Fifteen year old Larry Bourne never expected to encounter an animated mummy on the first night visiting his uncle at an archaeological dig near Giza, Egypt. However, that was only the start of the unexpected happenings.The fabulous finds made by the expedition team roused the greed of the ruthless treasure hunter Ethan Dunn. Wanting the newly discovered map to the location of the Lost Treasures of Egypt, Dunn kidnaps Joan, the daughter of the expedition’s leader.Larry, along ...

Larry Bourne’s school break begins with a bang. A dying neighbour, Robert Bridgeman, begs him to safeguard a precious parchment. Within hours, he is catapulted into an unexpected adventure. Ambushed, he wakes up en-route to the Caribbean.So starts a race across the globe, by air and a perilous, storm tossed ocean – can Larry find the fabulous pirate treasure and survive to bring Bridgman’s killers to justice?On Avery’s Tides is a fast paced adventure that will have...

Fifteen year old Larry Bourne never expected to encounter an animated mummy on the first night visiting his uncle at an archaeological dig near Giza, Egypt. However, that was only the start of the unexpected happenings.The fabulous finds made by the expedition team roused the greed of the ruthless treasure hunter Ethan Dunn. Wanting the newly discovered map to the location of the Lost Treasures of Egypt, Dunn kidnaps Joan, the daughter of the expedition’s leader.Larry, along ...

Do Canadian cities have a distinctive form? How has this form evolved over time; and what has been the impact of growth, transportation changes and differing lifestyles on the contemporary Canadian urban environment? The research summarized in the present volume is directed at these kinds of questions. This book is an anthology of research papers and reports building around a common theme: urban development in Central Canada. Within this context, specific interests focus on the spatial str...

Urban problems are now a dominant social issue: the essays in this volume consider the direction some of these problems may take in Central Canada. Three broad themes are discussed: forecasting (a spectrum of methodologies and urban forecasts); assessing the consequences of these forecasts at two levels (the growth of cities as an urban system and the growth and form of individual cities or urban regions); and assessing the role of changes in public policy. Specific topics include forecast...

The Conference on Urban Housing Markets sponsored by the Centre for Urban and Community Studies in October 1977 was the first major conference on housing to be held in Canada since the First Canadian Housing Conference sponsored by the Canadian Welfare Council in 1968.This volume is at once a record of the Conference and a review of important recent research on urban housing markets and related public policy issues. The book captures the flavor of a lively debate between academics ...

This anthology of research is divided into five sections: definition of the urban system, structural characteristics, distribution of urban growth, transportation networks and interaction between cities, and the impact of growth on urban behaviour and the rural economy. Each section is preceded by the editors' comments. This is an excellent general reference on urbanization in Canada; it complements existing and largely American-based texts and should stimulate the student's interest in re...