to. Each cabin had electricity, facilities for light cooking, a couple of flush toilets and showers. There was also a small common room and a deck, which was mostly used at night for star-gazing (meteors!) and heart-to-heart sharing.<br />
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Three meals a day were provided by kitchen staff inside a large shed-like building whose cement floor, not leveled, sloped down the hill. There was a tin roof, and just enough wall to interfere with the airflow. At the bottom of the hill was a rectangular pond created by damming the outflow of a hillside spring. The rooms in my cabin were small and crammed with beds, leaving only a narrow path in which to navigate. In other cabins I visited, the plan was open, with bunk beds lining the walls and a pair of couches in the center.<br />
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We had fans, but besides cold showers, the pond, or the bone-freezing heart-of-the-rock water from the creek, we had no way to get cool. The week busied itself with setting all kinds of records for heat and humidity.<br />
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We had come for Spirit and Renewal and Guidance through communion with the Earth. Although I received many blessings, just as I'd hoped, at that camp in the Appalachian foothills, I came face to face with Mother Nature wearing one of her fiercest aspects. Personal survival had become a big part of the lesson plan.<br />
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My historical writer self began to manage the situation in it's own bent little way. Lying down in my room wearing next to nothing after lunch, I practiced the venerable hot weather tradition of <i><b>siesta</b></i>--<i>don't move an inch or sweat will pop out in sticky freshets from every laboring pore</i>--to collect and categorize various physical sensations, starting with the slightly moldy smell which oozed from the walls during each burning afternoon. <i>"Get Experience"</i> said Jimi Hendrix, and I collected this in a mental notebook, from the drone of the fan to the images that arose during a heat-trance nap. When the fan in my room turned, it blew air at the same temperature as everything else, so there was no sensation of cooling, that little breeze which can bring relief.<br />
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On my way to a meeting, I'd wrap a cooling towel around my neck, wear a hat and scurry from one shady spot to the next. I was constantly reminded of the remarks of a friend after a move to Florida: "The air is 98 degrees and the water is 98 degrees and your blood is 98 degrees..."<br />
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Although we weren't living the cushy 21st Century life most of us are used to, we're far more comfortable and a lot safer and better fed than we'd be if we were migrant agricultural laborers, and leagues better off than 1930's dust bowl refugees and today's homeless people on the streets of Mumbai. After all, we didn't have to work in the fields or shovel bubbling macadam onto a road, we only have to attend classes and feed our souls. We are cooked for (brilliantly, I might add) and cleaned up after. We were safe within our community, which had planned this event and which now sheltered us.<br />
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To some, this 1950's era venue might seem rough, but we've all camped together in places where you had to walk distance at night, flashlight in hand, just to relieve yourself inside a fiercely aromatic porta-potty, so this new campground is a comfort upgrade. Nevertheless, when we were this hot, there was a definite feeling that we were also getting a lesson that was personal and separate from our studies or spiritual work. This lesson was visceral, teaching that we, without our the protection of our modern house-machines, without the infrastructure our society provides are puny creatures, completely at the mercy of the good will of others and our planet's disturbed systems.<br />
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Stripped of that ever so recent invention, a/c--I remember the days before only too well--you must attend to this sack of biochemistry and water where your proud spirit resides. You must put salt and sugar into your water bottle each time you replenish it--and you need to dump gallons down--to keep heat stroke at bay. Without the shelter of our complex material culture, I was forced into living fully in the present, as I walked from tree shade to tree shade, minute by sweaty, thirsty minute. It was a valuable lesson to remember that I--a human being, stripped of all that customary, comfortable 21st Century armor, only exists at the pleasure of the planet--that fragile terrarium at the bottom of which we all reside.<br />
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Columbia, getting there presented a serious challenge to the miners as
Barkerville was located 400 miles north and east of Yale. Thick underbrush
clogged the mountainous route and some of the mountain passes still had five
feet of snow in April. Parts of the journey north were extremely dangerous and
horses and their owners would often fall to their deaths over the mountains or drown
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of people made it necessary to improve access. The governor at that time,
Governor James Douglas, determined that a safe road was required and the Royal
Engineers were engaged for the task. In October of 1861, Colonel Richard
