The Inuk Mountie Adventure

"What is the sinister conspiracy that is code-named CanSell, and how does it threaten Canada? The truth is on a micro-cassette that Tom Austen must somehow find before a crucial vote by Canadians on the future of their country. While on a school trip to Gjoa Haven in the high Arctic, tom unexpectedly discovers the micro-cassette might be closer than he thought. Between dog sled races, drum dances and journeys across the tundra, Tom searches for the cassette and learns a valuable lesson from the Inuit about the futility of violence."--Back cover.

A Tom Austen Mystery.

THREE BOOKS IN ONE! THE EMILY CARR MYSTERY Adventure and suspense await Liz Austen and her friend Tiffany in beautiful Victoria. After dangerous moments on dark ocean waters, the two are swept up in the strange world of the ancient Thirteen Oaks mansion and its troubled inhabitants. THE ST. ANDREWS WEREWOLF When Liz Austen lands a role in a summer production of Annie in St. Andrews, New Brunswick, she meets Emily, who desperately needs a good friend to help her discover her own strength and courage. Liz and her friend Makiko also find themselves investigating the legend of the St. Andrews Werewolf, a series of arsons, and a mysterious mansion on an island where time has stood still. THE INUK MOUNTIE ADVENTURE What is the sinister conspiracy that is code-named CanSell, and how does it threaten Canada? The truth is on a microcassette that Tom Austen must somehow find before a crucial vote by Canadians on the future of their country.

The Inuk Mountie Adventure takes Tom Austen on a school trip to Gjoa Haven in the high Arctic. Between drum dances and snowmobile chases across the tundra, Tom must find a micro-cassette that holds the truth about the sinister conspiracy code-named CanSell that threatens Canada. Appealing to children's inherent keen interest in mystery, Eric Wilson has skillfully woven accurate Canadian geographic and historic information into his writing. As such, these novels lend themselves to the integrated study of the mystery genre with Canadian geography topics in social studies, and investigation units in science. The Inuk Mountie Adventure provides rich material for the study of setting, characterization and plot development. This Novel Study provides a teacher and student section with a variety of activities, chapter questions, crossword, and answer key to create a well-rounded lesson plan.

THREE BOOKS IN ONE! THE EMILY CARR MYSTERY Adventure and suspense await Liz Austen and her friend Tiffany in beautiful Victoria. After dangerous moments on dark ocean waters, the two are swept up in the strange world of the ancient Thirteen Oaks mansion and its troubled inhabitants. THE ST. ANDREWS WEREWOLF When Liz Austen lands a role in a summer production of Annie in St. Andrews, New Brunswick, she meets Emily, who desperately needs a good friend to help her discover her own strength and courage. Liz and her friend Makiko also find themselves investigating the legend of the St. Andrews Werewolf, a series of arsons, and a mysterious mansion on an island where time has stood still. THE INUK MOUNTIE ADVENTURE What is the sinister conspiracy that is code-named CanSell, and how does it threaten Canada? The truth is on a microcassette that Tom Austen must somehow find before a crucial vote by Canadians on the future of their country.

But readers of Mountie in Mukluks will soon realize they are in the presence of one of the most un-cop-like cops who ever built an igloo. And by the time they have finished they will never be able to think quite the same way about the fabled Redcoats, or life in the far north. During the 1930s, Bill White gave up trapping and joined the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, volunteering for arctic service. Arctic life was so dodgy in those days of the Mad Trapper and The Lost Patrol, the force couldn't send you there against your will, so volunteering was the only way to get there. Bill started out crewing on the historic RCMP patrol ship St. Roch under the command of the legendary Captain Henry Larsen, but hungered for greater adventure and requested a posting ashore upon reaching Cambridge Bay. Adventure he found: Mountie in Mukluks includes hair-raising accounts of a near-death experience under the ice on a frozen river; of a 1200-mile dog-sled chase after an arctic murderer; and of numerous fascinating encounters with shamans, telepathy and an Inuit way of life that has now vanished from the earth. White's absorbing oral accounts of life in the old north, molded into lively prose by Patrick White, place Mountie in Mukluks among classics of arctic literature like Kabloona by Gontran de Poncins and People of the Deer by Farley Mowat. Mountie in Mukluks is sure to cause a stir among enthusiasts of police and Arctic lore. As a cop who chose to adopt a Native lifestyle and was honoured with his own Inuit name, Bill White makes a devastating critique of the white settler way of life and its red-coated enforcers who disdained the traditions of the Inuit while simultaneously relying on them for survival.

This is the biography of an exceptional Canadian who as a member of the RCMP, played a crucial role in asserting Canada’s sovereignty in the Arctic. Having emigrated to Canada from England in 1913 Harry Stallworthy joined the Force in 1914 and until 1921 served at various detachments in the Yukon, except for the period 1918-19 when he participated in the RNWMP’s Cavalry Detachment as part of the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the final bloody months of World War I in Flanders. After serving for two years at Chesterfield Inlet (west shore of Hudson Bay) he was posted to Edmonton, and while there contracted influenza which developed into pneumonia and very nearly killed him. After two years in Jasper (where he met his future wife, Hilda Austin, the school principal), for two years he served at the new RCMP post at Stony Rapids in Northern Saskatchewan. In 1930 he went north for a two-year posting at Bache Peninsula, Ellesmere Island, one of the three posts established to assert Canadian sovereignty in the uninhabited High Arctic. While there, in 1932 he mounted one of the longest and most dangerous sledge patrols in the history of the Force, in search of the missing German geologist, Hans Krueger. In 1933 the resupply ship was unable to reach Bache Peninsula due to ice conditions, and hence the two-year posting stretched to three years. On Stallworthy’s return south in the fall of 1933, he and Hilda got married – after an almost complete separation of five years! In the light of his experience on Ellesmere Island Harry was next seconded to the Oxford University Ellesmere Land Expedition, organized by Eddie Shackleton, son of Sir Ernest Shackleton, for 1934-35. During this operation Harry sledged to Lake Hazen, Ellesmere Island, the farthest north point ever reached by an RCMP officer on sledge patrol. Thereafter Harry served at various posts in southern Canada, with the exception of a few years at Fort Smith during World War II. He retired in 1946, after which he and Hilda built and ran a small tourist resort, Timberlane, near Campbell River on Vancouver Island. In 1954 Harry came out of retirement briefly, to assume the position of head of security on the eastern half of the DEW Line. He was presented with the Order of Canada by Queen Elizabeth in 1973 and died at his home in Comox, B.C. on Christmas Day, 1976.