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Cecil B DeMille, Call of the North & Tikah People – aka Tiger Indians

Cecil B DeMille of Hollywood… Cecil B DeMille, Call of the North & Tikah People – aka Tiger Indians. Written by Brian Alan Burhoe, creator of Civilized Bears.   Cast & Crew of Cecil B DeMille’s Call of the North, 1914 Here’s a great story about Cecil B DeMille and the Tikah People. And the […]

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GREATEST WRITERS OF MOUNTIE FICTION Top 10 Authors Canadian Mounted Police

Mountie fiction writers and stories.   GREATEST WRITERS OF MOUNTIE FICTION Top 10 Authors Canadian Mounted Police   How did a handful of real-life Policemen become National Mythic Heroes?  Meet the Top 10 Writers of Mountie Fiction! “No other nation owes its primary Mythology to such a mix of international writers!  Four Americans, three Canadians,

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Working on the Highway – Memories of an Appalachian Mountains Highways Worker

I’m Working on the highway, all day long I don’t stop. Working on the highway, blasting through the bedrock…   Working on the Highway – Memories of an Appalachian Mountains Highways Worker Or, Once Upon A Time In Canada…   My first adult job after escaping high school was working for the New Brunswick Provincial

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CANADIAN PATRIOTIC VOICES True North Songs, Poems & Stories

Canadian patriotic songs… Our stories.   CANADIAN PATRIOTIC VOICES: True North Songs, Poems & Stories   Canadian Patriotic Voices: We were living in Post-War Yorkshire then. It had been a few months since we’d moved from Canada, but my memories of that forevergreen land were strong and I missed it. I had started school outside

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WOODLAND CREE HISTORY Hunters, Trappers, Scouts, Soldiers, Residential Students, Entrepreneurs

Woodland Cree People   WOODLAND CREE HISTORY: Hunters, Trappers, Scouts, Soldiers, Residential Students, Entrepreneurs   I learned something of the Northern Woodland Cree from my father. Dad had served in the Algonquin Regiment during WWII. Some of his fellow members had been Cree. “They were the best of friends — they always had your back.”

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My Fave Atlantic Seafood Recipes: Lobster chowder – Atlantic Scallops au Gratin – Baked Stuffed Haddock

My Fave Atlantic Seafood Recipes   My Fave Atlantic Seafood Recipes: Lobster chowder – Atlantic Scallops au Gratin – Baked Stuffed Haddock   I’ve been asked, “What do you love to cook at home, Brian?” Well, I’m a Maritime Canadian. The Atlantic Ocean is just over there. I loved cooking seafood in restaurants for years,

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BEAR ENCOUNTERS: Top 7 Places for Bear Watching in Canada

Bear watching   BEAR ENCOUNTERS: Top 7 Places for Bear Watching in Canada   Introduction by Brian Alan Burhoe, creator of Civilized Bears. I’ve met a few bears in the forest.  Not bear watching.  Just by chance.  Almost bumped into a couple of ’em. Except for those four boyhood years in Yorkshire, I was born

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