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Index

Cover Foreword Family

Tapping the Trees The Curling Kettle The Debonaire An Occasion Fit for a Queen Achieving Their Goal The Georgetown Boys Family Ties A-Camping We Will Go Macaroni Sundays When We Were Young Frying Up a Feast Remembering Gram Natural Beauty Gone Fishing Marrying the Farmer’s Daughter What Money Can’t Buy

Kindness

The Wedding Dress Queen of May Water for Africa Vanquishing the Fort McMurray “Beast” Born to Help A Lasting Legacy Saving Our Shorelines Curling for a Cure Helping Blanding’s Turtles Volunteer Veterinary Team Sewing With Pride North of 60 Paddling With Purpose From Milk Bags to Bed Mats From Rescue to Rescuer Flying High on Knowledge Making a Difference Northern Manitoba Matters PrimRose Donkey Sanctuary Lessons Learned in Ethiopia Racing for a Cure Turning Dining Out Into Helping Out Generosity in Motion Give Me Shelter Moulding Young Minds

Valour

Battle of Vimy Ridge Lessons My Father Taught Me Dodging Death Noble Steeds Camp X Legendary Flying Goose Making a Connection Canada’s Dambusters The Forgotten Ones Canadian Kangaroos Lone Rider Uncle Wilfred Remembered Accentuate the Positive Tales From the Sea Izzy’s Story A Letter Home From Afghanistan A Tribute to Our Vets on Remembrance Day A War Vet’s Best Friend Vets in Transition

Memories

Memory-Go-Round Facing Off Against a Blizzard The Coldest Day in Canadian History The Fabric of Her Life My Early Education Hockey Night in Hedley Ice Dreams This Old Sugar Shack Summer Dreaming Larger Than Life A Man Named “Apples” Cowboys, Flapjacks and Fun! The Saturday Matinee Going Home to “Lost Villages” The Last Steam Donkey A Treasure Reclaimed Remembering RCAF Station Namao Sowing the Future

Adventure

High Hopes My Struggle With the Nahanni Climb Every Mountain The Yukon Is Gold Life in Igloolik Beauty and the Barrens Searching for Wild Bill Epic Winter Race The Motorcycle Diaries Grand Manan, New Brunswick The Mystique of Sable Island Swimming Great Bear Wild About Horses

Community

Canada, Do You Have Room for Us? Salami and Popsicles A Fairy Tale of Ice and Magic Reflections on Canada Loving Peace River Come From Away Journey From Nepal A Pioneering Black Nurse A Long Tradition of Service The Show Must Go On Forging New Friendships Breaking Boundaries Beaver Tails and Bear Paws Bilingualism at Its Best Boot Camp, Indigenous-Style Heart to Spirit to Hand Harmonizing Cultures Conserving Canada’s Wild Species Recess in the Arctic The Dream of Belonging Hunting With Mémère

Talent

Learning to See Russian–Israeli–Canadian Jazz Singer Saving Shoebox Memories Woven in History G’zaagin: A Gallery of Love Helene’s Gift Towering Over the Prairie Journey of Discovery The Art of the Deal Making History For Better or Verse Fine Felted Friends Musical Ambassadors Artist and Dreamer

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