Clement Moody recommended that the Yale to Barkerville route through the Fraser
Canyon be built for the benefit of the country. The Royal Engineers assessed
the route and suggested it be built in sections: Yale to Spuzzum, Spuzzum to
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">For more information on the Cariboo Gold Rush, this is a wonderful website: <a href="http://www.cariboogoldrush.com/">www.cariboogoldrush.com </a> </span><br />
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The aboriginal people of NWT were hunter/gatherers when the European colonists "discovered" them. The 1st Nations were already on the land, and many said that Creator had shaped men from the mud that was found between the caribou's toes. In those days, men and animals journeyed through an immense landscape every year, following the caribou that fed and clothed them. Every bit of what they killed was used, every scrap of sinew and hide and meat.<br />
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The great herds moved unobstructed across the land like water and wind. The people followed. They original inhabitants didn't kill for "fun;" they killed by necessity. Sometimes, when the game traveled on new path or their numbers declined (for one reason or another) the people starved. In the old days, the human population cycled up and down along with that population of prey animals.<br />
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The Woodland Caribou is a kind of specialist, different from the Barren Ground Caribou--the one you see on long harrowing journeys if you watch wildlife shows. The Woodland Caribou live and feed in old growth conifer forests where lichens and mosses grow. Trees of 85 to 150 years of age are the perfect hosts for the aerial and ground plant life on which these caribou depend. This means that undisturbed old growth forests are of prime importance to their survival.<br />
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Mining exploration had been going on in the NWT since earliest times, ("Yellowknife" refers to the gold blades some members of that tribe once made) but it wasn't until the 1990's that the digging began in earnest now with heavy loud modern machinery. The data shows it is not coincidental that this is the time when the numbers of the Woodland Caribou began to diminish. Mining didn't begin in earnest until the 1990's. It is not coincidental that this is the time when the numbers of the caribou began to diminish.<br />
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Toxic waste is a typical by-product of mining; moreover, that industry does not have a good record of cleaning up after itself anywhere, but logging at first seems to have been the hardest on the caribou. Not only noise, dust and continuous human activity, but the clear-cutting of the ancient forests--both the soil disruption and the removal of the trees -- cut severely into the supply of lichens and mosses, (some aerial, some ground dwelling) upon which the woodland caribou depend.<br />
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Roads, pipelines, seismic and now hydro lines create clear highways along which predators such as Lynx, Wolf & Bear can travel deep into what were once once (nearly) impenetrable forests. Now these predators hunt the Boreal Caribou where they have long been accustomed to resting, feeding or giving birth, times when they are particularly vulnerable to attack. This kind of habitat fragmentation affects all migratory animals which now share a planet with humans.<br />
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Caribou are named for the places the places where they calve. One herd that is failing spectacularly--much to the dismay of the 1st Nations people whose ancient way of life is threatened--is the Bathhurst herd. Once as many as 500,000, now there are less than 10,000. The numbers continue to fall.<br />
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This year there is a proposed permanent road north, again through what was once boreal forests, an extension of Highway 3 north to Whati', the haven in the wilderness for which my characters, Sascho and Yaotl, search after their escape from the Residential School. Families who live in Whati' year round now will be benefited with cheaper goods, but once again, their ancient ally, the caribou, will suffer -- and diminish.<br />
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Noise will be another as yet not much studied factor -- which affects the caribou and the other animals who are accustomed to living in the area of the proposed Whati road. Studies done in 2012 by the University of Idaho showed that simply broadcasting a recording of road noise--in this case of a heavily used climb in Glacier National Park--was sufficient to drive animals away. Some bird migrations that were documented as common in the roadless test area used by the "phantom road" study completely ceased. We humans don't have to do much it seems to disrupt Nature's once perfect balance.<br />
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Things don't have to be this way. Governments, industry and communities could work together to create local plans and solutions. Federal budget incentives could be used as both carrot and stick to assist caribou recovery. Sustainability must become the mantra for all who live and work in the NWT, if they want the caribou and some part of their ancient way of life to remain. <br />
