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  Author Shirlee Smith Matheson Literary Log Book Press Release (nlight.html)
Shirlee Smith Matheson is the 2001 recipient of the Northern Lights College Honorary Associate of Arts Degree in recognition of her distinguished contributions to the literary arts.
Matheson's work has been awarded the "99's", an Organization of Women Pilots Canadian Award in Aviation for her literary work; the Canadian Children's Book Centre Choice for Prairie Pictures, City Pictures, Flying Ghosts and The Gambler's Daughter; the Alberta Non-Fiction Award; and Finalist for BC Book Prize for This Was Our Valley.
Matheson is active in bringing to others her passion for, and insight into, the world of writing through readings, workshops and seminars throughout western Canada.
www.ssmatheson.ca /nlight.html   (712 words)

  
 CM Magazine: The Gambler's Daughter.
Loretta has a letter exchange with Jay Smith, a boy who is kind to her and Teddy in Fort Nelson, but even that has to be on the sly because Jay's father is the one who torched Bean Trap's gambling establishment in Fort Nelson.
The Alcan highway, made necessary by the threat of attack from Japan, is pushing through the wilderness, bush pilots are up, flying by the seat of their pants, but the main occupations are still the frontier ones of trapping and mining.
In the latter context, I could wish that the editor had removed a clump of glaring uses of "I" as object of a preposition, but that is a quibble about a book which is informative in the context of being an exciting read.
www.umanitoba.ca /outreach/cm/vol4/no17/gamblersdaughter.html   (630 words)

  
 Fort Nelson - Smith Matheson 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Shirlee Smith Matheson has written a story about a fifteen-year old boy, living in the wilderness, whose life is suddenly changed when he and his family move south to be part of the crew working on the building of the Alaska Highway.
Matheson had to do a lot of research and get to know the people and the past as well as she could.
Matheson helps you understand how others felt when the Highway was being built.
rla.sd81.bc.ca /~ftnelson/ftnelsonmatheson2.html   (483 words)

  
 Fort Nelson - Index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Reading Shirlee Matheson’s book allows us to experience the adventure of the building of the Alaska Highway.
Shirlee Smith Matheson is very special to R.L. Angus School.
If you would like to learn more about what Shirlee Smith Matheson is doing now go to the Aero Space Museum Gift Shop.
rla.sd81.bc.ca /ftnelson/ftnelsonmatheson1.html   (341 words)

  
 Shirlee Smith Matheson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Shirlee Smith Matheson has published three young adult novels prior to her most recent novel, The Gambler's Daughter (Beach Holme, 1997): Prairie Pictures (McClelland and Stewart, 1990), Flying Ghosts (Stoddart, 1993) and City Pictures (McClelland and Stewart, 1994).
Smith Matheson has received the Alberta Nonfiction Award and the B.C. Historical Federation first prize as well as being nominated for the B.C. Book Prize in the non-fiction category.
Smith Matheson also publishes short stories and plays and frequently gives readings and workshops in schools and libraries.
www.beachholme.bc.ca /ya/mathesonbio.htm   (211 words)

  
 Kerby News Monthly Feature Article - May 2000 Archive 5   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Shirlee Matheson explains to students at St. Margaret Elementary School how she thoroughly researches the subjects she writes about.
Matheson strives to accurately depict the people and their times in all her books - including the four (soon to be five) directed at juveniles and young adults.
Matheson - who has written five books featuring aviation adventures - works three days per week at the Aero Space Museum of Calgary, thereby combining her vocation with her avocation.
www.kerbynews.com /2000FeatureArticles/May00Centre5.html   (416 words)

