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305 Lost Buildings of Canada

Alpine Books

$22.95 CAD

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A Geography of Blood

Heritage Group Distribution

$24.95 CAD

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When Candace Savage and her partner buy a house near the Saskatchewan-Montana border, her naturalist’s instinct propels her to explore the area. She takes pleasure...

A History Of Canada In Ten Maps

Alpine Books

$22.00 CAD

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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...

A Métis Man's Dream

Neil Gower

$23.25 CAD

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Where there’s a Gill, there’s a way.Gordon Gill is a gentle, hard-working Métis man whose journey began on his Iroquois-Cree grandfather’s trapline and evolved into...

A Road Map for Finding Wild Horses

Alpine Books

$20.00 CAD

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Alongside the dramatic views of the Rocky Mountains lies a precarious ecosystem impacted by the pressures of industries such as mining, forestry, ranching, and oil...

Abandoned Alberta

Alpine Books

$29.95 CAD

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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...

Abandoned Alberta II

Alpine Books

$34.95 CAD

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In Abandoned Alberta II, Joe Chowaniec continues his travels in Wild Rose country, uncovering even more hidden gems along the way. These extraordinary images provide...

Adventurous Woman Abroad

Heritage Group Distribution

$32.95 CAD

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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...

Alberta Loves You Postcard - Any 5 for $10

Annika Clennan

$10.00 CAD

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Postcards celebrating the glorious landscape of Alberta's Foothills, as photographed by Bluerock's own Annika Clennan on her commutes to and from the gallery. 16 to...

Alberta's Cornerstone

Heritage Group Distribution

$34.95 CAD

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The fascinating exploration of a vanished settlement in Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park, told within the framework of an archaeologist’s memoir. While excavating Alberta’s most important...

Badlands: A Geography of Metaphors

Alpine Books

$45.00 CAD

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Foreword by Ross King, New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Governor General's Award. There can be few places in the world where the visual...

Beauty of the Canadian Rockies

Heritage Group Distribution

$15.00 CAD

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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...

Beyond the Trees

Alpine Books

$22.00 CAD

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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...

Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek (Marty)

Alpine Books

$21.00 CAD

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In describing the true events surrounding a series of frightening bear attacks in l980, a bestselling nature/adventure author explores our relationship with the great grizzly.Many...

Bulls, Brands, & B.S.

Joyce Pallister-Bronsch

$29.95 CAD

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This book contains the writings of the late Hank Pallister, Supervisor of Alberta's Brand Inspection System. He captures the characters and the cowmen that played...

Bush Runner: The Adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson

Alpine Books

$22.95 CAD

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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...

Cattle Kingdom

Heritage Group Distribution

$19.95 CAD

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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...

Cowboy Cavalry, The

Heritage Group Distribution

$22.95 CAD

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When Native and Métis unrest escalated into the Northwest Rebellion of 1885, white settlers in southern Alberta`s cattle country were terrified. Three major First Nations...

Disappointment River: Finding and Losing the Northwest Passage

Alpine Books

$22.95 CAD

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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...

Disorientation

Alpine Books

$25.00 CAD

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A FINALIST FOR THE 2021 HILARY WESTON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION Bestselling, Scotiabank Giller Award-winning writer Ian Williams brings fresh eyes and new insights to...

Dominion

Alpine Books

$26.95 CAD

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NATIONAL BESTSELLERNamed Best Book of the Year by the Globe and Mail, History Today and The Hill TimesA gripping and eye-opening account of the building of the engineering triumph...

Earth and Sky

Heritage Group Distribution

$40.00 CAD

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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...

Epic Wanderer

Alpine Books

$22.95 CAD

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Popular historian D’Arcy Jenish recreates the adventure and sacrifice of mapmaker David Thompson’s fascinating life in the wilderness of North America.Epic Wanderer, the first full-length...

Far Pastures (RM Patterson)

Heritage Group Distribution

$19.95 CAD

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The stories in Far Pastures take readers to R.M. Patterson’s homestead in the Peace River country of northern Alberta. To all-night dances that ended as the northern...

First and Second Kings: The True Story of Eccentric Millionaires Who Lived Like Paupers

HBLS Books

$22.95 CAD

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The true story of eccentric millionaires who lived like paupers. A remarkable tale of a ranch wife's fifty year friendship with millionaire bachelor brothers who...

