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Packhorses to the Pacific
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£18.99| /Babes in the woods. That's how Ruth and Cliff Kopas were described by one of many colourful characters the pair encountered on their amazing journe...
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People of the Lakes
University of Alberta Press (CA)£34.99| /Many people have a mental picture of the Canadian north that juxtaposes beauty with harshness. For the Van Tat Gwich'in, the northern Yukon is home...
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Philip Timms' Vancouver
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£40.99| /In Philip Timms' Vancouver, the city's "golden age" has been captured with spirit and style by one of British Columbia's foremost photographers. Ph...
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Pioneer Canadian Actors
Folklore Publishing (CA)£7.99| /It seems that so many of today's Hollywood stars come from Canada, but at one time only a few could claim to have conquered Tinseltown. Here are th...
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Polar Bears
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /Around the Arctic Circle, polar bears are at the top of the food chain. They have no natural enemies and are fearless, living on the ice and huntin...
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Polish War Veterans in Alberta
University of Alberta Press (CA)£25.99| /In the aftermath of World War II, more than 4,500 Polish veterans, displaced by war and the Soviet-oriented Polish government, were resettled in Ca...
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Prairie Murders
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /These eight true tales explore the dark side of 20th-century prairie history. A Saskatchewan farmhouse is burned to the ground to conceal the bruta...
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Queering the Way
Brindle & Glass (CA)£20.99| /Edmonton's Loud & Queer Cabaret has been blazing trails and shining a light on Queer arts and culture for twenty years. The showcase has debute...
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R.M. Patterson
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£20.99| /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 i...
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Ranching with Lords & Commons
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£16.99| /Ranching with Lords & Commons, originally published in 1903, tells the fascinating story of Alberta's famous Oxley Ranch from the perspective o...
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Rebel Women
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /The women in these stories did the unthinkable for their time: they followed their own paths, flouting convention and daring to break from the trad...
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Rebel Women of the Gold Rush
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /During the frenzied Klondike Gold Rush, many daring women ventured north to seek riches and adventure or to escape a troubled past. These unforgett...
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Rebel Women of the West Coast
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /Here are the stories of singularly courageous West Coast women--driven, obsessed, sometimes desperate people whose nonconformist beliefs and action...
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Red Serge and Polar Bear Pants
University of Alberta Press (CA)£29.99| /Harry Stallworthy spent 20 years in the Canadian North with the RCMP. While stationed at Bache Peninsula, Stallworthy led one of the longest arctic...
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Rediscovering the Prairies
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£20.99| /In the early days, Plains Indians travelled on foot across the vast Canadian prairies, with only fierce, wolf-like dogs as companions. Later, with ...
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Renegade Women of Canada
Folklore Publishing (CA)£11.99| /These women have never followed the rules. From the earliest days of Canada's history to the newspaper headlines of today, these women fought for t...
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Restigouche
Goose Lane Editions£17.99| /A CBC New Brunswick Book List SelectionAn Atlantic Books Today Must-Have New Brunswick Books of 2020 SelectionThe Restigouche River flows through t...
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Riding Into War
Goose Lane Editions£11.99| /On the ghastly battlefields of the First World War, Jimmie Johnston drove teams or pack horses carrying ammunition and hauling guns to the front li...
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Robert Service
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£33.99| /One hundred years ago, a shy bank clerk sent a collection of his poems south from the Yukon to be privately published and shared with a small group...
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Rocky Mountain Madness
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£15.99| /This entertaining collection of historical photographs, amusing newspaper accounts, reminiscences and letters celebrates the capricious antics that...
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Ruffles on my Longjohns
Hancock House Publishers (CA)£18.99| /Autobiographical account of a young couple's adventures homesteading in the Canadian wilderness. Isabel Edwards was in her early twenties when she ...
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Russia Upside Down
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£39.99| /If the people killed or starved to death by the Soviets were laid out end to end they would stretch half way to the moon. This compelling novel of ...
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Sailing Uphill
Horsdal & Schubart Publishers Ltd (CA)£17.99| /Sam McKinney has spent many of the best parts of his life on the water -- sailing a dory along Canada's west coast, crewing on the deck of a river ...
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Saint John Fortifications, 1630-1956
Goose Lane Editions£13.99| /Saint John became a gateway to what is now Canada in the early 1600s, and Fort La Tour, built in 1632, was one of the three main forts of Acadie. I...
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Sam Steele
University of Alberta Press (CA)£33.99| /Sam Steele, "the man who tamed the Gold Rush," had a high-profile public career, yet his private life has been closely protected. Sam Steele: A Bio...
