Heritage: 497 books
Rum-runners and Renegades
Whisky Wars of the Pacific Northwest, 1917-2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
On October 1, 1917, prohibition came into effect in the province of British Columbia. Washington and Oregon had gone dry the previous year. The ban on liquor sales led to deadly conflict and legal chaos in the Pacific Northwest, and the legacy of those “booze battles” continues into the 21st century.
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by Bruce Watt
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Getting three trucks and two horses stuck in the mud on "a good road" into BC's wild, remote interior was just the start of Bruce Watt's Chilcotin adventures—and it was his honeymoon, too. The wildlife, landscape and quirky, down-to-earth people captivated Bruce, and despite the hard work...
by Peter Christensen
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
These true stories of people who work and live in the spectacular mountain wilderness of Alberta and British Columbia are filled with humour, keen observations about man and nature, and memorable human and animal characters. Old-time cowboys Johnny and Cal offer their no-nonsense brand of homespun...
Quarantined
Life and Death at William Head Station, 1872-1959
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Vancouver Island in the late nineteenth century was a major port of entry for people from all walks of life. But for many, the sense of hope that had sustained them through rough sea voyages came to an abrupt halt as soon as they reached land. Quarantined is the heart-wrenching true story of the thousands...
The Fisher Queen: A Deckhand's Tales of the BC Coast
A Deckhand's Tales of the BC Coast
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
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, she is determined to master the ins and outs of fishing some of the most dangerous waters in the world: the Graveyard of the Pacific. For four months,...
The Man from Muscle Shoals
My Journey from Shame to Fame
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
This is the story of legendary record producer Rick Hall and his historic role in the development of the world-famous Muscle Shoals sound.”Rick Hall made music history when he founded FAME Recording Studios, the first professional recording studio in the entire state of Alabama. After producing and...
by Mylon Rae Le Fevre
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This book is the true story of a simple uneducated kid from Georgia whose dreams all came true. From his lonely, angry childhood, he wrote and sang music as a way to express his deepest feelings, while in the army, at age 17, Elvis Presley recorded one of his songs which opened doors around the world...
by Gayle Bunney
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
What do you do when there are goldfish in the horse's water tank, a baby magpie in the bedroom, a cow in the kitchen and a half-dozen small dogs rolling in the dirt to get rid of the smell of skunk? It's all in a day's work on Gayle Bunney's farm near Bonnyville, Alberta. Bunney's hilarious and heartwarming...
by Barbara Smith
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
When Albert Johnson, the Mad Trapper of Rat River, was gunned down in February 1932, he went to his death without anyone knowing who he really was—most people believed the name "Albert Johnson" was an alias. He'd eluded a well-organized, well-equipped posse for seven weeks, surviving solely...
The Luck of the Karluk
Shipwrecked in the Arctic
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
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 optimism. The three-year mission would chart unexplored landmasses of the Western Arctic and secure Canada’s place in the international geographic community....
Bronc Busters and Hay Sloops: Ranching in the West in the Early 20th Century
Ranching in the West in the Early 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Bronc Busters and Hay Sloops tells the story of ranching in the West from the beginning of the Great War until 1960. Cowboy soldiers, bronc busters, First Nations, upper-crust Englishmen and the strong, capable women of ranching country . . . theirs are the stories told in this book. Some of these...
Denny's Trek: A Mountie's Memoir of the March West
A Mountie's Memoir of the March West
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Like many other pioneering North West Mounted Police officers, Cecil Denny was a colourful, independent man with a career full of conquests and controversy. He and his comrades played key roles in the taming of Canada's wild and woolly west, and in this compilation of selected writings from his books...
The Death of Albert Johnson: Mad Trapper of Rat River
Mad Trapper of Rat River
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
Albert Johnson was a loner, a deadly shot, who in 1932 triggered a gruelling manhunt that has become an Arctic legend. For over six weeks, amid blizzards and numbing cold, he eluded a posse of trappers, First Nations and RCMP, who for the very first time used a two-way radio and an airplane in their...
Hard Knox
Musings from the Edge of Canada
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
In Hard Knox, seasoned columnist and consummate everyman Jack Knox offers up his uniquely hilarious views on Canadian life as seen from the western fringes of the country—in particular from the “Island of Misfit Toys” as he aptly calls his Vancouver Island home. This treasure trove of west-coast...