Author - Steven Sandor

Alberta has long been a big part of the frantic Canadian hockey scene, and even before Alberta became a province in 1905, the intense hockey rivalry between Calgary and Edmonton was in full swing.
 

Author - Rodger Touchie

This book captures the life and times of Jerry Potts, the one man who best represents the turmoil of the western frontier and the clash of two cultures.
 

Author - David Mittelstadt

Calgary Goes Skiing tells the story of the Calgary Ski Club. From its origins in 1920 with Scandinavian ski jumpers in Elbow Park to the family racing club of the 1960s to today’s adult recreation club, it’s all here.
 

Experience life as a park warden in Canada’s national parks with Close Calls on High Walls, a moving memoir from a former warden.
 

To this day, more questions than answers surround the 1918 outbreak of a deadly flu pandemic that threatened to destroy the world. History has put death estimates as high as 50 million people worldwide. The American death toll from the flu was more than 10 times than that of World War I. In Canada, the flu started in Halifax and, wearing the name Spanish flu or “Spanish Lady,” spread steadily west to the Vancouver domain of public health officer Dr. Fred Underhill.
 

Author - R.M. Patterson

The stories in Far Pastures take readers to R.M. Patterson’s homestead in the Peace River country of northern Alberta.
 

Author - Frank Oberle

Franz (Frank) Oberle was nine years old when his family was relocated from Germany to Poland. There, he was taken from his parents to an isolated school where adolescents were being indoctrinated into the Hitler Youth.
 

Author - Brock Silversides

Fort Edmonton was a prairie institution and icon from 1795 to 1915. It was both a physical edifice and a community, not to mention a touchstone of western Canadian commercial history. Its story is rich in drama and colour: Métis fiddlers at midnight, dwarves firing cannons, duelling clergy, never-ending public drumming, secret agents, the raising of the skull-and-crossbones flag, bears quaffing cold drinks—at times it seemed like a circus had taken up residence there. It is also a chronicle of intimidation and murder, battles between whites and First Nations, epidemics and famines, destruction by fire, whiskey traders, horse stealing, mutinies, rebellion and, finally, government neglect and stealthy demolition.
 

Author - David Finch

Hell’s Half Acre is the story of the people who lived and worked in Turner Valley, western Canada’s first commercial oilfield, located southwest of Calgary.
 

Author - Chic Scott

Discover the rich ski history of the Canadian Rocky and Columbia mountains with award-winning author and historian Chic Scott. He covers all aspects of the sport, ranging from the ski jumpers at Revelstoke in the 1920s to the birth of ski lodges and ski resorts to the heli-skiers, loppet racers and snowboarders of today.
 

Author - Norman Henderson

In the early days, Plains Indians travelled on foot across the vast Canadian prairies, with only fierce, wolf-like dogs as companions. Later, with the arrival of Europeans, horses and canoes appeared on the scene. In Rediscovering the Prairies, Norman Henderson, a leading scholar of the world’s great temperate grasslands, revives the earlier modes of prairie travel.
 

Author - Liz Bryan

The Native people of the Canadian prairies have been living on the land for at least 12,000 years, finding sustainable lifestyles from the grasslands and the aspen parklands. Our knowledge of these people is limited: they had no writing, no large settlements, and very little in the way of lasting material things. Before the arrival of Europeans, they had no guns, no horses, and no hard metals. What clues we have come primarily from the work of archaeologists sifting through the buried evidence—little bits of stone, bone, and pottery, refuse heaps and firepits, ancients villages and burial sites, fingerprints, and prehistoric blood. Liz Bryan takes the clues from decades of archaeological research and presents an immensely entertaining and informative account of these ancient people.
 

Author - Ray Djuff and Chris Morrison

Discover a cornucopia of short, quick-to-read items about people, animals, events and places in Waterton and Glacier National Parks. Waterton & Glacier in a Snap! has details, trivia and information you’ll refer to again and again.