Explore the connection between people and places on the rugged shore of Lake Superior, the world’s largest freshwater lake.
Conor Mihell offers a compelling image of Lake Superior’s Canadian shore through colourful personality sketches, adventure stories, and environmental accounts. Admire the kitschy decor of lighthouse cottager Maureen Robertson, a 76-year-old who spends six months of the year alone on a remote island; enter the debate over a controversial aggregate quarry in Wawa, Ontario; and learn how the author’s love affair with the world’s largest freshwater lake began on quests for a near-mystical, glacier-dropped monolith.
Mihell’s stories build on Lake Superior’s rich and varied history and support its critical place in Canadian culture. Since the beginning, Lake Superior has been revered for its God-like qualities of power, unpredictability, and a seemingly endless expanse of life-sustaining freshwater. The lake’s rugged yet fragile nature and hardscrabble characters and outpost communities define rural northwestern Canada. Experience it for yourself in this first collection of stories by one of the region’s most acclaimed journalists.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]) and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 971.3/12
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- nl-----
- ISBN
- 9781459702462 9781459702479
- LCCN
- F552
- LCCN Item number
- M55 2012eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (214 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00229108 (OCoLC)772686038 (CaOOCEL)440035
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- THE GREATEST LAKE 4
- Copyright 5
- Map 7
- CONTENTS 8
- INTRODUCTION 10
- CHAPTER 1 18
- CHAPTER 2 34
- CHAPTER 3 42
- CHAPTER 4 58
- CHAPTER 5 70
- CHAPTER 6 78
- CHAPTER 7 98
- CHAPTER 8 106
- CHAPTER 9 116
- CHAPTER 10 126
- CHAPTER 11 136
- CHAPTER 12 152
- CHAPTER 13 164
- CHAPTER 14 174
- CHAPTER 15 186
- CHAPTER 16 194
- AFTERWORD 208
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 214
- RECOMMENDED READING 216
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR 217
- INDEX 218
- OF RELATED INTEREST 224