This beautifully illustrated book features 56 species of fish found in Alberta's lakes, rivers and streams. Each account includes a full-colour illustration by artist Ian Sheldon, a range map and information on feeding, spawning, status...
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Author:Joynt, Amanda, Sullivan, MichaelSummary: - Author:Adams, Robert J.Summary:
Stories from the author's adventures as a Fish and Wildlife Officer on the Alberta prairies.
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Author:Patterson, R. M.Summary:The stories in Far Pastures take readers to R.M. Patterson’s homestead in the Peace River country of northern Alberta. To all-night dances that ended as the northern lights faded in the dawn. To escapades on the Fort Nelson, Liard and...
- Author:Arthurson, WayneSummary:
Leo Desroches doesn't look Native, but his mother was Cree, so the Edmonton newspaper he writes for decides he should be their Aboriginal Issues reporter. Leo has his own issues to deal with: compulsive gambling that cost him his wife...
- Author:Beaton, KateSummary:
Before there was Kate Beaton, New York Times bestselling cartoonist of Hark! A Vagrant, there was Katie Beaton of the Cape Breton Beaton, specifically Mabou, a tight-knit seaside community where the lobster is as abundant as beaches,...
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Author:Bartlett, CathieSummary:Story of a young British immigrants experiences as she comes to Alberta, Canada.
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Author:Foster, JasonSummary:In October 2005, Jason Foster, then a staff member of the Alberta Federation of Labour, was holding a picket line outside Lakeside Packers in Brooks, Alberta with the members of local 401. It was a first contract strike. And although...
- Author:Kinsella, W.P.Summary:
A collection of short stories written by W. P. Kinsella in 1977, containing seventeen stories narrated by Silas Ermineskin and is set on a Cree Indian reserve in Central Alberta and is about what happens in the lives of the people that...
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Author:Smith, Peter B.Summary:Ten gripping tales of murder and missing persons show how skulls and skeletons reveal their secrets to forensic investigators. A skull is found on a scree slope high above the mirror-calm waters of Spray Lakes. Bones rumoured for years...
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Author:Bryan, LizSummary:Experience Alberta's heritage and the outdoors in Country Roads of Alberta, an intriguing photographic guidebook that takes you to places off the beaten track. Alberta's scenery is as diverse as its topography. Fringed along its western...
- Author:Helgason, Gail, Dodd, JohnSummary:
The 3rd edition of this popular guide provides you with all the information you need to explore and play in the Canadian Rockies during any season. Covering Banff, Jasper, Kootenay, Yoho, Waterton and Kananaskis parks, this book...
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Author:Seagrave, JayneSummary: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...
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Author:Stewart, BarbaraSummary:Bankrupt, homeless and with only an old Toyota Tercel to her name, Barbara Stewart has taken a job as a camp attendant at Trinidad 11, an oil-rig camp in northwestern Alberta. She was told it’s a “dry” camp—good news for a person hoping...
- Author:Bear, Leon CraneSummary:
With lively, informative contributions by both scholars and activists, Bucking Conservatism highlights the individuals and groups who challenged Alberta's conservative status quo in the 1960s and 70s. Drawing on archival records,...
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Author:Chatham, VictoriaSummary:In the dirty thirties jobs were hard to come by. Having lost her father and her home in southern Alberta, Tilly McCormack is thrilled when her application for a position as a chambermaid at the prestigious Banff Springs Hotel, one of...
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"In 2019, the United Conservative Party, under the leadership of Jason Kenney, unseated the New Democratic Party to form the provincial government of Alberta. A restoration of conservative power in a province that had seen the...
- Author:Jenkins, McKaySummary:
In 1913, two Catholic priests set out to the Canadian Arctic to convert isolated Inuit's. Three days after reaching their destination, the two men were murdered. It took years for Western justice to investigate.
- Author:Arthurson, WayneSummary:
During a mosquito-infested summer in Edmonton, Métis journalist Leo Desroches, who has just been released from jail, is called to the scene of an apparent overdose of a young Native man in the inner city. Some white rocks spill out of...
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Author:Martini, Clem, Martini, OlivierSummary:In 1976, Ben Martini was diagnosed with schizophrenia. A decade later, his brother Olivier was told he had the same disease. For the past thirty years the Martini family has struggled to comprehend and cope with a devastating illness,...
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