Jennifer Pratt
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Series
Still Standing volume 7
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English
Description
McAdam NB's heyday was during the war time period when its glorious railway station and hotel were the talk of the eastern seaboard. Today this town struggles to get by but they are looking to the historic glory of the railway to get them back on track.
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Series
Still Standing volume 13
Language
English
Description
Fogo Island, NFLD, where fish is king and the simple but challenging life is as it has been for hundreds of years.
Author
Series
Still Standing volume 5
Language
English
Description
Berwick, N.S. is home to some eccentric innovators: an Alpaca Farmer, an Andalusian Horse Trainer and the Gun Doggers.
Author
Series
Still Standing volume 13
Language
English
Description
No longer content to eke by on a drive-through economy defined by a constantly moving highway, the people of South River ON are hoping that their picture perfect surroundings become a destination unto its own.
Author
Series
Still Standing volume 1
Language
English
Description
Skidegate, BC is a small town filled with Haida warriors that traded lucrative work in logging for a rich environmental future for their children. They continue to fight for the land that they love and they wouldn't have it any other way!
Author
Series
Still Standing volume 10
Language
English
Description
Stanstead QC shares the Canada/US border with Derby Line, Vermont. Before 9/11, this area felt like one big community. Today families and business are ripped apart by boarder control but the residents remain strong and have hope for the future.
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Series
Still Standing volume 11
Language
English
Description
Once known as the location of a famous indigenous battle and ceremonial burial ground, Pilot Mound, MB now struggles. But there is light on the horizon. This community, known unofficially as "Hockey Town in Manitoba" is hoping that it's new sports recreation centre and the first male hockey academy in Manitoba will get this town back on track!
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Series
Still Standing volume 12
Language
English
Description
Like most of Cape Breton, Mabou NS never fully bounced back from hard times. Companies and canneries have closed, hope was crushed and the young have left town. For this town to get back on its feet the community must band together, revive its rich Gaelic heritage, create a unique cultural experience and invite the entire world to come and see.
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Series
Still Standing volume 2
Language
English
Description
The once struggling community of Bell Island, NL is hoping that their new and exciting ways of telling the island's rich historical stories will draw boatloads of mainlanders to their beautiful east coast home.
Author
Series
Still Standing volume 12
Language
English
Description
Buxton, On, was the final stop on the underground railroad and offered a new life of equality for former slaves.
Author
Series
Still Standing volume 5
Language
English
Description
Edgerton, Alberta's farming industry has been suffering for years but a brewery started by a group of childhood friends might just get this community to bubble back to the top again.
Author
Series
Still Standing volume 9
Language
English
Description
Tumbler Ridge has seen its fair share of economic highs and lows but a chance discovery of dinosaur tracks might just save this close-knit community from extinction.
Author
Series
Still Standing volume 1
Language
English
Description
Already reeling from the oil collapse, the people of Fort McMurray, AB are determined to rise out of the ashes and rebuild bigger and better following the most destructive wild fire in Canadian history.
Author
Series
Still Standing volume 5
Language
English
Description
Telkwa, BC was hit hard by the mountain pine beetle. This little bug decimated big forests leaving the town on the ropes. But this hearty community will continue to band together, get 'er done and laugh in the face of adversity.
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Series
Still Standing volume 8
Language
English
Description
Inuvik, NWT is a fabricated town built in the 1950's to act as a hub of the Canadian northwest. It's an oil town that has felt both boom and bust. Today they are building the highway connecting them to Tuktoyaktuk in hopes that a boom is on the other side.
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Series
Still Standing volume 4
Language
English
Description
Fort Coulonge QC was once a booming logging town that shipped their famous white pine to build big cities like Chicago and New York. Today they are a struggling small town on the ropes. But there is hope! And it comes in the form of an entrepreneurial woman who discovered her roots and a passion to help this town.
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Series
Still Standing volume 9
Language
English
Description
Wawa, Ontario, is the quintessential Canadian town. Home to a fur-trapper, a lake inspired artist and a news hound.
Author
Series
Still Standing volume 9
Language
English
Description
Omemee, ON, home of the legendary Neil Young, has seen better times. Today main street businesses are boarded up and the residents shop out of town. But the community is fighting to restore the shops to the former glory hoping that people will spend money there again.
Author
Series
Still Standing volume 12
Language
English
Description
The people of Gilbert Plains MB have spent decades watching their small town decline, but thanks to marijuana's cousin, hemp the community might be on their way to a groundbreaking bounce back.
Author
Series
Still Standing volume 8
Language
English
Description
Manitou Manitoba has talent! Like a saw playing yodeling Cowboy, preteen archery champion and a famous opera house.