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Winnipeg-published book wins Ontario Speaker's Award
A Winnipeg-published book has won the inaugural Ontario Speaker's Award in Toronto.
Walking into Wilderness: The Toronto Carrying Place and Nine Mile Portage, by former Winnipeg journalist and author Heather Robertson, received the $1,000 prize Tuesday night at a ceremony at the Ontario legislature.
The book, which beat out 14 other shortlisted titles, is published by Winnipeg's Heartland Associates.
Walking into Wilderness previously won the Ontario Historical Society's prestigious Fred Landon Award.
Heartland Associates earlier published Robertson's Magical, Mysterious Lake of the Woods, which also won the Landon award.
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition March 22, 2013 D2
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