Against the Wind: Hope Sees The Invisible by Tony F. Powell

  Please welcome Tony F. Powell author of Against the Wind: Hope Sees The Invisible

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Against the Wind: Hope Sees The Invisible

by Tony F. Powell

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GENRE: Biography/Autobiography

 

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BLURB:

 

Tony Powell was born on March 16, 1955 in Charlottetown, Labrador, NL, on the Northeast Coast of Canada, son of the late Benjamin and Effie Powell. Together they had nine children - seven boys and two girls. Six boys become bush pilots. Tony is married to Ida Powell, and they have one child, Ramsey, who is a medical doctor.

 

Tony will take you on his life's journey. His stories are captivating, inspiring, and heart-wrenching. He never faltered in achieving his dreams and aspirations.

 

Tony has a great love for family and history. His greatest qualities are his positive attitude and calm nature, never allowing negative thinking to weaken his strengths and defeat his goals.

 

Tony's early years took him to the rich fishing ground off the shores of Labrador. At the tender age of seven he would accompany his dad and the crew to haul the cod traps in an ol' 10-metre motorboat. At age fourteen he was fishing as a share-man on his dad's longliner in the furry seas of Northern Labrador.

 

At age seventeen Tony was guiding sports fishermen from all over the world, fishing for trout and Atlantic salmon in our rich Labrador rivers and streams. Their excitement became his enjoyment.

 

Tony begin his career as a commercial pilot at the age of twenty. His love of flight included seven years with Labrador Airways, coupled with three years flying the mission plane out of North West River, Labrador.

 

Tony's dream was to have his own flying service. Pursuing his dream, he became owner/Chief Pilot of Labrador Travel Air, an aircraft charter company. With the newly constructed Trans Labrador Highway along our shores, Labrador Travel Air became history.

 

He has 45 years of flying experience and 27,000 hours of flight time on over 30 different types of single-and multi-engine aircraft on wheels, skis and floats, including a commercial helicopter licence, often logging 1500 hours in a single year. In Tony's years of flight thus far he is very proud to have a proven record of never having any injuries to his passengers or himself.

 

Tony continues to fly seasonally on a legendary Beaver seaplane for Portland Creek Aviation, and has his own PA-18 Super Cub C-GTFP.

 

I invite you to come experience first hand Captain Tony Powell behind the controls of the legendary de Havilland pistonpowered Beaver during the seventies without heaters in -50°C temperatures. Watch him perform many lifesaving mercy flights while battling some of nature's most severe weather conditions anywhere on the planet. His described flights will surely capture the attention of the most avid flyer as we witness him survive engine failures and even a crash landing amongst the huge trees in Labrador.

 

Come live out in real time his heroic shipwreck. Sit on his modified Mach Z Ski-Doo and feel the adrenaline flow through your veins as you race for dear life up the big mountain in the Race on the Rock at Marble Mountain, NL.

 

At age forty-eight, Tony was diagnosed with fourth and final stage cancer. Learn of his prognosis, and his courageous determination to survive. Experience his fight to beat the odds.

 

Throughout Tony's recollections you will travel by air, water and land, experiencing historic events and fatal airplane crash scenes in Labrador, including the story of his Grandfather Powell sailing onboard the Dorothy Duff while delivering a load of salt cod fish to the Mediterranean Sea during WWI. It will surely chill you to your core.

 

Tony will welcome you to his childhood family home where you will find pure love overcoming many of life's obstacles. Find out the true meaning of perseverance, courage and strength.

 

Tony has shown us what life's struggles are all about and how he survived them.

 

This book is a true reflection of living our lives one day at a time. Each day we all journey Against the Wind and survive the storms of life.

 

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EXCERPTS :

 

 

We Lose Everything in a House Fire

 

The next thing I remember was a loud bang coming from upstairs. It sounded like a piece of furniture fell down. Mom and Dad ran for the stairway because they thought my baby sister Blanch was upstairs in her cot. “Get out children, get out, quick, the house is afire,” they shouted. Then another big bang sounded as the old fire extinguisher exploded, knocking Dad a cold junk on top of Mom and sending them both tumbling down over the stairs.

 

There was quite the commotion. As Lester attempted to go upstairs to help save our baby sister from the burning house, he would be pushed back by the smoke and flames. Mom shouted for him to come on back and he answered, “The baby is upstairs!”

 

In all the panic, Mom forgot that my baby sister Blanch was downstairs in the highchair in my dad’s office, and the first thing she did was grab the baby and gave her to my sister Marie, telling her to go quickly to her aunt Winnie’s house.

 

When Dad came around, he quickly grabbed his most valuable item—his old HF radio—and ran outside. That radio was his only connection with the outside world. Mom told me go tell Uncle John Kippenhuck our house is on fire, then to go to my grandmother’s and tell them too. They only lived a short distance from our house. She told brother Sandy to go in the opposite direction toward Uncle Bart Turnbull’s and let them know that our house was afire and we needed all the help we can get. However, very few helpers were to be found because most of the men around the community were still in the woods. Dad managed to get most of the important things out of the post office, but was unable to save anything from his shop. This was bad because in those days most people would get everything on credit and pay in the fall once they sold their fish. He had no way to know who had what or how much he was owed. This was a terrible loss for his business. We lost all of our personal belongings. The fire had reached his year’s supply of ammunition, including kegs of gun powder, shotgun shells, riffle shells and more. Everything was exploding. I recall hearing Dad talking to everyone about the fire and saying the only thing he could guess had happened was that the fire must have started around the stove pipe upstairs. I remember after alerting everyone, I came back to the house for a look, and seeing the smoke bundling out. I saw my mom grab a few things from the post office, and my grandmother pulling a pair of ladies’ flannel underwear from the clothesline and hauling them over her head before disappearing into the black smoke. A minute later I could see her coming out dragging behind my mom’s old gasolinepowered washing machine. I saw Dad along with others climbing up the ladders to the roof, but parts of it were already caving in. It was just too dangerous for them to do anything because you could see the flames coming up through the roof. They could only step back and watch everything that he worked so hard for all his life go up in flames. The most important thing was that we all escaped with our lives. However, my brother Lester lost his husky dog, Blackie, in the fire. Blackie was very special to my mom because he was the last one left from my mom’s own team of husky dogs that she loved so much. Blackie was getting old and cute. With all the noise and sounds from the loud explosions, he thought that Lester was going to harness him up to go to the brook for a barrel of water with his other dog, Tray. Blackie ran underneath our house which he often did, and never survived.

 

 

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

 

Tony Powell was born and raised at Charlottetown, Labrador, Newfoundland Labrador, a proud member of NunatuKavut, Southern Inuit of Labrador. He is mixed blood Inuit and European decent, the son of the late Author Benjamin W. Powell of Charlottetown, Labrador, NL. His mom was the late Effie Mary Campbell Powell, born at George's Cove, ten miles south of Square Islands on the southeast coast of Labrador. Married to Ida Powell of Conche, on the great Northern Peninsula of NL, they have a son, Ramsey Powell, who is a medical Doctor.

 

When Tony was a boy the main mode of transportation along the Labrador Coast was by a Team of husky dogs or snowshoes.

 

A travelling doctor and nurse visited our community once during the winter by dog team, and once during the summer by boat. The first scheduled Aircraft passenger service was Labrador Airways by single engine Otter in 1970 winter time only.

 

CONNECT WITH Tony F. Powell

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