Local Authors

Here is a listing of the books we have by authors from Thunder Bay and Northwestern Ontario.

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* denotes books that are only available in Brodie's Special Collection.

A

Anthologies

• 807 : a Northwestern Ontario literary review - edited by Rosalind Maki and Deborah deBakker
• Brandy & summer wine : an anthology of personal poems, critiques & biographies from the Bell, Book & Candle Poetry Club of Thunder Bay - compiled by Bill MacDonald
• Core samples : poems from Northwestern Ontario by Mary Frost, Sharon Irvine, Sue Blott, Sherri Lankinen, and Cathy Carroll
• Echoes of Thunder - by the Writers’ Circle ; edited by Catherine Bodnarchuk et al.
• Flying colours : new stories from Northwestern Ontario - edited by Rosalind Maki
• NOWW : the magazine of Northwestern Ontario writers workshop - edited by Rosalind Maki and Deborah deBakker
• Reflections of Thunder - by the Writers’ Circle ; edited by Meghan Hanbury et al
• Rigor : lyric poems - by Creative Writing Students at Lakehead University *
• Thunder on the Bay - by the Writers’ Circle
• Thundering - by the Writers’ Circle
• Voice of Thunder - by The Writers’ Circle; edited by Irene Warmenhoven

Abramsky, David

• Nordic theme: official theme of the 1995 Nordic world ski championship, March 1995, Thunder Bay, Canada *

Aggarwal, Arjun

• Handbook on Labour & industrial relations literature in Northwestern Ont. *

Anderson, Heather

• A Little More than Perfect: My Life With (and in spite of) Osteogenisis Imperfecta

Andra-Warner, Elle

• Edmund Fitzgerald: the legendary Great Lakes shipwreck
• Hudson’s Bay Company adventures: tales of Canada’s early fur traders
• Hudson’s Bay Company adventures: the rollicking saga of Canada’s fur traders
• Life in a thundering bay: voices from Thunder Bay’s past
• The Mounties: tales of adventure and danger from the early days
• Movers and Mavericks: Thunder Bay’s famous, infamous and not-so famous
• Robert Service: a great Canadian poet’s romance with the north
• Sentimental Journeys
• The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Arthur, Elizabeth

• Simon J. Dawson, C.E.
• Thunder Bay District, 1821-1892 : a collection of documents

Autio, Karen - You can read our interview with her on tbplofftheshelf.com.

• Kah-Lan: the adventurous sea otter
• Saara’s Passage
• Second Watch
• Sabotage

B

Baarschers, William H., 1932-

• Eco-facts & eco-fiction : understanding the environmental debate

Barr, Elinor

• Annotated bibliography of English-language books and articles relating to the Swedish experience in Canada *
• The frontier as experienced on the Precambrian Shield:a study of Ignace, Ontario from 1883 to 1908 *

Bartsch, Werner

• Exit with excellence : how one unusual shutdown transformed mining traditions, Caland Ore Co. Ltd., Atikokan, Ontario, 1960-1980 *
• Practical visionaries : innovators in learning and change *

Beadle, Gert

• The resisting spirit *
• Rising : selected poems *
• Salt and yeast : selected poems *

Beaulieu, Michel S.

• Celluloid dreams : an illustrated history of early filmmaking at the Lakehead, 1900-1931
• Essays in Northwestern Ontario working class history : Thunder Bay and its environs
• Final fantasy and philosophy : the ultimate walkthrough
• Labour at the Lakehead : ethnicity, socialism, and politics, 1900-35
• The lady lumberjack : an annotated collection of Dorothea Mitchell's writings
• The little Third Reich on Lake Superior : a history of Canadian internment Camp R - Completed and edited by Michel S. Beaulieu
• North of Superior : an illustrated history of northwestern Ontario
• Pulp friction : communities and the forest industry in a globalized world

Beck, Jenny

• A world of dragons

Belrose, David

• Answering a different call: my (queer) Thunder Bay life

Benedet, David A.

