A Far Away Place, Bear River - Paperbackby Mary Marvin McLeod (Author), John Alexander McLeod (Editor) A Far Away Place, Bear River (Mary Marvin McLeod, 1920 2003) is the story of Maple Grove farm, the first volume of a panoramic Canadian trilogy that takes us from a farming community in the 1920s, to a small town during the Depression, to Ottawa and Montreal during the war years. More than a memoir, it is a history of the times, stitching together a series of tales and vignettes about the