Book Review: Flying to Extremes is an exciting recounting of Dominique Prinet’s time as a bush pilot in the Northwest Territories from the late 1960s into the 1970s.
Julie-Catherine Mercadier hopes that her grade 5–6 students, newly arrived in Canada, will come to understand the history behind the street names and sites around them.
Book Review: While Polar Winds recounts extraordinary tales of adventure, tragedy, and intrigue, it’s also a history of everyday life in the North. Readers will find themselves interested to learn about the complex impact aviation had on communication, health care, education, and the economy for Canada’s northern residents.
We celebrate Canada’s 150th birthday and how our country came to be with the silly, the serious and the surprising stories of our past. Meet some of the people who helped bring democracy to our country, the people who made it a country, and the people who watched along the way.