• Great Lakes Marine Archives ship plan collection *
• Port Arthur built : an illustrated history of the Port Arthur Shipbuilding Company 1910-1993

Bertrand, J.P. (1880-1964)

• Timber wolves : greed and corruption in Northwestern Ontario's timber industry, 1875-1960

Black, Arthur

• Arthur! Arthur! More comic sketches from the master’s pen
• Back to Black: comic sketches
• Basic Black: the wit and whimsy of Arthur Black
• Black & White and Read all over
• Black by Popular Demand: more wit and whimsy
• Black gold: nuggets from a lifetime of laughs
• Black in the saddle again
• Black is the new green
• Black tie and tales
• Creative Canada Creatif welcomes you to Thunder Bay *
• Fifty shades of Black
• Old Fort William: not the definitive, authorized, shrinkproof, cling-free story
• Pitch Black
• Planet Salt Spring (cd book only)
• That old Black magic

Black, Jessica

• The anti-inflammation diet and recipe book : protect yourself and your family from heart disease, arthritis, diabetes, allergies-- and more
• Living with Crohn's & colitis cookbook : nutritional guidance, meal plans, and over 100 recipes for improved health and wellness

Blazino, Darryl

• A brief time in heaven : wilderness adventures in canoe country

Braun, Harold S.

• A Northern vision : the development of Lakehead University

Brown, Loranne

• The Handless Maiden

Buffett, Bryan

• All my friends *
• Lines to a Lady *

Burkowski, Gordon

• Can-Car : a history 1912-1992

Burnford, Sheila

• Bel-Ria: dog of war
• The fields of noon *
• The incredible journey
• Mr. Noah and the second flood
• One woman’s Arctic
• Without reserve

Butcher, Scott - You can read our interview with him on tbplofftheshelf.com.

• An eagle’s heart
• The Fairly Stillwart chronicles

C

Campbell, George

• The final adventure of Old Fort William : being a short chronicle of the life, times and re-birth of the fort on the Kaministiquia.
• Paddlers of the north
• Performance *
• The spirit, the lamp, and the key : being a brief chronicle history of St. Joseph's Hospital, Thunder Bay during its first 100 years *
• Thunder Bay's real giant : being a very brief summary of the fascinating life and achievements of Mr. C.D. Howe *
• The town that arrested a train

Carroll, Mae

• Phillip Neault, pioneer *

Chambers, Lee - You can read our interview with him on tbplofftheshelf.com.

• The Pineville heist

Chacaby, Ma-nee

• A two-spirit journey : the autobiography of a lesbian Ojibwa-Cree elder

Chapman, Marilyn

• The secrets of the jack pines

Christie, Michael - You can read our interview with him on tbplofftheshelf.com.

• The beggar’s garden
• If I Fall, If I Die

Ciemny, Anne

• Letters to my son : a healing journey *

Collins, Ken

• Oatmeal and Eaton's catalog : memoirs of an immigrant and life in the roaring twenties and the hungry thirties

Coslett, Jim

• Fresh water cartoons *

Craib, Karen

• A delightful collection of library detective columns

D

D’Acre, Jacqueline

• Foreclosure

Danton, Cindy

• Into the light : seeking your positive centre *

Dawson, K.C.A. (Kenneth C.)

• Algonkians of Lake Nipigon : an archaeological survey *
• Archaeological shore survey at Pukaskwa Park, Ontario, 1974 *
• The Kaministikwia Intaglio dog effigy mound. *
• The McCluskey site *
• Original people and Euro-Canadians in northwestern Ontario : the road west, the hinge of a developing state *
• The Potato Island site, District of Kenora, Ont. *
• Prehistory of northern Ontario *
• A preliminary archaeological investigation of the North West Company Post on the Kaministiquia River, Fort William 1800-1821 *

Dean, Pauline

• Manitouwadge : cave of the Great Spirit *
• Old Fort William... : ... past & present
• Sagas of Superior, the island sea... and its Canadian shore
• Thoughts in flight *

Dick, Leonard G.

