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    Me n Len: Life in the Haliburton Bush 1900-1940
    Me n Len: Life in the Haliburton Bush 1900-1940
    Me n Len: Life in the Haliburton Bush 1900-1940
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    Me n Len: Life in the Haliburton Bush 1900-1940

    By Richard Pope and Neil Broadfoot

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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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDundurn
    Release dateJan 1, 1985
    ISBN9781459720824
    Me n Len: Life in the Haliburton Bush 1900-1940
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    Richard Pope

    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.

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