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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

$23.00 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 – Sold Out

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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 – Sold Out

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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...

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...

Alberta, a history in photographs

Heritage Group Distribution

$19.95 CAD

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To many people, Alberta represents the true Canadian frontier. It is known for its rugged image, its "wild west" past and its staunchly independent residents,...

Always On Call: Adventures in Nursing, Ranching and Rural Living

Heritage Group Distribution

$26.95 CAD

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In the long-awaited sequel to Always Pack a Candle, intrepid public health nurse Marion Crook juggles marriage, children, and a vast array of patients and cases...

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...

Before Canada | Northern North America in a Connected World

Alpine Books

$44.95 CAD

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Long before Confederation created a nation-state in northern North America, Indigenous people were establishing vast networks and trade routes. Volcanic eruptions pushed the ancestors of...

Beyond the Trees

Alpine Books

$23.00 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...

Blue Sky, Red Canoe

Neil Gower

$24.95 CAD

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Explore the Red Deer River, from the mountains of Banff National Park to the open, prairie lands of the Saskatchewan border. In Blue Sky, Red Canoe, his...

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

$24.95 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...

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...

Epic Wanderer

Alpine Books

$22.95 CAD – Sold Out

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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...

First Stampede of Florence Ladue

Alpine Books

$24.99 CAD

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In honor of the 100th anniversary of the Calgary Stampede, Bryden presents this #1 Calgary Herald bestseller detailing the fascinating true story of the romance that started...

Flip Flop Flapjack: Wildhorse Jack and the First Stampede Breakfast

Alpine Books

$17.99 CAD

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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...

From Rinks to Regiments

Heritage Group Distribution

$19.95 CAD

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A celebration of thirty-two heroes of the First World War enshrined in the Hockey Hall of Fame. Praise for Remembered in Bronze and Stone: “A remarkable...

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...

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

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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...

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...

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...

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,...

Leaning on the Wind (Marty)

Heritage Group Distribution

$22.95 CAD – Sold Out

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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...

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...

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...

Nothing Will Save Your Life

Alpine Books

$18.00 CAD

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Nothing Will Save Your Life is an explosion of pop culture, femininity, sex, religion and motherhood held together with humour and lightened with fragments of...

Old Man's Garden

Heritage Group Distribution

$30.00 CAD

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Through pen and ink illustrations and stories, Old Man’s Garden conveys the legends and folklore connected with Southern Alberta’s wildflowers, native plants, and Indigenous culture. Originally published...

Our Place

Heritage Group Distribution

$25.00 CAD

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A collection of essays and articles that reflect upon the ecology, conservation history, missed opportunities and emerging possibilities of a place that could have been...

Ours by Every Law of Right and Justice: Women's Suffrage and the Struggle for Democracy

Alpine Books

$19.95 CAD

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Many of Canada’s most famous suffragists lived and campaigned in the Prairie provinces, which led the way in granting women the right to vote and...

Outsider: An Old Man, a Mountain and the Search for a Hidden Past

Alpine Books

$13.99 CAD – Sold Out

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Into the Wild meets Born to Run meets The Stranger in the Woods in a fascinating true story of a marathon-running hermit and a journalist’s quest to solve the mystery...

Park Bagger

Heritage Group Distribution

$32.00 CAD – Sold Out

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An inspiring collection of thrilling personal adventures and stunning photographs sharing the incredible diversity and profound beauty of Canada's national parks. Distributed across the second-largest...

Policing Black Lives

Alpine Books

$25.00 CAD

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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...

Pourin' Down Rain

Alpine Books

$19.95 CAD

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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...

Railway Nation

Heritage Group Distribution

$34.95 CAD

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A riveting, visually engaging collection of vignettes highlighting the rich heritage of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Since its founding in 1881, Canadian Pacific has made...

Ranching Under the Arch

Heritage Group Distribution

$34.95 CAD

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In the 1880s, a group of fledgling cattle ranchers descended on the plains of southern Alberta. They were drawn by the promise of the West,...

Ranching Women in Southern Alberta

Alpine Books

$29.95 CAD

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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...

Remember Me As You Pass By: Stories from Prairie Graveyards

Deadwood Publishing

$13.95 CAD

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Nancy Millar learned two things as she explored Alberta's graveyards: they contain our history, and they are never boring! In this lively and unusual history...

River of Dreams - A Journey Through Milk River Country

Heritage Group Distribution

$19.95 CAD

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A picturesque, reflective journey along the route of the ancient Milk River, from southern Alberta into northern Montana. The Milk River is a small and...