Bear Paw Island (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780993711930)

In 1941, Wally Kasper went straight from Leader, Saskatchewan High School to the Royal Canadian Air Force where he trained as a pilot. A year later, he was flying Lancaster bombers over Germany. He moved on to Spitfires and after the war to the University of Toronto where he studied philosophy and political science. He was called back into the air force to teach NATO pilots and did a stint in intelligence in Europe during the Cold War. He left the air force in 1964 and went to work for CIDA setting up training programs in Canada for people round the world. He taught political science and philosophy courses at St. Patrick's, a junior college that fed universities. He has written one book, A night out with the boys, on his war experiences. It had been excerpted for Esprit de Corps magazine. He has written many stories and poems for Canadian Stories magazine. He lives in Ottawa.