Heritage House: 215 books
Morrison
The Long-Lost Memoir of Canada's Artillery Commander in the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
The never-before-published memoir of Major-General Sir Edward Morrison, a true Canadian hero of the First World War.
The First World War marked a turning point in Canadian history and in Canada’s self-identification as a nation. Yet in memorializing the iconic events and battles of the War,...
Country Roads of Western BC
From the Fraser Valley to the Islands
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
In her third book of off-the-beaten-track explorations of western Canada, Liz Bryan travels scenic roads of British Columbia’s Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island. From country routes winding through the Fraser Valley to forest roads on Vancouver Island leading to coastal settlements such as Zeballos...
Secret Beaches of the Salish Sea
The Southern Gulf Islands
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
The fourth volume in the Secret Beaches series, one of two on the Salish Sea, covers 93 beaches in the southern Gulf Islands, including Salt Spring, Galiano, Saturna, Mayne, Thetis and Pender. At some locations, the selling point is a view of sandstone eroded into astounding curves and honeycombed...
Camping with Kids in the West
BC and Alberta's Best Family Campgrounds
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Jayne Seagrave—author of the bestselling Camping British Columbia and Yukon—is back with a book that only an avid camper with children could write. Camping with Kids in the West: BC and Alberta’s Best Family Campgrounds is the definitive guide for parents who want to introduce their children...
Secret Beaches of the Salish Sea
The Northern Gulf Islands
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
In the fifth volume in the Secret Beaches series, one of two on the Salish Sea, you'll discover noteworthy beaches in the northern Gulf Islands, including Denman, Quadra, Gabriola, Hornby and Texada. As in his previous volumes, Theo gives full descriptions of each beach so that you'll be able to find...
Innocence on Trial
The Framing of Ivan Henry
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2014
In early-1980s Vancouver, Ivan Henry was an ex-convict still adjusting to civilian life when he was detained on a break-and-enter charge. A short time later he found himself on trial for ten charges of sexual assault—crimes he vehemently denied committing. Henry spent twenty-seven years in prison...
Medicine Paint
The Art of Dale Auger
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
One of Canada's most evocative modern painters, Cree artist Dale Auger was a gifted interpreter of First Nations culture, using the cross-cultural medium of art to portray scenes from the everyday to the sacred and dissemble stereotypes about Indigenous peoples. Medicine Paint is a collection of Auger's...
From Classroom to Battlefield
Victoria High School and the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
In August 1914, Canada found itself jolted from its splendid isolation by the onrush of a European catastrophe. In Victoria, British Columbia, five hundred youth who had been educated at Victoria High School went to war and were forever changed by the experience.
From Classroom to Battlefield...
Yip Sang
and the First Chinese Canadians
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
During the second half of the 19th century, thousands of Chinese men arrived on the west coast of North America, seeking to escape poverty and make their fortunes in the goldfields or working on the railroads. Among them was 36-year-old Yip Sang, a native of Guangdong province in southeast China,...
by Ken Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2019
Despite vast distances apart from each other, giant language barriers, drastically different religious beliefs, and other significant interferences in cultural interactions; societies across the globe inexplicably have told stories of mythical creatures such as dragons, aliens, vampires, and more....
In Too Deep
The Shenanigans Series, Book Five
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
Three trouble-prone friends become pawns in a criminal cover-up after they discover an old bronze statue in a local pond.
When Cody and Eric are denied permission to pick up golf balls from the ponds at their local golf course, they decide to trespass on the property at night. But they end...
by Linda DeMeulemeester
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
A group of friends risks their lives to solve a sinister, supernatural mystery that is plaguing their otherwise-sleepy town.
Blending adventure and realism with a speculative twist, The Mystery of Croaker’s Island introduces a group of unlikely friends who discover connections between a haunted...
by Beryl Young
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
A powerful and poignant story of two young girls' friendship, family, loss, and loyalty, set in 1940s Saskatchewan.
“Beryl Young's novel Miles to Go is sparse, poetic and, at times, perfectly heart wrenching. It subtly captures the coming of age of two young prairie girls. The beauty of this...
River of Dreams
A Journey through Milk River Country
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
A picturesque, reflective journey along the route of the ancient Milk River, from southern Alberta into northern Montana.
The Milk River is a small and dreamy river, flowing lazily through some of the loneliest lands of North America, the dry plains of Alberta and Montana. Dwarfed by such giants...