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Edith Fowke (1913-1996) was a renowned Canadian folklorist, folk song collector, researcher, writer, and teacher who during her long career recorded nearly two thousand songs. Awarded the Order of Canada in 1978 and named a Fellow of the Royal Society of...

The frontier reality of confronting new conditions, adapting cultural inclinations, and dealing with a volatile environment in an effort to establish and nurture new communities is central to the western Canadian experience. It has shaped many aspects of...

Jacqueline Beaudouin-Ross examines the evolution of form or silhouette in nineteenth-century feminine dress, applying theories developed by art historians such as Henri Focillon and Heinrich Wofflin to demonstrate that an inner dynamic of change appears...

This heavily illustrated, full colour historical narrative is a testament to the past 11,000 years of Aboriginal history in Alberta. It conveys the many challenges that Aboriginal people confronted, and celebrates their enduring legacy. Berry and Brink...

On 7 January 1922 Raoul Delorme's body was discovered in a Montreal suburb. He had been shot six times at close range. The victim's half-brother, Father Adelard Delorme, quickly became the prime suspect as circumstantial evidence pointed directly to him...

Translated from Dutch to English, this collection of letters offers a unique perspective on the early pioneer years of the Dutch community in southeastern Alberta. The letters provide first-hand accounts of the preparations to immigrate, the hardships of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738512501Author Bea Aldrich NelsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm)...

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Craig Heron is one of Canada's leading labour historians. Drawing together fifteen of Heron's new and previously published essays on working-class life in Canada, Working Lives covers a wide range of issues, including politics, culture, gender,...

Buffalo conjure up the West the way no other symbol can. They hold a special place in our culture and imagination. In this prize-winning collection, writers reveal the buffalo in plains ecology and culture from prehistoric times to its present and...

Focusing on the difficulties the government faced in trying to reconcile moral imperatives and political interest, Kordan provides an innovative interpretation of government policy toward Ukrainian Canadians. Drawing extensively on Canadian, British,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674956117Author Lester B PearsonFormat HardbackImprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 807g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039136830Author Mary Jane Logan McCallumFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 249g

The Rocking P Ranch was one of the most ambitious family ranches in Southern Alberta. Founded in 1900 by Roderick Riddle Macleary, the Rocking P flourished during the Second Cattle Frontier as open-range the Texas System ranches failed. Beginning in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995329904Author Tim GibbFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Caleb Howard CourtneyPublisher Caleb Howard CourtneyWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988120426Author Kris M PattersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Kris PattersonPublisher Kris PattersonWeight(grams) 358g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984616480Author La Vaughn Vanderburg KemnowFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Mountainswest PublishingPublisher Mountainswest PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615990347Author Cheryl McKayFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Purple PenworksPublisher Purple PenworksWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm...

For indigenous communities throughout the globe, mining has been a historical forerunner of colonialism, introducing new, and often disruptive, settlement patterns and economic arrangements. Although indigenous communities may benefit from and adapt to...

In 1906, the Sugar Maple Tree Song was just one example of the rhapsodic pieces that touted the Prairie West as the ""promised land"". In the formative years of agricultural settlement from the late nineteenth century to the First World War, the Canadian...

What does it mean to be African-Canadian? The African Diaspora in Canada addresses the conceptual difficulties and political contestations surrounding the term "African--Canadian." In the midst of this fraught terrain, it focuses on...

Undressed Toronto looks at the life of the swimming hole and considers how Toronto turned boys skinny dipping into comforting anti-modernist folk figures. By digging into the vibrant social life of these spaces, Barbour challenges narratives that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981096001Author Charles Dudley WarnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Dejavu PressPublisher Dejavu PressWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981179537Author Valerie J Koning-KeelanFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Septimal PublishingPublisher Septimal PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780006395768Author Nathan M GreenfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins PublishersWeight(grams) 594g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780978340148Author Kathleen HamiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Kathleen HamiltonPublisher Kathleen HamiltonWeight(grams) 286g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981014913Author Joey CliftonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Tall Pine PressPublisher Tall Pine PressWeight(grams) 190g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780969914259Author Margaret Kell ViranyFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint ViranyPublisher ViranyWeight(grams) 172g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995098435Author Louise DaymondFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Pinawa FoundationPublisher Pinawa FoundationWeight(grams) 513g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988120402Author Kris M PattersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Kris PattersonPublisher Kris PattersonWeight(grams) 263g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780969306344Author Kevin GreavesFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Heraldry Society of CanadaPublisher Heraldry Society of CanadaWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873514088Author Jacquelyn PetersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.Publisher Minnesota Historical Society...

Who were Canada's ten most romantic couples of the twentieth century? What were this country's worst disasters, its ten best beers, and its most controversial works of art in the past one hundred years? Where will you find the most haunted places in...

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Radical Housewives is a history of the Canada's Housewives Consumers Association. This association was a community-based women's organization with ties to the communist and social democratic left that, from 1937 until the early 1950s, led a broadly based...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897126820Author Ted FergusonFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint NeWest PressPublisher NeWest PressWeight(grams) 418g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927063132Author Dianne MeiliFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint NeWest PressPublisher NeWest PressWeight(grams) 658g