The Avro Arrow: A Picture History
Lawrence Miller
When the magnificent new Avro Arrow fighter jet thundered into the sky over Malton, Ontario on a cold March morning in 1958, Canada's aviation scientists, designers, and pilots were the best in the world. Less than a year later the Arrow project was dead. It is shocking that the best interceptor in the world in the 1950s never went into service. Five Arrows were flying and the sixth would certainly set the world speed record, yet Canadian authorities ordered every one destroyed. This book tells the story of Canada's magnificent and doomed fighter plane using 100+ historical photos, bringing the airplane and the people who made it — and killed it — back to life.
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Inside Hockey: The Legends, Facts, and Feats that Made the Game
Keltie Thomas
Keltie Thomas introduces us to the wild side of professional hockey past and present. Humorously illustrated by John Kicksee and accompanied by exciting photographs, Inside Hockey explores the facts, adventures, and one-of-a-kind anecdotes that continue to make hockey one of North America's most popular sports. This highly energetic book gives kids an inside look at the facts about male and female hockey superstars, inventions, rules that changed the game, and some of the dazzling science behind the sport. Readers of all ages (diehard fans or those new to the sport) will discover the stories behind the greatest goal scorers, crazy goalies, practical jokers and hijinks, superstitions, the most ferocious fights, players overcoming obstacles, and the obsession with that Cup called Stanley.
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The Adventures of a Trapper Boy
Suzanne K. Edwards
The Adventures of a Trapper Boy is based on the true story of the amazing life of Harold "Gus" Edwards who went from a trapper boy in the coal mines of Nova Scotia to being head of the Royal Canadian Air Force Overseas during World War II. Gus began to work underground as a trapper boy for ten hours a day, six days a week. Each night, he would study for two hours, then sleep for a while before he got up to study for another three hours before going off to the mines. When WWI began, he joined the British navy as an aviator cadet. During the war, as a fighter pilot, he was shot down, taken prisoner, escaped, and was recaptured. After the war, he flew airplanes again as part of the aerial mapping project to take pictures of vast areas of Canada. By the third year of World War II, Gus was an air marshal in the Royal Canadian Air Force. No one else before him had risen so rapidly through the ranks. He was now the leader of thousands of men and women serving overseas.
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Timber Wolf
Caroline Pignat
In Timber Wolf, Kit's younger brother is now the focus. Jack is determined to make his mark in the rough-and-ready lumbering industry up the Ottawa River from late 1840s Bytown. The young boy, not yet a teenager but full of braggadocio, is sure that he can quickly learn to be a hard-muscled and brave rafts-man. But as the story opens, we find Jack sore, bruised and suffering from amnesia. As his memory returns in fits and starts, he is haunted by the guilt of his actions. His recovery is aided by a family of First Nations whose own son walks a troubled path.
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Wild Geese
Caroline Pignat
Kit Byrne and her friend Mick O'Toole flee famine-ravaged Ireland. Across the Atlantic aboard a notorious "coffin ship", through quarantine, and into the heart of North America, the two displaced teenagers endure storms, epidemics, and discrimination. Desperate to find her family in the New World, Kit is willing to sacrifice everything, even her love for Mick, to reunite the remaining orphaned Byrnes children. Jack and Annie are out there somewhere and Kit will not stop searching until she finds them and her family is together again. The original "Wild Geese" were Irish soldiers fighting outside of Ireland, but the term later came to encompass all expatriate Irish.
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