Within the Stillness: One Family's Winter on a Northern Trapline HMS The Canadian Children's Book Centre

The Canadian Children's Book Centre

In peacetime

and delights of living and working on Western Canadian farms are recorded for posterity and the enjoyment of readers

It's an adventure like nothing they could have imagined

13-year-old Andrea finds herself in 1920s Moose Jaw in the dangerous world of underground gangsters and greed

Within the Stillness: One Family's Winter on a Northern Trapline HMS The Canadian Children's Book CentreKeith Olsens family lived through a harsh Canadian winter in an extremely remote location in northern Saskatchewan. The familys determination turned the rugged wilderness into a modest home. From such a setting come the memories of a profound childhood, one in which simplicity and nature are the most nurturing aspects of the imagination. "It was almost noon when we entered the portage. The fresh autumn air was still quite cool even though the sun was