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a_people_on_move2 A People on the Move: The Métis of the Western Plains
Can$9.95
Author- Irene Gordon



 

 
awesterndoctorsodyssey_s.gif A Western Doctor's Odyssey
Can$7.95
1-895811-21-X
Author-Eldon Lee


In an era of corporate medicine, and malpractice insurance, Dr. Lee’s story is a refreshing reminder of what doctoring is all about.
 

 
beforewewere_144.jpg Before We Were the Lands: Yarrow Vol. 1
Can$19.95
1-894898-00-1
Editor-Leonard N. Neufeldt


Before We Were the Land’s tells a tale of immigration and resettlement that is at the same time unique and a cornerstone of Canadiana.
 

 
breakingnewssmall.jpg Breaking News
Can$24.95
1-894384-67-9
Author-Fred Thirkell and Bob Scullion


In the years before the First World War, the daily papers used few news photographs; the technology had not been developed to the point where photos could be used on short notice in any significant number. At the same time, however, the postcard photographer could have his news photographs on the street the day after an event took place. George Alfred Barrowclough was one of these photographers.
 

 
bright_seas_pioneer_spirits Bright Seas, Pioneer Spirits: A History of the Sunshine Coast
Can$18.95
Authors- Betty Keller and Rosella Leslie


Bright Seas, Pioneer Spirits tells the stories of the homesteaders, loggers, prospectors and fishermen who carved out a living on the treacherous mountainside that rises straight out of the inlets.
 

 
Carving_the_Western_Path.jpg Carving the Western Path: Routes to Remember
Can$18.95
Author-R.G. Harvey


Transportation was key to opening up the sparsely populated southern Interior of British Columbia, which was rich in resources and ready for settlement in the late 1800s. The agricultural lands of the Okanagan and Nicola valleys, and the precious metals and coal of the Kootenays, lay largely unused or undiscovered. The challenge was getting to these areas.
 

 
greetings_from_bc Greetings From British Columbia: A Journey in Vintage Postcards
Can$26.95
Author-Fred Thirkell and Bob Scullion


Award-winning popular historians Fred Thirkell and Bob Scullion have assembled an all-new collection of postcard views capturing different communities around British Columbia as they appeared at the turn of the 20th century.


 

 
harmons_journal Harmon's Journal 1810-1819
Can$19.95
Authors-Daniel Williams Harmon


Harmon's Journal-the first published English-language journal written in B.C.-is a lively, engaging story that, unlike other early journals, captures the rough-and-tumble life of a fur trader and explorer in the western Canada of 200 years ago.
 

 
historyhappening_144.jpg History and Happenings in the Cariboo-Chilcotin
Can$14.95
1-895811-99-6
Author - Irene Stangoe


In her first two books Irene Stangoe established an easy reading style that spoke from the heart. Irene has earned her place among the most popular of central B.C. authors with over 10, 000 copies of her books sold.
 

 
cover_jadefever.jpg Jade Fever
Can$19.95
1-894384-85-7

Author - Stan Leaming with Rick Hudson

Beautiful, translucent, and indestructible, jade has a mystique that’s captivated people since Neolithic times. Stan Leaming, Canada’s leading jade geologist, was fascinated by this unusual gem; he is credited with pioneering the emergence of the jade industry in British Columbia.
 

 
jimmy_simpson Jimmy Simpson: Legend of the Rockies
Can$24.95
Author- E.J. "Ted" Hart


This book is the story of Jimmy Simpson's 80-year epic as one of the most important guides, outfitters, lodge operators, hunters, naturalists and artists in the Canadian Rockies.


 

 
small_klondikecattledrive.jpg Klondike Cattle Drive
Can$12.95

Author - Norman Lee

The latest addition to TouchWood Editions’ Classics West Collection, this is the colourful tale of a formidable trek undertaken by legendary Cariboo rancher Norman Lee.
 

 
lonesomesmall.jpg Lonesome: Memoirs of a Wilderness Dog
Can$18.95
1-894898-24-9
Author-Chris Czajkowski


Charming, humorous and utterly engaging, this is a book that will make readers laugh and cry. Written from the point of view and in the voice of the author’s dog, Lonesome, its observations of life in the wilds reveal a dog with great character, charm — and attitude.
 

 
climbs_exploration.jpg MOUNTAIN CLASSICS COLLECTION 4: CLIMBS & EXPLORATION IN THE CANADIAN ROCKIES
Can$19.95
Authors-Hugh E.M. Stutfield & J. Norman Collie


