Me n Len
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Me n Len is a warm and humourously nostalgic look back at life in the backwoods of Ontario in the "good old days." The setting is the rural area of eastern Haliburton, Ontario, in the decades before the chainsaw and the outboard motor became the common sounds in this beautiful region of central Canada.
The main character is a grizzled and lovable 82-year-old trapper and woodsman named Len who takes the reader through the adventures in his memory to meet the people of his past. The stories he tells and the way he tells them are often funny, sometimes poignant, but always filled with an unforgettable down-to-earth philosophy.
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Richard Pope, author of Me n Len: Life in the Haliburton Bush, 1900-1940 and the voyageur epic Superior Illusions, is a recently retired professor of Russian literature and culture at York University and a long-standing member of the Ontario Ornithological Club and the Ontario Field Ornithologists. He and his wife, Felicity, live in Cobourg, Ontario.
Content
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Dedication
- Author's Acknowledgments
- Note to the Reader
- Introduction
- 1. Meeting Len
- 2. Hunting with Len
- 3. Huntin in the Ol Days
- 4. Trappin
- 5. The Far Camp
- 6. Fishin: The Buck Lake Days and Stocking the Lakes
- 7. Life in the Logging Camps
- 8. Life on the Farm and Other Jobs
- Afterword
- Glossary
- Illustration and Photograph Credits
