Fran Hurcomb

Locals know best. Fran Hurcomb does Old Town Yellowknife proud with her superb pictorial history of one of the most independent, frontier-wise and urbane neighbourhoods in Canada.

The driver shut the motor off and just sat there, very still. We froze in our places. He pulled off his helmet and looked around without leaving his machine. It was too dark to see his face, but he looked big. My heart was hammering like a drum. Surely he could hear it. I looked sideways at Sam and the others. Their breath was coming out in tiny streams. Nobody moved a muscle, not even Spider.
* Twelve-year-old Jess and her friends have been playing hockey with the boys in Fort Desperation, show more Northwest Territories, since they were six years, old. They'd like to start a girls' team, but is tiny Fort Desperation ready for it? Not only do Jess and her friends have to organize a team, find a coach and learn to play together, they have to unmask the Hockey Vandal. Can they do it before the Vandal destroys their team's hopes? show less