Flip Flop Flapjack: Wildhorse Jack and the First Stampede Breakfast

Alpine Books

$17.99 CAD – Sold Out

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The true story behind the 100-year-old tradition of the Calgary Stampede pancake breakfast — as told by the granddaughter of the legendary founder Wildhorse Jack....

Folklife and Superstition: The Luck, Lore & Worldviews of Prairie Homesteaders

Heritage Group Distribution

$32.95 CAD

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A captivating history of folk traditions, beliefs, and culturally diverse customs in the early homesteading era on the Canadian Prairies. The homesteading era on the...

Frontier Cowboys and the Great Divide

Heritage Group Distribution

$19.95 CAD

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Despite being neighbouring provinces with long ranching histories, British Columbia and Alberta saw their ranching techniques develop quite differently. As most ranching styles were based...

Frontier Farewell

Alpine Books

$34.95 CAD

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"Gracefully written, fully and meticulously researched." -- Sharon Butala, author of The Perfection of the Morning"Frontier Farewell offers new perspectives on everything from the transfer of Rupert's...

Grain Elevators: Beacons on the Prairies

Alpine Books

$29.95 CAD

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Rising above the landscape, the grain elevator heralds a time when wheat was king across the West. At their zenith, 5,758 of these prairie giants...

Heart Waters

Heritage Group Distribution

$40.00 CAD

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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...

Horse Woman

Alpine Books

$25.95 CAD – Sold Out

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Lee McLean was born to ride ... and to write. In these pages, you will enter the world of a master horsewoman and ride with...

How to be a Canadian

Alpine Books

$19.95 CAD

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A new format for the little book that has become a Canadian cultural icon, still a best-seller six years after its first publication.When Margaret Atwood...

Howdy, I'm Flores LaDue

Alpine Books

$17.99 CAD

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Life is tough, but so are cowgirls. This is the true story of Flores LaDue (1883-1951), ideal for ages 7-9. A world champion trick roper...

Howdy, I'm John Ware

Alpine Books

$17.99 CAD

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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...

Imagine This Valley

Heritage Group Distribution

$20.00 CAD

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Featuring essays from some of the area’s most beloved personalities, this exceptional literary anthology celebrates the landscape, culture, community and natural history of Alberta’s Bow...

In Our Youth

Heritage Group Distribution

$29.95 CAD

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A fascinating, photo-rich exploration of early aviation in Canada, told through the backstories of pilots who flew, fought, and risked their lives in the First...

Klondike

Alpine Books

$24.95 CAD – Sold Out

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With the building of the railroad and the settlement of the plains, the North West was opening up. The Klondike stampede was a wild interlude...

Kootenai Brown: The Unknown Frontiersman

Heritage Group Distribution

$18.95 CAD

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Brown’s remarkably adventurous life in Canada began in BC in 1862 during the Cariboo gold rush. He later became a BC policeman, Pony Express rider,...

Latch String Out

Alpine Books

$24.95 CAD

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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...

Leaning on the Wind (Marty)

Heritage Group Distribution

$22.95 CAD

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A finalist for the 1995 Governor General's Literary Award for English-language non-fiction Winner of the Mountain Environment and Culture Award at the 1995 Banff Mountain...

Lost and Found: Adrift in the Canadian Rockies

Heritage Group Distribution

$25.00 CAD

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For many people, moving to a mountain town is the realization of a dream, the final step in a pilgrimage to a relaxed lifestyle in...

Love & Rules: Life Lessons Learned with Horses

Alpine Books

$25.95 CAD

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From Lee McLean, the much-anticipated follow-up to her multiple best-selling novel, Horse Woman.'Love & Rules' is a collection of essays by master horsewoman Lee McLean...

Memoirs of a Wildcat

Mary Tidlund

$24.99 CAD

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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...

Men for the Mountains

Alpine Books

$23.00 CAD

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As a park warden in the national parks of Canada's Rocky Mountains, Sid Marty came to know that beautiful and treacherous landscape as few men...

Most of Mary-Jo

HBLS Books

$18.95 CAD

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Her house burned down, she gave birth in a neighbour's house when a blizzard blocked roads to the hospital -- for Mary-Jo Burles it was...

Muggins: The Life and Afterlife of a Canadian Canine War Hero

Heritage Group Distribution

$22.95 CAD

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The unusual and moving tale of Muggins, a famed fundraising dog who became a mascot of the Canadian Red Cross during the First World War....

Never Shoot a Stampede Queen

Heritage Group Distribution

$19.95 CAD

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Winner of the 2009 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour The cops wanted to shoot me, my bosses thought I was a Bolshevik, and a local...