Western Canada

A Sweeping History Of The Province of Alberta Alberta is the most misunderstood province in Canada — misunderstood by the rest of the country, and sometimes by itself. It is written off as a land of pickup trucks and pipeline politics, of boom-time arrogance and bust-time grievance, of a conservatism so reflexive it has become a kind of identity. Wild Rose Country argues that this picture is not just incomplete. It is wrong. From the dinosaur-rich badlands to the Athabasca oil sands, from the great buffalo hunts of the Blackfoot Confederacy to the immigrant tide that broke the prairie, ...

The Autobiographical Story of the Opening of the Far North There was a time not so very long ago when the Hudson’s Bay Company ruled the north. A time of silky furs, Indian skirmishes, canoes, “jawbone”, dog sleds, traps, and sourdoughs. Adventure came easy in this silent land of the far north. Henry John Moberly surely had plenty of it. Nearly 50 years he spent among the native and white trappers as a fur trader, trapper, hunter, and explorer. Moberly opened many of HBC’s most remote Trading Posts. The struggles of the north, the unbearable cold, the humor of the frontiersmen, the ...

Anyone who has experienced the thrill of the wilderness cannot get enough. He can only count the days until he is back among the wilds, and his mind eased as only the wilderness can. Jim Bond, who brought us the exceptional story of his wilderness trip in From Out of the Yukon, is back with another series of delightful stories of the north. This time its in Alaska; from the wilds of Kodiak Island, trout fishing along the remote Kulik river, unto the rugged Alaska Range mountain sheep hunting, and down the Alaska peninsula for some "September Crazy" moose rut. Taking place in the 1950's when...

An electrifying anti-Western from an exciting new Indigenous writer. As teenage boys begin to disappear from a great plains Métis community, a young man attempts to uncover the evil force lurking out of sight. In 1885, Nikosis “Niko” Eriksen spends his days playing buffalo hunter, even...

From out of these mountains come many things. . . Here is a big game hunting story from the greatest hunting grounds in the world. From a time when they were wholly unknown. Yukon Territory in the 1940's was very much a frontier state with much of what the Jim Bond explored uncharted and unpenetrated except by the occasional prospector and trappers. The first sport hunter in the area, the author provided valuable documentation of how wildlife fares in a wilderness without any human interference as well as relating his exceptional hunting experiences. From Whitehorse, the largest "city" of ...

After an accident erases years of his memory, a man returns to his family's ranch in hopes of piecing back together the life and love he thought he had lost forever. He’s forgotten their love story. She’ll help him write a new one. Jackson and Kate have been happily married for over ten...

"I was present at the Frog Lake Massacre and escaped by the slim margin of one hundred paces the fate that overtook my hapless fellows. For months afterward the unexpected report of a gun put my heart in my mouth, painted savages plunged in my dreams at early dawn through belts of dark firs upon my flying footsteps, bullets sang in my ears or found their mark in my flesh, and I awoke gasping and unable in the first few seconds of consciousness to convince myself that it was not all a horrible reality. Looking back on that now distant date and thinking over the flow of perilous turns in ...

Following the fantastic success of his bestselling memoir, Where I Belong, Great Big Sea front man Alan Doyle returns with a hilarious, heartwarming account of leaving Newfoundland and discovering Canada for the first time. Armed with the same personable, candid style found in his first book...

The Histories of British Columbia and the Northwest Territories In One Collected Volume From the mist-shrouded islands of Haida Gwaii to the diamond fields of the subarctic, Canada's north and west hold some of the most dramatic stories on the continent — and Daniel Hardy tells them with the sweep and depth they deserve. The Provinces of Canada: The North & West brings together two landmark histories in a single volume. Where the Mountains Meet the Sea is a rich, unflinching account of British Columbia, a province where geography has always been destiny. From the sophisticated seafaring ...

“Certainly I have known fear, many a time, sometimes almost panic, either on a steep mountain side, or crawling on my stomach over a snow bridge across a crevasse, or alone in the fly-infested northern muskeg, or running the rapids of an unknown river, or going out into a blinding blizzard. These things have brought me fear, but, as Hilaire Belloc says, a fear “steeped in exhilaration” and I realize now if I did not do so at the time, that if they did bring me a temporary thrill they brought afterwards a deep sense of satisfaction that was much more lasting than the momentary fear of ...