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Scoundrels and Saloons
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /From the days of the fur trade, one constant thread weaves its way through the tumultuous history of frontier British Columbia, Washington and Oreg...
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Sir John Franklin
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /After Royal Navy captain Sir John Franklin disappeared in the Arctic in 1846 while seeking the Northwest Passage, the search for his two ships, Ere...
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Sitting Bull in Canada
Folklore Publishing (CA)£11.99| /This book recounts the story of the great Sioux chief Sitting Bull's retreat into Canada after the Battle of the Little Bighorn. The story centers ...
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Slumach's Gold
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£15.99| /Slumach's Gold chronicles what is possibly Canada's greatest lost-mine story. It searches out the truth behind a Salish man's hanging for murder in...
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Smugglers of the West
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /Do you think the smuggling of drugs and people is a new phenomenon in Canada's west? Think again! Between the mid-19th and mid-20th centuries, many...
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Steel Cavalry
Goose Lane Editions£14.99| /Steel Calvary is the story of the transformation of a horse cavalry unit to one of Canada's most famous armoured regiments.Twentieth century warfar...
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Stories Told
CCI Press£15.99| /Stories Told takes you back into the epic journey of the Berger Inquiry, as Judge Berger travelled from community to community to hear stories told...
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Summers in St. Andrews
Goose Lane Editions£19.99| /Summertime in late 19th-century St. Andrews was more than a vacation by the sea, it was a lifestyle. "Discovered" by a wealthy few who felt the nee...
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Surveying Southern British Columbia
Caitlin Press (CA)£23.99| /Jay Sherwood's fourth and final book about prominent BC surveyor Frank Swannell, covers the years from 1901 to 1907, before Swannell began surveyin...
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The 104th (New Brunswick) Regiment of Foot in the War of 1812
Goose Lane Editions£14.99| /A long-awaited history of this important Canadian regiment, The 104th (New Brunswick) Regiment of Foot in the War of 1812 looks at this military un...
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The Alberta Supreme Court at 100
University of Alberta Press (CA)£38.99| /This volume marks the 2007 centenary of the Supreme Court of Alberta. These essays examine the extent to which the Court articulated an Albertan re...
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The Arctic Journals of John Rae
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£20.99| /Scottish doctor and explorer John Rae is a controversial figure in the history of the Arctic. He began his career with the Hudson's Bay Company as ...
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The Calgary Stampede
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£25.99| /By 1912 the large-scale cowboy ranches of the Old West had been disappearing for years and the Calgary Stampede -- along with other exhibitions, li...
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The Chilcotin War
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /This colourful account of the Chilcotin War is an insightful and absorbing examination of an event that helped to shape the course of British Colum...
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The Discovery of a Northwest Passage
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd£20.99| /For centuries, colonial powers searched for a sea passage that would link the Arctic and Pacific Oceans. The route, known as the Northwest Passage,...
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The Edmonton Queen
Brindle & Glass (CA)£20.99| /A Drag Dynasty is about to be divined from the high life decade of decadence. It is destined, pre-ordained -- and perfectly coiffed. Darrin Hagen, ...
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The Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine
University of Alberta Press (CA)£24.99| /In this distilled account, Stanislav Kulchytsky ably incorporates a vast array of sources and literature that have become available in the past thr...
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The Final Voyage of the Valencia
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd£10.99| /A dynamic retelling of the deadly 1906 sinking of the SS Valencia off the southwest coast of Vancouver Island, one of the worst maritime disasters ...
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The Fisher Queen
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£18.99| /It's 1981, and Sylvia Taylor has signed on as rookie deckhand on a wallowy 40-foot salmon troller. Looking forward to making money for university, ...
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The Fur-Trade Fleet
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /In mid-July 1925, the SS Bayeskimo ran into heavy drift ice at the entrance to Hudson Strait. The ice carried her north, squeezing the steamer and ...
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The Glittering Mountains of Canada
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£30.99| /"This then is a book of mountaineering, not presenting the Canadian Rockies in their entirety -- no single volume will ever do that -- but includin...
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The Glittering Mountains of Canada
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£101.99| /"This then is a book of mountaineering, not presenting the Canadian Rockies in their entirety -- no single volume will ever do that -- but includin...
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The Graveyard of the Pacific
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /On January 22, 1906, the passenger ship Valencia lost her way in heavy fog and rain and rammed into the deadly rocks at Pachena Point on the west c...
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