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Sandy Frances Duncan
Sandy Frances Duncan is a Canadian writer of novels, mysteries, and short stories. Her novel ''Gold Rush Orphan'' was among the finalists for the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize in 2005. She has contributed short fiction to anthologies, including ''Dropped Threads: What We Aren't Told'' and ''Celebrating Canadian Women'', and to magazines including Makara, Northern Journey, and Canadian Fiction. Duncan, born in Vancouver in 1942, holds bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of British Columbia. She worked as a psychologist at Woodlands School, New Westminster, British Columbia; Burnaby Mental Health Center in Burnaby, and for the Metropolitan Health Department in Vancouver before turning to writing full-time in 1973. Bibliography Novels * ''Cariboo Runaway'' (1976) * ''Kap-Sung Ferris'' (1977) * ''The Toothpaste Genie'' (1981) * ''Dragonhunt'' (1981) * ''Finding Home'' (1982) * ''Pattern Makers'' (1989) * ''Listen to Me, Grace Kelly'' (1990) * ''British ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vancouver
Vancouver ( ) is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the List of cities in British Columbia, most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the city, up from 631,486 in 2016. The Greater Vancouver, Greater Vancouver area had a population of 2.6million in 2021, making it the List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada#List, third-largest metropolitan area in Canada. Greater Vancouver, along with the Fraser Valley Regional District, Fraser Valley, comprises the Lower Mainland with a regional population of over 3 million. Vancouver has the highest population density in Canada, with over 5,700 people per square kilometre, and fourth highest in North America (after New York City, San Francisco, and Mexico City). Vancouver is one of the most Ethnic origins of people in Canada, ethnically and Languages of Canada, linguistically diverse cities in Canada: 49.3 percent of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Szanto
George Szanto (born 1940) is an American-Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, and scholar. His published work includes more than a dozen novels and short-story collections as well as plays, full-length works of literary criticism, mysteries, and a memoir. His work has also appeared in literary periodicals including the ''Kansas Quarterly'', the ''Bucknell Review'', the ''Massachusetts Review'', and the ''Canadian Comparative Literature Review'' and in anthologies. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and he won the Hugh MacLennan Award for Fiction in 1995 for his novel ''Friends & Marriages''. Born in Derry, Northern Ireland, Szanto attended Dartmouth College in the United States, the University of Frankfurt am Main in Germany, and the University of Aix-Marseille in France before completing a Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1967. During his academic career, Szanto taught comparative and dramatic literature at the University of California, San Diego, and comparative li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Mystery Writers
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Writers From Vancouver
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University Of British Columbia Alumni
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Canadian Women Non-fiction Writers
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21st-century Canadian Novelists
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1942 Births
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Cariboo Runaway
''Cariboo Runaway'' is a young adult novel by Canadian writer Sandy Frances Duncan, published in 1976. Set in the Cariboo region of British Columbia during the Cariboo Gold Rush of 1864, the novel follows Elva Parkhurst, a young girl from Victoria who disguises herself as a boy in order to find her father after he disappears while prospecting in the Cariboo. The novel The main character, 13-year-old Elva T. Parkhurst, discovers that her little brother, Tim, also known as Timothy Parkhurst, may have followed her aboard the famous ''S.S. Beaver,'' although this is left ambiguous''.'' Elva is outraged but soon comes to accept Tim's choice because she starts to rely on his presence. Together, they face many obstacles and dangers, and discover that their father is in jail. It is up to the children to free their father. The novel is frequently taught in elementary school A primary school (in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, and South Afric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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