Heritage House: 215 books
Nature's Circle
and Other Northwest Coast Children's Stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
This is Robert James Challenger's fifth collection of beautifully illustrated, easy-to-read short stories that impart practical, moral lessons about life in today's world.
As in Aesop's fables and First Nations legends, animals, birds and insects are the ones who do the teaching. Mother Eagle...
by John Jewitt
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
John R. Jewitt's story of being captured and enslaved by Maquinna, the great chief of the Mowachaht people, is both an adventure tale of survival and an unusual perspective on the First Nations of the northwest coast of Vancouver Island.
On March 22, 1803, while anchored in Nootka Sound on...
Pulling Together
A Coach's Journey to Uncover the Mindset of True Potential
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
A former Olympic rower reflects on his evolution from ultra-competitive athlete to supportive coach and offers his game-changing thoughts on achieving success.
Once the embodiment of an aggressive athlete, Jason Dorland used to identify himself according to the results of his competitions—winner...
Simply the Best: Players on Performance
Players on Performance
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
delivers rare insights on success straight from the hearts and minds of winning coaches Scotty Bowman, Marc Crawford, Jacques Demers, Clare Drake, Ken Hitchcock, Mike Keenan, Dave King, George Kingston, Andy Murray, Rodger Neilson, Pat Quinn and Brian Sutter. These world-renowned hockey visionaries,...
by Anthony Dalton
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Around the Arctic Circle, polar bears are at the top of the food chain. They have no natural enemies and are fearless, living on the ice and hunting seals—their favourite food—with matchless cunning and ability. They roam far and wide, often far south of their Arctic habitat: they are seen regularly...
by Peter Gzowski
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
In this bestselling timeless classic, Peter Gzowski recounts the 1980-81 season he spent travelling around the NHL circuit with the Edmonton Oilers. These were the days when the young Oilers, led by a teenaged Wayne Gretzky, were poised on the edge of greatness, and about to blaze their way into the...
by Dale Portman
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
These stories of crime and rescue, by retired park warden and dog trainer Dale Portman, highlight the vital role dogs play in saving lives, upholding the law and recovering bodies. Portman describes the escapades of Canadian Rockies park warden Alfie Burstrom and his canine partner, Ginger—the first...
Ice Warriors
The Pacific Coast/Western Hockey League 1948-1974
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Technically it was a minor league, but for hockey fans west of the Mississippi, the Western Hockey League provided major-league entertainment for over 25 years.
The WHL was a determined and ambitious professional league, with some 22 teams based in major American and Canadian cities. Known...
The Graveyard of the Pacific
Shipwreck Tales from the Depths of History
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
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 coast of Vancouver Island. As the wreck was shattered by the pounding waves, the survivors clung desperately to the rigging. Few made it the short distance...
Chariots and Horses: Life Lessons from an Olympic Rower
Life Lessons from an Olympic Rower
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Jason Dorland is no stranger to competition. As a rower and coach, he's seen his share of races won and lost. But after a devastating performance at the 1988 Olympics, Jason was overwhelmed by a sense of failure—and with small wonder. Winning at all costs, whereby the playing field is seen as a...
Lace Up
A History of Skates in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
A charmingly illustrated history of the humble skate and its place in Canadian cultural identity.
Throughout our 150-year history, and even longer, people have braved the treacherous Canadian winters and taken to the ice for the purposes of transportation, competition, exercise, and just plain...
Old Bill Miner: Last of the Famous Western Bandits
Last of the Famous Western Bandits
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Bill Miner, the gentleman bandit, enjoyed more popularity in his day than Jesse James or Billy the Kid. He robbed stagecoaches and trains across California, Colorado, Arizona, Georgia, Washington State and British Columbia until just before the First World War, by which point the public actually wanted...
The Mounties
Tales of Adventure and Danger from the Early Days
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Since 1873, the Mounties have brought the law to the furthest reaches of the Canadian frontier. Sam Steele, the "Lion of the North," was involved in almost every significant event in the Canadian West; James Macleod and James Walsh negotiated peace with the First Nations peoples. Less famous,...
The Pathfinder: A.C. Anderson’s Journeys in the West
A.C. Anderson’s Journeys in the West
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Fifteen years before the 1858 Fraser River gold rush, a Hudson’s Bay Company clerk named Alexander Caulfield Anderson threaded his way through mountain passes and down rapids-filled rivers in search of a safe all-British route through the mountains that separated the HBC fort at Kamloops from Fort...