[Bobblehead]

In the Canadian category, I will go with Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat

In 1948-1949, Canada's Dominion Wildlife Service assigns the author to investigate the cause of declining caribou populations and determine whether wolves are contributing to the shortage. Upon finding his quarry near Nueltin Lake, Mowat discovers that rather than being wanton killers of caribou, the wolves subsist quite heavily on small mammals such as rodents and hares, even choosing them over caribou when available. He concludes that "We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be -- the mythological epitome of a savage, ruthless killer -- which is, in reality, no more than the reflected image of ourself." Mowat comes to fear an onslaught of wolfers and government exterminators out to erase the wolves from the Arctic.

This is a tough category for me; no only because I saw one of my favourite choices taken so early, but also because there are a number of other good choices I could make in this category. In high school my final english course was Canadian english, and studied authors like McLuhan, Lawrence, Mitchell, Davies and Atwood, but I went with this Farley Mowat book because I had read it even before taking this course and it left an impression on my at that time, one that I still appreciate.