From our country's most important war historian, a vital history of the legacy of the Great War and the reverberating impact it has had on Canada since. The Western Front has dominated the culture and memory of the Great War. The lethal power of modern weapons in the form of rapid-firing rifles...

Unsettled tells the story of two hundred Highlanders who flee the Scottish Clearances in 1813 to establish a settlement on the Red River in what eventually became Winnipeg. They are sponsored by the Earl of Selkirk, a man who has never been west of Montreal. Families who have never left their Highland crofts take an epic journey over ocean, up wild rivers, and through boundless wilderness, surviving disease and brutal winter only to face the determined opposition of fur barons who want no sodbusters threatening their trade and are prepared to stop at nothing to destroy their dream.

Kazuo Ishiguro's Booker Prize-winning masterpiece became an international bestseller on publication, was adapted into an award-winning film and has since come to be regarded as a modern classic. The Remains of the Day is a spellbinding portrayal of a vanished way of life and a haunting...

The Histories Of Alberta, Manitoba & Saskatchewan In One Collected Volume Three provinces. Three stories. One vast, extraordinary land. In this landmark omnibus, Daniel Hardy brings together three acclaimed histories of the Canadian prairies in a single volume, tracing the human story of the West from the retreat of the glaciers to the complexities of the twenty-first century. In Land of the Living Skies, Hardy explores Saskatchewan's journey from ancient grassland and boreal wilderness, through the trauma of the numbered treaties and the drama of 1885, to the pioneering social democracy ...

Beyond Canada's stunning landscapes lies a hidden history, whispered in shadows and etched in fear. Dare to uncover it? Forget the polite façade. Urban Legends from Canada: Northern Frights and Modern Myths plunges you into the chilling heart of the True North's most enduring and terrifying tales. F.T. Weaver masterfully retells eight iconic legends, breathing new life into stories that have haunted communities for generations—from spectral apparitions and monstrous beasts to riches guarded by ancient curses and feuds settled in blood. Here's a glimpse of the darkness you'll discover: ...

“A veritable linguistic tour de force.” —Mario Vargas Llosa One of the greatest works of Latin American literature ever written and an epic story of honor and revenge set in Brazil’s high inland plateaus—now in a revelatory new translation by Alison Entrekin, featuring an introduction...

Years ago, Wynn and Elizabeth Delancy adopted Christine and Henry. Now Christine has moved to a nearby city. Working as a secretary in a prosperous company, she is drawn to her employer's handsome son. Henry has joined the Canadian Mounties, where one of his first duties is to help a young widow and her infant. In their new lives, as new relationships grow, can Christine and Henry still draw on the faith they have learned from their parents?

THERE was a lot of adventure to be had in Alaska in the early twentieth century, and Hardy Trefzger tasted it all . . . hunting, fishing, prospecting, guiding, trading, trapping ... He even had a blue-fox farm for a while. Hardy Trefzger was born in the Black Forest of Germany to Swiss parents and received much of his education in Switzerland. While still in his youth, he migrated to the United States, where he established a small interior-decorating business. After two years in New York City, he headed west to Seattle, where all the talk was of the fabulous gold strikes in the North. He ...

Land of the Living Skies tells the full, honest story of Saskatchewan — one of North America's most underestimated places, and one of its most consequential. From the ancient seabed that became the world's most fertile farmland to the glaciers that sculpted the plains, from the great bison nations to the fur traders who transformed them, Daniel Hardy traces ten thousand years of human life on the northern prairie. He tells the story of the Métis people and their two doomed rebellions, of treaties negotiated in good faith and broken in bad, of the immigrants who broke the soil and built a...

From Melanie Jackson, bestselling author of the Chloe Boston Mysteries, comes Points West, the fifth book in the entertaining and suspenseful Butterscotch Jones Canadian Cozy Mysteries. McIntyre’s Gulch has seen its share of strange happenings, bad luck, close calls, and brushes with the law. In a remote Canadian village where everybody knows everybody—and everybody has an opinion—trouble is rarely simple. But this time, trouble arrives bleeding, desperate, and dying. When a corrupt Mountie staggers to Butterscotch Jones’s doorstep and drops dead, the Gulch is thrown into its most ...