Download or read book Whistle Stops Along the Columbia River Narrows written by Burton New Horizons Book Committee and published by Burton, B.C. : Burton New Horizons Book Committee. This book was released on 1982 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Between Blade and Bullet written by Margaret Franz and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Steinhauser is the only peace officer in the history of penal institutions in Canada to willingly offer up her life in the service of her country. It was during a 1975 prison escape attempt and 41-hour hostage-taking by three desperate inmates of the British Columbia Penitentiary in New Westminster, B.C. that Mary volunteered to be the principal hostage. For 41 hours, she was held as a human shield, protecting not only the inmates but the fourteen other hostages sequestered in a nearby vault. Her calmness, composure and bravery throughout the entire hostage-taking was noted by the negotiators and penitentiary staff alike. She was killed there. This is her story. This biography of Mary's life and tragic death is narrated by Margaret, her younger sister. From Mary’s early childhood in rural B.C., it charts the evolution of a young nurse from social worker to symbol for those dedicated to prison reform. Mary's experiences are fascinating reading for any adult interested in local history, law enforcement, mental health awareness, and criminal justice. Her work as a psychiatric nurse in hospitals and institutions across Canada led to her introduction to prison life, which sparked her fierce determination to improve the inmate experience, prisoner justice, and prison reform. Sprinkled throughout with personal anecdotes and quotes from important people in Mary's life, Between Blade and Bullet is a compelling, deeply emotional, and thought-provoking look into the life and death of one heroic woman. Searchingly honest, it examines how Canadian institutions closed down to protect themselves, and the consequences of justice for those left on the outside.
Download or read book Old Lady Sweetly Is Twenty written by Denise McKay and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is September 1951 and stunned Betty Wheatley is suffering from PVS (postvirginity syndrome). She just knows she'll be unable to say no to the next amorous advance. She believes that all men can read her weakness-it's written all over her face. She's a harlot at the tender age of nineteen. And it's all Cameron's fault-Cameron with the bedroom eyes. A reluctant Betty, banished to rural schoolism in the isolated mountain town of Narrows, British Columbia (pop. 41), takes hesitant command of the Green School with its knotholed outhouse and traitorous Quebec heater-her first taste of work, her first sniff of responsibility. Betty's pupils, fifteen barn-scented empty heads, test her mettle; Betty repeatedly fails to get the upper hand. She is constantly reminded that she is pedagogically inept-a certified turkey. She longs to run off-anywhere-after every disaster and expos . But bits of skewed logic help her survive day-by-day; after all, a misanthropic roommate, a judgmental landlady, and a lascivious minister can't be any worse to cope with than her own ill-matched parents. While she skirts around amorous advances from both sexes and spiteful hate letters calling her a she-devil, Cameron, her boyfriend attending university hundreds of miles away, proves to be unfaithful-the two-timing bastard Can she adapt to a lonely spinster life in the backwoods, or should she chuck the whole endeavor and run off to seek fame and fortune in Hollywood? Fresh missteps and unexpected champions keep Betty flip-flopping and forming cockeyed deductions about everything and everyone until late springtime breezes dramatically challenge the village's offbeat game of happenstance.
Download or read book Melodic Whistles in the Columbia River Gorge written by Keith McCoy and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The British Columbia Genealogist written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book PNLA Quarterly written by Pacific Northwest Library Association and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bibliographie de L histoire Du Qu bec Et Du Canada 1981 1985 written by Paul Aubin and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 1102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liste signalétique des documents parus entre 1981 et 1985: livres, articles, thèses. L'organisation de la bibliographie est en trois sections: systématique (par ordre des grands sujets), analytique (par ordre des sujets particuliers), auteur (par ordre des noms avec renvois à la section systématique). Les auteurs ont intégré à l'instrument des documents non recensés dans les ouvrages couvrant les périodes antérieures: 1948-1965, 1966-1975, 1976-1980.
Download or read book Federal Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the Canadian Pacific Railway written by Harold Adams Innis and published by London, McClelland. This book was released on 1923 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Empower Your Inner Manager written by Ian R. Mackintosh and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Competition for management jobs intensifies each year. If you are betting your financial welfare on your next management position and subsequent promotions, you will need to be better prepared to capture these increasingly scarce opportunities. In Empower Your Inner Manager, author Ian R. Mackintosh presents a quick guide to help you assess your management skills and create a personalized plan to improve those skills. A career and personal development tool, Empower Your Inner Manager offers a unique process that shows you how to • target management positions; • honestly assess the skills needed to optimize your candidacy; • target only the skills needed to improve; • develop a personalized plan to effect the necessary improvements; and • reassess and revisit your growth needs as they evolve in the future. Building on more than thirty years of management experience in Silicon Valley, Mackintosh provides a hands-on, personal guide to help you to optimize your career, stand out in today’s ultra-competitive job market, and get the job you seek.
Download or read book United States Coast Pilot written by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book United States Coast Pilot written by and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Bruff s Wake written by Harold L. James and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bruff's Wake tells the story of forty-niners who survived hardship with resolve and endurance. The accompanying illustrations, which include a number of Bruff's sketches paired with modern photographs taken at the same sites, give vivid depictions of life and death on the California Trail in 1849. In addition, Bruff's route is correlated to the geography of the modern era, so that the trail can be traced on modern maps. Taken together, the narrative, sketches, photographs, and geological descriptions of the terrain, coupled with generous quotes from Bruff's long-out-of-print journal, allow the reader to follow in Bruff's wake" -- Publisher's description, p. [4] of cover.
Download or read book A Patriot s History of the United States written by Larry Schweikart and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-12-29 with total page 1350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past three decades, many history professors have allowed their biases to distort the way America’s past is taught. These intellectuals have searched for instances of racism, sexism, and bigotry in our history while downplaying the greatness of America’s patriots and the achievements of “dead white men.” As a result, more emphasis is placed on Harriet Tubman than on George Washington; more about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II than about D-Day or Iwo Jima; more on the dangers we faced from Joseph McCarthy than those we faced from Josef Stalin. A Patriot’s History of the United States corrects those doctrinaire biases. In this groundbreaking book, America’s discovery, founding, and development are reexamined with an appreciation for the elements of public virtue, personal liberty, and private property that make this nation uniquely successful. This book offers a long-overdue acknowledgment of America’s true and proud history.
