A History Of Canada In Ten Maps
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Description Author Product Details Reviews Winner of the 2018 Louise de Kiriline Lawrence Award for NonfictionEnvisioning the mysterious land that would eventually be called "Canada" through...
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A Little History of Canada
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Lively, compact, and highly readable, this bestselling history offers a fascinating overview of the Canadian landscape and its people. From the earliest human inhabitants of...
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A Number of Things
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National bestsellerFrom one of our nation’s most beloved and iconic authors comes a lyrical 150th birthday gift to CanadaAward-winning author Jane Urquhart explores fifty Canadian...
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Abandoned Alberta
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A love letter to the province offering a window into the past through stunning photography.The stunning images found in Abandoned Alberta offer a window into...
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Adventurous Woman Abroad
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In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, travelling within North American borders or beyond to exotic locations was difficult at best and disastrous at...
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Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries
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Peter Whyte (1905-1966) and Catharine Robb Whyte, OC (1906-1979) occupy a little recognized, but important role in the Canadian landscape tradition. Their contribution to Canadian...
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Beauty of the Canadian Rockies
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Featuring 60 stunning, colour photos Beauty of the Canadian Rockies is part of a new series of full-colour travel and tourism books celebrating the internationally renowned Canadian...
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Beyond the Trees
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National bestsellerA thrilling odyssey through an unforgiving landscape, from "Canada's greatest living explorer."In the spring of 2017, Adam Shoalts, bestselling author and adventurer, set off...
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Borderlands
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The book is a photographic discourse on the country that straddles the forty-ninth parallel from the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains to the grasslands...
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Born to the Wild
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Born to the Wild - Journals of a National Park Warden in the Canadian Rockies, is the story of former Park Warden Rob Kaye's boyhood...
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Bush Runner: The Adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson
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WINNER OF THE 2020 RBC TAYLOR PRIZE • "Readers might well wonder if Jonathan Swift at his edgiest has been at work."—RBC Taylor Prize Jury...
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Cattle Kingdom
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One of the most colourful chapters in the history of North American settlement began in the 1880s when the rich Alberta grasslands spreading east from...
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Conrad Kain: Letters From a Wandering Mountain Guide
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Conrad Kain is a titan amongst climbers in Canada and is well-known in mountaineering circles all over the world. His letters to Amelie Malek—a life-long...
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Cowboys, Ranchers and the Cattle Business
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Cowboys, Ranchers and the Cattle Business: Cross-Border Perspectives on Ranching History is an easily accessible and comprehensive summary of current studies on the Canadian ranching...
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Darn Good Dandies
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In 1882, in the midst of a current fervour for tartans and all things Scottish, two brothers published Vestiarium Scoticum, a replica of an ancient...
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Disappointment River: Finding and Losing the Northwest Passage
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In 1789, Alexander Mackenzie travelled the 1,125 miles of the immense river in Canada that now bears his name, in search of the fabled Northwest...
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Earth and Sky
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With a vivid narrative and stunning photography, this beautifully produced coffee-table book showcases the natural beauty of North America’s Rocky Mountain Front and the human...
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Heart Waters
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Shortlisted for the 2016 Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival award for Mountain & Wilderness Literature. “We could belong here too. We could be like...
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Howdy, I'm John Ware
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Howdy, I’m John Ware is a children's book about Canada's legendary Black cowboy. The story, ideal for ages 6-12, brings the real-life legend to a new generation...
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Hunter of Peace
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Mary T. S. Schäffer’s reputation as an artist, author, photographer and explorer is best illustrated by her own delightful accounts of rugged camp and trail...
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Intrepid Explorer: James Hector
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Years before the railway, and with only a network of ramshackle forts to support them, James Hector and his colleagues braved harsh winters, hot summers,...
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Lake O'Hara Art of J.E.H. MacDonald
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Lake O'Hara Art of J.E.H. MacDonald and Hiker's Guide is author Lisa Christensen's third exploration of the work of a painter or group of painters...
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Latch String Out
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Written over a 30-year period, Eleanor G. Luxton’s Latch String Out dramatically describes the pioneer life of Annie McKenzie McDougall, wife of western fur trader...
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Memoirs of a Wildcat
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Mary Tidlund was never able to blend in, so she embraced standing out. Labelled “unadoptable” because of the colour of her skin, the odds seemed...
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Original Highways
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Expanding on his landmark Globe and Mail series in which he documented his travels down 16 of Canada's great rivers, Roy MacGregor tells the story of our...
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Park Prisoners
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Between 1915 and 1946, the Canadian government put some ten thousand unskilled foreigners, jobless and homeless people, conscientious objectors, perceived enemies of the state, and...
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Policing Black Lives
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Delving behind Canada’s veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance, Policing Black Lives traces the violent realities of anti-blackness from the slave ships to prisons, classrooms and beyond. Robyn...
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Pourin' Down Rain
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The 30th anniversary edition of Cheryl Foggo’s landmark work about growing up Black on the Canadian prairiesCheryl Foggo came of age during the 1960s in...
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Ranching Women in Southern Alberta
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Settler ranching in southern Alberta conjures the image of a lone cowboy riding through the foothills or a stoic ranch hand roping errant cattle. But...
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Sources of the River - Tracking David Thompson
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The awe-inspiring story of explorer David Thompson, whose expeditions helped shape western North AmericaIn this true story of adventure, author Jack Nisbet re-creates the life...
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The Buffalo Head
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The wildest, loveliest and least-travelled region of Alberta was R.M. Patterson’s home territory in the 1930s and ’40s. The Buffalo Head ranch was located in...
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The Hanging of Angelique
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Writer, historian and poet Afua Cooper tells the astonishing story of Marie-Joseph Angélique, a slave woman convicted of starting a fire that destroyed a large...
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The Last Spike
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In the four years between 1881 and 1885, Canada was forged into one nation by the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The Last Spike reconstructs the...
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The Last Viking
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"An intensely researched, thoroughly enjoyable life of one of history's best explorers...A superb biography of a fiercely driven explorer who traveled across the last inaccessible...
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The Skin We're In
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NATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2020 TORONTO BOOK AWARDA bracing, provocative, and perspective-shifting book from one of Canada's most celebrated and uncompromising writers, Desmond Cole. The Skin...
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They Call Me George: The Untold Story of Black Train Porters
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A CBC BOOKS MUST-READ NONFICTION BOOK FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTHNominated for the Toronto Book AwardSmartly dressed and smiling, Canada’s black train porters were a familiar...
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This Wild Spirit: Women
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In 1912, Mary Vaux, a botanist, glaciologist, painter, and photographer, wrote about her mountain adventures:“A day on the trail, or a scramble over the glacier,...
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Truth and Beauty in the Canadian Rockies
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Walter J. Phillips was born in Lincolnshire, England, and immigrated to Canada in 1913 at the age of 29, after spending considerable time studying abroad...
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