Tales Of ‘An Alternative Klondike’
I’m not just sure when David Thompson started writing his tales of an alternative Klondike, but he began submitting entries…
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I’m not just sure when David Thompson started writing his tales of an alternative Klondike, but he began submitting entries…
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It’s a new year. Many of us are gleefully planning must-read books for this year, even if every year our ambition leads to a stack
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Peter Steele begins by defining his terms: “’Meander’ reads ’To wander at random’” This is very definitely what happens in this book,
Meanderings: The Steeles wandered at random around the world Read More »
By the time you’re reading this column, the paperback version of Eva Holland’s fascinating study of fear will be out from Penguin Canada.
Learning how to cope with fear in overdrive Read More »
In 2017 Paul Rath attended the North Words Symposium in Skagway. He joined an early morning session in the library hosted by Deb Vanasse, an
Learning to be a good person through fishing Read More »
The present book, one of several projects Michael Gates has had on the go since he retired, is one he was commissioned to write by Victoria Gold, the owners of the Eagle Gold Mine.
Christopher Wheeler has had a long-standing dream to become an author. When COVID-19 arrived, it brought with it the opportunity for him to pursue this
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Last March, just before the pandemic became real in Canada, we went to hear Jerry Saltz speak before a large crowd in Toronto about How to Be an Artist. This entertaining talk provided an advance peek at some of the ideas in his new book of the same title.
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Book Review: Bury Your Horses by Dan Dowhal
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What’s of particular interest to readers in this year of the COVID-19 pandemic, is that London managed to predict the spread of a virulent disease three years before the so-called Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918.
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It’s easy to see why Ben Lerner’s The Topeka School (McLelland and Steward, 2019) was among Barack Obama’s favourite reads in 2019. At once a
A politically-minded family drama Read More »
In these days of highways and 1000-year level flood dikes, it’s easy to forget that the best way to get to Dawson used to be by sternwheelers. While most of the stampeders made their way here in small boats and rafts in 1898, a sizeable number cruised to the fledgling town from St. Michael’s, Alaska, in riverboats and steamers and, once the White Pass chugged into Whitehorse, still more hopped on boats from there.
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Everyone experiences fear at some point in their lives. This universal emotion and our response to it forms the core of Eva Holland’s first book, Nerve.
There are all sorts of ABC books out there, but they are seldom as focussed on a particular subject as this one, which manages to do the job of introducing all the letters while remaining firmly in the air.
An ABC Aviation Adventure Read More »
The England-born, Yukon-based writer has just released her third poetry collection, Endlings, in which each poem is inspired by a different extinct animal species. The passenger pigeon
Howls of the past are echoing again thanks to Joanna Lilley Read More »
Let’s begin at the end. “On 9 September 2014, at a press conference in Ottawa, Prime Minister Harper announced to the world that one of
From South to North with the Erebus Read More »
We will continue to offer curb-side pick-up for those that are not ready to come in and browse or for anyone with a cold or other symptoms. Based on books we have in stock our staff has come up with three book recommendations for people eager for new things to read
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Here are three books to thumb through while you wait for the end of the world or a Yukon spring, whichever comes first.
Social Distancing Perfect Time For A Good Book Read More »
Peter Steele’s book arrived on my desk at just about the time in my cataract affliction when I was unable to read it, the white
Seventy tales from the Yukon, Atlin and Tibet Read More »
What is it that makes some of my younger olders so reluctant to admit they’re collecting their pension, qualify for the senior discount, or that they’re a member of the Golden Age Society, ElderActive, or Yukon Council on Aging? I think it’s ageism.
Older, but not out of it Read More »
Lawrence Millman has written 16 books, including Hiking to Siberia. The latter is the subject of this column and the source of most of the stories Millman read to an attentive audience at the Alchemy Café when he visited Dawson City.
John Firth’s latest book includes the signature of a ghost. Caribou Hotel, Hauntings, Hospitality, a Hunter and the Parrot.
A contemporary Yukon storyteller Read More »
In the course of his Massey Lecture series in 2013 (published as Blood: The Stuff of Life, from House of Anansi Press), Lawrence Hill used a
How real life can inform fiction Read More »
This slender volume contains brief biographies and photographs of the men from the Yukon who fought and died for Canada between 1914 and 1918. Seven
A Commemoration of the Yukon’s WWI Fallen Soldiers Read More »
Somewhere in the Boreal Forest, there is a small community called Rockton. It’s sometimes called the City of the Lost because it’s inhabited by people who, for
A Trip to the City of the Lost – Returning to Rockton Read More »
Previews are supposed to pique your interest and entice you to buy the book, not tell you how it ends, but there is no harm in quoting the final sentence if it is a good one:“In the distance, snow-covered peaks rose through the whiteness. Far off, somewhere below in the fog, a wolf howled.