• Broken spirit *

Dickson, H. Leighton

• Cold stone and ivy
• Songs in the year of the cat
• To journey in the year of the tiger
• To walk in the way of lions

Driben, Paul

• Aroland is our home: an incomplete victory in applied anthropology *
• The generation of power and fear: the Little Jackfish river hydroelectric project and the Whitesand Indian Band *
• The northern economy: benefits, problems, and prospects *
• When freedom is lost : the dark side of the relationship between government and the Fort Hope Band *

F

Ferrante, Bonnie

• The amida tree
• Terror at White Otter Castle
• What’s missing: clothes
• What’s missing: faces

Fiddler, Thomas

• Killing the shamen

Frim, Rose

• International Friendship Garden : centennial project of Soroptimist International of Thunder Bay

Frost, Mary

• Straight lines

Fulford, Hazel

• When trains stopped in Dinorwic : the story of Eric Rhind *
• The Gold Rock letters : secrets of Watson's Point
• The Morrisseau papers : an inside story
• Sign from above : a Red Lake mystery
• Wabigoon burning : and other stories
• Yellow brick roads to Gold Rock : chasing the dream *

G

Galgut, Damon

• The good doctor
• In a strange room: three journeys
• The quarry

H

Haggarty, Holly

• Dream dad
• Summer dragons

Hanschke, Violet

• Days of sunshine *

Hatton, C. Nathan

• Rugged game: community, culture and wrestling at the Lakehead to 1933

Henderson, E. Marion

• James Henderson, 1849-1899 : with Sandford Fleming's preliminary survey for C.P.R. north of Lake Superior *
• The McKellar story : McKellar pioneers in Lake Superior's mineral country, 1839 to 1929
• Miss E. Marion Henderson : resume. *

Hurrell, T.S.

• "Fooles, lovers, children, dames" *

I

Irvine, Sharon

• Close encounters : short stories
• Watching the parade : poems

J

Jewell, Margaret

• Spinning cobwebs *

Johnston, Harcourt T.

• History of Presbyterianism in Thunder Bay and District, 1869-1980 *

Jones, Amy

• We’re all in this together
• What boys like

Jones, Marianne

• Here, on the ground
• Highway 17: a collection of poems *
• Robert Davidson: eagle of the dawn
• The serenity stone murder

K

Karlstedt, Fiona

• Northwestern Ontario status of women initiatives, 1973-1987 *

Kenny, George

• October stranger *
• Indians don't cry = Gaawiin Mawisiiwag Anishinaabeg

Khani, Derek

• The dot that became everything

Klein, J.M.

• Everything you should know about skin infections, volume 1 *

Kleitsch, Christel

• Dancing feathers *

Kosoris, Alexander - You can read our interview with him on tbplofftheshelf.com.

• Lucifer

Kouhi, Elizabeth

• Escape to White Otter Castle
• Growing Masks
• Jamie of Fort William
• Jamie of Thunder Bay
• Maggie’s Lighthouse Summer
• Michael Builds a Frog House
• Naming: poems
• No Words in English: a novel
• North Country Spring: a book of verse for children
• Round Trip Home
• Sarah Jane of Silver Islet
• The story of Philip
• Trick or treat by the Railway Tracks
• Waiting for Greening: poems

Krys, Michelle - You can read our interview with her on tbplofftheshelf.com.

• Charmed
• Hexed
• Dead Girls Society

L

Laderoute, David

• Out of time

Landiak, Olga

• Death of a sweet guy
• Species : you man me woe-man *
• Suicide anyone? *

Lavoie, Edgar J.

