History Of Other Lands
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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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The Landscape of Ernest Lamarque
Caitlin Press (CA)£15.99| /At the age of sixteen, Ernest Lamarque travelled from England to North America, to begin a life as a Victorian adventurer. Born in 1879 and orphane...
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The Little Third Reich on Lake Superior
University of Alberta Press (CA)£25.99| /For eighteen months during the Second World War, the Canadian military interned 1,145 prisoners of war in Red Rock, Ontario (about 100 kilometres n...
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The Long and Winding Road
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£19.99| /Highway 97 winds its way from the high desert plains of northern California to the Yukon-British Columbia border, making it North America's longest...
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The Lost Lemon Mine
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /The legend of the Lost Lemon Mine is one of the most enduring unsolved mysteries of the Canadian West. In 1870, so the story goes, two prospectors ...
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The Luck of the Karluk
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd£10.99| /When the members of Canada's First Arctic Expedition set out from Victoria aboard HMCS Karluk in the summer of 1913, it was a moment of great optim...
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The Man Who Lived with a Giant
University of Alberta Press (CA)£21.99| /Our parents always taught us well. They told us to look on the good side of life and to accept what has to happen. The Man Who Lived with a Giant ...
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The Maquinna Line
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /A murder, a tryst, a mysterious child. A Victoria aristocrat who obsesses over her Churchill relatives. A repressive Welsh mother with a royalty fi...
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The New Brunswick Rangers in the Second World War
Goose Lane Editions£14.99| /In 1943, the New Brunswick Rangers were sent to Britain, converted into a heavy weapons support unit, and shipped off to Normandy.Originating as a ...
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The Other Side of Gold Mountain
The University of Alberta Press (CA)£30.99| /In June of 2010, the University of Alberta's Bruce Peel Special Collections Library mounted an exhibit of documents, photographs, artifacts, and ep...
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The Rainbow Chasers
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£17.99| /This first-hand account of a Canadian pioneer -- the next title in TouchWood's Classics West series -- tells the story of a hard-won wilderness hom...
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The Ranch on the Cariboo
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£20.99| /It was the summer of '43 on a Cariboo ranch. He was 12 and had to become a man. If you were a man, you could become a cowboy. Join the author on th...
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The Remarkable World of Frances Barkley
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£20.99| /Frances Barkley was just eighteen when she became the first European woman to set foot on the west coast of North America. After a sheltered upbrin...
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