  
 Shirlee Home Page For Shirlee Emmons And Voice Performance. Special Announcements Of Appearances By Shir   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Hirlee Busbee is the proud author of eleven novels, including seven New York Times Shirlee lives in California with Howard, her husband of thirty-four years.
Shirlee Smith Matheson Canadian award-winning author of real life adventure fiction and nonfiction books for juvenile, young adult, adult readers Shirlee Smith Matheson has lived in all four Western provinces, and presently makes her home in Calgary Copyright 2000.
Shirlee has been writing poems about her relationship with God, her family and other issues close to her heart for some time.
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 Shirlee Smith Matheson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Shirlee Smith Matheson writes fiction and non-fiction Canadian adventure books.
Born in Winnipeg, she now makes her home in Calgary.
Matheson has lived in all four western provinces, including the Peace River area of northeastern British Columbia, the setting for much of her work.
www.writersunion.ca /m/matheson.htm   (173 words)

  
 CANSCAIP Member Shirlee Smith Matheson
Shirlee Smith Matheson is the author of 13 published books, as well as award-winning short stories and articles.
Shirlee’s seven adult nonfiction books chronicle events that take place in Canada’s North, and include many aviation adventures.
Shirlee is an administrator for the Aero Space Museum of Calgary.
www.canscaip.org /bios/mathesons.html   (653 words)

  
 Canadian Literary and Art Archives - Shirlee Smith Matheson
Canadian author Shirlee Smith Matheson was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on October 16, 1943.
Includes ca 1650 photographs; ca 275 slides; 106 sound recordings; 1 videocassette; and ca 0.32 m of realia including stuffed toys, garden gloves, nametags and buttons.
Donated by Shirlee Smith Matheson in 2000 and 2005.
www.ucalgary.ca /lib-old/SpecColl/matheson.htm   (146 words)

  
 What's The Buzz??
Marty comes up with ideas or themes to his books based on events and experiences that have happened in his own life.
The writer that most inspired Shirlee was Farley Mowat.
He was the only novelist to whom she has ever written a fan letter.
www.wiredforwords.com /author.html   (317 words)

  
 Author Shirlee Smith Matheson Home Page (index.html)
Shirlee Smith Matheson has lived in all four Western provinces, and presently makes her home in Calgary.
Read the latest edition of Matheson's and Pollon's award-winning book, This Was Our Valley, and learn of the unpeaceful history of Canada's mighty Peace River.
This is the story of an adolescent becoming an adult, making decisions, and dealing with the consequences of his actions.
www.incywincy.com /default?catid=492602&cached=www.ssmatheson.ca   (381 words)

  
 Fastback Beach
When the hot rod is stolen and Miles is the prime suspect, he realizes that he must confront his friends and stand up for himself.
This is Shirlee Smith Matheson’s first entry in the Orca Soundings series.
She is a prolific author with a number of children’s titles to her credit, including Keeper of the Mountains (Thistledown, 2000).
www.orcabook.com /productdetails.cfm?PC=139   (309 words)

  
 Biblio: Flying the Frontiers: A Half Million Hours of Aviation Adventure by Matheson, Shirlee Smith: Details
Biblio: Flying the Frontiers: A Half Million Hours of Aviation Adventure by Matheson, Shirlee Smith: Details
Matheson, Shirlee Smith: Flying the Frontiers: A Half Million Hours of Aviation Adventure
Book is clean, unmarked, bright and crisp, light edge wear on back cover.
www.biblio.com /books/20327671.html   (148 words)

  
 THIS WAS OUR VALLEY. - Pollon, Earl K. and Matheson, Shirlee Smith.
Earl Pollon begins the story with his fascinating account of life in Hudson's Hope before and after construction of the dam.
Shirlee Smith Matheson takes up the narrative to examine the social, economic and environmental impacts of the dam...From dinosaurs to dynamos, here at last is the true story of the W.A.C. Bennett Dam!'' Tiny bump to front bottom corner and to top of front hinge.
Dust jacket has light rubbing, small area of light scuffing/wrinkling at bottom edge of front panel.
www.capricornbooks.ca /si/13380.html   (208 words)

