"Authoritative, well-written... brilliant." -- The Globe and Mail "Waiser's history tells the full, often gritty story of how politicians tried to carve a grid of European settlement, almost over
Short listed for 3 Saskatchewan Book Awards:Non-Fiction AwardSaskatoon AwardBook of the Year AwardOn the morning of 5 December 1933, a young RCMP constable discovered a grisly scene in the Avalon scho
Sometime during the summer of 1690, in east-central Saskatchewan, Englishmen Henry Kelsey and his Indian escorts walked out of the boreal forest and into a new world--the northern great plains of west
In 2004, Tommy Douglas easily topped a CBC television poll as "The Greatest Canadian" because of his pre-eminent role in the introduction of Medicare in the 1960s. But Tommy Douglas did not accomplish
The near disappearance of the American bison in the nineteenth century is commonly understood to be the result of over-hunting, capitalist greed, and all but genocidal military policy. This interpreta
