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To Get The Lights: A Memoir About Farm Electrification in Saskatchewan

by Dave Anderson

244 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #05-1282; ISBN 1-4120-6371-x; US$23.00, C$26.50, EUR19.00, £13.50

To Get The Lights is an entertaining insight into the miracle of how Saskatchewan farms received electricity, overcoming the huge obstacles of distances, finances and even dogged armed resistance.

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About the Author

Dave Anderson, born in Estevan, has the Wheat Province tattooed under his skin, always there, just like being a Saskatchewan Roughrider football fan. Of his 35 year career in Canada's energy industry, his most cherished and exhilarating days were those when he was helping farmers To Get The Lights.

Retired since 1986, Dave and his wife, Betty, live in Victoria, British Columbia, where he is currently writing the rest of his work memoirs.

Tommy Douglas, Canada's medicare founder, believed his greatest Saskatchewan achievement was farm electrification. His daughter Shirley recently wrote, "And once, when he was flying over Saskatchewan, someone asked him what is the greatest thing you feel you have done for the province? He said: 'Look down. Right there. The twinkling lights' "

The obstacles were enormous to get those twinlkling lights stretched across the praire to tens of thousands of farms and hundreds of towns. SaskPower has the unenviable distinction of the fewest number of customers per mile of line than any other utility in North America. How that job was done is recalled in To Get The Lights - a fascinating read!

Sharon Butala, the bestselling Saskatchewan author of Lilac Moon and The Perfection Of The Morning, after seeing only a snippet of this work wrote, "This is a very interesting piece of important Saskatchewan history,"

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