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Tim Falconer is the author of Klondikers: Dawson City's Stanley Cup Challenge and How a Nation Fell in Love with Hockey. It tells the story of an unlikely team of dreamers and their audacious journey from the Yukon to Ottawa to play for the Stanley Cup in 1905. Their quest showed how quickly hockey—a niche, regional sport when Lord Stanley donated the trophy a dozen years earlier—had become the national pastime. Klondikers is for hockey fans and history buffs and anyone who enjoys a good yarn full of quirky characters.

Tim first visited the Klondike when he had a summer job working in a Yukon mine. A former writer-in-residence at Berton House in Dawson City, he has also paddled three of the territory’s rivers. He lives and plays hockey in To ...more

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	Bad Singer: The Surprising Science of Tone Deafness and How We Hear Music 3.78 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 2016 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Drop the Worry Ball: How to Parent in the Age of Entitlement by Alex Russell, Tim Falconer (Goodreads Author) 4.12 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 2012 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Klondikers: Dawson City's Stanley Cup Challenge and How a Nation Fell in Love with Hockey 3.64 avg rating — 42 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Watchdogs and Gadflies: Activism from Marginal to Mainstream 3.42 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Drive: A ROAD TRIP THROUGH OUR COMPLICATED AFFAIR WITH THE AUTOMOBILE 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	That Good Night: Ethicists Euthanasia And End-of-life Care 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	RRJ in Review: Thirty Years of Watching the Watchdogs by Shannon Clarke (Editor), Tim Falconer (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Luc Rinaldi (Editor) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Klondikers on year-end lists

December is the time for year-end book lists and some of them included Klondikers:

• The Globe 100, the Globe and Mail’s list of “The books we loved in 2021”:
“Falconer tells the riveting tale of a bunch of guys who travelled from the Yukon to Ottawa because they just wanted to play hockey. The frozen continent they crossed in 1905 was so treacherous that for days, the newspapers chronicling their Read more of this blog post »

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Tim Falconer liked Matt's review of Klondikers: Dawson City's Stanley Cup Challenge and How a Nation Fell in Love with Hockey: "This is far more than the story of the Dawson City hockey club's Stanley Cup challenge. Indeed, in a 330 page book the Cup games only come up around page 300, and are over quite quickly. Instead, Falconer covers a lot more in this book, looking at ev" Read more of this review »
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Hough's previous books tended to be about larger-than-life characters doing out-of-the-ordinary things. But The Marriage of Rose Camilleri is about regular people leading regular lives and the book is all the more powerful because of it. Beautifully ...more
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Tim Falconer liked Bobby Hattaway's review of Klondikers: Dawson City's Stanley Cup Challenge and How a Nation Fell in Love with Hockey: "Fascinating. Also provides in-depth histories of the STanley Cup, The city of Dawson, hockey in Ontario, Quebec and Manitoba, and more. "
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Tim Falconer liked Calvin Daniels's review of Klondikers: Dawson City's Stanley Cup Challenge and How a Nation Fell in Love with Hockey: "More about gold and early CDN history and growth of hockey than the actual team, still an informative read."
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