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 Outlaws & Lawmen of Western Canada |
Outlaws & Lawmen of Western Canada 5.5"x8.5" (14x21.5 cm) soft cover 125 pages Some of Western Canada's dramatic crimes, including "Death of Manitoba's Pioneer Police Chief", Saskatchewan's "First Stagecoach Holdup", Alberta's "Swift Runner - The Cannibal", and British Columbia's "Shoot-Out at New Hazelton". |
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 Overlanders |
Overlanders, 6"x9" (15x23 cm) soft cover 314 pages, 66 photographs. Richard Thomas Wright tells the epic tale of the cross-Canada treks for gold, 1858-1862, following an unexplored overland route across North America to the goldfields of British Columbia. This is the updated story of that amazing adventure, with a new chapter and new photos. | |
 Packers Pans and Paydirt, Prospecting to the Cariboo |
Packers Pans and Paydirt, Prospecting to the Cariboo 6"x9" (15x23 cm) soft cover 196 pages Born in Quesnel, British Columbia, Noel G. Duclos was the fifth son of the pioneer family of George Duclos. He went through public school in Quesnel, then took his first year university in Vancouver. He boarded with a Mrs. Black and paid his keep and studies by delivering papers. At one time he had one of the longest paper routes in the city. With this, and help from his mother, he was able to get his teaching certificate. His first school was Tibbles Lake, west of Quesnel. The third year he had his brother, Art, Attend to make up the necessary eighth pupil. He also had Art call him Mr. Duclos. Noel's salary was $75 a month at the time. | |
 Palliser Expedition |
The Palliser Expedition - 5.5"x8.5" (14x21.5 cm) soft cover 298 pages Irene M. Spry produces one of the great works in Canadian exploration literature and the only full-scale account of the British North America Exploring Expedition. This lively narrative tells of the famous adventures of John Palliser, one of the first to explore and document vast areas of what is now western Canada. | |
 Peter Fidler |
Peter Fidler - 5.5"x8.5" (14x21.5 cm) soft cover 255 pages With sextant in have, Peter Fidler travelled the length and breadth of western Canada in the late 1700s, laying the framework for all maps of the area. He was the first white man to reach the fabled Athabasca country and the first to establish trade contact with the Kootenay Indians in the Canadian Rockies. Despite his huge contribution to the exploration and surveying of the Canadian landscape, however, Fidler has been largely forgotten by history books and the public. |
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