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Our Place

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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

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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...

Out of the Sun

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An insightful exploration and moving meditation on identity, art, and belonging from one of the most celebrated writers of the last decade.  What happens when...

Park Bagger

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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

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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

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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...

Prairie Fairies

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Prairie Fairies draws upon a wealth of oral, archival, and cultural histories to recover the experiences of queer urban and rural people in the prairies. Focusing...

R. M. Patterson

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David Finch’s highly regarded biography of R.M. Patterson is now available in paperback. The escapades of this great Canadian are brought to life in a...

Ranch Tales - Stories From the Frontier

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Frontier historian Ken Mather is known for his fascinating, in-depth profiles of the men and women who established a distinctive ranching culture in Western Canada...

Ranching Under the Arch

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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

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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...

Range Men, The

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"The vibrancy of the frontier flows through, refusing, like the prairie wind, to be contained . . . Cowboys, outlaws, celebrated chieftains, mere murderers, disappearing...

Remember Me As You Pass By: Stories from Prairie Graveyards

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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...

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...

Switchbacks

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In Switchbacks, Sid Marty draws on his own memories and those of friends and former colleagues in relating a series of true mountain tales. Among his subjects...

Tales from the Highwood Cemetery: Lives and Legacies of High River and Beyond

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When the former Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta and respected history professor was quizzed by students looking for a good source of interesting stories, Dr. Grant MacEwan...

Tales From the Homestead

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A compilation of thirty-six personal homesteader stories, providing unique insight into the daily life of prairie pioneers. Highlighting the voices and personal stories of early...

The Codfish Dream

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After spending fifteen years as a fishing guide on the BC coast, David Giblin decided that the offbeat people and places he''d encountered during that...

The Company: The Rise and Fall of the Hudson's Bay Empire

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NATIONAL BESTSELLERA thrilling new telling of the story of modern Canada's origins.The story of the Hudson's Bay Company, dramatic and adventurous and complex, is the...

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...

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...

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...

The Long Trail: Ian Tyson, My Life in the West

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A Canadian icon on his longstanding love of the West and his life in "one of the last true cowboy countries on either side of...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

Vistas of the West

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Vistas of the West is a collection of poetry and visual art that celebrates the beauty and spirit of the Rocky Mountains, Western foothills, prairie...

Wild Roses are Worth It

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A timely collection of provocative, personal, and thoughtful essays for an Alberta in transition. This selection of works by naturalist, hunter, conservation activist, and outdoors...

Wild West Women

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Wildcat: The Untold Story of the Canadian Woman Who Became the West's Most Notorious Bandit

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The little-known story of Pearl Hart, the most famous female bandit in the American West.On May 30, 1899, history was made when Pearl Hart, disguised...

Writings of David Thompson Volume , The

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David Thompson's Travels is one of the finest early expressions of the Canadian experience. The work is not only the account of a remarkable life...