Rural Life
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From  NEW! Pass the SpudsFrom: Up the Coast |
Chapter Seven focuses on the cook house, the cook Dave, the routine at the logging camp, grizzly bears in the shed, and the cook Lousia the nazi. | Kathryn Willcock | 10 | 2022 | $1.00 Add |
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From NEW! Postscript: A Work DiaryFrom: Up the Coast |
The postscript is the author’s reflection on her fathers 1959 work diary. | Kathryn Willcock | 5 | 2022 | $0.50 Add |
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From NEW! PrefaceFrom: Up the Coast |
An introduction to the methodology, maps, and the explanation of “up the coast.” | Kathryn Willcock | 3 | 2022 | $0.30 Add |
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From NEW! Summer CampFrom: Up the Coast |
Chapter Six contrasts life in North Vancouver and Oxford Bay, logging life and realities, evidence of previous loggers in the areas, Smokey the dog discovering a human skull, American tourists on … | Kathryn Willcock | 30 | 2022 | $3.00 Add |
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From NEW! That’s the Navy for YouFrom: Up the Coast |
Chapter Four focuses on the author’s mother Joan O’Connell’s time working during the Second World War, working in the boeing aircraft plant, disposable income, dancing, her special … | Kathryn Willcock | 8 | 2022 | $0.80 Add |
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From  NEW! The Golden BirdFrom: Woman, Watching |
Chapter One provides a brief introduction to Louise de Kiriline Lawrence, the self-trained amateur ornithologist and field nurse who is the subject of this book. The chapter discusses topics … | Merilyn Simonds | 6 | 2022 | $0.60 Add |
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From NEW! The Truth About LoggersFrom: Up the Coast |
Chapter Eight focuses on the truth about loggers, entertainment at logging camps, calls in and out of the camps, sport at the camps, animals visitors, the star loggers Erik and Olaf Nyström, life … | Kathryn Willcock | 25 | 2022 | $2.50 Add |
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From NEW! The View from the TerraceFrom: Woman, Watching |
Chapter Two explores Louise’s childhood in Svensksund, Sweden. The chapter explores her relationships with her mother, father, and sister. It also examines the influence the natural … | Merilyn Simonds | 10 | 2022 | $1.00 Add |
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From NEW! This Gentle ArtFrom: Woman, Watching |
Chapter Six explores Louise’s growing interest in birds. The chapter discusses Louise’s first recordbook of bird watching, her relationship with Percy Traverner, the evolution of her … | Merilyn Simonds | 25 | 2022 | $2.50 Add |
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From NEW! Untrammelled LandscapesFrom: Woman, Watching |
Chapter Four focuses on Louise’s move to Canada. The chapter explores Louise’s joining of the Canadian Red Cross Outpost Service, her settling in Bonfield, Northern Ontario, her … | Merilyn Simonds | 27 | 2022 | $2.70 Add |
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NEW! Up the CoastOne Family's Wild Life in the Forests of British Columbia |
Kathryn Willcock and her sisters grew up in logging camps on the coast of B.C. in the 1960s when children were set loose to play in the wilderness, women kept rifles next to the wood stove, and … | Kathryn Willcock | 224 | 2022 | View |
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From NEW! Visions of WoodpeckersFrom: Woman, Watching |
Chapter Thirteen focuses on Louise’s work with woodpeckers. | Merilyn Simonds | 24 | 2022 | $2.40 Add |
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From NEW! With High HeartFrom: Woman, Watching |
Chapter Fourteen focuses on Louise’s book Lovely, a new approach to her writing. | Merilyn Simonds | 24 | 2022 | $2.40 Add |
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NEW! Woman, WatchingLouise de Kiriline Lawrence and the Songbirds of Pimisi Bay |
Referred to as a Canadian Rachel Carson, Louise de Kiriline Lawrence lived and worked in an isolated log cabin near North Bay. After her husband was murdered by Bolsheviks, she refused her … | Merilyn Simonds | 416 | 2022 | View |
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From NEW! Women’s WorkFrom: Up the Coast |
Chapter Nine focuses on women’s work, food orders, defending the camp and children from bears when the men are away, the authors stash of nanaimo bars attracting bears, laundry and the … | Kathryn Willcock | 37 | 2022 | $3.70 Add |
