your guide to Western Canadian Historywith Alberta Books 2014 The Book Publishers Association of Alberta (BPAA) is proud to present Your Guide to Western Canadian History with Alberta Books. Approximately 15 Alberta-based publishers actively develop, print, and distribute history-oriented books. As a collective, they provide an invaluable service to the Alberta community, and also chronicle and provide critical historical analyses of people and places throughout Canada and the world. Unwritten history can fall by the wayside as time goes on. History books provide a repository of facts, ideas for the future, a resource for discussion and critical thought. They also help us understand people and societies. The BPAA takes great pleasure in introducing you to the many excellent history books being published in Alberta. We hope that you will be inspired to add these titles to your collections. Best regards, Kieran Leblanc Executive Director, Book Publishers Association of Alberta March, 2014 C atalogue legend available to purchase in bookstores illustrations or photographs included available from chapters.indigo.ca electronic format available to download available from amazon.ca special purchase discount available t Hank you to our funders Design by natalie Olsen, Kisscut Design Contents Alberta Place Names Here Is Where We Disembark page 2 All of Baba’s Children 11 A History of Art in Alberta, 1905–1970 Arctic Hell-Ship I Once Was a Cowboy Arriving: 1909–1919 Looking Back 3 Art Inspired by the Canadian Rockies 12 Louis Riel Baba’s Kitchen Medicines Man Proposes, God Disposes British Columbia Place Names Mobsters and Rumrunners of Canada 4 Bush Pilots 13 More Ghost Stories of Alberta Canada in Space The Mounties March West Canada’s Arctic Sovereignty Outlaws of the Canadian West 5 Choosing: 1940–1989 14 Paradise Preserved Pull quote excerpt Cowboy Embers Plants of Coastal British Columbiathat is about 30 words goes hereAm Cowboy Memoirs The Prairie West as Promised Land ratempe rcient, 6 The Devil’s Breath 15 Promoters, Planters, and Pioneers Dictionary of Canadianisms Rupert’s Land ipistemporum eum faccus officimincia Disasters of Western Canada Somebody Else’s Money volupic tet et alia 7 Disinherited Generations 16 A Son of the Fur Tradedelles idis volorum The Duchess Ranch of Old John Ware Spirit Animals qui officatquam Edible & Medicinal Plants of Canada Spirit of the West nonsedis del 8 The Frog Lake Reader 17 Storm Chaser magnat liquam, que Ghost Detective Thirteen Minutes quibus repelesequia Ghost Stories and Mysterious Creatures of B.C. Thriving: 1919–1939 EXCERPT FROM 9 The Grads Are Playing Tonight! 18 Weird Canadian Words Book Title Grandmother’s Stories Wilderness and Waterpower Grass Castles Working People in Alberta 10 Great Chiefs Volume 1 19 Xwel’qwiya: The Life of a Stó:lō Matriarch Great Chiefs Volume 2 A Young Adult’s Guide to the Canadian West 20 Publisher Information / 21 Distributor Information / 22 Author Index 2 Alberta Place Names All of Baba’s Arctic Hell-Ship The Fascinating People Children The Voyage of HMS & Stories Behind the Myrna Kostash Enterprise 1850–1855 Naming of Alberta Myrna Kostash’s contro- William Barr Larry Donovan versial probing of the In 1850, Richard Collinson and Tom Monto experiences of three captained the HMS A compendium of know- generations of Ukrainians Enterprise on a voyage to ledge, this fascinating in Canada rapidly became the Arctic via the Bering little book highlights more a best-seller when it was Strait in search of the than 1300 Alberta place first published in 1977. missing Franklin expedition. names, including hamlets, Boldly written, original, Arctic Hell-Ship describes villages, towns, and cities, and intense, All of Baba’s the daily progress of as well as mountain peaks, Children investigates the this little-known Arctic rivers, lakes, and First darker corners of Canadian expedition and examines Nations communities. identity, celebrates a the steadily worsening From Abbot Pass to people’s “great adventure,” relations between Collinson Zigadenus Lake, you’ll learn and has become part of and his officers. Barr based about the origins of the the literary heritage of his research on a wide names, famous inhabitants, the West. range of original archival and other fascinating documents, and the book tidbits. ISBN 978-0-920897-11-9 is illustrated with vivid paintings. ISBN 978-1-896124-11-7 ne West press l itdistCo ISBN 978-0-88864-472-5 dragon Hill publisHing PB $18.95 / 446 PAGES / 5.5 × 8.5" b ooklogiC / lone pine u of alberta press PB $18.95 / 240 PAGES / 5.25 × 8.25" GTW PB $34.95 / 332 PAGES / 6 × 9" 3 Arriving: 1909–1919 Art Inspired by the Baba’s Kitchen Book one of the Canadian Rockies, Medicines Understanding Purcell Mountains and Folk Remedies of Ursula trilogy Ukrainian Settlers Selkirk Mountains Frostbite. Corinne Jeffery in Western Canada 1809–2012 To reduce pain and On July 1, 1909, Gustav Michael Mucz Werner applies for a Nancy Townshend Michael Mucz’s research prevent cracking homestead grant at the A well-researched, copiously into Ukrainian-Canadian or blistering: Dominion Lands Office, illustrated book about folk history culminates in Rub with melted eager to become the the plethora of artistic Baba’s Kitchen Medicines. most successful German responses to the Canadian This book bursts with the sheep fat or pig’s Lutheran homesteader in Rockies, Purcell Mountains, cultural memory of pioneer- bile, collected Saskatchewan. What he and Selkirk Mountains from ing folk from Canada’s doesn’t realize is that life 1809 to 2012. The work prairies. From fever to when the animal as he knows it is about of these great landscape frostbite, this incomparable is slaughtered. to take a surprising turn. artists, many of them compendium of tinctures, (See pages 5 and 18 of Canadian, will transport poultices, salves, decoctions, Apply a poultice of this catalogue for Books readers to the peaks and infusions, plasters, and sauerkraut leaves Two and Three of the valleys of Canada’s western tonics will fascinate, and or mashed peas. trilogy.) mountain ranges. sometimes mortify, readers. 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We’ve explored From the intriguing and often reach the status of our country and our would be possible uncanny to the downright legends. Peter Boer tells planet, and now we’re for any Canadian, wacky, many of these the stories of famous exploring space. Learn stories have served as Canadian bush pilots, about Canada’s amazing let alone him, to inspiration for some of many of them former contributions to space climb aboard a B.C.’s most colourful fighter pilots of the research and discovery. Second World War. space shuttle. place names. Discover the origins of Lulu Island, The remarkable stories ISBN 978-1-894864-59-6 Horsefly, Murderer Creek, of Wop May and Punch FROM Dickins, as well as Doc Canada in Space and hundreds of other folklore publisHing interesting place names. 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