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<a href="https://blog.wwf.ca/blog/2018/04/20/governments-argue-risk-woodland-caribou-decline/">https://blog.wwf.ca/blog/2018/04/20/governments-argue-risk-woodland-caribou-decline/</a><br />
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<i><u>Volumetrics, </u>Why noise pollution is more dangerous than we think</i> by David Owen, May 13, 2019, The New Yorker<br />
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<br />Juliet Waldronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03636134924133019654noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2435604676602657843.post-74974779779869817942019-06-17T01:00:00.000-07:002019-06-17T01:00:01.723-07:00"Broken Talkers", the Maliseet, by Diane Scott LewisThe second First Nation's people of New Brunswick, Canada, that I included in my novel, <em>On a Stormy Primeval Shore, </em>were the Maliseet:<br />
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This tribe is Algonquian speaking, called Wolastoqiyik or "People of the Beautiful River"; but the <span class="ILfuVd">Mi'kmaq (showcased in a previous blog) </span>named them "Maliseet" or broken talkers because their language sounded like a broken version of their own.<br />
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Indigenous to the Saint John River Valley, Maine, and Quebec's St. Lawrence River, the Maliseet fished and hunted these areas for thousands of years. They considered the Mi'kmaq their allies. Eventually the Maliseet turned to farming as well. They lived in wigwams in walled villages. They made tools out of wood, stone, and ceramics. Canoes, weapons and eating utensils were also created. The Maliseet have a rich cultural history, similar to the Mi'kmaq, such as decorating clothing and baskets with painted porcupine quills. <br />
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The Maliseet bands were governed by one or more chiefs who sat on tribal councils with representatives from each family.<br />
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Drums played an important part in their ceremonies and united their communities.<br />
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When the European settlers arrived, first the French in the 1600s, then the British in the 1700s, the natives has their agricultural territory on the river confiscated, and they were pushed to the less fertile parts of the country. In the nineteenth century, they were sent to Reserves, but later filed land claims to recoup their losses; some were successful.<br />
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While the Europeans tried to convert the natives to Christianity, many clung to their original beliefs. "Smudging" -- the burning of sweetgrass to cleanse the spirit -- is one. Their Creator, Gici Niwaskw, is not assigned a gender. The Creator formed the entire world, but taming the landscape is performed by the cultural hero, Gluskabe.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Dialogue is one of the most useful tools an author has. You
can use it to move the plot along because the characters tell what’s going to
happen rather than the author. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It happens in real time so
it’s a nice change of pace. It presents information such as back story (one
character talking to another.) It’s also useful as another means to develop
conflict – one character arguing with another. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">However, as an author
of historical romance, dialogue is an important tool to identify a character.
Word usage and slang defines a person and consequently defines the era in which
that character lives. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">When I write dialogue, I have my trusty Merriam Webster
Tenth Edition Collegiate Dictionary by my side. (It’s a little frayed along the
bottom, an indicator of how much I pull it off the shelf.) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I use the dictionary to check when a word came into usage
and for that you can blame my technical background on my obsession with
details. For example, I wanted to use ‘poppycock’ in the book I’m working on now.
It came into usage in 1865 which doesn’t work for my story as it’s set in 1800. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Katherine Pym, co-author of Pillars of Avalon (along with Jude Pittman), Book 5 from the
Canadian Historical Brides Collection, does a terrific job of using dialogue to
define the era. Here’s an excerpt from the book:</span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Aye.”
Frances dashed some numbers along another line. “The warehouse is large, it only
seems empty.” She regarded Sara with a smile. “You’ve done very well
provisioning the fleet. Do not think otherwise.” Something caught her eye. “Oiy,
you there, where’s the other barrel of wine? I shall not have any thievery committed
under our very noses.” Waving her ledger, she advanced sharply on a fellow carrying
a cask upon his shoulder.</span></i><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“What
does you want, young lass?” he snarled at her. “Shouldn’t you be home with thy
mamma, eating mashed gruel?”</span></i><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Frances’
back stiffened and Sara knew the man would regret his impertinence. “I beg your
pardon? Do you have an incontinent liver that needs correction? I shall call
the Watch and have you carried away for rude and disorderly behaviour.” She
leaned forward and hissed. “It will surely happen. Now, answer me truthfully.
