History
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Swim Home
Searching for the Wild Girl of Champagne by Kathleen McDonnell
In September 1731, a feral child emerged from the woods in the Champagne region of France. Clothed in animal skins, with matted, unkempt hair, and wielding a small club, she ran like a hare, climbed trees like a cat, and ate leaves and raw meat. But ...
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Dance of the Deadmen
by Hap Wilson
Self-styled arctic outdoorsman, John Hornby had already compromised his abilities to survive in the tundra through several incidents of near starvation, and by injuries suffered as a soldier in World War I. He had openly admitted to peers that “he ...
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Times are Changing and the Struggle Continues
The Struggle by Cloyd Ovid Trouth Sr.
Dr. Cloyd Ovid Trouth’s book, Times are Changing and the Struggle Continues, provides a unique perspective on his life. In addition, it gives a balanced viewpoint of some of the cultural and societal issues that have occurred and continue to plague ...
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Times are Changing and the Struggle Continues
The Struggle by Cloyd Ovid Trouth Sr.
Dr. Cloyd Ovid Trouth’s book, Times are Changing and the Struggle Continues, provides a unique perspective on his life. In addition, it gives a balanced viewpoint of some of the cultural and societal issues that have occurred and continue to plague ...
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TOPORIVTSI: My Grandparents' Village
How the Ukrainian People Survived as a Nation by Ronald Roman Ellis Galagan
This book essentially started out as a personal voyage of discovery. Did any Galagans still remain in Ukraine after all these years and what had our Canadian ethnic Ukrainian families “missed” as a result of our grandparents immigration from Ukraine ...
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Historic Shipwrecks of the Southern Gulf Islands of British Columbia
by Jacques Marc and Warren Oliver Bush
British Columbia’s rugged Southern Gulf Islands enticed many pioneers, explorers, colonists, miners, and adventurers in the mid 19th century. Fog, wind, strong currents and the lack of aids to navigation made navigating these striking and ...
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Love in the Air
Second World War Letters by Joanne Culley
Love in the Air tells the story of a love that blossoms when an ambitious farm girl from Saskatchewan and a charming musician from Ontario lock eyes one night during a wartime social. But duty soon calls, and with a ring sealing the promise of a ...
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A Time to Run
by Douglas Warren Greenfield
Set within documented historical events of WW II and modern Afghanistan’s war-torn battlefields, you will be caught up in one man’s dream to redefine history. Retired Veteran, Lieutenant Albert Connor, is daily tormented by global news reminding him ...
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In the Bowels of Bureaucracy
Thirty Years in the Developing World's Bureaucratic Machinery by Robert G. Boase
An outsider’s romp through our developing world – countries in transition from planned to market economies, failed states, post-conflict states and the bureaucrats caught in the middle of stagnation, rapid change and chaos. The book is a memoir of ...
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The Sophia Baryluk (Venechuk) Family Story
Yesterday is Gone.... But Her Legacy Lives On! by Sophia Baryluk
Having lost her own mother during child birth, and her father dying shorty thereafter, Sophia's strength, faith, and determination saw her through a lifetime of hardships. While successfully raising eleven children, her gift of love and her strong ...
