Watch the virtual launch of Klondikers
Watch the virtual launch of Klondikers The virtual launch of Klondikers: Dawson City’s Stanley Cup Challenge and How a Nation Fell in Love with Hockey featured Tim Falconer and Ian Brown in conversation. You can watch it here:
A reading of the Prologue from Klondikers
A reading of the Prologue from Klondikers Get a sense of Klondikers: Dawson City’s Stanley Cup Challenge and How a Nation Fell in Love with Hockey with this video of me reading the Prologue.
Klondikers Virtual Launch
To be honest, launching a book on Zoom wouldn’t be my first choice. I’d love to throw a big bash in a bar. But on the positive side, people from all over will be able to join me in celebrating Klondikers. For more information, here’s a Facebook event page. And here’s the Zoom link for […]
A Klondikers pic a day
A Klondikers pic a day Klondikers: Dawson City’s Stanley Cup Challenge and How a Nation Fell in Love with Hockey includes no photographs so I am posting a pic a day on Facebook, Twitter (@timfalconer) and Instagram (@thetimoji) to introduce some of the characters, places and events in the book.
Puck Possession Archives
Puck Possession Archives Catch up on past editions of the Puck Possession newsletter: Special Edition: Virtual Launch Invitation (10/04/2021) Hockey’s Complicated Villain (09/15/2021) Blame the Ref (08/13/2021) P.D. Ross and the Stanley Cup (07/19/2021) Hockey’s Rough and Rowdy Ways (06/18/2021) Shake It Off: Playing Hurt Is Part of Hockey’s DNA (05/17/2021) Where Puck-Moving Defencemen Really […]
Advanced Praise (aka Blurbs)
Advanced Praise (aka Blurbs) I feel extremely fortunate to have received these two flattering blurbs for Klondikers. Here’s one from The Athletic’s James Mirtle: • “Meticulously researched and endlessly fascinating, Klondikers offers a remarkable portrait of the often-overlooked story of hockey’s beginnings in Canada’s North. Falconer has done it again.” And here’s another from The […]
Puck Possession newsletter
Puck Possession newsletter Since my next book — Klondikers: Dawson City’s Stanley Cup Challenge and How a Nation Fell in Love with Hockey — will be out in October, I’ve started a newsletter. Called Puck Possession, it’s about the roots of our love for hockey. Delivered to your mailbox roughly once a month. Please sign […]
Dawson City’s 1905 Stanley Cup challenge
I recently managed to find another excuse to visit the Yukon. I did events to promote Bad Singer in Whitehorse and Dawson City, saw friends and enjoyed the scenery, the skies and the light, but the main reason for my trip was research. I want to write a historical non-fiction book about Dawson City’s 1905 Stanley […]
If Toronto’s Mayors Were Maple Leafs
If Toronto’s Mayors Were Maple Leafs Last September, during the municipal election, Shawn Micallef wrote a perspicacious open letter to George Smitherman in Eye Weekly (now known as The Grid). Micallef urged the Toronto mayoral candidate to be more like Wendel Clark and less like Tie Domi. Although I am not a Maple Leaf fan, I’ve watched the team […]
