Growing Up North

By Morris Bradburn

iUniverse 2011 170 pages Hardcover

Here is an exciting account of Morris Bradburn growing up in the isolated community of Oxford House, Manitoba. Bradburn writes that everyone spoke Cree.

Here’s some of what makes this book exciting. “I had nearly aborted my attempted dive when I remembered the laughter of the big boys when I’d suggested that I could dive from the rocks like them. I decided I was going to do this and surprise those big boys the next time they came swimming here.

At this moment, I sprang into the air. I was going down quite quickly,...