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By Harry Hampton Aimé

As a young farm boy in Clandeboye, Manitoba, Harry admired the fascinating exploits and adventures of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. He signed up as a young man and spent the next 25 years with the RCMP. His career included many years in Canada's north. In and around Fort Rae, he was able to witness Native traditions and values in an era when most of the Native people lived year-round in tents, prior to the tremendous cultural upheaval - and the dramatic changes -  of the twentieth century.

In 1947 to 1949, while stationed at the newly established joint Canadian-American weather stations in the eastern Arctic, Constable Harry Aimé opened the RCMP's Resolute Bay detachment and travelled with the US Air Force to the joint satellite stations and to Thule, Greenland. His career then took him again to the Northwest Territories to Fort Liard, Fort Smith and Aklavik. After leaving the north, Harry spent ten years with the RCMP in Alberta on highway traffic duty in Vegreville and as traffic supervisor in Lethbridge. Upon retiring in 1965, Sergeant Aimé went back up north, accepting an appointment as the first stipendiary Magistrate in Fort McMurray, an office he held for 23 years.

Throughout his years as a judge of the provincial court of Alberta, Harry also held the appointments of Citizen Court Judge and Marriage Commissioner. After retiring in 1988, Harry spent a number of years publishing the biography of his parents, writing his autobiography, and doing volunteer work. Judge Aimé now resides in Red Deer, Alberta, with his wife, Marjorie.

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By Marjorie Irene  Aimé

A fine collection of memories of the Canadian North, Northern Memories truly reflects the author's own unique voice.

Northern Memories describes the adventures of a young Canadian woman, who heads North - from a small town in Manitoba - alone. The year is 1941. Her adventures and impressions tell of sled dogs, the northern lights, and the land of the midnight sun.

Surviving a winter camping trip while pregnant, coping alone with a house on fire, and watching the flood waters race up to the cabin are only a few of the experiences Marjorie Irene Aimé writes about.

Along the way, she gathered fond memories, lifelong friends, and unusual coping skills. She took part in hilarious happenings and frightening experiences. And she faced personal tragedy. To this day, after retiring "down south" to northern Alberta, she still gets a lonely feeling when she hears the call of the wild geese flying south.

"You have to finish your book, Grandma, because it isn't everyone who has a grandmother who used to drive her own dog team!"
                   ---Sherrie Boxer (granddaughter of the author)

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