Milk Spills And One Log Loads

Author : Frank White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781550177343
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Milk Spills and One-Log Loads written by Frank White and published by . This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank White started writing the story of his life as a pioneer BC truck driver in 1974 when he was only sixty. His boisterous yarn in Raincoast Chronicles about wrangling tiny trucks overloaded with huge logs down steep mountains with no brakes won the Canadian Media Club award for Best Magazine Feature and was reprinted so many times everyone urged him to write more. He started in his spare time but kept having so many new adventures he didn't finish until 2013--his hundredth year. Although Frank set out to tell the story of his life in transportation, from the horse and buggy age to trucking in the BC freighting and logging industries, Milk Spills & One-Log Loads is much more than that. Just as absorbing as his accounts of obstreperous men wrestling big timber are his memories of becoming his family's designated driver at age twelve; of his grandfather, who kept the bible on a pulpit in the living room and never passed it without stopping to preach; of the stiff-necked farmers who hitched rides to Vancouver so they could take in the sinful delights of skid row; of collisions with streetcars and tsunamis of spilled milk; of the hysteria that gripped the BC coast after Pearl Harbor; of starting married life with a family of ten pigs; and romantic interludes exploring idyllic islands and living off clams. Milk Spills & One-Log Loads has all the hair-raising road tales one could ask for, but it is a moving story of personal growth, a vivid account of life as working people lived it on Canada's west coast during the rough-and-tumble years of the early twentieth century.

Author : Frank White
Publisher : Harbour Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781550176223
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Milk Spills & One-log Loads written by Frank White and published by Harbour Publishing Company. This book was released on 2013 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the author's life and experiences in transportation, chronicling the growth of the trucking industry in British Columbia.

Author : Howard White
Publisher : Harbour Publishing
ISBN 13 : 155017925X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Here on the Coast written by Howard White and published by Harbour Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-27 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No matter where people live on the BC coast, says Howard White, they have certain shared experiences: frustration with rain and ferries, familiarity with gumboots, bumbershoots, seagull droppings and barnacles in the wrong places. But each little community clings to its own sense of uniqueness and considers itself the true West Coast. As a case in point, White offers fifty funny sketches of life as he has come to know it in sixty-odd years of living along that hundred-mile stretch of monsoon-prone shoreline ironically known as the Sunshine Coast. Included is what must be one of the most admiring testaments ever written about the virtues of the old-time outhouse; fond remembrances of saltwater fishing when a bad day meant you didn’t hook something in twenty minutes; and explorers who stooped to naming islands after favourite racehorses. We also meet a “bouquet of characters,” including a lyrical logger known as Pete the Poet; a diabolical seagoing remittance man; the saintly Quaker philosopher Hubert Evans and White’s barrier-busting Aunt Jean who taught him the advantages of “scientifically enlarging the truth.” Along with accounts of waste disposal wars and wry observations on modern technology, Here On the Coast offers a West Coast counterpart to such favourites as Letters From Wingfield Farm and Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town.

Author : Frank White
Publisher : Harbour Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1550176692
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book That Went By Fast written by Frank White and published by Harbour Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-25 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ex-logger and gas station owner Frank White says living to the age of one hundred is not all it’s cracked up to be but it has some plusses. When he trundles down to the local shopping centre in Pender Harbour pretty girls hug him and everybody in town seems to be glad he’s lived another day. But celebrity has its drawbacks—when he was only fifty and still had most of his marbles, people only wanted to know what was wrong with their car. But “Now that everything is starting to get hazy, they’re not satisfied unless I can tell them the meaning of life.” In this second memoir in two years, centenarian White sifts through his lengthy adventures trying to live up to those expectations of wisdom before deciding “Life just is.” But what a wild ride he takes us on! Born at the start of the First World War and maturing during the Great Depression, he worked variously as a pioneer freight hauler, pioneer truck logger, camp owner, garment presser, boat builder, home builder, excavating contractor, garage mechanic and waterworks operator, among other things. Then in later life he married the sophisticated and well-connected New Yorker writer Edith Iglauer and started a totally different way of life consisting of opera, celebrity dinners and world travel. His ironic observations on the differences between the two worlds make for fascinating and frequently hilarious reading.

