History Of Other Lands
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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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