Where’s the other cask of wine?”</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Reading this, you know it’s not a contemporary story. Words
and phrases like oiy, thievery, thy mamma, mashed gruel, incontinent liver,
call the Watch, suggest an earlier time period.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The following excerpt from Barkerville Beginnings, Book 4
of the collection shows another example of how speech defines a person. It’s
obvious Robert McTague is a Scot by his word usage ie “me da’s croft” “ma’self” "nae" and his reference to Culloden as well as calling Harrison a “Sassenach”. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Not only that, in talking to Harrison, Robert gives us a little
information on Barkerville ie how many miners there were during the height of
the Cariboo Gold Rush. As well, a bit of back story for both characters is revealed ie Robert comes from a poor
farmer’s croft and like most other miners has travelled a fair distance to get
to Barkerville and Harrison knows a thing or two about horses. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Harrison entered Mundorf
Stables. “Hello,” he shouted, scanning the stalls. Most were empty and through
the open double doors at the rear he noticed his mule team huddled together in
the corner of the pen. Nancy, ears pricked forward, hung her head over the top
rail, no doubt plotting her escape. At least they were here where he’d left
them last night so it appeared the livery owner was a trustworthy sort. However,
trustworthy enough to negotiate some sort of bargain remained to be seen.</i></span><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A red-haired
man with a full red beard wandered out from one of the stalls. Harrison
recognized him as the fellow he’d shared his breakfast table with this morning.</span></i><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A grin
ripped through the man’s beard, revealing front teeth buckled together. “Well,
look who’s here.” He gestured to the map under Harrison’s arm. “See you took my
advice and went to the commissioner’s office.” He held out his hand. “We didn’t
get around to exchanging names this morning. Robert McTague.”</span></i><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
Scottish burr in his voice sounded out of place and Harrison knew from their
brief chat at breakfast that the other man had also traveled halfway around the
world to join in on Cariboo gold fever. He grasped Robert’s hand, giving it a
good shake. The other man’s firm grip put Harrison at ease immediately.</span></i><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Harrison
St. John. I made it there but I don’t know what to do now. Other than see to my
livestock.” </span></i><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I’m
here doing the same thing ma’self. Rode in on my horse but he didn’t take too
well to the trail. I’m resting him up for now and hoping for the best. Hate to
shoot the beast although I hate to see him suffer too.”</span></i><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Been
here long?”</span></i><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Robert
shook his head. “Maybe a week. But long enough to know this isn’t quite what I
expected.” He laughed. “I’ve washed a few pans of gravel on some of the
abandoned claims and only found enough gold dust ta pay for my food but I hate
to give up. There’s naught for me back home.”</span></i><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Scotland?”</span></i><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Aye.
Me da’s croft is full to bursting so I thought to make my own way in the world.
From your accent, I’d wager you’re English.”</span></i><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Indeed.
By way of Manchester.”</span></i><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
other man chuckled. “Well, we won’t talk about Culloden, now will we?”</span></i><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Harrison
grinned. “No, I think not.” He pointed into the stall. “Is this the fellow
you’re nursing?”</span></i><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Robert’s
face fell. “Aye. That’s Brutus.”</span></i><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I know
a thing or two about horses. Let me take a look at him.” He ran his hands over
the animal’s withers, flanks and on down its legs. “He feels sound enough. A
bit bony perhaps but I’d give him another day or two of rest and some good feed
before you decide anything.” The horse, a bay gelding, rubbed his nose against
Harrison’s shoulder and for an instant he felt a pang of regret for the four he
sold to finance his journey here. One day, he vowed, he’d have another set, equally
as fine as the first.</span></i><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I’d
thought the same. Time is the best healer.” Robert patted the horse’s nose.</span></i><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Do
you know many people here? Have you met a fellow by the name of Edmund
Chadwick?”</span></i><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Nae,
can’t say that I have. But hearsay has it there’s upwards of ten thousand men
here and up and around the hills. Could be he’s not made his way into town for
some time. These miners can get caught up with the fever and not wanting to
leave their claims unless necessary.” He clamped his lips, which made the hairs
of his beard stand up around his mouth like a pin cushion, and regarded
Harrison through narrowed eyes. “I’m looking for a partner. Two heads being
better than one and all that. Until now, I haven’t met anyone I’m wanting to
spend time with. But I’m thinking a Sassenach might be a good choice. You lot being
pigheaded and all.” He chuckled and held out his hand again. “What do you
think?”</span></i><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Partner?
You don’t know anything about me.”</span></i><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“You’ve
a flair for horses and Brutus has taken to you, that’s good enough for me. And
like I said, you Englishmen are pigheaded as far as I can tell. That’ll stand a
man in good stead out here.”</span></i><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Harrison
stared at the other man’s outstretched hand. His first inclination was to
decline the offer until he noted the trimmed, albeit dirty, fingernails and the
calluses on Robert’s palm. The sign of honest labour. He raised his gaze and
studied the other man’s face. Or rather, only his eyes and forehead seeing as
how his unruly beard covered everything else including his neck.</span></i><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Robert
returned his gaze with guileless blue eyes. “Well?” he prompted.</span></i><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Still
Harrison didn’t reply. Here he was, in Barkerville, with a wagon full of
supplies and nary an inkling of what to use them for. It might be helpful to
have a partner, especially someone already familiar with what to expect. It
made sense that the two would be stronger and more productive together.
