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c2010., Adult, McArthur Call No: Fic Alm Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Alford saga Volume: bk. 1Summary Note: "Imagine you're in a swaying hammock on a British man-o'war around 1800, riding out a harsh spring storm in a deserted estuary of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Behind those high red cliffs lie a hundred miles of uncharted wilderness, populated only by indigenous peoples. If you jump ship and are caught, you will be branded a deserter -- subject to death by one thousand lashes. What can you bring to help you survive? Within minutes, the ice-strewn waters will freeze your body and claim your soul. Even if this were your one chance for a life in the New World, would you jump? Thomas Manning did, and his leap into uncertainty begins the epic tale of a pioneer family, one of the many who built our great nation. Through his and his descendants' eyes, we watch one small community's impact on the great events which swirl about them and bring conflicts they must face in their struggles to create homes and families. Absorbing, touching and full of adventure, THE DESERTER is Book One of the Alford saga, a series chronicling two hundred years of Canadian history, as seen through the eyes of a settler's family."--Back cover.
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2014., General, Red Deer Press Call No: QWF Fic Alm Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Alford saga Volume: 6Summary Note: Eric Alford's safe and romantic life on the peaceful Gaspe Coast is shattered by his decision to follow his elder brother John (the Pilgrim and The Chaplain) into the 1914-18 cataclysm of death and destruction known as the "Great War for Civilisation". By his thundering Howitzer, Gunner Alford assaults the Hun through every major Canadian battle of WWI: Ypres, Vimy Ridge, Passchendaele, Hill 70, The Somme, and "The Hundred Days" that ended the conflict. A developing romance with a lovely Londoner is cut short by a German shell. Evacuated to a Rouen field hospital, he is surrounded by hellish wounds: blindness, amputations, and gas-inflicted horrors. Finally, back in Blighty among other shell-shock victims, he recovers and returns to his Gaspe home, bereft of his London love and changed forever.
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2015., Red Deer Press Call No: QWF Fic Alm Edition: ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: This eighth and final novel in the Alford Saga is a stand-alone autobiographical roman à clef about the remarkable life, loves, agonies and achievements of one of Canadaœs most distinguished film and television producer-directors.After returning home on the death of his father, Paul Alford struggles to make his living as a writer, but somehow lands a job as a producer-director in the newly created drama department of the CBC. Thus begins a long career that takes Alford to New York, London and Hollywood and eventually leads to his celebrated, ground-breaking trilogy with Genevieve Bujold, Isabel, Act of the Heart and Journey, now part of the Canadian film canon.On the television front, Alford produced and directed and sometimes wrote more than 120 dramas. Notable among these were his TV adaptations of the works of such legendary playwrights and authors as Jean Anouilh, Harold Pinter, Christopher Fry, Tennessee Williams and Dylan Thomas; his Macbeth with Sean Connery; his production of Mother and Daughter, starring Angela Leigh, principal dancer of the National Ballet of Canada, and her daughter; and his creation of what has been dubbed one of the best documentaries of all time: Seven Up!A must-read story about the flowering of the Canadian culture industry, The Inheritor is a virtual whoœs who of film and television in Canada in the 1950s, featuring such renowned Canadian actors as William Shatner, Donald Sutherland, Kate Reid, William Hutt, Barry Morse, Frances Hyland, Gordon Pinsent, Martha Henry and Tony Van Bridge... the list goes on.
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c2011., Adult, McArthur & Co. Call No: QWF Fic Alm Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Young Jim sets out on snowshoes for Montreal, seven hundred miles away. Arriving at last, Jim is driven by starvation into a back-breaking job constructing the Victoria Bridge. Jim finds lodgings with an Irish widow in Griffintown, and falls in love. After being deceived in this romance, he rejects the bitter realities of urban life and returns to the Old Homestead and its community of pioneers. His ageing father recruits him to rally neighbours to found a school for their children and a church for their worship in Shigawake.
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2011., McArthur & Company Call No: QWF Fic Alm Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: The Alford Saga Volume: 2Summary Note: Thomas Manning, branded a deserter from the British Navy, is forced to change his name to James Alford to avoid the death penalty. Determined to forge a new life on the Gasp#xE9; Peninsula, he struggles to survive the harsh landscape and win the hand of Catherine Garrett. After working in harsh sub-zero woods, he saves the life of an orphan working in a sawmill, and so gains crucial lumber to build a homestead out of intractable wilderness. But first he must battle murderous brigands to rescue a starving bull calf he hopes will be the first of the oxen he so desperately needs to clear his land. Finally, heroically surviving Canada's worst-ever famine, he faces down implacable bureaucracies to keep the farm he has been fighting to bring under cultivation.A captivating and fast-paced adventure, THE SURVIVOR is Book Two of the Alford Saga, a series chronicling two hundred years of Canadian history, as seen through the eyes of one settler's family.
