Fellow list members this new book maybe of interest. Lawrence Chrismas,
Calgary


Lamps Forever Lit
A Memorial to Kirkland Lake Area Miners
By Bernie Jaworsky of Dobie, Ontario
Published By Cambria Publishing Calgary
256 pp, 160 duotone photos, maps and diagrams
10 x 8 hardcover with jacket
Release Date: April 2001 $29.95
Printed in Canada  ISBN: 0-9697023-2-9

---"Bernie Jaworsky puts a human face on the sacrifices Northern Ontario
miners made to build a better life for their families. His poignant
chronicles breathe new life into long-forgotten stories about life and
death in the Kirkland Lake gold camp."---Walter Franczyk, Editor, The Gazette

---"Mining history rewards great people and events, but passes over smaller
stories of personal courage and sacrifice. We applaud Bernie Jaworsky for
bringing many of these to light".---Robert Murdoch

---"One cannot read this book very long without being almost overwhelmed by
the amount and the quality of work that went into its preparation.  It's
incredibly moving, the more so because it details the usually abrupt and
lonely end of perfectly ordinary men with no attempt to fix blame or
responsibility or to describe the impact on the victim's families. This is
not a book 'you can't put down.'  You'll find, from time to time, that you
have to."---Tom Drew-Brook

---"Too often in the history of mining we forget the men who most made it
possible.  Certainly the glamour of discovery and the techniques of
development happened first, but at the heart of a mine were those who broke
and moved rock underground: the machinemen, the scalers, the muckers, the
trammers, the cagetenders.  Bernie Jaworsky's important book reminds us of
these praiseworthy men, especially those of Kirkland Lake who died doing
work so fundamental to the growth of northeastern Ontario"--- Peter
Fancy-Canadian Author and Historian

---" A pensive reminder of the tragedies and hardships endured by the
mining families of this ethnically diverse area of Canada."---Joe Mavrinac-
Mayor of Kirkland Lake 1980-1997

---"Lamps Forever Lit is a first for Kirkland Lake. It looks beyond the
story of Kirkland Lake to discover the men who anonymously contributed to
that story with their labour and ultimately with their lives.  By writing
this timely work, Bernie Jaworsky allows future generations to know and
contemplate their sacrifice."---Robin Ormerod---Museum Curator

---"This book makes an important contribution to the history of Northern
Ontario and to Canadian mining history."---Myron Momryk-National Archives
of Canada, Ottawa

---"I know that my husband, my brother and my brother-in-law will live on
forever, not only in my mind but in the mind of each person who reads this
wonderful tribute to these men."--- Sue Sheldon

---"Jaworsky found himself in a quest that has taken him over four years
and opened up a history that has never really been documented before in the
north."---Charlie Angus-Highgrader Magazine

---"The most important aspect of his book- in which there are no 'happy'
endings- is that these men are not merely statistics. Each and every life
is a story."---Lawrence McBrearty, National Director, Steelworkers and
Harry Hynd, District 6 Director, Steelworkers

---"Mr. Jaworsky has done a remarkable job in collecting all the deaths
attributed to mining in Kirkland Lake and area mines.  Arriving in Kirkland
Lake in 1921, my father, uncles, brothers and cousins and myself, all
followed the mining game - mostly at Lake Shore.  Fortunately none of our
family ended up on Mr. Jaworsky's list.  However, it sure brings back many
memories as I knew many of those who died in the process of making a good
living for their families.  Air blasts, mostly at Lake Shore, were an added
hazard to the usual mining game.  Thank you Mr. Jaworsky for keeping our
memories alive."---John (Jack) Hamilton---Retired Kirkland Lake miner.


March 29, 2001
Dear Friends:

We have just received The Book from the printers and it is available for
shipment immediately.  I and all my team at Cambria Publishing who have
worked on the project on behalf of the author, Bernie Jaworsky, believe
this is an exceptional book that anyone with an affiliation to the Canadian
mining industry should read.  I have always tried to look at the positive
side of mining in my own books.  When I first read a draft of Jaworsky's
book I was knocked over by the compelling factual stories. Six months later
they are still in my memory.

If you would like to order a copy(s) please send your cheque or money order
to Cambria Publishing, PO Box 61083 Kensington PO, Calgary, Alberta T2N 4S6
or go to our web site at:  http://www.cambriapublishing.com/ for further
information and a printable order form. You can phone or fax toll free at 1
888 505 5253 and we will invoice.

With the help of some generous sponsors, we are able too offer this book at
$29.95 plus  $7 S&H plus  $2.58 GST for a total of $39.54.  We will
guarantee you will not be disappointed.

Sincerely,
Lawrence Chrismas, Publisher/mining historian

P.S. Please forward this letter to others who may be interested.