Ed Zaruk

Thank you Alpha Aviaition for your hospitality on

April 22 during the release of my new book

Photos of the event HERE

Ontario Central Airlines

The Kenora Years

Available now, this non-fiction book is a 'must have' for your bush pilot collection.

Re-live the airlines' history as revealed through hundreds of hours of interviews with pilots, mechanics, former managers and dispatchers who kept the airplanes flying.

Twenty-four pages of glossy pictures portray everyday operations. For a sample, CLICK HERE.

Owned and operated by Barney Lamm, who with his wife Marion also ran Barney's Ball Lake Lodge on the English River north of Kenora, this airline flew throughout Northwestern Ontario.

Ontario Central Airlines - The Kenora Years traces the company's history starting when Rex Kiteley and Gordy Hollinsworth purchased two planes and the bases at Red Lake and Kenora from Grant McConachie. For over two decades it serviced miners, commercial fishermen, Native communities and fly-in fishing lodges in Northwestern Ontario.

"I am indebted to Ed for not only capturing the memories of those who worked for Ontario Central Airlines, but also the creative writing used to record and preserve this era of aviation for future generations."

Don Watson- Founding director and member of

Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame

Featured review by Annie Gallant

Available now from Haakon Publishing

Also from the pen of Ed Zaruk

The first of Ed's thrillers

about the Falklands conflict.

Mrs. Thatcher's instructions were concise and clear-

"Devote whatever resources are necessary to find this document."

Follow John Wingate and Vanessa Grieves as they are pursued from the streets of Buenos Aires to the abandoned whaling stations of South Georgia Island byArgentine Special Forces guarding the juntas interests.

Read the first four chapters...

Go here for articles I'm writing on South Gerorgia Island and the Falklands

Altar and Throne

Winner of 2009 IPPY Award

Abe Williston-