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Mountain Voices is a visually rich exploration of how the mountain landscapes of Alberta and British Columbia have transformed over the past 100+ years. The book is built around the Mountain Legacy Project (MLP), which … [Click to Read More]
By Eric Higgs (Editor), Zac Robinson (Editor), Mary Sanseverino (Editor), Kristen Walsh (Editor)
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Half-Light is a contemplative travel memoir that moves through the faded towns, industrial ruins, river bends, and abandoned homesteads of the North American settler west while reflecting on aging, memory, and ecological crisis. The book … [Click to Read More]
By Amy Kaler (Author)
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Alberta’s relationship with oil has long been an important piece of Alberta’s history, communities, and identity. However, rather than focusing solely on industrial development, The Boom examines the social dynamics surrounding the boom, including the … [Click to Read More]
By Paul Chastko (Author)
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Troubled Tributaries explores the grassroots movement of fisheries conservation in the Rocky Mountains from 1900 to 1930. George Colpitts explores the ways that traditional Indigenous rights, outdated territorial fishery laws, and industrialization led to anglers … [Click to Read More]
By George Colpitts (Author)
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- Indigenous Experiences in Alberta
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Following 15-year-old Elias Gunn, West to Fort Edmonton dives into the early 1800s in Canada as Elias must make the long trip to Fort Edmonton. This historical fiction captures some of the environmental dangers and … [Click to Read More]
By Joan Donaldson-Yarmey (Author)
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While its subject may have started as an amateur naturalist, in the biography Frank Farley and the Birds of Alberta, readers can follow Farley’s development into a provincial authority on birds. Interwoven with biographical detail … [Click to Read More]
By Glen Hvenegaard (Author), Jeremy Mouat (Author), Heather J. Marshall (Author)
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Expanding on his previous work, Jared Tailfeathers continues his exploration of Blackfoot ways of knowing and teachings in Music of the Earth’s Heartbeat, with further considerations of history, place, music, and art. This work blends … [Click to Read More]
By Jared Tailfeathers (Author), Darcy Turning Robe (Foreword)
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Battles of the Canadian West is a concise, illustrated non-fiction account of key military conflicts and confrontations in Western Canada. This work provides an overview of various regional clashes, ranging from military engagements to settler–Indigenous … [Click to Read More]
By Andrew Hind (Author)
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- English Language Arts
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- Immigrants Experiences in Alberta
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In Writing Ukraine, Myrna Kostash reflects on how her travels and the war have shaped her understanding of Ukrainian Canadian identity. Rooted in her author-in-residence lecture at Athabasca University, Kostash engages in a self-reflective critique … [Click to Read More]
By Myrna Kostash (Author)
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Cartographic Poetry is a multidisciplinary examination of five maps drawn in 1801 and 1802 by Blackfoot and Gros Ventre Peoples for the Hudson’s Bay Company. These are some of the earliest documents created by Indigenous … [Click to Read More]
By Ted Binnema (Author), François Lanoë (Author), Heinz W. Pyszczyk (Author), Jerry Potts Jr. (Foreword), Eldon Yellowhorn (Afterword)
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Îethka is a celebration of Stoney Nakoda First Nation language, culture, and history through stories, teachings, and reflections by Stoney authors, as well as language-learning aids such as the Stoney alphabet and pronunciation guides. The … [Click to Read More]
By Trent Fox (Author), Valentina Fox (Author), Tanisha Wesley (Illustrator)
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The Boy Who Was Saved by Jazz follows the tale of Robert, a young boy from small-town Saskatchewan, who spends his childhood living with his grandparents after his mother left him. Despite never meeting his … [Click to Read More]
By Tom Bentley-Fisher (Author)
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The Art of Making is an introduction to Blackfoot art, culture, and stories. The book delves into the history of the Blackfoot Confederacy, examining pre- and post-contact trade, treaties, and resource use. Using full-colour images, … [Click to Read More]
By Jared Tailfeathers (Author), Jared Tailfeathers (Illustrator)
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Catherine Owen’s poetry collection Moving to Delilah examines themes of loss, uprooting, the power of place, and the pursuit of identity as she describes her move to Edmonton, where she buys a historic home called … [Click to Read More]
By Catherine Owen (Author)
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Liberalism, Surveillance, and Resistance explores the impact of liberalism on Indigenous communities in Western Canada from 1877 to 1927. It also addresses how government officials, police, church representatives, and settlers used surveillance and exclusionary tactics … [Click to Read More]
By Keith D. Smith (Author)