I Married the Klondike Sara Flemington and the fishermen find themselves

and the fishermen find themselves in a world so calm and beautiful that the very water beneath them seems a hushed breath

for the pleasure of the craft and the intimacy of the journey

19 of Canada's most acclaimed storytellers contribute the narrative pieces that together compose a humorously accurate national reflection

love songs to the coast and all its inhabitants

I Married the Klondike Sara Flemington and the fishermen find themselvesDescription In 1907, Laura Beatrice Berton, a 29 year old kindergarten teacher, left her comfortable life in Toronto Ontario to teach in a Yukon mining town. She fell in love with the North and with a northerner and made Dawson City her home for the next 25 years. I Married the Klondike is her classic and enduring memoir. When she first arrived by steamboat in Dawson City, Berton expected to find a rough mining town full of grizzled miners, scarlet