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Rick Ranson has collected stories from all over North America, from the DEW Line and the drill ships of Working North to the raging waters of the Mississippi in Paddling South. Now, join this engaging raconteur as he ventures to one of Canada's most talked-about locations: Fort McMurray, home of the oilsands. In this book Rick Ranson recounts a twenty-four day shift at an oilsands operation undergoing a shutdown, giving us a glimpse at a world...

The true story of how Rick Ranson and his friend John Van Landeghem, both barely out of high school, took on the might of the Red and Mississippi rivers to paddle a canoe from Winnipeg to New Orleans in the Autumn of 1969.

Ranson skillfully recreates his northern experience in strong crisp stories that are humorous quirky and unique Working North makes it clear why Ranson was moved to "pity the southerner who has never seen an arctic sun skipping along the earth gathering all the colours of the prism and turning the land a warm purple " "Working North" is an engaging and entertaining read for inexperienced southerners and northern travellers alike