Provincial/ Territorial & Local
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Les Belles Soeurs
$17.95 Read moreGermaine Lauzon has won a million trading stamps from a department store. Her head swimming with dreams of refurbishing and redecorating her working-class home from top to bottom with catalogue select
- Author: Tremblay, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 18 1992
- ISBN10: 0889223025
- Language: English
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Permafrost Is an Archive: And Other Inheritances from the Alaska-Yukon Borderlands
$22.99 Add to cartThe Yukon Ice Patch Project reveals ancient lives. A road through the boreal forest reads like a map of climate upheaval. Those houses with broken doorknobs–a legacy of government regulation over Ind
- Series: In Place
- Author: Cook, Corinna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1959000705
- Language: English
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The View From Here: South Shore Essays
$19.99 Add to cartFor over thirty years, Vernon Oickle penned a weekly column for newspapers serving his home town of Liverpool, Nova Scotia. His essays became anticipated weekly visitors to homes all along the South S
- Author: Oickle, Vernon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1998149870
- Language: English
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Race to the Cape: The Daring News Chase, the Birth of the Associated Press, and the Journalist at the Heart of it All
$24.99 Add to cart“In New York and Boston, the men who own the papers are rich and connected. They don’t have to chase news; news comes to them. But we chase news! We go out and find the news.”
Nearly two centuries ago,
- Author: O’Leary, Theresa M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 199068856X
- Language: English
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Small-Town Chaos: Lessons on Country Life
$16.95 Add to cartIn Liberty, moments of grit, perseverance, heartbreak, and joy illustrate the fullness of living a small-town life.
A staunch urbanite, Lenore Focht never thought she’d end up in a remote farming commu
- Author: Focht, L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1069485403
- Language: English
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Raincoast Chronicles 25: M̓am̓aɫa Goes Fishing
$22.95 Add to cartThis 25th edition of Raincoast Chronicles intertwines Alan Haig-Brown’s experiences of his formative years as a deckhand on a We Wai Kai seiner with the historical and cultural context of BC’s commerc
- Series: Raincoast Chronicles #25
- Author: Haig-Brown, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1998526186
- Language: English
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Wayne Ngan, Island Potter: A Portrait by a Friend
$19.95 Add to cartWhen Ngan Gui Wang arrived in Canada at age thirteen to live with his unwelcoming grandfather, he was poor, illiterate, and bereft of his family in China. In school, he faced racist taunts and saw lit
- Author: Tate, Lois Eustis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: October 09 2024
- ISBN10: 9798886796049
- Language: English
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From Cheechakos to Sourdoughs: Two Ivy Leaguers’ Quest for Yukon Gold
$25.00 Add to cartAn epic tale of two Ivy League graduates’ struggles in the 1898 Yukon gold rush -their grueling efforts to reach the fabled gold fields, the forming and breakup of partnerships, homesickness, periods … [more below]
- Author: Lundin, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: December 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1944234616
- Language: English
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Surviving Stupid: A Comical Look at Growing up in Rural Manitoba
$16.99 Add to cartWhat doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, and as kids we thought we were invulnerable, unbeatable, immortal. We did so many crazy and dangerous things that could have-should have-killed us, all in the… [more below]
- Author: Parsons, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1039196101
- Language: English
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Culture of Control: Farming With the Shackles of the Canadian Wheat Board
$36.99 Add to cartIn 1935 the Canadian Wheat Board was established to oversee the marketing, handling, and transportation of Western Canadian grain. Under the CWB’s increasingly rigid regulations, farmers in the West w… [more below]
- Author: Motiuk, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: April 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1038317533
- Language: English
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The Lives of Lake Ontario: An Environmental History Volume 17
$29.95 Read moreLake Ontario has profoundly influenced the historical evolution of North America. For centuries it has enabled and enriched the societies that crowd?ed its edges, from fertile agricultural landscapes … [more below]
- Series: McGill-Queen’s Rural, Wildland, and Resource Studies
- Author: MacFarlane, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0228022231
- Language: English
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The Big Hop: The First Non-Stop Flight Across the Atlantic Ocean and Into the Future
$29.99 Add to cartIn 1919, in Newfoundland, four teams of aviators came from Britain to compete in “the Big Hop” an audacious race to be the first to fly, nonstop, across the Atlantic Ocean. One pair of competitors was
- Author: Rooney, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1324050969
- Language: English
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Stooks on the Horizon: The Story of a Prairie Family Homestead
$19.99 Add to cartThis is a story of land, a farm that was not just the giver of life’s sustenance but a character in its own right, with its own spirit and vitality found in its black earth, pastures, woods, and sloug… [more below]
- Author: Kuzina, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1038334969
- Language: English
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We Lived In Danger: From True Prairie Boy to Royal Regina Rifleman: A Western Canadian’s WWII Memoir
$17.99 Add to cart“We Lived in Danger” is a deeply personal and enchanting story about a small-town Canadian boy from Saskatchewan, Victor Hepburn Small, that unveils a rare and fascinating slice-of-life vignette of th
- Author: Small, Victor Hepburn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 138
- Publish Date: October 30 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987227107
- Language: English
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Unsettled: Lord Selkirk’s Scottish Colonists and the Battle for Canada’s West, 1813-1816
$23.95 Read moreThe fascinating story of the Red River Settlement, now Winnipeg, in the years 1813 to 1816, told with archival journals, reports, and letters
Unsettled tells the story of two hundred Highlanders who
- Author: Lower, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1770417184
- Language: English
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True North Rising: My fifty-year journey with the Inuit and Dene leaders who transformed Canada’s North
$18.95 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER
In this captivating memoir, Whit Fraser weaves scenes from more than fifty years of reporting and living in the North with fascinating portraits of the Dene and Inuit activists who … [more below]- Author: Fraser, Whit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1039005594
- Language: English
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Jennie’s Boy: A Misfit Childhood on an Island of Eccentrics
$19.95 Read more** Winner of the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour **
The sad, tender, and extremely funny memoir of a boyhood few thought he would survive, including the unforgettable mother and hilarious gr- Author: Johnston, Wayne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1586423622
- Language: English
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The Wild Horses of the Chilcotin: Their History and Future
$29.95 Add to cartThe Chilcotin’s wild horses are romantic and beautiful, but they are also controversial: they are seen by government policy as intruders competing for range land with native species and domestic cattl
- Author: McCrory, Wayne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1990776361
- Language: English
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Scarbro Boomers: The Real Dick and Jane
$22.99 Add to cartIn Canada, the era of baby boomers lasted from 1946 to about 1965, a period in which there was a sudden rise in the number of births observed from year to year. The 2021 Canadian census counts a total… [more below]
- Author: White, Donna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: December 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1039175627
- Language: English
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Footprints in the Snow
$19.99 Add to cartIn 1896, in Digby, Nova Scotia, someone brutally murdered Annie Kempton, a young woman. Suspicion quickly focussed on Peter Wheeler, who claimed to have been the first to find the body. Local opinion,
- Author: Duke, Laura Churchill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: September 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1998149501
- Language: English
