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Cowboys and DogTales by Tim O'Byrne
The autobiography of an Albertan cowboy.His adventures are vividly depicted in the comical sense of humour natural to him. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 20th century    2. Anecdotes    3. Biography    4. Biography & Autobiography    5. Biography / Autobiography    6. Biography/Autobiography    7. Canada - General    8. Canada, Western    9. Cattle dogs    10. Cowboys    11. Dogs - General    12. General    13. Historical - General    14. Ranch life    15. Social life and customs    16. O'Byrne, Tim   

Subjects:  1. Alberta    2. Biography / Autobiography    3. Canada - General    4. Country life    5. Farmers & Ranchers    6. Highwood River Region    7. History    8. History: World    9. Personal Memoirs    10. Schintz family    11. Schintz, Michael J    12. Wildlife   

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Presents the reader with a kind of "window in time"
Edmund Augustus Porcher was the captain of a Royal Navy vessel serving an Esquimalt-based tour of duty on Vancouver Island. Porcher was also a watercolor artist who made an impressive array of sensitive and skillfully executed paintings of what he saw. A Tour Of Duty In The Pacific Northwest: E. A. Porcher and H.M.S. Sparrowhawk, 1865-1868 is an impressive and uniquely informative work drawn from the ship's record and Captain Porcher's commentaries, enhanced with his superb paintings and illustrations presenting the reader with a kind of "window in time" to understand and feel what it was like in those times and places along Canada's Pacific coasts, as well as the complex and multifaceted roles and functions of a British war vessel. A Tour Of Duty In The Pacific Northwest is a unique and highly recommended contribution that will be greatly appreciated by students of maritime, and Canadian nineteenth century history. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Biography & Autobiography    2. Biography/Autobiography    3. British Columbia    4. Canada    5. Description and travel    6. Diaries    7. Essays & Travelogues    8. Great Britain    9. Military    10. Pacific Coast (B.C.)    11. Porcher, E. A    12. Ship captains    13. Travel - Foreign    14. Vancouver Island (B.C.)   

Subjects:  1. (Russell V.),    2. 1897-1980    3. 20th century    4. Biography    5. Biography / Autobiography    6. Canada, Western    7. Cowboys    8. Frontier and pioneer life    9. Gunter, R. V    10. Historical - General    11. History    12. Ranch life    13. Westerns   

Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Canada    3. Canada, Western    4. Guttman, Irving    5. Opera    6. Opera producers and directors   

Subjects:  1. Biography & Autobiography    2. Biography/Autobiography    3. Historical - General    4. Military History (General)   

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The "redinking" of British Columbia History
Of all the individuals that have served in the premeirship of British Columbia, it is Dufferin Pattullo that Fisher feels was the most significant. He places hime above the likes of WAC Bennett, John Oliver andRichard McBride. The book is a chronological account of Pattullo's life,starting with his early childhood, moving through to his time spent in theYukon. Next, the entering of politics and Pattullo's appointment as theMinister of Lands where he helped to implement the South Okanagan LandsProject. The book continues with Pattullo's time as leader of the BCLiberal Party and beyond.Read more

Subjects:  1. Biography/Autobiography    2. Canada - General    3. Canada - History - 20th Century (General)    4. History - General History    5. Canada    6. World history: from c 1900 -   

Subjects:  1. 1915-    2. Anecdotes    3. Canada - General    4. Canada, Western    5. Essays    6. Fiction    7. General    8. Nature / Field Guide Books    9. Russell, Andy,    10. Westerns    11. Westerns - General    12. Biography & Autobiography / General    13. Russell, Andy   

Subjects:  1. Alberta    2. Biography    3. Biography / Autobiography    4. Canada - Pre-Confederation (to 1867)    5. Historical - General    6. History    7. History: World    8. Miscellanea    9. Reference   

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Struggles and Joys of a Pioneer family
Read it at once like a novel or in chapters like a series of vignettes, this delightful book features difficulties facing a farm family, and rejoices at their victories and grieves over their sorrows and defeats. Enjoy the mischievous pranks of a bunch of farm kids who invented ways to make their hard workmore fun, and how their jokes sometimes turned into expensive lessons when things went awry.The intense desire for education that drove these farm boys to make enormous sacrifices in order to have an opportunity to achieve their goals is inspiring.This is a great book for young folks who are wrestling with lifes tough questions, and how faith, persistance and determination can lead to fulfilment of dreams. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 1910-1976    2. Alberta    3. Biography    4. Biography & Autobiography    5. Biography / Autobiography    6. Biography/Autobiography    7. Boys    8. Canada - General    9. Farm life    10. Historical - General    11. Morck, Archie,    12. Social life and customs    13. Childhood and youth    14. Morck, Archie   

