A Geography of Blood
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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...
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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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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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Abandoned Alberta II
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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...
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Alberta's Cornerstone
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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...
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Arctic Grail
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Scores of nineteenth-century expeditions battled savage cold, relentless ice and winter darkness in pursuit of two great prizes: the quest for the elusive Passage linking...
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Bears Without Fear
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Fear of bears seems almost to be part of what it is to be human. Our species emerged out of the depths of time into...
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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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Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek (Marty)
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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...
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Bulls, Brands, & B.S.
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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...
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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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Canada's Rocky Mountains: A History in Photos
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The grandeur of the Canadian Rockies has captivated hearts and minds, challenged the daring and athletic and fired the imaginations of writers, photographers and other...
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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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Cowboy Cavalry, The
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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...
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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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Disorientation
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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...
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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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Epic Wanderer
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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...
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Far Pastures (RM Patterson)
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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...
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Finlay's River
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In Finlay's River, R. M. Patterson, whose style was described by noted author Bruce Hutchison as a a mixture between Thoreau and Jack London, tells the...
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First and Second Kings: The True Story of Eccentric Millionaires Who Lived Like Paupers
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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...
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Frontier Cowboys and the Great Divide
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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...
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Grain Elevators: Beacons on the Prairies
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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...
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Green Horse
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An inspiring, humorous and adventure-packed mountain memoir that takes the reader on a journey into western Canada’s backcountry parks during the raucous 1960s and 1970s....
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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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Horse Woman
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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...
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How to be a Canadian
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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...
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Howdy, I'm Flores LaDue
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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...
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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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Imagine This Valley
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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...
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In Our Youth
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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...
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Johnny John Fauquier DSO and 2 Bars DFC: Canada's Greatest Bomber Pilot
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Air Commodore John Fauquier DSO and 2 Bars DFC was Canada's most decorated airman and its leading bomber pilot during World War II, flying at...
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Kings of the Yukon
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A stunning new voice in nature writing makes an epic journey along the Yukon River to give us the stories of its people and its...
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Klondike
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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...
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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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Leaning on the Wind (Marty)
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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...
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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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Men for the Mountains
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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...
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Most of Mary-Jo
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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...
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Never Shoot a Stampede Queen
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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...
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Nothing Will Save Your Life
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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...
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Off the Beaten Track: Women Adventurers
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The completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1885 opened the Rocky Mountains and the Selkirk Mountains up to travelers. Like the men, the women...
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Old Man's Garden
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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...
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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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