Encyclopedias, a cultural icon of the 20th century, were in almost every home. With the post-millennial generation, they silently slipped into obscurity and the dustbin of history. Encyclopedias touched our lives in many ways, whether it was to...
Snapshots of a Heritage
Life day to day on Lake Winnipeg in my life – but a world that few know of then, or today, but even less so in a history that reaches back into the 1880s. The emergence of a commercial fishery in 1882 and following was the cornerstone of...
“I’ll just go back fishing in Hecla”
As I was writing Vikings on a Prairie Ocean, several pieces that I had written as fictionalized accounts based on historical facts did not find their way into the final manuscript and I now publish them on this web site as a mini-series sequel...
Thank God for the Fish
As I was writing Vikings on a Prairie Ocean, several pieces that I had written as fictionalized accounts based on historical facts did not find their way into the final manuscript and I now publish them on this web site as a mini-series sequel. …...