Besides, half of something was better than all of nothing.</span></i><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">He
grabbed the Scot’s hand. “You’ve got yourself a partner. Where to now?”</span></i><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Let’s
find a saloon. The whiskey out here is rotgut but ‘tis good enough to wet your
whistle and raise a toast or two to God and country.” Robert chuckled. “And
Cariboo gold.””</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Dialogue makes the characters and story come alive!</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="layout-grid-mode: line;">In the hills
around Okanagan Lake Valley is a place called Bear Creek.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I hiked through these rocks, the echo of
fast rushing water vibrated like thousands of flutes playing to the rushing
waterfalls that all flowed into one giant lake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>One day I mediated on a large rock in the middle of the Creek - the only
access being to jump a log jutting into the water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Opening my eyes to father sky, I watched
crows chase a golden eagle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The eagle
flowed upward in ever expanding circles, and the crows followed, but the eagle
flew higher and higher.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A fine mist rose
from the rocks and powerful medicine herbs waved in the gentle breezes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sweet smell of Lavender and the pungent
tang of pine filled the air.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I
stopped and listened closely I heard the footsteps of the ancestors passing
through the canyon - stepping from stone to stone - as they followed the game
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The People and The Spirits are not gone. Clothes have changed, </div>
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but the soul of both is constant.</div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="layout-grid-mode: line;">One day a
white brother came to visit from Texas - a police officer - who loved the
culture as I do, and wanted to share the pipe with some of the Native
brothers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We climbed a trail through a
ravine of rocks to an old sacred clearing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>At the entrance to the clearing--a circle of rocks covered by moss and
surrounded by juniper and Saskatoon bushes--we stopped and I offered tobacco,
asking the ancestors to welcome our visitor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The winds stopped, and a peace settled over the clearing, inviting our
entrance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We sat together, on the
ground, waiting for some brothers who were pipe carriers to join us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="layout-grid-mode: line;"> One by
one each brother showed up from his journey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>One brother traveled from a rain dance ceremony; another brother came
from the sweet grass fields in Montana; a third brother came late, joking that
as he had traveled the shortest distance he came on Indian time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My friend from Texas offered a medicine
bundle from his home region and asked for prayers for his family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He explained that he had spent a lot of time
studying and learning the culture of the Cheyenne, the Apache, the Arapaho and
the Hopi nations, and to him it was a great honor to come to this sacred ground
where lay the bones of ancestors who had traveled here before, and join with
this group of pipe carriers for other Native nations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="layout-grid-mode: line;">Together we
sat down in a circle and opened our medicine bundles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Father sky peered over our circle like a
bright blue blanket streaked with orange and fringed with white clouds. Wisps
of white floated around us as the spirits of many ancestors, gathered around
our group as we prepared to share the sacred pipes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="layout-grid-mode: line;">We began by
filling our smudge bowls with sage and sweet grass, which we lit and fanned
with eagle feathers until the smoke drifted towards Father Sky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each of us reached into the smoke and brushed
our arms and legs and heads with smoke to cleanse the hardships of our travels
and prepare ourselves for the ceremony.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The pipe carrier facing the North started the traditional song of
offering to the ancestors, and one by one we joined into the song, lifting our
voices to invite the ancestors to travel across the spiritual realm and join us
in our ceremony.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As one, we bowed our
heads in the circle, sharing prayers for our loved ones and the great nations,
asking for blessings for all mother earth’s living and spiritual beings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We offered prayers for the animal kingdom,
the plant world and the mineral world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The pipe carriers lifted their pipes, pointing the stems to each of the
four sacred directions requesting blessing for the circle, and then the pipes
were lit. As we passed the pipes, we shared the stories and teachings of our
ancestors, and laughed together at the antics of trickster and the pranks he
had played on our friends and elders over the years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="layout-grid-mode: line;">When we fell
silent, each of us settled into the peace and harmony that had fallen over the
sacred circle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the darkness the
voices of a thousand crickets hummed in harmony, and beyond our circle the
coyotes howled to the night spirits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Grandmother moon rose into the sky and shone her light over our circle.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="layout-grid-mode: line;">When the pipes
were out, we packed our medicine bundles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Standing, we joined hands, offered prayers for a safe journey for the
travelers, and returned to each a hug of friendship and a common wish for a
future reunion of the pipes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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John & Friend</div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="layout-grid-mode: line;">John
Wisdomkeeper<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Read John's personal story: </span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00UY47CGM/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i2">Along the Red Road</a></span><br />
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Juliet Waldron's historical novels:</div>
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