Chick Stewart

Born on a hard scrabble Manitoba chicken farm in 1928 (hence his lifelong nickname) Donald “Chick” Stewart has always been a hard worker, and this charming memoir tells stories from eight decades of working life-selling eggs, setting pins at a bowling alley, selling magazines door to door, working in saw mills, owning and operating sawmills on the Fraser River. …Told in fluent, simple prose that has been deftly polished and organized by his co-author Michelle Carter… this book offers more than charming anecdotes of work, play and family life. …It is also a valuable account of decades of experience in the sawmilling industry. …But some readers, including this reviewer, will find his account of helping to defeat a unionization drive at a neighbouring mill troubling.