Banff: A History of the Park and Town
by E.J. (Ted) Hart
From the region's first Aboriginal visitors through the coming of the trailway and the discovery of hot springs to modern times, Banff: A History of the Park and Town represents a synthesis of E.J (Ted) Hart's 40-year career as a Canadian Rockies historian.
Clearing the Plains
by James Daschuk
Clearing the Plains is a book that explores how government policies led to starvation among First Nations peoples in the 19th century. First published in 2013, it is an indictment of our first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, blaming him for systematically starving Indigenous people to make way for the railroads and his national dream. Clearing the Plains won the Governor General's History Award for Scholarly Research, which is given to a book that has made "a significant contribution" to understanding Canadian history.
Epic Wanderer: David Thompson and the Mapping of the Canadian West
by D'Arcy Jenish
This full-length biography of David Thompson, is set in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries against a broad canvas of dramatic rivalries—between the United States and British North America, between the Hudson’s Bay Company and its Montreal-based rival, the North West Co., and between the various First Nations thrown into disarray by the advent of guns, horses and alcohol. Thompson spent nearly three decades (1784–1812) surveying and mapping over 1.2 million square miles of largely uncharted Indian territory.
Learn About Canada for Kids Ages 8-12: Includes Fun Facts About Canada's History and Modern Culture
by Meonatrip
Filled with beautiful colour photographs and peppered with a few cheeky cartoons, this book informs and tells engaging stories - some funny and some more significant to Canada's history.
Whether your child is Canadian and needs to learn more about their home country, or you plan to visit Canada and want to learn more about the history and modern-day culture. This book has you covered and is one your child will truly enjoy reading. You'll enjoy it too!
Northern Rocky Mountain Wildflowers, Including Glacier, Waterton Lakes, Banff, Jasper, Kootenay, Mount Revelstoke, and Yoho
by Wayne Phillips
This field guide features more than 300 species found in the northern Rockies of Montana, Idaho, Washington, and adjacent British Columbia and Alberta, including Glacier and Waterton Lakes National Parks. Packed with vivid photos and informative text, this field guide will help you identify and appreciate the varied flora of these wooded mountains, deep valleys, and rugged canyons.
Prison of Grass
by Howard Adams
Prison of Grass, which was first published in 1975 and re-issued in 1995, is now considered a classic. It is one of the first books to challenge the harmful stereotypes of Indigenous people as portrayed in history, media and popular culture. Howard Adams highlights how Indigenous people has complex societies and systems of governance and how colonialism erased this from the dominant historical narrative. Prison of Grass also explores the harmful social, cultural and psychological effects colonialism had on Indigenous people.
The Cave and Basin: A History of Banff's Hot Springs
by E.J. (Ted) Hart
Authored by renowned historian E.J. (Ted) Hart, The Cave and Basin is a history book that describes these unique and fascinating hot springs and how they became the catalyst for important developments in Canadian history and culture. The book details the story of the springs first discovery, their critical place in a government decision to create a reserve to protect them for public use and their development into a tourist location where generations of Canadians and those from around the world came to enjoy their soothing balm. In the process, the springs, and the Cave and Basin particularly, became the epicentre for both the creation and the commemoration of Canada's national parks.
The Incredible Journey
by Sheila Burnford
Instinct told them that the way home lay to the west. And so the doughty young Labrador retriever, the roguish bull terrier and the indomitable Siamese set out through the Canadian wilderness. Separately, they would soon have died. But, together, the three house pets faced starvation, exposure, and wild forest animals to make their way home to the family they love. The Incredible Journey is one of the great children's stories of all time--and has been popular ever since its debut in 1961.
The Intrepid Explorer: James Hector's Explorations in the Canadian Rockies
by Ernie Lakusta
The Intrepid Explorer tells the story of the famous Palliser Expedition from the point-of-view of one of its most remarkable members as he looks back on his life during one final visit to Canada in 1903. By the end of his life Sir James Hector had become a world-renowned geologist and explorer, but it was for his exploration of the Rockies that Hector was best remembered.
The Place of Bows
by E.J. (Ted) Hart
The Place of Bows is a story rich in character and often dramatic in events, and helps to shed light on how Banff National Park became such a focus of world attention. For those seeking to understand the contemporary debate over conservation versus development in Canada's first national park, many of the answers lie within this book.
This Wild Spirit: Women in the Rocky Mountains of Canada
by Colleen Skidmore
In 1912, Mary Vaux, a botanist, glaciologist, painter, and photographer, wrote about her mountain adventures: “A day on the trail, or a scramble over the glacier, or even with a quiet day in camp to get things in order for the morrow's conquests? Some how when once this wild spirit enters the blood…I can hardly wait to be off again." Vaux's compulsion was shared by many women whose intellects, imaginations, and spirits rose to the challenge of the mountains between the late-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. This Wild Spirit explores a sampling of women's creative responses—in fiction and travel writing, photographs and paintings, embroidery and beadwork, letters and diaries, poetry and posters—to their experiences in the Rocky Mountains of Canada.
