This is the Ultimate dream book for anyone planning an extended river trip in Northern Canada. Though it doesn't have route details, it has stellar photos, and great writing on a number of different paddling trips up there. I look forward to paddling them....

This tells of the exploits of Billy Bishop. The highest scoring pilot of the British Empire, and of Canada in WWI. During his career, he was credited with 72 confirmed victories. Winged Warfare tells his story from when he first shipped overseas to Europe, until August of 1917 when he was sent back first to London to receive the Victoria Cross, and then back to Canada on leave. The highlight of the book for me was when he describes his attack on a German aerodrome near Cambrai. This is the raid for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross, Britain's highest military award. I just cannot recommend this book too much. It is a must have for everyone and and anyone interested in WWI aerial history.

This tells of the exploits of Billy Bishop. The highest scoring pilot of the British Empire, and of Canada in WWI. During his WWI career, he was credited with 72 confirmed victories. Winged Warfare tells his story from when he first shipped overseas to Europe, until August of 1917 when he was sent back first to London to receive the Victoria Cross, the Distinguished Service Order, and the Military Cross, and then back to Canada on leave. The highlight of the book for me was when he describes his attack on a German aerodrome near Cambrai. This is the raid for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross, Britain's highest military award. I just cannot recommend this book too much. It is a must have for everyone and and anyone interested in WWI aerial history.

Amazing research built into a story of interesting pioneers transforming a bush pilot airline into a an airline that is now recognized World wide despite government interests in promoting the "National Carrier's as the chosen one.

An example of entrepreneurs and private enterprise struggling to survive.

I feel all Canadian employees should read this to appreciate where the airline has come from and that it has survived far more difficult times than those it currently still faces. As a supporter of Canadian and past passenger of Canadian Pacific, Pacific Western and Ward Air I found it most interesting.

Shane Rhodes poetry in The Wireless Room is akin to a series of meditations framed as lyric poems serving up images and memories that linger in the reader's mind and imagination. A Moving Poem For Cybele: What will drive us apart/now drives us together--/this dotted lane on which/we've signed for a week/leaving all that's left/to leave://Calgary, some rubbers/in a hotel parking lot,/a shaving kit in Winnipeg, a shoe/in Montreal--our lost/luggage a continental/connect the dot.//One time is this car/pushed through a parking lot./The heart's a fan for the radiator./The hand hugs the wheel hugs the road/hugs like a lover's departure./All for this/cost for a coast to the coast, for this/stalled good-bye, while we smile/for the commercial that will be/shot featuring the dead/forests of our passing//I kiss your glove and whispers://"I'm taking the keys/with me, love."

This book is one you'll want your teenage son to read and relate to. He'll learn such values as hard work, being dependable and cheerful, fortitude, and saving yourself for the right person.

Two of my favorite quotes from this book are: "Each word must be distinct. It is a courtesy to speak so one can be understood; it is an art so to sing." (The father speaking to the protagonist.)

"He who will not settle for second best but waits for the best will find it waiting for him... Love must be all or it is nothing."

There is plenty of adventure and action in this uplifting book. How knows, it may even kindle a desire to learn French or to go canoeing!

Allison goes back in time through a picture in her room. Back in 1898, almost a hundred years before her time she meets Lily and Jo-Jo. Allison travels back two mote times after her first visit and helps Lily and Jo-Jo. On the third visit she gets stuck and lves with Lily, Jo-Jo, and their father for a few months. Then one day Lily's friend Gibson appears in the meadow and takes Allison home. Even though she has been away for about 3 months she has only been gone for a few ours in her time. In the end Allison finds out more about herself and how Lily and Jo-Jo connect to her past.

Dorothy Livesay has been my inspiration. This was the first book of hers that I had the pleasure to read, and this book completely and utterly wowed me. If you are a fan of esquisite poetry you must have this in your collection. Phenominal words from a brilliant woman.

