What is the Canadian National Animal? The Polar Bear! First Posted on July 9, 2012 by Brian Alan Burhoe. What is Canada’s National Animal? The Polar Bear! A Patriot’s Rant… “The polar bear, with its strength, courage, resourcefulness, and dignity is perfect for the part,” Nicole Eaton said in an historic speech to
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Harwood Steele was one of the best writers of Mountie fiction. TO EFFECT AN ARREST Adventures of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police by Harwood Steele – Book Review “In the opinion of Daddy Weston, this is the finest of all the stories of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police…” TO EFFECT AN ARREST
Ed Gorman, writer. The Man who really wrote the Brothers in Blood Mountie Novels. BROTHERS IN BLOOD: Ed Gorman Mountie Novels as by Daniel St James Just as U.S. Marshall Frank Adams was about to set down his schooner of beer and face the man who’d just called him a name, the man
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Mountie fiction writers and stories. GREATEST WRITERS OF MOUNTIE FICTION Top 10 Authors Canadian Mounted Police Written by Brian Alan Burhoe 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
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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… Written by Brian Alan Burhoe My first adult job after escaping high school was working
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George Marsh wrote SLED TRAILS AND WHITE WATERS. Tales of the Great White North! SLED TRAILS AND WHITE WATERS by George Marsh – Book Review by Brian Alan Burhoe American writer George Tracy Marsh is remembered most today for his adventure stories of the Northcountry wilderness around Hudson Bay. And the wild animals
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Native American Legend: Wild Woman of the Woods. “The Wild Woman carries a basket on her back which contains the children that she caught.” Native American Legend: Dzunuk’wa the Wild Woman of the Woods – Woman of the Mask. Posted by Brian Alan Burhoe, creator of CivilizedBears. I was 8 when we returned
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Silver Chief, Dog of the North… SILVER CHIEF – DOG OF THE NORTH by Jack O’Brien Book Review – Wolf Dog “A yellow light gleamed through the trees, and the sound of flopping, crunching snow came to the dog. “Now a man stood beneath him and great fear rose up in the heart
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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 in
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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.”