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Author Koretchuk, Patricia

Title Chasing the Comet : a Scottish-Canadian Life
Published Waterloo : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (263 pages)
Contents Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1. Scotland; 2. Beginning the Trail; 3. Quebec; 4. A Detour through Hell; 5. Claresholm; 6. The Okanagan Valley-Surviving Together; 7. Kamloops, BC; 8. Colony Farm; 9. Of Love and War; 10. Fatherhood and a Different World; 11. Hatzic; 12. Return to Colony Farm-Herdsman; 13. Tranquille; 14. Colony Farm-The Final Years; 15. Aldergrove; 16. Tanzania; Epilogue; Notes
Summary "Dour Scot" is the wrong description for David Caldow, who leads readers on a romp from the early twentieth century to the present, from an insular Scottish village to modern-day, multicultural British Columbia, from boyhood to old age. Throughout the tour he shares decades of laughter, tears, fears, and growth. In 1910, the certain path of David's life in Scotland is disrupted by the visit of an awe-inspiring comet. This brilliant visitor inspires the boy to dream of circling the world, like the comet, even though his life's goal is to become a farm manager, like his father. As a young man
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Subject Caldow, David
Caldow, David
Farm managers -- British Columbia -- Biography
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Agronomy -- Crop Science.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Agronomy -- General.
Farm managers
British Columbia
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780889207400
0889207402