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Bill Freeman
1938 -
works by
The Bains Series
- Ambush in the Foothills (James Lorimer & Company Ltd. Publishers, 2000)
- Sioux Winter (James Lorimer & Company Ltd. Publishers, 1999)
- Prairie Fire! (James Lorimer & Company Ltd. Publishers, 1998)
- Danger on the Tracks (James Lorimer & Company Ltd. Publishers, 1987)
- Harbour Thieves (James Lorimer & Company Ltd. Publishers, 1984)
- Trouble at Lachine Mill (James Lorimer & Company Ltd. Publishers, 1983)
- First Spring on the Grand Banks (1978)
- The Last Voyage of the Scotian (James Lorimer & Company Ltd. Publishers, 1976)
- Shantymen of Cache Lake (James Lorimer & Company Ltd. Publishers, 1975)
Other Children’s Book
- Cedric and the North End Kids (James Lorimer & Company Ltd. Publishers, 1978)
Play for Children
- “Ghosts of the Madawaska,” First performance: Great Canadian Theatre Company, Ottawa, 1985
Adult Non-fiction
- Hamilton: A People’s History (James Lorimer and Co., Publishers, 2001)
- Far From Home: Canadians in the First World War (McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1999)
- A Magical Place: Toronto Island and its People (James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers, 1999)
- Casa Loma: Toronto’s Fairy-tale Castle and its Owner, Sir Henry Pellatt (James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers, 1998 )
- 1005 Political Life of a Union Local (James Lorimer & Company Ltd. Publishers, 1982)
- Their Town: The Mafia The Media and the Party Machine, with Marsha Hewitt (James Lorimer & Company Ltd. Publishers, 1979)
Play for Adults
- “Glory Days,” First performance: Theatre Aquarius, Hamilton, 1989
Documentary Films
- “Hamilton: Where the Rubber Meets the Road” historical consultant/scriptwriter
- “Kiev Pecherska Lavra,” 3rd Street Videos, 1995, script/narrator
- “Remembering Toronto,” PBS Buffalo, narrator
Forthcoming Works
- Script Writer: “Marathon in Athens,” Feature Film, CBC
- Script Writer and Narrator: “Biology: The Science of Life.” A series of six educational films for the high school students. Producer: Loten Media. Expected completion date, November 2001.
- Script Writer: “Outback,” A series of animation and claymation films for children 6-10 by Loten Media based on history. Production of a pilot for the series is expected to begin in 2002 in South Africa.
awards
- Certificate of Commendation, Heritage Toronto for A Magical Place: Toronto Island and Its People (October 2000)
- Sioux Winter nominated for the Silver Birch Award (1999-2000)
- Award of Merit, Heritage Toronto for Casa Loma: Toronto’s Fairy-tale Castle and its Owner, Sir Henry Pellatt (October, 1999)
- Prairie Fire selected for the Canadian Children’s Book Centre “Our Choice” list and nominated for the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People, 1998 (Several other of the Bains Series were selected for “Our Choice” list).
- Vicky Metcalf Award for contribution to Canadian Children's Literature [for a body of work: Bains Series] (1984)
- the first Canada Countil Award for Juvenile Literature in 1975 for The Shantymen of Cache Lake
resources
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Bill Freeman - Shantymen of Cache Lake / First Spring on the Grand Banks
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1994 nfb film
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