We stock a carefully curated book collection, and most of our books are available online. If you don't see what you were hoping to find, please ask!
10% from the sales of all books by or about Indigenous Canadians will be donated to the Indian Residential School Survivors Society.
Our Crumbling Foundation
$25.00 CAD – Sold Out
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NATIONAL BESTSELLERAn urgent and illuminating examination of the unrelenting housing crisis Canadians find ourselves facing, by Balsillie Prize finalist and CBC Radio host Gregor Craigie, Our Crumbling...
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Our Place
$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...
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Ours by Every Law of Right and Justice: Women's Suffrage and the Struggle for Democracy
$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...
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Park Bagger
$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...
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Policing Black Lives
$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...
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Pourin' Down Rain
$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...
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R. M. Patterson
$19.95 CAD
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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...
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Railway Nation
$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...
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Ranch Tales - Stories From the Frontier
$19.95 CAD
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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...
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Ranching Under the Arch
$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,...
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Range Men, The
$19.95 CAD
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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...
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Remember Me As You Pass By: Stories from Prairie Graveyards
$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...
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River of Dreams - A Journey Through Milk River Country
$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...
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Slow Road to Brownsville
$24.95 CAD – Sold Out
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"Immensely illuminating and enjoyable account of a road trip along Highway 83 ... Books like [Reynold's] prove that good travel writing remains not only very much...
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Sources of the River - Tracking David Thompson
$19.95 CAD
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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...
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Souvenir of the Canadian Rockies
$10.00 CAD
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Featuring 50 stunning, colour photos Souvenir 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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Splendour of the Canadian Rockies
$20.00 CAD
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Featuring 75 stunning, colour photos Splendour 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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Stone by Stone: Exploring Ancient Sites on the Canadian Prairies
$19.95 CAD
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Stone by Stone takes readers on a fascinating journey across the short-grass prairie of southern Alberta and Saskatchewan in search of tangible evidence of the region’s...
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Tales from the Highwood Cemetery: Lives and Legacies of High River and Beyond
$20.00 CAD
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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...
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The Last Viking
$26.95 CAD
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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...
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The Long Trail: Ian Tyson, My Life in the West
$21.00 CAD
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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...
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The Skin We're In
$29.95 CAD
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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...
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They Call Me George: The Untold Story of Black Train Porters
$22.95 CAD
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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...
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This Wild Spirit: Women
$38.99 CAD
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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,...
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Trail to the Interior (RM Patterson)
$19.95 CAD
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Trail to the Interior is R. M. Patterson's rich account of exploration and personal adventure in the Cassiar district of British Columbia. The trail is the...
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True North Rising
$24.95 CAD
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NATIONAL BESTSELLERIn this captivating memoir, Whit Fraser weaves scenes from more than fifty years of reporting and living in the North with fascinating portraits of...
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Truth and Beauty in the Canadian Rockies
$50.00 CAD
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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...
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Vistas of the West
$29.95 CAD
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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...
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Whisper On The Night Wind
$22.00 CAD
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NATIONAL BESTSELLERSpellbinding adventure from Canada's most beloved modern-day explorer.Traverspine is not a place you will find on most maps. A century ago, it stood near...
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Wild Roses are Worth It
$25.00 CAD
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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...
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Writings of David Thompson Volume , The
$40.95 CAD
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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...
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Ya Ha Tinda
$30.00 CAD
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An illustrated history celebrating the 100th anniversary of this historic, working horse ranch located along the eastern slopes of the Canadian Rockies. The story of...
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