Frances Martin Day, Phyllis Spence, and Barbara Ladouceur, eds., Women Overseas: Memoirs of the Canadian Red Cross Corps (Overseas Detachment). Vancouver: Ronsdale Press, 1998. Women Overseas is a collection of memoirs of 31 women who volunteered to work with the Canadian Red Cross Corps overseas during the Second World War. Included here are also stories of Canadian Red Cross Corps personnel who served in the Korean War. The individual stories are based on recollections many years after the war, notes from diaries and letters, and archives of the Red Cross Overseas clubs of Victoria an Vancouver. As some of the contributors have since passed away, the book becomes a legacy many people who have veterans in their families wish they were able to have on paper. For example, we have the contribution of Audrey C. Kitching, who became the wife of Major-General George Kitching after returning home. The reader is presented with the lives of these volunteers in their various wartime phases: civilian life prior to joining the Red Cross; training in Canada and awaiting word to travel to Great Britain in the ocean-going convoys characteristic of wartime; descriptions of experiences in France or Italy, or in the case of the 1950-1953 war, in Korea. Even if a reader's first interest is the military history of the Second World War, this book offers much information about such topics as the build-up to D-Day in June, 1944 or the extent of civilian casualties in Normandy after the June-August, 1944 war, where an estimated 40,000 civilians were killed. From the memoirs there are narrations of incidents when the Red Cross staff would meet wounded soldiers being evacuated out of battle, with the mud of the battlefield, as one author describes, still permeating their clothing and boots. In such encounters, the women at the field hospitals expressed surprise at how much the soldiers felt a need to talk about their battle experiences and under what circumstances they became wounded. While other books provide more of a structured account of how the hospitals and evacuation routes were established, the reader does learn much from Women Overseas about the workings of General Hospitals, or the more forward field hospitals, and Casualty Clearing Stations. And much is presented about the workings of the Canadian Red Cross Overseas: the duties as ambulance drivers, escort officers, food administration, and handicrafts officers, working with such groups as blind veterans. The organization is described as finding much success in its work in Great Britain and on the continent in its work with soldiers and civilians, as well as in its liaison with its counterparts among the allies. Examples of the dangers of the work are also described in the memoirs. For example, in her account of "Sunny Italy wasn't warm or sunny", Dorothy Falkner Burogoyne Doolittle, from St. Catherine's, Ontario, describes what had happened to the No. 14 General Hospital that had been sent to Italy before her group. They were on a convoy that was bombed in the Mediterranean in early November, 1943. "No lives had been lost, but they had lost all their possessions, and word had got back to London that the Red Cross girls at No. 14 needed anything and everything." Women Overseas accomplishes much more than was perhaps intended as a record of personal accounts of the Canadian Red Cross Corps (Overseas Detachment). The reader is presented with a work that educates about Canadians in the Second World War through biographical narrations of women who were part of the support structure both for our soldiers and for civilians in such countries as Great Britain, France, Belgium, and Italy during the Second World War. As an important addition, so as not to neglect the Korean War, the addition of those memoirs are also most welcomed. Such a book offers great ideas for further research. On a personal note, Helen M. Egan's chapter, "We found the drivers very protective of us" mentions a reference to Jean Lamb, who "had already worked in Italy with the Canadian offensive which had pushed up from Sicily, but she had returned when the order came through that all married girls had to return to London." My father was a batman to a Captain Lamb in Italy, until the officer's death. Now I have something close to home to research. It is such little aspects of the vast and complicated story of Canadians in war that help a person continue with an interest to learn more and more.

If you were looking for a book on whiskey, you could stop looking after you pick this up. While the author is an Englishman, he appreciates fine spirits from around the world and writes about them gracefully. Bourbons get their due as well as Lowland Scotch whiskies and Japanese brands rarely seen outside their native land. The text is accompanied by many colr photographs; this could almost be a tourist guide. My recommendation : buy this book (don't borrow it, you'll never return it), take it to a good liquor store, buy a whiskey that Mr Jackson likes, and drink it while rereading your favorite chapter.