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By Mary Harelkin Bishop and Deana J. Driver

Did you know Saskatchewan has eight snow sports Paralympians? They have earned many Paralympic medals! They have competed in para adaptive snow sports such as alpine skiing, nordic skiing, biathlon, and snowboarding in Canada and around the world. Meet these incredible and accomplished athletes! Find out how their journeys began. Learn what challenges they faced as they trained and succeeded in these challenging sports. Meet and learn how coaches, trainers, guides, equipment personnel, planners, and others worked with and helped these hardworking athletes compete to the best of their abilities!

​978-0986758-06-5 ; 8”x8”; 56 pages; 76 colour photos. © ​2026; Ages 8 to 13. Juvenile Nonfiction; Sports & Recreation; Short stories; Skiing; Snowboarding; Canadian history; Saskatchewan; Canadian authors.

Curricular Connections: Grade 4 – Social Studies; English Language Arts – Celebrating and Honouring Others; Grades 4-8 English Language Arts – Heroes, Sports Legends, Physical Disabilities.

About the Authors:

Mary Harelkin Bishop and Deana J. Driver are award-winning, bestselling Canadian authors. They have been collaborating on publishing books since 2008, when Deana edited and they co-published Mary’s kids’ fiction book Seeds of Hope. Their first written connection to the SASKI-PASS community was with Mary as the author and Deana as the editor-publisher of Moving Forward: The Journey of Paralympian Colette Bourgonje, which was launched with Colette at the Saskatchewan Pavilion of the 2010 Paralympic Games in Whistler, B.C. This two-book project of Prairie Peaks and Tracks and Gone Skiing marks Mary’s and Deana’s first collaboration as co-authors. They are honoured to have worked on these books with the Saskatchewan Ski Association Para Adaptive Snow Sports (SASKI-PASS) and the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame and Museum.

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