Subjects:  1. Biography & Autobiography    2. Biography / Autobiography    3. Biography/Autobiography    4. Historical - General    5. Political   

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Celebrates the works and life of Stanford Perrott
Maxwell Foran's Chalk & The Easel surveys and celebrates the works and life of Stanford Perrott, Alberta watercolorist. Black and white and color photos accompany text detailing his perspective and influences. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Alberta    2. American - General    3. Art    4. Art & Art Instruction    5. Artists    6. Artists as teachers    7. Biography    8. Biography/Autobiography    9. Canada - General    10. Canadian    11. Perrott, Stanford    12. Watercolor Painting    13. Canada    14. History Of Art / Art & Design Styles    15. Individual artists    16. Painting & paintings    17. USA   

Subjects:  1. Biography & Autobiography - General    2. Canada, Western    3. Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9)    4. Emigration and immigration    5. Frontier and pioneer life    6. History    7. Juvenile Nonfiction    8. Juvenile literature    9. People & Places - Canada    10. Prairie Provinces   

Subjects:  1. Canada - General    2. Education    3. History - General History    4. 20th century    5. Biography: general    6. British Columbia    7. Local history   

Subjects:  1. Biography & Autobiography    2. Biography/Autobiography    3. Canada - General    4. Political    5. Alberta    6. American history   

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A GREAT ADVENTURE
I don't usually write book reviews, but as I came across this book for sale on Amazon, it brought back wonderful memories.I purchased this book back in 1973.I loved it then and I love it now.I re-read it for maybe the fifth time.I decided to write this reveiw. True stories from the West
Trails Of A Wilderness Wanderer are true stories from the West blending the autobiography of an outdoorsman with accounts of living in the wild places of the Rockies, following old trails and meeting hunters and explorers. An absorbing outdoorsman's diary filled with nature and observations of the wild.

Outstanding storyteller of the Canadian Frontier
Mr. Russell takes you back to the early days when only Indians and bearsroamed the land, through his youth and adulthood as an outdoorsman in thewilds of early Canada.He tells of living a life we can only dream of now. The people he writes of were real and made Canada what it is today.Ihave reread this book almost yearly since it came out in 1971. You willfeel as if you have walked his trails with him and love the life he led.An excellent gift for the city-bound outdoorsman!!! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Alberta    2. Biography / Autobiography    3. Canada - General    4. General    5. Outdoor life    6. Ranch life    7. Social life and customs    8. Trapping    9. Russell, Andy   

Subjects:  1. 1883-1969    2. Barbeau, Marius,    3. Biography    4. Biography & Autobiography    5. Biography / Autobiography    6. Biography/Autobiography    7. British Columbia    8. Canada    9. Ethnologists    10. Folklore    11. Indian sculpture    12. Indians of North America    13. Social Scientists & Psychologists    14. Sociologists    15. Barbeau, Marius   

Subjects:  1. 1924-    2. Anderson, Flo,    3. Biography    4. Biography & Autobiography    5. Biography / Autobiography    6. Biography/Autobiography    7. British Columbia    8. Canada - General    9. General    10. Historical - General    11. Lighthouse keepers    12. Ships & Shipbuilding - General    13. Women lighthouse keepers    14. Anderson, Flo   

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Drawn from years of careful research
Hammerstone: A Biography Of Hornby Island is an engaging history of a small island off the western coast of Canada and drawn from years of careful research. Author Olivia Fletcher begins the story of her island from its molten birth in the South Pacific down to the present day. Fletcher guides the reader through millions of years of dramatic physical transformation on an island that once was home to dinosaurs and carnivorous snails, Native Americans and European immigrants. Hammerstone is a unique "biography" of an island that could well serve as a template for others to emulate for their parts of the world what Olivia Fletcher has done for hers. Very highly recommended. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Canada - General    2. General    3. History - General History    4. Nature    5. Nature/Ecology    6. British Columbia    7. Historical geology   

Subjects:  1. Biography & Autobiography    2. Biography/Autobiography    3. Canada - General    4. Fiction - Western    5. General    6. Literary    7. Westerns - Pioneer    8. Fiction / Literary    9. Modern fiction