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October 2025 Notice:
Watch this website for details of a new, 4,600+-word-story.
Story setting is the Omineca area of British Columbia.
Historical information with current access details and photos included.
HERE IT IS!
ALLURING OMINECA booklet. 4,600+ words plus eleven embedded images. Delivered to *most Canadian addresses.
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My fourth book, Robson Valley: a Concise Story in Time, was published in 2022.
This is a 65-page Booklet, 8.5" x 11" containing a number of vintage photos in support of early 20th-century activities and experiences.
These stories were compiled and submitted to the University of Northern British Columbia in support of their Upper Fraser Historical Geography Oral History Project.
ISBN 97809686731-33
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Book Number Five
HILLSIDE NOTES
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232 Pages. 47 Items in Contents List, with 34 images sprinkled in among the stories.
HILLSIDE NOTES, by Lloyd Jeck in 2024, is now available to mail out paid-for orders. E-transfer CAD $27.00 to [email protected] stating product ordered and include your mailing address. Postage included for delivery to most Canadian locations. -
An abridged version of a B.C. readers 25 Nov. 2024 comments after reading Hillside Notes :
- This is the 3rd book of yours I have had the pleasure of reading. Along with the time I dropped by and saw you, I feel I really know you. Your personality really comes out in your books. One thing that really struck me was the wisdom you shared.
- -the importance your book holds as an historical piece of literature depicting the lifestyle and culture of the Robson Valley throughout much of the 1900's.
- Of course, the ending was very sad. As were the stories of your sons
- I loved the cover. Great photo by your daughter Valerie. I keep looking at your face and stance in the photo. She captured you so well. Consider yourself very blessed to have 2 wonderful daughters and a life of love with your dear wife Ev.
- Author note: Cover photo of the author by Valerie (Jeck) Morhart, date: 2023. Km 4.2 on Calagata Provincial Park trail. Cover design by Sheila Jeck.
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Book Number Three
Publisher: Majeck Publishing 2017
ISBN 978-0-9686731-2-6
CHIPS FROM MY AXE
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Book Number Four: Second Print-run now available.
If you are interested, please Contact me. The price is $18.95, delivered to most Canadian locations.
My fourth book, Robson Valley: a Concise Story in Time, was published in 2022.
This is a 65-page Booklet, 8.5" x 11" containing a number of vintage photos in support of early 20th-century activities and experiences.
These stories were compiled and submitted to the University of Northern British Columbia in support of their Upper Fraser Historical Geography Oral History Project.
ISBN 97809686731-33
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Book Number Five
HILLSIDE NOTES
No Tax charged on items ordered from Majeck Books website.
Publisher: Majeck Publishing
ISBN 978-0-9686731-4-0
232 Pages. 47 Items in Contents List, with 34 images sprinkled in among the stories.
HILLSIDE NOTES, by Lloyd Jeck in 2024, is now available to mail out paid-for orders. E-transfer CAD $27.00 to [email protected] stating product ordered and include your mailing address. Postage included for delivery to most Canadian locations. -
An abridged version of a B.C. readers 25 Nov. 2024 comments after reading Hillside Notes :
- This is the 3rd book of yours I have had the pleasure of reading. Along with the time I dropped by and saw you, I feel I really know you. Your personality really comes out in your books. One thing that really struck me was the wisdom you shared.
- -the importance your book holds as an historical piece of literature depicting the lifestyle and culture of the Robson Valley throughout much of the 1900's.
- Of course, the ending was very sad. As were the stories of your sons
- I loved the cover. Great photo by your daughter Valerie. I keep looking at your face and stance in the photo. She captured you so well. Consider yourself very blessed to have 2 wonderful daughters and a life of love with your dear wife Ev.
- Author note: Cover photo of the author by Valerie (Jeck) Morhart, date: 2023. Km 4.2 on Calagata Provincial Park trail. Cover design by Sheila Jeck.
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Book Number Three
Publisher: Majeck Publishing 2017
ISBN 978-0-9686731-2-6
CHIPS FROM MY AXE
A second print-run has been completed
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NEIL JECK and LLOYD JECK
In Wells Gray Provincial Park, 2012, Clearwater, B.C., Canada
After reading CHIPS FROM MY AXE, D. W. in Alberta, Canada writes: "I enjoyed that book so much - what an author - love his writing ...".
