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  • Slumach's Gold

    In Search of a Legend—and a Curse

    by Brian Antonson, Mary Trainer, Rick Antonson ...
    Full of intrigue, adventure, greed, and tragedy, the enduring legend of Slumach's Gold is examined in riveting detail in this newly expanded edition of a bestselling classicNewly expanded and revised, Slumach’s Gold: In Search of a Legend—and a Curse chronicles Canada’s most enduring lost-mine mystery. For more than 130 years, people have been captivated by the story of a secret cache of gold with ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Slumach's Gold: In Search of a Legend

    In Search of a Legend

    by Rick Antonson, Brian Antonson ...
    Slumach's Gold chronicles what is possibly Canada's greatest lost-mine story. It searches out the truth behind a Salish man's hanging for murder in 1891 and tracks the intriguing legend about him that grew after his death. It was a legend that turned into a drama of international fascination when Slumach—the hanged criminal—was mysteriously linked to gold nuggets "the size of walnuts." The stories ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Whistle Posts West

    Railway Tales from British Columbia, Alberta, and Yukon

    by Mary Trainer, Brian Antonson, Rick Antonson ...
    Everybody has a train story. Whether it comes from a distant relative who worked on the railways or from a family train trip that formed a lasting impression of the Canadian landscape, trains inspire a sense of wonder and nostalgia. They are embedded in the history of Canada as a whole and western Canada in particular, and for generations they were how most people travelled and saw the country. ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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  • Canoe Country

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  • Death Wins in the Arctic

    The Lost Winter Patrol of 1910

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  • The Haunting of Vancouver Island

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  • The Bushman’s Lair

    On the Trail of the Fugitive of the Shuswap

    by Paul McKendrick ...
    Some of Western Canada’s most enduring legends involve wilderness fugitives like the Mad Trapper of Rat River or Gunanoot of the Skeena. This book is about one of the most mysterious and most recent fugitives, the Bushman of the Shuswap, who made national headlines while on the lam in the wilderness around Shuswap Lake during the turn of the millennium. For several years he played cat and mouse ... Read more

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  • Barkerville and the Cariboo Goldfields

    by Richard Thomas Wright ...
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  • Across Canada by Story

    A Coast-to-Coast Literary Adventure

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    Canada is a country rich in stories, and few take as much joy as Douglas Gibson in discovering them. As one of the country’s leading editors and publishers for 40 years, he coaxed modern classics out of some of Canada’s finest minds, and then took to telling his own stories in his first memoir, Stories About Storytellers.Gibson turned his memoir into a one-man stage show that eventually played ... Read more

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  • Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges into Canada, Eh

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    **PGWUncle John's taking the plunge . . . into the Great White North!RaincoastHey, Canada! Uncle John salutes you!**For 25 years, Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader has been wildly popular in Canada, so we decided to dedicate an entire edition to our friends in the Great White North--even though much of the continental U.S. is north of Canada’s southernmost point. That misconception--and a whole lot ... Read more

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