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BC Gold Rush...
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James Douglas
Imagine hand-digging through layers of soggy, worthless, frustrating gravel, hoping and praying the next shovel-stroke will expose a fortune in gold. Twenty feet, thirty feet, forty feet: everyone says it’s crazy, but there’s too much at stake.
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Hooked on lamps...
- by John Syratt
In 1973, eight years after Calgarians Lorne and Star Dickson were married, Lorne’s stepfather gave him a pressed glass table lamp in a pinwheel pattern. That gift would eventually lead them to a bright future in selling and restoring antique and vintage oil lamps. |
Allan Brooks, Wildlife Artist...
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by Ron Candy
Today, over 60 years since his death, Allan Brooks is still remembered as one of the world’s finest wildlife illustrators. Born in India in 1869 and educated in England, Brooks came to Canada with his family in 1881 and settled in Ontario. |
