Gifts < $50

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...

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...

The Making of Canada

Alpine Books

$37.95 CAD

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The Making of Canada is a bold reimagining of Canada’s past, presenting the nation’s evolution through the stories of twenty diverse and fascinating individuals who...

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...

Ya Ha Tinda

Heritage Group Distribution

$30.00 CAD – Sold Out

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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...

Wild Roses are Worth It

Heritage Group Distribution

$25.00 CAD – Sold Out

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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...

Stone by Stone: Exploring Ancient Sites on the Canadian Prairies OUT OF PRINT

Heritage Group Distribution

$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...

Splendour of the Canadian Rockies

Heritage Group Distribution

$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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Dominion

Alpine Books

$26.95 CAD – Sold Out

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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...

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...

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,...

Our Crumbling Foundation

Alpine Books

$25.00 CAD

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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...

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...

True North Rising

Alpine Books

$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...

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...

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,...

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...

Souvenir of the Canadian Rockies

Heritage Group Distribution

$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...

305 Lost Buildings of Canada

Alpine Books

$22.95 CAD – Sold Out

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Oldman's River

Alpine Books

$44.95 CAD

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Beloved for his intimate, lyrical poetry, Marty's depiction of selfhood, connection to place and to landscape have proven him a unique and dissenting voice in...

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...

Whisper On The Night Wind

Alpine Books

$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...

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...

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...

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...

In Our Youth

Heritage Group Distribution

$29.95 CAD – Sold Out

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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

Larraine Andrews

$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...

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...

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...

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

Alpine Books

$23.00 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...

Park Bagger

Heritage Group Distribution

$32.00 CAD

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Range Men, The

Heritage Group Distribution

$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...

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...

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...

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...

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...