". . . years ago the Dominion of Canada, stretching as it does over thousands of miles,
covered with dense forests, watered by unnumbered rivers, and dotted over with countless lakes, was a land in many places as difficult of access as Siberia; and its Rocky Mountains, the back-bone of the continent, were almost unknown."
- Stutfield & Collie

 

 
merchantprince_144.jpg Merchant Prince
Can$18.95
1-894384-30-X
Author-Betty O'Keefe and Ian MacDonald


Everyone who lives in the western provinces of Canada has been affected by Alexander McRae. That's why Betty O'Keefe and Ian MacDonald believe the man deserves more than fleeting references in Canadian history books.
 

 
neverflyovereagles_144.jpg Never Fly Over An Eagle's Nest
Can$17.95
1-894384-37-7
Author-Joe Garner


As told in this lively and engaging autobiography, Joe Garner’s life spanned the modern history of BC.
 

 
oldsquaretoes_144.jpg Old Square-Toes
Can$18.95
0-920663-77-X
Author-John Adams


Between them, James and Amelia Douglas knew everybody who was anybody in western North America and their lives saw astonishing contrasts. Old Squaretoes and His Lady is a story of the adventure, heartbreak and devotion that lies at the roots of western Canada.
 

 
oldstones_144.jpg Old Stones
Can$19.95
0-920663-85-0
Author-A. S. Penne


An unsentimental look at a war-time union, Old Stones is an inquiry into a woman’s two very different selves, as well as a candid examination of a cultural divide.
This is a work of creative non-fiction.
 

 
Philip_Timms.jpg Philip Timms' Vancouver: 1900-1910
Can$39.95
Author-Fred Thirkell and Bob Scullion


Commercial printer and photographer Philip Timms was a man of many accomplishments, but one of his greatest was the photographic record of Vancouver and the Lower Mainland that he created between 1900 and 1910.
 

 
postcardsfromthepast_s.gif Postcards From The Past
Can$24.95
1-895811-23-6
Author-Fred Thirkell and Bob Scullion


Edwardian images of Greater Vancouver and the Fraser Valley.
 

 
ranch_144.jpg Ranch on the Cariboo
Can$18.95
1-894898-02-8
Author-Alan Fry


It was the summer of ’43 on a Cariboo ranch. He was 12 and had to become a man. If you were a man, you could become a cowboy. Join the author on this nostalgic look back on the joys, frustrations and observations of growing up and discovering where he belongs.
 

 
robert_service_soft_oct08 Robert Service: Under the Spell of the Yukon, Second Edition, SOFTCOVER
Can$19.95
Author-Enid Mallory


Robert Service's time in the Yukon, at first as a transplanted bank clerk and later living off the royalties of poems like "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee," is the core of a fascinating life. Starving in Mexico, residing in a California bordello, farming on Vancouver Island and pursuing unrequited love in Vancouver were only preludes to his Yukon years and his first poems.
 

 
rocky_mountain_madness Rocky Mountain Madness: A Historical Miscellany
Can$16.95
Author- Edward Cavell and Jon Whyte


This entertaining collection of historical photographs, amusing newspaper accounts, reminiscences and letters evokes the capricious antics the mountains summoned for these people, and, to quote the authors, includes "accounts of occasional accomplishment, accomplished adventure, adventurous rambling and rambling discourse.


 

 
sittingbull_s.gif Sitting Bull's Boss
Can$17.95
1-895811-63-5
Ian Anderson


Recreating scenes and dialogue based on diaries, letters, and recorded interviews, Anderson portrays a time and place where the relationship of two great men made history without shedding blood.
 

 
small_stella.jpg Stella: Unrepentant Madam
Can$19.95

Author - Linda Eversole

A wealthy madam who was known from San Francisco to Victoria in the early part of the 20th century, Stella Carroll was glamorous, worldly and determined to succeed. Her bordellos were fashionably decorated and patronized by the affluent and the powerful; she offered the best of everything—fine food and wine, cigars, entertainment and, of course, girls.
 

 
talesofapioneerjournalist_s.gif Tales of a Pioneer Journalist
Can$16.95 Can$8.95 On Sale!
1-895811-24-4
Author-David William Higgins


From Gold Rush to Government Steet in 19th Century Victoria.
 