  
 Shirlee Smith Matheson ; Flying the Frontiers Volume 2, Shirley Albert - Doll Party,   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Shirlee Smith Matheson ; Flying the Frontiers Volume 2, Shirley Albert - Doll Party,
Shirley Ann Smith - Hospice Concepts: A Guide to Palliative Care in Terminal Illness
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 Laurie Dressler
This Was Our Valley, a historical account of the people, the environment and economics of the Hudson’s Hope area affected by the dam and its reservoir, written by Shirlee Smith Matheson and Earl K. Pollon.
Earl K. Pollon and Shirlee Smith Matheson, 131.
Earl K. Pollon and Shirlee Smith Matheson, 310.
www.fsj.nlc.bc.ca /nlc/sroe/laurie_dressler.htm   (4095 words)

  
 Flying The Frontiers Book Launch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
John Radermacher's 33 Sedan, Glen Hildebrandt's Willys, Scott Reichelt's '30 coupe and Don Tew's '39 Pick-up posed in front of the Calgary AeroSpace Meseum's Lancaster Bomber.
A sincere thank-you from Shirlee for the super turnout of rods and rodders on the eve of May 15 at the Aero Space Museum.
II is flying high, available in book stores from Newfoundland to Vancouver Island.
www.fsra.org /ftf.html   (199 words)

  
 Jil Matheson Books, Book Price Comparison at 130 bookstores
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 Flying the Frontiers Volume 2 :: Flying the Frontiers Volume 2 books, reviews and more   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Featured: Flying the Frontiers Volume 2 - Shirlee Smith Matheson.
Shirlee Smith Matheson "Flying the Frontiers Volume 2".
Shirlee Taylor Haizlip Harold C Haizlip "In the Garden of Our Dreams Memoirs of a Marriage".
www.sciencefictionclassics.com /389238shirlee_smith_matheson.html   (211 words)

  
 Amazon.com: A Western Welcome to the World: Calgary International Airport: Books: Bill Watts,Shirley Smith ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Amazon.com: A Western Welcome to the World: Calgary International Airport: Books: Bill Watts,Shirley Smith Matheson,Shirlee Smith Matheson
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www.amazon.com /Western-Welcome-World-Calgary-International/dp/1882933168   (582 words)

  
 Matheson, Shirlee Smith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Matheson, Shirlee Smith - Profile and books of the adventure writer.
You can access every time you want Profile and books of the adventure writer.
Home page - Arts - Literature - World Literature - Canadian - Matheson, Shirlee Smith
www.wolist.com /wo/arts/literature/world-literature/canadian-13422/141456.html   (48 words)

  
 eBay - Product Info - eBay — Fastback Beach (ISBN: 1551432676,9781551432670), Book and Shirlee Smith Matheson items on ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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 Buy.com - The Gambler's Daughter : Shirlee Smith-Matheson : ISBN 0888783809
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A.J.M. Smith from Writing Canada into the Millennium
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 Youngblood Of The Peace by Shirlee Smith Matheson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Youngblood Of The Peace by Shirlee Smith Matheson
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 Shirl Henke ; A Fire in the Blood, Shirlee Smith Matheson - Flying the Frontiers Volume 2,   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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 James Matheson Books, Book Price Comparison at 130 bookstores
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 Grande Prairie Public Library Home
Eight of Canada's most exciting authors will be in the city for five days of readings, workshops and special events all at a low cost that makes the festival affordable for the entire family.
This year's roster of authors is: mystery writer Sparkle Hayter, poet Randy Lundy, Canadian history author Shirlee Smith Matheson, noted playwright Sharon Pollock, fiction writer Fred Stenson, young adult author Pamela Porter, children's author/illustrator Ian Wallace, and adult short story writer and novelist Shani Mootoo.
For more information please see the Wordspinner website.
www.gppl.ab.ca /indexmain.htm   (382 words)

  
 Youngblood of the Peace - the Authorized Biography of Father Emile Jungbluth, O.M.I. - Matheson, Shirlee Smith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Youngblood of the Peace - the Authorized Biography of Father Emile Jungbluth, O.M.I. - Matheson, Shirlee Smith
Title: Youngblood of the Peace - the Authorized Biography of Father Emile Jungbluth, O.M.I. Binding: Soft Cover
The story of the Peace, and of one of the pioneers who could never leave.
www.northwestbooks.net /si/72609719.html   (117 words)

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