ZHOH – The Spirit of the Wolf Read More »
“Nature is not something else, isolated, out there; it is as much a part of us as we are of it, and neither can be
The ecological web: A story of salmon caught in the middle Read More »
Marcelle Dubé has written the fifth novel of her Mendenhall Mystery Series titled The Forsaken Men. Her Mendenhall isn’t a subdivision of Whitehorse, but rather a fictive place in Manitoba.
Investigating lost bull semen Read More »
“Christopher Skaife is both a raven master and a master storyteller. Compulsively readable, I devoured the book in a single sitting!”—Lindsey Fitzharris, author of The
The Ravenmaster: My life with the ravens at the Tower of London Read More »
The sad truth was, you could not live in Syria and have a clean heart. How could you, when you live in a place where you’re randomly shot at and car bombs explode outside your home?
A raw and real experience of the war in Syria Read More »
Author Kate Harris shucked her space dreams and, with her friend, Mel Yule, picked up the courage to embark on a different trip: to cycle the Silk Road from end to end.
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“To most people, the pack ice looked like a cold, endless wasteland that spread across one’s entire field of vision. But, if one watched it
A new narrative on gold rush history Read More »
Winter Child, the first novel by Virginia Pésémapéo Bordeleau to be translated to English, is a lyrical journey through a mother’s grief of losing and outliving her child.
Through dark to the light Read More »
There’s no need to be a closet comic nerd anymore. The genre has exploded into accepted popularity over the last 10 years and it’s definitely
Canada’s first superheroine saved from obscurity Read More »
Once again I was about to die. Like every other literary artist before me I was about to die forgotten in a ditch at the
A Satirical Race Through a Parallel Universe Read More »
Every summer, Rose and her family pack up and head to their cottage in Awago Beach. There, the long days melt into lake swims and
Slap on a Hat, Slip into this Book Read More »
It was the summer he turned twelve, after his failed attempts to save the fox kits, that he began collecting bones, scouring the grass and
Ordinary Bones of Extraordinary People Read More »
If you grew up with the convenience of grocery stores, basing your diet on foraged foods is a romantic but daunting idea to consider. Luckily,
Wild Edibles: From Curiosities to Staples Read More »
… A wind was blowing from the mountains, and the surface of the snow was swirling along like snakes, the way it often did on
Wilderness Living with a Canine View Read More »
ookbook-cum-community memoir: A Taste of Haida Gwaii: “They love cooking. The only trouble is cooking doesn’t love them back…”
A Feast of Living Off Canada’s Northern West Coast Read More »
An attack leaves two girls hospitalized. Two families looking for answers. In the Break Metis writer, Katherena Vermette tells the stories.
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“As Jack knelt in the bloody snow, he wondered if that was how a man held up his end of the bargain, by learning and
The Things that Weather You, Shape You Read More »
“Think of magic as a tree. The root of supernatural ability is simply the realization that all time exists simultaneously. Humans experience time as a
Playing in the Dark Read More »
“To come here is to travel into a past that still intrudes the present.” –an excerpt from A Walk With the Rainy Sisters: In Praise
A Contemplative Celebration of Place Read More »
“We imagined ourselves free of the hassles and troubles we’d accumulated in Toronto. We imagined a life without rushing, without the subway, without neighbours at
The Grass is Greener Wherever Convenience Resides Read More »
“Stories are not only words, you know. Words are just the clothes that people drape on stories.” – Brian Doyle, author of Mink River I
The Threads that Hold Us Together Read More »
Author R. Bruce Macdonald at the edge of his boat on the Beaufort Sea near Tuktoyuktuk, NWT. “Literally, the first day we had the ship
North Star Provides Direction, Hope Read More »
There are two types of people who read play reviews: those who want to see if the reviewer agrees with them and those who want
Theatre reviews go interactive Read More »
Visitors to the Yukon are seeing and feeling the territory for themselves. I don’t need to describe the landscape or the friendly Northern-way because these
Artist’s Amusing Alliterations Read More »