Drawn from Terry Gainer's personal memories and experiences from his years living and working at the legendary Banff Railway Station, this entertaining memoir and important historical record beckons the reader into the golden age of...
Canada--Canadian Rockies
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Author:Gainer, TerrySummary: -
Author:Patterson, R. M.Summary:The wildest, loveliest and least-travelled region of Alberta was R.M. Patterson’s home territory in the 1930s and ’40s. The Buffalo Head ranch was located in the foothills of the majestic Canadian Rockies. With the mountains as a...
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Author:Martel, LynnSummary:Since moving to the Rockies of western Canada in 1984, Lynn Martel has spent countless hours and days exploring the mountain wilderness with her many experienced friends as well as some of the best known and well-informed professional...
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In Switchbacks, Sid Marty draws on his own memories and those of friends and former colleagues in relating a series of true mountain tales. Among his subjects are: the old guide who built a staircase up a cliff; the stranded snowshoer...
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Author:Skidmore, ColleenSummary:Mary Schäffer was a photographer, writer, botanical painter, and mapmaker from Philadelphia, well known for her travels in the Canadian Rockies and Jasper at the turn of the twentieth century. In Searching for Mary Schäffer, Colleen...
- Author:Feutl, RitaSummary:
Can 14-year-old Janey disentangle her time-hopping dilemma and save not just her own life, but the past lives of others, before it's too late? Rescue in the Rockies follows Janey as she is forced to spend the holidays with her...
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Author:Portman, DaleSummary: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...
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Author:Jennings, Neil L.Summary:A full-colour field guide for the curious amateur naturalist, traveller, or hiker who wishes to learn to identify the flowering plants that may be encountered while in the outdoors on the Canadian Rockies during the usual blooming...
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Author:Marchwell, D. W.Summary:È trascorso quasi un anno da quando William ha perso i genitori e abbandonato l’unico tipo di vita che conosceva per una nuova casa in Canada. Ma ora, non c’è niente che ami di più che stare con i suoi due nuovi papà. Suo zio Jerry...
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Author:Kopas, CliffSummary:Babes in the woods. That’s how Ruth and Cliff Kopas were described by one of many colourful characters the pair encountered on their amazing journey across the Rockies through to British Columbia’s west coast in 1933. Married on the day...
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Author:Schäffer, Mary T.S.Summary:“We seemed to have reached that horizon, and the limit of all endurance, to sit with folded hands and listen calmly to the stories of the hills we so longed to see, the hills which had lured and beckoned us for years before this long...
- Author:Oke, JanetteSummary:
Newlyweds Missie and Willie share a dream. However, it means that Missie must leave her parents, family and friends behind to join a wagon train and claim land in the West with her new husband. Overcoming incredible hardships on the...
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Author:Glasnovic, JameySummary:For many people, moving to a mountain town is the realization of a dream, the final step in a pilgrimage to a relaxed lifestyle in a rugged and beautiful setting. After a long journey that began when he was a teenager in the 1980s with...
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Author:Marty, SidSummary:A finalist for the 1995 Governor General's Literary Award for English-language non-fiction. Winner of the Mountain Environment and Culture Award at the 1995 Banff Mountain Book Festival. Leaning on the Wind is a love song of the west,...
- Author:Oke, JanetteSummary:
Through her dozens of novels, including The Bluebird and the Sparrow (RB# 94672) and Too Long a Stranger (RB# 94970), Janette Oke has become one of today's most beloved inspirational writers. In Julia's Last Hope, drawing on...
- Author:Wharton, ThomasSummary:
In 1898, Doctor Edward Byrne slips on the ice of the Arcturus glacier in the Canadian Rockies and slides into a crevasse, wedged upside down nearly sixty feet below the surface. As he fights losing consciousness, a stray beam of...
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Author:Lynx, DustinSummary:This new, full-colour edition of one of RMB's bestselling hiking guides has been completely updated and redesigned for a whole new generation of hiking enthusiasts. Trekking the Continental Divide from the U.S. border to Kakwa Lake...
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Author:Cross, L.D.Summary:Building transportation routes through the Rockies is dangerous. It always has been. It is also expensive, labour-intensive, and highly political. But railway and highway construction through the western cordillera succeeded thanks to...
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Author:Marchwell, D. W.Summary:Jerry McKenzie ist mit Leib und Seele Künstler. Er bleibt gerne für sich und genießt es, mit seinen Pferden auszureiten und in seinem Atelier zu arbeiten. In seinem zurückgezogenen, einsamen Leben ist kein Platz für ein Kind und als...
- Author:O'Neill, JohnSummary:
John O'Neill's gothic short stories, set in the Canadian Rockies, are haunted by the violence inherent in nature and humans. The mountains are majestic and impassive. The characters are surprising, bent, but also empathetic. Their...
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