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Author Poling, Jim, Sr.

Title Waking Nanabijou : uncovering a secret past / Jim Poling
Published Toronto [Ont.] : Dundurn, 2007

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Contents Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Book One: Water -- Book Two: Trials -- Book Three: Journalism -- Book Four: Nanabijou awakened -- Index
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
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Subject Mothers and sons -- Canada -- Biography
Journalists -- Canada -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
HISTORY -- General.
Journalists
Mothers and sons
Canada
Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781554883738
1554883733
9781459714410
1459714415