And D.P. in British Columbia, Canada writes: "....although I have only read the first chapter, it was decided we need to buy three more copies".
Get your own copy of CHIPS FROM MY AXE, and then you will have creative answers to some Annotated Quizzical Questions. You may learn Why Your Feet Smell and Your Nose Runs. Or maybe you have often wondered If a Pacer Paces and a Trotter Trots does a Hackney Hack?
You can also read about a 500+ mile journey behind a wheelbarrow with a herd of goats following along. This marathon walk happened in 1938. There is more - Cowboy Poetry, Geology, Solving the mystery of a R.N.W.M.P. murder case in Canada's Yukon Territory and re-live a 1941-42 winter at a small logging camp.
Mount Quanstrom, on right side of the cover photo, is tied to the 13-page Geology section. The invitation is out, Contact me.
Book Number Two
British Columbia TRAILS Heading North
Publisher: Majeck Publishing 2011
261 pages, including Index and Images
ISBN 978-0-9686731-1-9
British Columbia TRAILS Heading North
ABOUT: Using a unique theme of Then and Now, the author guides the reader through the central corridor of British Columbia, from Osoyoos at the USA border, to the Omineca area in the northern half of the province.
The story about Hugh Gillis, and much more, is in this book. The 1859-1860 Journal of early explorer Frank Sylvester is included verbatim and describes a late winter pack trip with 42 mules carrying 300-400 pounds each. Plus additional pioneer and adventure stories to inform and delight.
The five adventurer's researched and written about are listed here, showing place and year of birth:
-Arnt Arntzen: northern Norway, 1890
-John Freemont Smith: Island of St. Croix, 1850
-Ben Snipes: North Carolina, U.S.A., 1835
-Frank Sylvester: (Not clear) New York, Poland or England, year 1837
-Hugh Gillis: Prince Edward Island, Canada, 1835
The NOW sections of the book, bring to the reader more recent author experiences and viewpoints.
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Author Lloyd Jeck
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2013 photo by Valerie (Jeck) Morhart
Hello to all you Adventure & History Seekers.
Welcome to my Majeck Books Website.
I am on a Rock Solid Foundation!
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Photos by Valerie (Jeck) Morhart: Lloyd Jeck on Granite Mountain, Clearwater, B.C., 2013. Dunn Peak, centre background.
The above Testimonial came from Fred G. Another Testimonial, from Marie E., follows here:
Book Number One
In the Shadow of the Peaks: Rocky Mountain Tales
Publisher: Majeck Publishing 2000
ISBN 09686731-0-4
192 pages including 55 Images and a Glossary
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In 1931, Lloyd Jeck was born in the small British Columbia town of McBride. This mountain valley lies west of the Canadian Rocky Mountains along the eastern border of the province. Many of the stories, contained in the books that he has written, are centred in and around this spectacular
location. Excerpts from two reader testimonials are shown above.
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Cover Photo: Looking South along Jeck Road at Mount Quanstrom, elevation 3,038 m (9,967 feet). Located just north of Wells Gray Provincial Park, the peak was named after RCAF Flying Officer William Quanstrom from Quesnel, B.C.
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Beaver Mountain, Robson Valley, British Columbia, Canada. See that horizontal white line in centre of photo? That is Rock Ledge No. 1, described in my book Chips From My Axe. There used to be a one-roomed-log school at the left hand end of that escarpment. For seven years I walked one mile to that building to acquire the eight elementary grades. The photographer, who took the picture, was standing very near to the CNR tracks, on Eddy Road at junction of Titiryn Road. Distance, from CNR tracks to the rock ledge, is about three miles (4.828 km).
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In the Shadow of the Peaks: Rocky Mountain Tales
Author: Lloyd Jeck, 1931 -
Publisher: Majeck Publishing (2000), Penticton, B.C., Canada
ISBN 0968673104
Soft Cover 192 pages (includes 55 B/W images)
Robson Valley (B.C.) -History--Anecdotes--Biography--Natural History
Jeck, Lloyd, 1931-
Author: Lloyd Jeck, 1931 -
Publisher: Majeck Publishing (2000), Penticton, B.C., Canada
ISBN 0968673104
Soft Cover 192 pages (includes 55 B/W images)
Robson Valley (B.C.) -History--Anecdotes--Biography--Natural History
Jeck, Lloyd, 1931-
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British Columbia Trails Heading North
Stories of five early pioneers create the backbone of the book. Let yourself slip back in time to when these daring men travelled to and within British Columbia's mountainous terrain. We go back to where they came from and follow their tracks to this country and into the treacherous wilds of undeveloped lands.
