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Burden of Memory Best Price: $8.94 Vicki Delany's BURDEN OF MEMORY presents Elaine, a successful novelist who has failed in the... | Forgotten Highways: Wilderness Journeys Down the Historic Trails of the Canadian Rockies Best Price: $14.88 Traversing these trails today is done in much the same manner as it was two centuries... | Canada Moves West Best Price: $13.73 Pierre Berton's Canada Moves West is a rousing collection of five young-adult non-fiction books... | Adventures of a Paper Sleuth Best Price: $30.00 | The unlikely pioneer : building opera from the Pacific through the prairies Best Price: $74.05 |
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For most of my life I've loved history,... | This Wild Spirit: Women in the Rocky Mountains of Canada (Mountain Cairns: A series on the history and culture of the Canadian Rockies) Best Price: $43.67 In 1912, Mary Vaux, a botanist, glaciologist, painter, and photographer, wrote about her... | Snowshoes and Spotted Dick: Letters from a Wilderness Dweller Best Price: $15.55 Chris Czajkowski chose to build her life and small ecotourism business on the shore of a... |
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A Pour of Rain: Stories from a West Coast Fort Best Price: $36.75 In the small town of Port Simpson in British Columbia, where Helen Meilleur grew up in the... | Roughing It in the Bush Best Price: $15.95 Betty had plenty of potatoes, without the trouble of planting, or the expense of buying; she... | Cargo of Lies: The True Story of a Nazi Double Agent in Canada Best Price: $4.94 Anyone interested in thehistory of nazi espionage will find that this book is a must-read.... | Toronto Architect Edmund Burke: Redefining Canadian Architecture Best Price: $49.00 | Champlain Best Price: $11.29 “One July day four hundred years ago, Samuel de Champlain stepped out of a small boat... |
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Wilderness Dreams Best Price: $12.75 Jack's fourth book documents the amazing adventures of the Bowden family in the rugged... | Woodsmen of the West (New Canadian Library) Best Price: $4.74 When Woodsmen of the West first appeared in 1908, most readers could not relate to its... | Priest's Progress: The Journey of Francis Norbert Blanchet from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific in Three Parishes Best Price: $22.25 This brief account of Archbishop Francis Norbert Blanchet's first forty years has been compiled... | Shania Twain Best Price: $5.19 If you wanted to know everything about Shania Twain and her rise to international fame, look no... | The Firebrand: William Lyon Mackenzie and the Rebellion in Upper Canada (Voyageur Classics) Best Price: $17.10 Although a seemingly minor affair, the rebellious incidents of 1837 in the Province of Canada... |
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Bent Props and Blow Pots: A Pioneer Remembers Northern Bush Flying Best Price: $15.15 Crash landings were part of the job in the early 1930s, when Rex Terpening started out in arctic... | | | | |