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  • Northern Light

    The Enduring Mystery of Tom Thomson and the Woman Who Loved Him

    by Roy MacGregor ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE OTTAWA BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTIONRoy MacGregor's lifelong fascination with Tom Thomson first led him to write Canoe Lake, a novel inspired by a distant relative's affair with one of Canada's greatest painters. Now, MacGregor breaks new ground, re-examining the mysteries of Thomson's life, loves and violent death in the definitive non-fiction account. Why does a ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Canoe Country

    The Making of Canada

    by Roy MacGregor ...
    One of our favourite chroniclers of all things Canadian presents a rollicking, personal, photo-filled history of the relationship between a country and its canoes.From the earliest explorers on the Columbia River in BC or the Mattawa in Ontario to a doomed expedition of voyageurs up the Nile to rescue Khartoum; from the author's family roots deep in the Algonquin wilderness to modern families who ... Read more

    Was $18.99 CAD Now $14.99 CAD

  • Paper Trails

    From the Backwoods to the Front Page, a Life in Stories

    by Roy MacGregor ...
    One of Canada's greatest journalists shares a half century of the stories behind the stories.From his vantage point harnessed to a tree overlooking the town of Huntsville (he tended to wander), a very young Roy MacGregor got in the habit of watching people—what they did, who they talked to, where they went. He has been getting to know his fellow Canadians and telling us all about them ever since ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Reluctant Pioneer

    How I Survived Five Years in the Canadian Bush

    by Thomas Osborne ...
    The view 16-year-old Thomas Osborne first had of Muskoka was at night, trudging alone with his even younger brother along unmarked primitive roads to find their luckless father who, in 1875, had decided to make a new start for his beleaguered family on some "free land" in the bush east of the pioneer village of Huntsville, Ontario. The miracle is that Thomas lived to tell the tale.For the next ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • Original Highways

    Travelling the Great Rivers of Canada

    by Roy MacGregor ...
    Expanding on his landmark Globe and Mail series in which he documented his travels down sixteen of Canada's great rivers, Roy MacGregor tells the story of our country through the stories of its original highways, and how they sustain our spirit, identity and economy—past, present and future.No country is more blessed with fresh water than Canada. From the mouth of the Fraser River in BC, to the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • A Life in the Bush

    Lessons from My Father

    by Roy MacGregor ...
    Winner ofThe CAA–Birks Family Foundation Award for BiographyThe 2000 Ottawa-Carlton Book AwardThe (U.S.) Rutstrum Award for Best Wilderness BookIn 1929, at the age of twenty-two, Duncan MacGregor, the son of a lumberman, great-grandson of a voyageur, and an avid reader and baseball fan, headed off into the largest tract of preserved bush in the world: Ontario’s Algonquin Park. When he got ther... ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Last Season

    by Roy MacGregor ...
    Felix Batterinski grew up tough in Northern Ontario where hockey was the only way out of a life of grinding poverty. He got out and enjoyed fame as a hockey "enforcer" for the Philadelphia Flyers. But fame is fleeting.Now in his thirties and at the end of his playing career, Felix tries to make a go of it as a player-coach for a Finnish club. As the lone Canadian on the team, he is an outsider ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Complete Screech Owls, Volume 1

    by Roy MacGregor ...
    Series Book 1 - Complete Screech Owls
    Celebrating ten years and more than one million books in print!New four-in-one edition!The first four Screech Owls mysteries are now collected in one volume:#1 — Mystery at Lake Placid#2 — The Night They Stole the Stanley Cup#3 — The Screech Owls' Northern Adventure#4 — Murder at Hockey CampScreech Owls books have won the Our Choice Award and the Manitoba Young Reader’s Choice Award. They have ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Canadians

    A Portrait of a Country and Its People

    by Roy MacGregor ...
    Who are we? In Canadians, one of Canada’s most intelligent and beloved writers maps our national psyche in a wonderful and ambitious work. Canadians is an entertaining portrait of this country and its people, through its history, popular culture, literature, sport, landscape, and weather. In his pursuit of the Canadian national identity, MacGregor has travelled far and wide, taking our pulse, ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Home Team

    Fathers, Sons & Hockey

    by Roy MacGregor ...
    Shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award“A truly magnificent book.” —Calgary HeraldIt’s the great Canadian icon: a frozen creek, a backyard rink, a father passing something precious on to his child—the love of a game. There is nothing quite so Canadian as hockey, and nothing quite so evocative in hockey as the relationships between Canadian hockey players and their fathers.Here are the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Wayne Gretzky's Ghost

    And Other Tales from a Lifetime in Hockey

    by Roy MacGregor ...
    Roy MacGregor has been called "the best hockey writer in the country," and we finally have a collection of his very best hockey writing, revised and updated.For nearly 40 years Roy MacGregor has brought hockey, our national sport, alive on the page. From tales of the game's greats (Guy Lafleur, Jean Beliveau, Marcel Dionne) to today's stars (Sidney Crosby, Alex Ovechkin, Daniel and Henrik Sedin), ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Ice Chips and the Invisible Puck

    Ice Chips Series Book 3

    by Roy MacGregor, Kerry MacGregor ...
    Illustrated by Kim Smith ...
    Series Book 4 - Ice Chips
    The third title in the beloved and bestselling Ice Chipsseries by acclaimed authors Roy MacGregor and Kerry MacGregor and illustratorKim Smith, featuring a vibrant and diverse cast of characters and inspiringhockey greatsWould you play on a team withyour worst enemy?LucasFinnigan and his friends on the Riverton Ice Chips know a thing or two abouttime travel—at least, they’ve been learning. ... ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus