
Now you can purchase my books in a variety of e-book formats from Kobo Books. To purchase the e-book Poacher Chaser Holidays e-book from Kobo Books here is the link.
For those who read my two previous books Poachers, Cranberries & Snowshoes and Poachers, Beans & Birch Bark you will find Poacher Chaser Holidays similar in structure; short stories written in a humorous manner. Some Game Warden stories, some holiday stories and some, well, are just stories. A log church at Carcajou Settlement on the Peace River built in 1910/11, lacking parishioners, was purchased from the Catholic diocese and renovated into a cozy summer cabin that was only accessible by boat.
You have probably guessed, considering the location, there will be a lot of wildlife encounters. My wife says our holidays must be like when I was a game warden. She is right. Stories of grizzly bears, black bears, eagles, bats, fish, mud stoves, tree houses, snakes, furry creatures in the outhouse, green clouds, boat trips, airborne boats, old trappers’ cabins, white Saskatoon’s, Saskatoon pie and pancakes with chock cherry syrup.
We enjoyed 12 summers of holidaying in our cabin. The resulting adventures are recorded here for your enjoyment. Oh yes, while sitting admiring the grandeur of the Peace River or riding in the boat, some previous adventures in another life as a game warden would pop into my head. They are also included.
These stories are a collection of adventures, strange but true, that took place when I was a game warden, during family holidays and some other just interesting stories.
Please read and enjoy the two stories below. If you like these stories you will surely enjoy the book.
- The Lost Bag
- Things to Remember
- Premonitions
- Swim, Bear, Swim
- Tourists, Bears, and Water
- Outhouse Bear
- Fur in Your Sunrise
- Misdirected Souls
- No Slime
- Live Mail
- Talons, Fish, and Bears
- Noisy Ants
- Log Launcher
- Back House Boogie
- Eight Legs and a Tongue
- Fish, Falls, and Frost
- A Blow So Fowl
- Discovering Carcajou
- Bear Facts
- Night of the Bears
- Inexcusable
- Tight Lines
- 90cc Buffalo
- Mud Stove, Hornets, Cranberries
- Kids, Bears, and Fish
- Trapper’s Raft
- Furry Night Torments
- Happy Horse Flies
- A Pig, A Girdle, and a Flagpole
- A Knife, Tenderizer, and Moose Meat
- Hossed, Carried, and Flown
- Hang Out
- Way Up There
- Onerous
- Evidence in Water
- Honking
- Cleanliness Challenge
- Small Flat Bones
- Surreptitious Boat
- Owls
- Saskatoon’s
When you sit down to write your recollections of family holidays, game warden stories, hunting trips or just stories, it brings back all the memories. You will read about them in this collection of strange but true tales. My wife's favorite comment when we embarked on any excursion from our cabin/church was that this must be the same as when you go to work. It was, except my family was there.

The day-to-day excitement of being a game warden or indeed our activities at our Peace River retreat, were all quite interesting and always very entertaining.
|