During the 1920s wild horses were competing with increasing Okanagan beef herds. Local cowboys took action and rounded up 1,400 head which were all crowded into one large corral. Early one morning the gate was opened and probably Canada's largest "horse drive" was underway. This was the beginning of a journey that took the animals all the way to Russia. Read about it in British Columbia Trails Heading North.
Author: Lloyd Jeck, 1931 -
Publisher: Majeck Publishing (2011), Clearwater,
B.C., Canada ISBN 9780968673119
Soft Cover 261 pages (includes Images, End-notes and Index)
History - Pioneers - Biography - Outdoor Recreation
Jeck, Lloyd 1931-
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During the 1920s wild horses were competing with increasing Okanagan beef herds. Local cowboys took action and rounded up 1,400 head which were all crowded into one large corral. Early one morning the gate was opened and probably Canada's largest "horse drive" was underway. This was the beginning of a journey that took the animals all the way to Russia. Read about it in British Columbia Trails Heading North.
Author: Lloyd Jeck, 1931 -
Publisher: Majeck Publishing (2011), Clearwater,
B.C., Canada ISBN 9780968673119
Soft Cover 261 pages (includes Images, End-notes and Index)
History - Pioneers - Biography - Outdoor Recreation
Jeck, Lloyd 1931-
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An excerpt from "Ben Snipes - Baron of Beef" in British Columbia Trails Heading North by Lloyd Jeck.
"Ben's ranching successes are legendary. Some estimates, during the peak of his ranching career, placed herd numbers at "- -125,000 head of beef cattle and 20,000 horses". Whatever the real tally, the man had great vision and the fortitude to work his way through whatever obstacle confronted him. Snipes drove herd's of cattle into British Columbia to feed hungry miners at Barkerville. Ben Snipes died in 1906 and is buried in the cemetery at The Dalles, Oregon, USA".
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ROBSON VALLEY, British Columbia View. A Few Kilometre's East of McBride. This is the main photo used on the cover of CHIPS FROM MY AXE, published May 18, 2017.
A VIEW OF THE NORTH THOMPSON VALLEY, NEAR CLEARWATER, B.C., IN LATE NOVEMBER 2015.
In the Shadow of the Peaks:
Rocky Mountain Tales
The following is a written comment received from J. in Osoyoos, B.C.:
"Just a short note to let you know how much I enjoyed "In The Shadow Of The Peaks". It is so very well written. I could relate to so many of your adventures having grown up in Northern Alberta when my dad was developing the land. Your ability to hold the reader through your writing is extraordinary and I thank you for that."
The following is a written comment received from J. in Osoyoos, B.C.:
"Just a short note to let you know how much I enjoyed "In The Shadow Of The Peaks". It is so very well written. I could relate to so many of your adventures having grown up in Northern Alberta when my dad was developing the land. Your ability to hold the reader through your writing is extraordinary and I thank you for that."
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Photo Below Map: Beaver Mountain, Robson Valley, near McBride, B.C., Canada.
Grab a copy of "In the Shadow of the Peaks" to get the details. Map shows geographic location of country-living described in the "Shadow" book.
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BEAVER MOUNTAIN, looking east across the ROBSON VALLEY (Rocky Mountain Trench), near McBride, B.C., Canada. The white, horizontal formation, in centre of photo, is Rock Ledge #1 described in CHIPS FROM MY AXE. Scroll back up for PayPal Order Button.
CATERPILLAR TWENTY Gas Crawler Tractor Circa 1930s; Adolph Jeck, tractor operator.
This is the type of construction unit that the author writes about in chapter 21 of the "Shadow" book. Circa 1938, Hwy #16 near Tete Jaune Cache, B.C., Canada.
BUCK MULE DEER photo, shown here, was taken through a north-side window of our home at 6:30 AM on August 2, 2012.
CORRAL SITE in the North Thompson Valley. Horse is 17 hands tall.
2013 Photo. All photography by Lloyd Jeck unless otherwise stated.
2013 Photo. All photography by Lloyd Jeck unless otherwise stated.
Horses can take you to Canadian lakes in the Rocky Mountains wilderness for splendid outdoor views.
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