• And the Geraldton way: a history of Geraldton and district up to 1947
• Muskeg tours: historic sites of the Little Long Lac Gold Camp
• The Beardmore relics

Liman, Claude

• Becoming my father

M

MacDonald, Bill

• Barnabas Snug Harbour
• Branches : fifty years of family secrets : a sentimental history of Fort William and Port Arthur
• Catwalk : a feline odyssey
• Christmas Eve at Silver Islet : a winter pilgrimage
• Close the door softly and other stories
• Clowns in the closet : the life and times of Uncle Sol
• Confessions of a Cornish miner : Silver Islet 1870-1884
• Daughters of the sun : a winter at St.-Tropez
• Emanations of Silver Islet
• Further emanations of Silver Islet : volume II
• Goodbye Picadilly! : a Silver Islet shipwreck
• The great millenium Mount Everest cat expedition & other stories
• Happy-go-lucky : Silver Islet shenanigans
• The holly tree
• Home before dark : tales out of school
• A house in the country and other stories
• Hyenas in the streets : a novel
• Lamplight : a Silver Islet saga
• On Mink Mountain
• Oscar the institutional cat : a feline autobiography
• Patagonian odyssey : a travel memoir
• The quarry
• Requiem for Aunt Rose & other stories
• Ruby's last ride and other stories
• Shadows at sunset : a memoir
• Shaganash : Lake Superior lighthouse
• Sirens
• Skull rock scandal, or confessions of a chambermaid : one woman's life and death at Silver Islet
• Soothsayer
• Still more emanations of Silver Islet, volume III *
• Stinging nettles : a summer at Silver Islet
• Stone stairs and steeple bells : the short, shocking life of Leonard Roche
• Through a dark cloud shining
• The true "Intrepid" : Sir William Stephenson and the unknown agents
• Trout tales & salmon stories *
• Tyke and Dusty : a biography of two house cats
• Vive Zigoto! travels through the South of France with a lady journalist and her cat
• Voyage of the Pelican : a Thunder Bay odyssey
• The whales of Superior & other scandalous tales from the Kestitupa
• Windows on the street : a saga

MacDonald, Jake

• The bridge out of town
• Houseboat chronicles : notes from a life in Shield country
• Indian river : a novel
• Lakes, lures and lodges : an angler's guide to Western Canada
• Raised by the river

Martell, Kurt

• Nowadays

Matthews, Tim

• Flavours of Northwestern Ontario
• A taste of Thunder Bay : healthy cooking

Mauro, Joseph (1931-2001)

• Index to Thunder Bay : a history *
• Thunder Bay : a city's story
• Thunder Bay: a history : the golden gateway of the great Northwest.
• My rambling heart : an autobiography *

McGregor, Ted

• Men die - gold is forever: a novel

McLeod, Heather

• Kiss me! : I’m a prince!

McLuhan, Elizabeth

• Altered egos : the multimedia work of Carl Beam *
• Daphne Odjig : a retrospective 1946-1986 *
• Norval Morrisseau and the emergence of the image makers *
• Vision circle : the art of Roy Thomas : a retrospective exhibition

Mead, Florence

• Threads from a tapestry *
• Through the Kenora gateway *

Michalyshyn, Peter B.

• Tic-tac-togetherness : a collection of intercultural games for children *

Michels, R.E.

• The Atikokan story *

Morrison, Jean

• Labour pains : Thunder Bay's working class in Canada's wheat boom era
• Superior rendezvous-place : Fort William in the Canadian fur trade
• The North West Company in rebellion : Simon McGillivray's Fort William notebook, 1815

Muchano, Tonya

• Animal tracks

Mullo, Marc

• Poetic potpourri

N

Neill, Owen

• Eye of the wolf
• Gone to gossamer *
• Hey now, brown cow..ch? : mocha words for coffee hounds *
• High tide, moon ride *
• It's about time : poems over the shoulder *
• My wild colonials *
• She said, he said : a creative dialogue *
• She said, he said, Act II, Scene II : the dialogue continues *
• She said, he said, Act III, Scene III : the dialogue continues *
• Six windows of the giant *
• Voices in Sherwood