Author : Frank White
Publisher : Harbour Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781550176681
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book That Went by Fast written by Frank White and published by Harbour Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ex-logger and gas station owner Frank White says living to the age of one hundred is not all it's cracked up to be but it has some plusses. When he trundles down to the local shopping centre in Pender Harbour pretty girls hug him and everybody in town seems to be glad he's lived another day. But celebrity has its drawbacks--when he was only fifty and still had most of his marbles, people only wanted to know what was wrong with their car. But "Now that everything is starting to get hazy, they're not satisfied unless I can tell them the meaning of life." In this second memoir in two years, centenarian White sifts through his lengthy adventures trying to live up to those expectations of wisdom before deciding "Life just is." But what a wild ride he takes us on! Born at the start of the First World War and maturing during the Great Depression, he worked variously as a pioneer freight hauler, pioneer truck logger, camp owner, garment presser, boat builder, home builder, excavating contractor, garage mechanic and waterworks operator, among other things. Then in later life he married the sophisticated and well-connected New Yorker writer Edith Iglauer and started a totally different way of life consisting of opera, celebrity dinners and world travel. His ironic observations on the differences between the two worlds make for fascinating and frequently hilarious reading.

Author : Jeanne Mager Stellman
Publisher : International Labour Organization
ISBN 13 : 9789221098171
Total Pages : 922 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopaedia of Occupational Health and Safety written by Jeanne Mager Stellman and published by International Labour Organization. This book was released on 1998 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stith Thompson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253338846
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Motif-Index of Folk-Literature, Volume 4 written by Stith Thompson and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1955 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This monumental work has now become... the indispensable tool of all folk narrative scholars." --Southern Folklore Quarterly "A work of this kind can never be quite complete, but in this work Stith Thompson has approached perfection." --Volkskunde "An invaluable aid to students and scholars... " --Reference & Research Book News Indiana University Press, with the generous support of the L. J. and Mary C. Skaggs Foundation, is pleased to announce the republication of this folklore classic, in honor of the centenary of the American Folklore Society.

Author : Janet Love Morrison
Publisher : Harbour Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781550174328
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Crazy Canucks written by Janet Love Morrison and published by Harbour Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2009 One Book, One Vancouver: The Host City Reads "Janet Love Morrison has written about an important part of our sporting history . . . For a younger generation, this is like discovering the people who laid the first tracks in fresh powder--the boys of winter who inspired so many who followed." --Peter Mansbridge, foreword No one in Europe had ever seen anything like it: a handful of young Canadian men fearlessly hurling themselves down the iciest, steepest courses of the ski racing circuit. At first they were regarded as a bit of a joke as they travelled in a rusty old Volkswagen and showed little regard for the niceties of European alpine traditions. In the early 1970s no non-European had ever won a Men's World Cup downhill and nobody expected this to change. Then in 1975 Canadian Ken Read won at Val d'Isère and the Canadian boys began appearing on World Cup podiums with increasing regularity. It didn't take long for journalists to start calling them the "Kamikaze Canadians," but the name that stuck was the "Crazy Canucks." The courage and high spirits of the young Canadian racers--Jim Hunter, David Murray, Dave Irwin, Ken Read and Steve Podborski--made them favourites across Europe, where Swiss or Austrian or French fans would rather see Canadians win than their old archrivals. In The Crazy Canucks, Janet Love Morrison chronicles the grit and perseverance of the young skiers who believed they had the right stuff to win and keep winning. Her careful research and interviews with all the key players paint a detailed picture of the Crazy Canucks. As Canadians approach the 2010 Olympics with high hopes for their ski teams, The Crazy Canucks provides a timely look at a most distinguished--and colourful--chapter in our nation's sporting history.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Energy Research Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ERDA Energy Research Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: