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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Bill Waiser
In May 1897, Almighty Voice, a member of the One Arrow Willow Cree, died violently when Canada’s North-West Mounted Police shelled the fugitive’s hiding place. Since then, his violent death…
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Short listed for 3 Saskatchewan Book Awards:
Non-Fiction Award
Saskatoon Award
Book of the Year Award
On the morning of 5 December 1933, a young RCMP constable discovered a grisly…
An astounding collection of aerial photographs of farms, villages, and communities large and small from Ontario to British Columbia-Thunder Bay to Victoria-in the 1950s and 1960s. This book is perfect…
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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 overnight, onto…
In Saskatchewan: A New History, award-winning author and historian Bill Waiser presents a fresh, entertaining account and interpretation of Saskatchewan’s unique and captivating history. Writing with clarity, candor, and compassion…
Saskatchewan Book Awards Shortlist - Children’s Book, 2007Named CBC’s Greatest Canadian of all!Tommy recalled in the 1950s, I came to believe that health services ought not to have a price-tag…
The Great Depression of the 1930s brought drought, unemployment, and poverty to the West, and the token wages from the government’s make work projects only fanned the flames of unrest…
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, there was a wide-spread belief that Canada’s northland comprised millions of acres just waiting to be exploited for settlement. The New Northwest…
Between 1915 and 1946, the Canadian government put some ten thousand unskilled foreigners, jobless and homeless people, conscientious objectors, perceived enemies of the state, and prisoners of war to work…
University of Saskatchewan historian Bill Waiser has selected and compiled Everett Baker’s photographs into the first-ever book-form showcase of this exceptional photographer’s work. Everett Baker’s photographic documentation of the province…
Set in Saskatchewan during the Great Depression, this is the story of hockey legend Gordie Howe and his first experience with skating. The book is charmingly illustrated in full colour…
Bill Waiser, Jennie Hansen
Cheated is the story of how Laurier Liberals took hold of the Department of Indian Affairs in 1896 and transformed it into a machine for expropriating Indigenous land. Waiser and…
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Bill Waiser,Stuart Houston
In 2004, Tommy Douglas easily topped a CBC television poll as The Greatest Canadian because of his preeminent role in the introduction of medicare in the 1960s. But Tommy Douglas…
When Canada created a Dominion Parks Branch in 1911, it became the first country in the world to establish an agency devoted to managing its national parks.
