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A Metis Man's Dream: From Traplines to Tugboats in Canada's North (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781039145498)
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xWhere there's a Gill, there's a way.
Gordon Gill is a gentle, hard-working M騁is man whose journey began on his Iroquois-Cree grandfather's trapline and evolved into a successful business career. His story is one of change and the passing of not just one, but several eras in the development of Canada's North and the evolution of the Indigenous struggle. A M騁is Man's Dream: From Traplines to Tugboats in Canada's North details the history he met, and made, along the way.
Vision, chance, and generosity played integral roles in Gill's evolution from cook's helper on the tugboat MV Malta to founding two groundbreaking companies, Northern Arc Shipbuilders and Northern Crane Services. Gill emerged and flourished despite challenging personal injuries, poverty, reading difficulties, and residential schooling. He weathered the ups and downs of northern conditions, the crush of Canada's National Energy Policy, and changes in culture, economics, and opportunity with a resiliency and way of looking at things that is both visionary and resolutely M騁is.
Gill is a man of many eras, having experienced many historic firsts and lasts, including experiencing the final days of the Indian Day School of Hay River, and directing the design and fabrication of the first short-throw tugboat in the NWT, the MT Gordon Gill. Neil Gower brings together all of this and more in his thoughtful, sensitive compilation of Gill's remembrances of the changes he has seen in his lifetime.
Author: Neil Gower
ISBN-10: 1039145493
ISBN-13: 9781039145498
Publisher: FriesenPress
Language: English
Published: 01/23/2023
Pages: 318
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.37lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001
Gordon Gill is a gentle, hard-working M騁is man whose journey began on his Iroquois-Cree grandfather's trapline and evolved into a successful business career. His story is one of change and the passing of not just one, but several eras in the development of Canada's North and the evolution of the Indigenous struggle. A M騁is Man's Dream: From Traplines to Tugboats in Canada's North details the history he met, and made, along the way.
Vision, chance, and generosity played integral roles in Gill's evolution from cook's helper on the tugboat MV Malta to founding two groundbreaking companies, Northern Arc Shipbuilders and Northern Crane Services. Gill emerged and flourished despite challenging personal injuries, poverty, reading difficulties, and residential schooling. He weathered the ups and downs of northern conditions, the crush of Canada's National Energy Policy, and changes in culture, economics, and opportunity with a resiliency and way of looking at things that is both visionary and resolutely M騁is.
Gill is a man of many eras, having experienced many historic firsts and lasts, including experiencing the final days of the Indian Day School of Hay River, and directing the design and fabrication of the first short-throw tugboat in the NWT, the MT Gordon Gill. Neil Gower brings together all of this and more in his thoughtful, sensitive compilation of Gill's remembrances of the changes he has seen in his lifetime.
Author: Neil Gower
ISBN-10: 1039145493
ISBN-13: 9781039145498
Publisher: FriesenPress
Language: English
Published: 01/23/2023
Pages: 318
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.37lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001
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