Norman Duncan: 26 books

Written by a fellow native of Ontario, author and journalist Norman Duncan, the biography Higgins explores the fascinating life of Frank Higgins, a Canadian-born "lumberjack sky pilot" who spent his life traveling by foot and dog sled among lumber camps in the chilly northern climes to minister to laborers and loggers.

You can practically smell the salt air and feel a sharp sea breeze emanating from the pages of this charming nautical novel from Canadian writer Norman Duncan. It follows the life of young Dannie Callaway, an orphan who grows up under the tutelage of his sailor uncle, Nicholas Top.

     “Higgins’s job,” said he, earnestly, “is keepin’ us boys out o’ hell; an’ he’s the only man on the job.”     Of this I had been informed.     “I want t’ tell ye, friend,” the lumber-jack added, with honest reverence, “that he’s a damned good Christian, if...

In Which Jimmie Grimm, Not Being Able to Help It, Is Born At Buccaneer Cove, Much to His Surprise, and Tog, the Wolf-Dog, Feels the Lash of a Seal-hide Whip and Conceives an Enmity

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. My uncle, Nicholas Top, of Twist Tickle, was of a cut so grotesque that folk forgot their manners when he stumped abroad. Bowling through the streets of St. John's, which twice a year he tapped with staff and wooden...

As our thoughts fly back to the days when the writer of these stories was a guest aboard our little hospital vessel, we remember realizing how vast was the gulf which seemed to lie between him and the circumstances of our sea life in the Northland. Nowhere else in the world, perhaps, do the cold facts...

Christmas is the most famous holiday of the year, and the word itself evokes images of Santa Claus, reindeer, snow, Christmas trees, egg nog and more. At the same time, it represents Christianity's most important event, the birth of the baby Jesus. Instantly, well known Christmas carols ring in your...

A cluster of islands, lying off the cape, made the shelter of our harbour. They were but great rocks, gray, ragged, wet with fog and surf, rising bleak and barren out of a sea that forever fretted a thousand miles of rocky coast as barren and as sombre and as desolate as they; but they broke wave and...

Who were the first people who came to the land bridge joining northeastern Asia to Alaska and the northwest of North America? Where did they come from? How did they organize technology, especially in the context of settlement behavior?     During the Pleistocene era, the people now...