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Meet Steve Thompson Master of the Erik In Master of the Erik, author Steve Thompson has taken an intriguing piece of Canadian maritime history and added a fictional crew to create this compelling historical novel. A Scottish-built whaler, the Erik became, with the decline of the whaling industry, a Hudson's Bay Company Supply Ship. The many voyages of the Erik in the North Atlantic included a dash to the Arctic with Admiral Peary and ended when it was sunk off the coast of St. Pierre and Miquelon by a German submarine during the First World War A prolific writer and gifted story-teller, this is Steve Thompson's third novel. As well as Watchers, Moles and Assassins, and The Chameleon's Revenge, he is also the author of two collections of rural memoirs; Doesn't That Hurt the Cow's Back? and Picture This! 16.95 Of Curds and Whey History of Cheese Factories in Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Rosemary Rutley's story of how the sweet, green grass of Stormont Dundas and Glengarry came to produce, not only the very best cheddar, but some of the most renowned cheesemakers in the world. With over 700 independent factories in eastern Ontario in 1922, only 26 were still making cheese by the mid-1960's. Of Curds and Whey chronicles the rise of one of the regions primary industries and the eventual end of a way of life for farmers who had been milking cows and shipping milk to the local factory for more than a century. $17.95 Voices From the Lost Villages In the late 1950's one hundred square miles of land was flooded with the completion of the St. Lawrence Seaway and Power project. Six villages and 6,000 residents were relocated. This book gives voice to a community and a people that would be changed forever by one of the largest engineering feats of the 20th century. Books available at the following locations Sue's Art Gallery, 130 Sydney Street, Cornwall. Auld Kirktown Craft & Gift Shoppe, South Lancaster. Second Time Around Books, Alexandria. Ingleside Pharmacy, Shopping Centre, Ingleside. Pier 31, Morrisburg. Flare with Fabrics, Chesterville. Seaway Valley Pharmacy, Winchester. Books on Beechwood, Ottawa. Collected Works, 1242 Wellington Street, Ottawa. Leishman Books , Westgate Shopping Centre, Ottawa Leeds County Books, 71 King Street W, Brockville |