 
arctictoantarctica_s.jpg The Arctic to Antarctic
Can$24.95 Can$9.95 On Sale!
0-938665-65-0
Author-Mladen Sutej


The dramatic account of the first circumnavigation of the North and South American continents by the crew of Croatian Tern [Hrvatska Cigra], a 65-foot steel ketch.
 

 
lifeandtimesoftexfosbery_s.gif The Life and Times of Texas Fosbery
Can$16.95
1-895811-93-7
Karen Piffko


Tex Fosbery has lived a full life inspired by a sense of invincibility. Tex's adventures started early and over the next 60 years, life was never dull.
 

 
the_mounties2 The Mounties: Tales of Adventure and Danger from the Early Days
Can$9.95
Author- Elle Andra-Warner


The Mounties is an exciting account of the turbulent early days of the Force.


 

 
remarkable_world_oct08 The Remarkable World of Frances Barkley: 1769 - 1845 - BACK IN PRINT
Can$19.95
Authors-Beth Hill and Cathy Converse


Frances Barkley was just eighteen when she became the first European woman to set foot on the west coast of North America. After a sheltered upbringing in England, Frances found herself boarding the Imperial Eagle in 1786 to set sail on an adventurous, round-the-world voyage with her husband, Captain Charles William Barkley.


 

 
theyweregiantsinthosedays_s.jpg They Were Giants in Those Days
Can$16.95
1-895811-97-X
Author-Eldon Lee


From the rich history of the area where Knife Creek Road meets the old Cariboo Wagon Road, the Lee has woven a fabric of war, love, hardship, and gain as a tribute to those who have been proclaimed as giants among humanity.
 

 
this_and_that.jpg This and That: The Lost Journals of Emily Carr
Can$17.95
Author- Emily Carr
Edited by- Ann-Lee Switzer


Once available and appreciated only by researchers, these stories remained buried in the British Columbia Archives until 2007. Finally, readers are given a new glimpse into Emily's life with this collection. Emily Carr began to write these stories in the last two years of her life. She wrote of the project: "… they are too small each to be taken singly, but each, complete in itself, serves to ornament life which would be a drab affair without the little things we do not even notice or think of at the time but which old age memory magnifies."
 

 
upstarts_144.jpg Upstarts and Outcasts
Can$18.95
0-920663-74-5
Author-Valerie Green


The popular myth of Victoria’s genteel history—all upper-class colonists and Royal Navy dances—is ripe for puncturing. Yes, there were the wealthy and the well-born, but the city’s pioneers also included madams and murderers, salesmen and saloon-keepers.
 

 
vancouverbeyond_144.jpg Vancouver & Beyond
Can$24.95
1-894384-15-6
Author - Fred Thirkell and Bob Scullion


Vancouver & Beyond is an anthology of 50 stories about Vancouver and environs in the early years of the 20th century.
 

 
village_144.jpg Village of Unsettled Yearings: Yarrow Vol. 2
Can$21.95
1-894898-01-X
Editor-Leonard N. Neufeldt


Concensus and dissent, persistence and rapid change, were at the heart of Yarrow's rich cultural life.
 

 
voyages_144.jpg Voyages of Hope
Can$18.95
0-920663-79-6
Author-Peter Johnson


Why did shiploads of women leave everything behind in England and come to the west coast? The answers lie in the lusty turmoil of a gold-rush frontier, the horrible disruptions of industrial England and the conflicting aims of earnest Christians and early British feminists.
 

 
where_the_clouds_can_go Where the Clouds Can Go
Can$29.95
Author- Conrad Kain


In this internationally anticipated reissue of Where the Clouds Can Go-first published in 1935, with subsequent editions in 1954 and 1979-Rocky Mountain Books has accentuated the original text with an expanded selection of over 50 archival images that celebrate the accomplishments of Conrad Kain in the diverse mountain landscapes of North America, Europe and New Zealand.


 

 
wiresinwildernesssmall.jpg Wires in the Wilderness: The Story of the Yukon Telegraph
Can$19.95
1-894384-58-X
Author-Bill Miller


This is the tale of how Canada’s high northern wilderness was brought into civilization’s fold through a frail network of wires laboriously strung between poles and trees for hundreds of desolate miles. It started in 1897, when gold was discovered in the Yukon and the government needed a faster way to communicate with its remote northern territory. The isolated residents, too, wanted a more reliable connection with the outside world. Thus was born the Yukon Telegraph.
 


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