Waking Nanabijou : uncovering a secret past /
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Author / Creator: | Poling, Jim, Sr. |
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Imprint: | Toronto [Ont.] : Dundurn, 2007. |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11184430 |
ISBN: | 9781554883738 1554883733 9781459714410 1459714415 9781550027570 1550027573 |
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Notes: | Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record. |
Summary: | A woman from Northern Ontario is buried; her earthly papers reveal a mystery. Veteran Canadian journalist Jim Poling took on the most important assignment of his career: Just who was his mother? Why did she take a lifelong secret to her grave?In his search for clues throughout his childhood years in Northern Ontario, the author goes to Chapleau, the railway town where the people he believed were his ancestors played out their roles in building the railway. It ends in the Prairie village of Innisfree, Alberta, home to Joe LaRose, convicted horse thief and father of a girl destined for trouble. A. |
Other form: | Print version: Poling, Jim (Jim R.). Waking Nanabijou. Toronto : Dundurn, ©2007 9781550027570 1550027573 |
Standard no.: | 9781554883738 |
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