Jack Boudreau
Jack Boudreau was born in the small community of Penny, BC. He has devoted his professional life to British Columbia's forest industry working as a licensed scaler, industrial first-aid attendant and forest fire fighter mostly with the Ministry of Forests. From early childhood he has been an avid lover of the outdoors. He is a mountain climber, fisher and skier. Boudreau is the author of five bestsellers—Sternwheelers and Canyon Cats, Crazy Man's Creek, Grizzly Bear Mountain, Wilderness Dreams and Mountains, Campfires and Memories. He now lives in Prince George, BC, where he spends his time writing about the early settlers and homesteaders of BC.
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Crazy Man's Creek 978-0-920576-71-7 · 0-920576-71-0 · 1998 · $15.95 A BC Bestseller! Winner of the Jeanne Clark Award for Local History. |
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Grizzly Bear Mountain 978-0-920576-81-6 · 0-920576-81-8 · September 2000 · $18.95 Following in the bestselling tracks of the wildly popular Crazy Man's Creek. |
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Mountains, Campfires & Memories 978-0-920576-95-3 · 0-920576-95-8 · October 2002 · $19.95 The third best-seller from Jack Boudreau! |
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Sternwheelers and Canyon Cats: Whitewater Freighting on the Upper Fraser 978-1-894759-20-5 · 1-894759-20-6 · October 2006 · $18.95 The story of men who braved the dangerous waterways of the uppper Fraser River to build the GTP Railway. |
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Trappers and Trailblazers 978-1-894759-39-7 · 1-894759-39-7 · October 2009 · $22.95 Uncovered history of BC's north by best-selling author Jack Boudreau. |
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Whitewater Devils: Adventure on Wild Waters 978-1-894759-46-5 · 1-894759-46-X · October 2010 · $22.95 |
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Wild and Free 978-1-894759-04-5 · 1-894759-04-4 · December 2004 · $24.95 Boudreau says Wild and Free has "humour, tragedy, a bit of hunting, and lots of fighting." Frank Cooke's own son was killed in a fist fight, but the man who did it is his good friend today. "It was a fair fight," Frank explains. "There wasn't much law in those days, 40-50 years ago," says Boudreau. "They were a different type of people than you ever find today." |
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Wilderness Dreams 978-1-894759-00-7 · 1-894759-00-1 · October 2003 · $19.95 |