O

Onchulenko, Gene

• Beaconsfield, Mohawk and the Red Barges : the Campbell fleets *
• The Carryore, Nipigon and Labrador fleets *
• Our tradition carries on : 98th Convention of the International Ship Masters' Assocication *
• The ships of the Paterson fleet *

P

Parent, Shaun

• Climber's guide to the ice of Orient Bay *
• Climbing guide to the Thunder Bay area
• A guide to rock climbing routes at the scenic bluffs of Thunder Bay
• North of Superior Orient Bay ice climber's guide : a climber's guide to the ice of Orient Bay, Kama Bay, Ice Station Superior *

Peacock, Shane - You can read our interview with him on tbplofftheshelf.com.

• The artist and me
• Becoming Holmes: the boy Sherlock Holmes, his final case
• Bone beds of the badlands: a Dylan Maples adventure
• The dark missions of Edgar Brim
• Death in the air
• Double you
• The dragon turn
• Eye of the crow
• Last message
• The secret fiend
• Vanishing girl

Pendziwol, Jean E. - You can read our interview with her on tbplofftheshelf.com.

• Dawn watch
• Marja’s skis
• No dragons for tea: fire safety for kids (and dragons)
• Once upon a dragon: stranger safety for kids (and dragons)
• Once upon a northern night
• The red sash
• The tale of Sir Dragon: dealing with bullies for kids (and dragons)
• A treasure at sea for dragon and me: water safety for kids (and dragons)

Petrone, Penny

• Breaking the mould
• Embracing Serafina
• First people, first voices
• Native literature in Canada: from the oral tradition to the present
• Northern voices: Inuit writing in English
• Schoolmarm

Piniuta, Harry

• Land of pain, land of promise : first person accounts by Ukrainian pioneers, 1891-1914 *

Pinola, Salme

• Aamun valjetessa *
• En ole yksin *
• The fatherless *
• Hän tyyntää myrskyn *
• Saaran uni
• Vanha kirkon kello soi

Poindexter, Ellafern

• And time remembered : first of a trilogy
• High noon *
• I never measured my life out by the teaspoon
• Potpourri
• Spirit soaring
• Together is an oasis in the sand

Potestio, John

• The history of the Italian Mutual Benefit Society (1929-1984) *
• In search of a better life : emigration to Thunder Bay from a small town in Calabria
• In their footsteps : reflections on the legacy of Italian immigrants to Thunder Bay
• The Italians of Thunder Bay
• The memoirs of Giovanni Veltri
• The R. F. Welch (Veltri) Company
• Thunder Bay's people

Pringle, John

• The truth ratio: short stories

Pucci, Antonio

• The Italian community in Fort William's east end in the early twentieth century : a thesis submitted in partical fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Department of History of Lakehead University. *
• Societa Italiana di Benevolenza - Principe di Piemonte, 1909-2009 *
• Thunder Bay's people

R

Raffo, Peter

• From institution to community : a transformation of psychiatric hospital services
• Responding to unmet needs : 125 years in the community
• The Thunder Bay amalgamation oral history project : catalogue and guide to the collection *

Ranta, Mike

• Mike and Spitzii's great Canadian adventure 2014 : cross-continental coast to coast record-breaking solo canoe expedition

Reguly, Lorraine

• Risky issues : stories about identity, drugs, abuse, death and friendship

Reid, Dorothy M. (-1974)

• Jackpine *
• Magic carpet stories (cd book only)
• Tales of Nanabozho

Richthammer, John

• The end of the road : a history of the Red Lake District

S

Schacter, Mark

• Sweet seas: portrait of the Great Lakes

Shaffer, Paul

• We'll be here for the rest of our lives : a swingin' show-biz saga

Schoemperlen, Diane

• At a loss for words: a post-romantic novel
• By the book: stories and pictures
• Forms of devotion
• Hockey night in Canada and other stories
• In the language of love: a novel in 100 chapters
• The man of my dreams: stories
• Names of the dead: an elegy for the victims of September 11 
• Our lady of the lost and found: a novel
• Red plaid shirt: stories new and selected
• This is not my life: a memoir of love, prison and other complications

