Heritage House: 215 books
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...
Napi
The Trickster
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
An enthralling collection of traditional Blackfoot stories revealing the frailty of mankind and the enduring power of narrative.
Napi, the Old Man of the Blackfoot Nation, appears prominently in mythology, sometimes as a quasi-Creator, sometimes a fool, and sometimes a brutal murderer. Although...
Sam Steele and the Northwest Rebellion
The Trail of 1885
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
In the spring of 1885, it appeared that war was about to set the Canadian West aflame. Louis Riel had established a Metis provisional government at Batoche, and the Cree, led by war chief Wandering Spirit, had killed settlers, taken hostages and forced the capitulation of Fort Pitt. Among the forces...
Baychimo: Arctic Ghost Ship
Arctic Ghost Ship
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
No vessel that sailed the Arctic seas has raised so much speculation or triggered imaginations as has the legendary Hudson's Bay Company ship Baychimo.
In the 1920s, Baychimo set up trading posts in eastern Canada, sailed on fur-trading expeditions to Siberia during the turbulent years of the...
Great Cat Stories: Memorable Tales of Remarkable Cats
Memorable Tales of Remarkable Cats
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
Cats have fascinated and delighted humankind for millennia. Mysterious and enchanting or affectionalte and playful, they immeasurably enrich the lives of their human companions.
In this collection of stories about exceptional cats, Roxanne Willems Snopek explores the loving relationship between...
Salmon's Journey
And More Northwest Coast Stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
This fourth collection of short stories written by Robert James (Jim) Challenger combines the timeless appeal of Aesop's fables with the oral storytelling traditions of First Nations and other cultures. Each story stimulates conversation about the moral woven within.
Go along on Salmon's journey....
by Caroll Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
This is the story of how the first beaver came to be. It tells of a young girl, Reedee, who is born with hair the colour of Mother Earth, not the colour of Raven like the rest of her people. It isn't just her hair that sets Reedee apart: at night, when everyone else sleeps, Reedee disappears into...
The Law and the Lawless
Frontier Justice in British Columbia and Yukon, 1913-1935
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
The far-ranging officers of the BC Provincial Police covered an area larger than California, Oregon, and Washington combined. In Yukon, a force of nineteen Mounties were charged with upholding the law across all of Arctic Canada. Set in frontier towns and rural communities from Vancouver Island to...
Diver’s Guide
Vancouver Island South
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1999
Greg offers guidance to over 50 dives in five areas Metchosin and Race Rocks, Victoria, Sansum Narrows, Saanich Inlet, Sidney and the Southern Gulf Islands. Diver’s Guide, Vancouver Island South is fully illustrated with Greg’s own computer-generated maps