I Married the Klondike Sara Flemington Prize(s): Winner Saskatchewan Fiction Award

Prize(s): Winner Saskatchewan Fiction Award (2024)

physical sensations

lend an ethical dimension to the life of the individual

POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Places

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

I Married the Klondike Sara Flemington Prize(s): Winner Saskatchewan Fiction AwardDescription 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