Sitch, Bert

• Those years *
• I was there : a collection of stories

Skelton, Joan

• The barn's on fire and Kay's down the well
• Rescue from Grampa Woo *
• The survivor of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Skinner, Doc

• Story teller and certified liar *

Slipperjack, Ruby

• Dog tracks
• Honour the sun: extracted and revised from the diary of the Owl
• Little voice
• Silent words
• These are my words: the residential school diary of Violet Pesheens
• Weesquachak and the lost ones

Stevens, James R.

• Angelique abandoned: Isle Royale 1845-1846
• Killing the shamen
• Paddy Wilson’s gold fever
• A Picasso from the north country: the wild journey of Canadian artist, Norval Morrisseau
• Roy Thomas: the spirit of Ahnisnabae art
• Sacred legends of the Sandy Lake Cree
• Searching for the Hudson Bombers: lads, love & death in World War Two
• Wild on the Superior frontier: a romance of settlers lives,  Lake Superior 1845-1900

Strathbogey, James (alias Bill MacDonald)

• Shaganash : Lake Superior lighthouse

Strickland, Helen Moore

• Silver under the sea : the story of the Silver Islet Mine near Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada

Sutherland, William S.

• Acceptance is not surrender: a little girl, an old man and one man’s story of hope

Swanson, Betty

• We ain't done fightin' yet *

T

Thode, Vanessa Ricci

• Dragon whisperer

Thomas, Lucy

• Mama's absence

Thompson, Brad

• H.M.C.S. Griffon : a naval history

V

Villeneuve, Jocelyne

• Greenmantle: an Ojibway legend of the north
• Nanna Bijou: the sleeping giant

W

Wagamese, Richard

• Dream wheels: a novel
• Embers: one Ojibway’s meditations
• For Joshua: an Ojibway father teaches his son
• Him standing
• Indian horse
• Medicine Walk
• The Next Sure Thing
• One Native Life
• One Story, One Song
• A quality of light
• Ragged Company
• Runaway dreams: poems

Weller, Duncan

• Big electric cat
• The boy from the sun
• The love ant
• Night wall
• Rocket fish: 9 shorts, 2 novellas, 1 fable
• Spacesnake
• Tettrennial drift: poetry and drawings
• The Ugg and the drip

Westland, E. Reid

• The twelve seasons of Northwestern Ontario *

White, Sonna

• Bullets, blood & stones : the journey of a child soldier

Wickman, Percy (1941-)

• Wheels in the fast lane : ... a blessing in disguise *

Wilkins, Charles

• Breakaway: hockey and the years beyond
• Breakfast at the Hoito and other adventures in the boreal heartland
• The circus at the edge of the earth: travels with the Great Wallenda Circus
• High on the big stone heart: and further adventures in the boreal heartland
• In the land of long fingernails: a gravedigger’s memoir
• Old Mrs. Schmatterbung and other friends
• The story of the Port Arthur Clinic 1923-2000
• Walk to New York: a journey out of the wilds of Canada
• When the final buzzer sounds: NHL greats share their stories of hardship and triumph: an anthology
• The wild ride: a history of the North West Mounted Police, 1873-1904
• A wilderness called home: dispatches from the wild heart of Canada

Willard, Sybil

• The pioneers and the present : a history of the township of Barclay, 1882-1982

Y

Yahn, Terrence

• The ruggie chronicles

Young, Jessica - You can read our interview with her on tbplofftheshelf.com.

• Art-rageous
• My Blue is Happy
• Nature calls
• New & improved
• Original recipe

Z

Zawadowski, Leo

• The Polish-Canadian community at the Lakehead