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305 Lost Buildings of Canada

Alpine Books

$22.95 CAD – Sold Out

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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

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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...

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...

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...

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 – Sold Out

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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 Hour of the Day

Alpine Books

$22.99 CAD – Sold Out

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Over the course of a career spanning three decades, Lorna Crozier has become one of Canada’s most beloved poets, receiving high acclaim and numerous awards,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 – Sold Out

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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...

Frontier Farewell

Alpine Books

$34.95 CAD – Sold Out

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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 – Sold Out

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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

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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...

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...

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

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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 – Sold Out

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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 – Sold Out

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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...

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...