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Alberta Fishes highlights 70 native and introduced species. This beautifully illustrated guide provides descriptions on fish anatomy, a key to field marks, a watershed map and conservation status. Printed on waterproof paper for durability, this pocket guide is an excellent source of information, ideal for use by novices and experts.

Featuring beautiful illustrations of 90 common native and introduced freshwater and near-shore marine species, this portable reference includes descriptions of fish anatomy, a key to field marks, a watershed map, and each species' conservation status. Laminated for durability, this lightweight, 12-panel folding pocket guide is the perfect companion for educators, learners, naturalists, and anglers who wish to peer more closely into the fascinating lives of fishes in British Columbia. Made in the USA.

Published in 1876, The Emigrant Sportsman, takes aim at the class of emigrants who might have a small fortune at home, but who could live a life of leisure and adventure in Canada. The author, himself an emigrant and sportsmen, supplies fellow sportsmen with sketches of Canadian life, sporting adventures, observations of the forests and fauna, and a few of his experiences as a settler as a way to convince others to come to Canada.

"Published in 1821 in Edinburgh and London, this description of Upper Canada is filled with practical details for the potential emigrant, including climate, prices of grain and cattle, directions, land grant terms, where to select land, different modes of settling, house building, modes of clearing land, hauling firewood, etc. Written by a man who spent two and a half years there, Sketches of Upper Canada also includes the author's brief recollections of his trip through the United States."

In 1817, Joseph Sansom travels through the Lake Champlain region, Quebec, and Montreal, amongst other areas, while detailing the "Peasantry of Canada," a "History of Canada," the "Language of the Iroquois," and providing a "Description of the Beaver, in Canada." This is one of the first accounts of the people, places, and history of Lower Canada.

Stories of the home lives of the farmers (habitant) of Quebec written down by William Parker Greenough in the later part of the 19th century and published in 1897. The book tells tales of animal life, occupations, amusements, the Church, marriage, the feudal system, songs, language and education, and much more, all focused on the French Canadian peope and life in country parishes.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.

Au Canada, le Sasquatch ou Bigfoot est une véritable légende...plus dangereux qu'un ours.Quelques jours seulement après la sortie de son dernier roman "La malédiction du Sasquatch", l'écrivain Jack Sawyer est retrouvé mort en pleine montagne dans des circonstances troublantes. A côté de lui, une mystérieuse empreinte qui ne semble pas appartenir à un être humain. Son éditeur, son illustratrice, son correcteur et sa rivale de toujours semblent tous curieusement se satisfaire de sa disparition. Il se pourrait qu'un lien ancien unisse la victime et les suspects...Le nouveau shérif de Canmore Hansel Stones et sa petite amie française fraîchement débarquée dans les Rocheuses, Ester Laroche, se retrouvent plongés dans une enquête où la frontière entre la fiction et la réalité est parfois difficile à cerner.Le dernier roman de Jack Sawyer renfermerait-il un secret, un aveu ou une véritable malédiction?Au pays de l'ours, les livres aussi peuvent tuer...

This show catalog profiles 15 of Harold Cromwell's works, and includes an introductory essay by Ray Cronin. Cromwell was the most widely known African Nova Scotian folk artist in Canada.

Recently retired from the priesthood, Terence Joseph Glasheen is starting over as a private citizen in the fabled Mile End neighbourhood of Montreal. At loose ends, Glasheen befriends his neighbour, Orenstein, a religious Jew, only to find himself pulled into the goings-on of the surrounding Orthodox Jewish community. Unlikely allies bound by their decency and keen insight, together Glasheen and Orenstein mediate, negotiate, and investigate an acrimonious divorce, the worthiness of a potential groom, and a possible case of child abuse, all while Glasheen learns what it is to be a man without the cloth.

The art of Donald Andrus defies categorization. Although principally known for his abstract paintings, Andrus has, throughout his career, combined his first love -- drawing -- with a deep engagement with colour, a desire for experimentation, a keen interest in the physical qualities of his materials, and the sensory experience of the viewer. Donald Andrus: The Shape of Desire brings together four major essays, including one by the artist, and more than eighty full-colour reproductions to assess a body of work that extends from abstract paintings to portraits. Roslyn Rosenfeld writes about Andrus's early abstract work, Ihor Holubizky considers Andrus's portraits, and Pan Wendt revisits Andrus's contemporary abstract paintings. Taken together, the essays and images take full measure of the entirety of Andrus's career and influences -- from the landscapes of Greece and the poetry of George Seferis to the cinematic works of Andrei Tarkovsky and the pioneering work of contemporary German artists Gerhard Richter and Anselm Kiefer. Donald Andrus has been painting for over thirty-five years. His work has been exhibited at galleries and museums throughout Canada and may be found in both private and public collections. He has previously worked as a curator at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, as a lecturer at the University of New Brunswick, and as a professor of art history at Concordia University. Andrus now lives and works in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.

How important is truth? What is normal? These are the questions raised in The Gift Child, Elaine McCluskey's fictional oeuvre -- a funny, poignant, sure-shot novel, populated with a community of petty criminals, beloved broadcasters, undercover intelligence agents, and more. The novel opens with the disappearance of a man in Pollock Passage, Nova Scotia, a man last seen driving away from a government wharf with a giant tuna head in the basket of his Schwinn delivery bicycle. The man's name is Graham Swim; he's good at playing the harmonica and making friends. When Graham's cousin Harriett decides to investigate his disappearance, she comes up against her own family history. A news photographer now jobless and adrift, Harriett has lived most of her life in the shadow of her larger-than-life father -- a once-beloved TV news anchor and borderline narcissist. When Harriett arrives in Pollock Passage, she meets a stranger who tells her he is researching the Shag Harbour UFO mystery. While this stranger helps Harriett reconnect with pieces of herself she thought long-dead, she also learns that what she knows about her father may not be true. Vintage McCluskey, The Gift Child showcases McCluskey's unique ability to capture the malleability of memory and the complex absurdity and nobility of humanity. It's a novel that's hard to put down; it's even harder to forget.

In this beautiful picture book inspired by a true story, flooding forces a child and their family to flee their farm without their beloved horse, Dancer. But the child won't give up on Dancer and finds helpers in the community who get Dancer airlifted to safety.

In this middle-grade novel, Addie has to draw on all her resilience to look after herself and her little brother, Billy, when their mother, who struggles with depression and alcoholism, leaves unexpectedly.

In this illustrated picture book set in 1952, a young Métis girl anticipates the arrival of electricity in her small town.