HISTORY IS WHERE YOU STAND
A selected bibliography
of the Peace River country
Note: the Calverley Collection
does not necessarily have all of these items.
Go to a bibliography
organized by topics
- Adventures in cooking. [4th Edition] Victoria: British Columbia
Provincial Women's Institute, 1958.
- [also contains brief history
of the Women's Institute movement]
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- Akrigg, GPV and Helen B. 1001 British
Columbia Place Names (2nd Edition). Vancouver:
- Discovery Press, 1969.
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- "Alaskan Highway an engineering epic."
National Geographic, February 1943. [pp 143-168]
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- Alberta: A natural history. Edmonton: Hurtig, 1967.
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- Alberta. Chinook Arch: a centennial anthology
of Alberta writers. Edmonton: Queen's Printer, 1967.
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- Alberta. Dept. of Industry and Development.
Survey of Grande Prairie. Edmonton, 1961.
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- The Alberta Golden Jubilee Anthology.
Edmonton: McClelland and Stewart, 1955.
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- Albright, W.D. "Past, present and future
of the Peace." Canadian Geographic. March, 1938.
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- Always a river to cross. Bear Canyon, Alberta: Silver and Gold History Committee,
1981.
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- Amstatter, Andrew. Tomslake: history of
the Sudeten Germans in Canada. Saanichton, BC:
- Hancock House Publishers Ltd., 1978.
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- Anderson, Anne. Legends of Wesakecha.
1976.
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- Anderson, Frank Wesley. 1885: the Riel
Rebellion. Frontier Book #3 [F.W. Anderson], n.d.
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- Anderson, Frank Wesley. Riel's Manitoba
Uprising. Frontier Book #31 [F.W. Anderson], n.d.
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- Andrews, Gerald Smedley. Metis Outpost:
the history of Kelly Lake. Victoria: G.S. Andrews, 1985.
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- Artibise, A.F.J. Western Canada since
1870: a select bibliography. Vancouver: UBC, 1978.
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- Ashwell, Reg. Indian tribes of British
Columbia. Saanichton, B.C.: Hancock House, 1977.
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- Ashwell, Reg. Indian tribes of the Northwest.
Saanichton, B.C.: Hancock House, 1977.
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- Back, Joe. Horses, hitches and rocky trails.
Chicago: Swallow Press, 1959.
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- Baity, Elizabeth. Americans before Columbus.
New York: Viking Press, 1951.
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- Barbeau, Charles Marius. Indian days on
the western Prairies. [Bulletin #163, Anthropology Series
46]
- Ottawa: Dept. of Northern Affairs and Natural
Resources, 1960.
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- Barkhouse, Joyce C. George Dawson: the
little giant. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin and Company, 1974.
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- Baskine, Gertrude. Hitch-hiking the Alaska
Highway. Toronto: Macmillan, 1944.
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- Bear Mountain Interpretive Forest Bird
Guide. Dawson Creek: Timberline Trail
and
- Nature Club [prepared by Ellen and Walter
Schoen; Meredith and Brian
- Thornton]
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- Beaverlodge to the Rockies. Peace River, AB: Beaverlodge and District Historical
Society, 1974.
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- Beaverlodge to the Rockies Supplement. Peace River, AB: Beaverlodge and District Historical
- Society, 1976.
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- Beeson, Edith. Dunlevy: from the diaries
of Alex P. McInnes. Lillooet, B.C.: Lillooet Publishers,
1971.
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- Bell, Leslie. "Up and down the Peace."
Canadian Geographic. September, 1935.
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- Bernsohn, Ken. Cutting up the north.
North Vancouver: Hancock House, n.d.
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- Bezanson, A.M. Sodbusters invade the Peace.
Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1954.
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- Bible. Old Testament: the Old Testament
in the Cree language. London:
- British and Foreign Bible Society, 1946.
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- Birrell, Andrew. "Fortunes of a misfit:
Charles Horetzky." Alberta Historical Review. Winter,
1971.
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- Black's Rocky Mountain Journal, 1824. London: The Hudson's Bay Record Society, 1955.
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- Books, Bells and Bachelors : Early Schools
of the South Peace. Dawson Creek:
South Peace Retired Teachers'
- Association, 2005.
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- Bough, Sylvia. "The Alaska Highway."
Western People. October 13, 1983.
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- Bowes, Gordon E. Peace River Chronicles.
Vancouver: Prescott, 1963.
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- Boyle, George. The poor man's prayer:
the story of Credit Union beginnings. New York:
- Harper and Brothers, 1951.
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- Brass, Eleanor Dieter. Medicine Boy and
other Cree tales. Calgary: Glenbow Institute, 1979.
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- Bridging the years: the Worsley district. Worsley, Alberta: Women's Institute, n.d.
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- A brief history of the Hudson' Bay Company. Hudson's Bay Company, n.d.
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- British Columbia. Department of Agriculture.
Agriculture in the Peace River region of British
- Columbia. Victoria:
Queen's Printer, 1972.
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- British Columbia. Department of Agriculture.
Soil survey of the Peace River area in British
- Columbia. 1965.
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- British Columbia. Department of Environment.
An outline of events pertaining to the creation of the
- Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway land grants,
the railway belt and the Peace River Block with reference to
- documents affecting the administration
of land, roads, water and minerals.
- [prepared by W.A. Taylor] Victoria: 1975.
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- British Columbia. Department of Lands and
Forests. The Peace River district, bulletin #10.
- Victoria: Queen's Printer, 1959.
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- British Columbia. Department of Mines. Hydraulic
mining methods. Victoria, 1942.
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- British Columbia. Department of Mines. Notes
on placer mining in British Columbia.
- Victoria, 1947.
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- British Columbia Library Association. B.C.L.A.
Quarterly, Oct 1970-Jan 1971 [special Northern Issue]
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- British Columbia. Ministry of Municipal Affairs.
District of Tumbler Ridge official community plan. 1983.
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- Brody, Hugh. Maps and Dreams. Vancouver:
Douglas and McIntyre, 1981.
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- Bullen, James Glenister. Pleasure Bill.
Bullen Publishing, 2001.
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- Burley, David. Prophesy of the Swan: the
upper Peace River fur trade of 1794 - 1823. Vancouver:
- University of British Columbia Press, 1995.
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- Butler, Sir William Francis. The Wild
North Land. Edmonton: Hurtig, 1968. [reprint]
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- Byrnes, Slim. Old Trails. Fort St.
John, B.C.: Slim Byrnes, 1985.
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- Campbell, Clyde and Myrle. Challenge of
the homestead. Calgary: Historical Society of
- Alberta, 1988.
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- Campbell, I.M. Grande Prairie, the capital
of the Peace. Grande Prairie, Alberta:
- Isobel M. Campbell, 1968.
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- Campbell, M.W. The North West Company.
Toronto: Macmillan, 1957.
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- Canada. Department of Energy, Mines and Resources.
Early Canada: a collection of historical photographs by
- Officers of the Geological Survey of Canada. Ottawa, 1967.
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- Canada. Handbook of Indians of Canada.
Ottawa: Geographic Board of Canada,
- 1912. [Facsimile reprint, 1971]
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- Canada. Ministry of Indian and Northern Affairs.
About Indians: a listing of books. 4th Ed.
- Ottawa: 1977.
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- Canada. Ministry of Supply and Services.
Budd's flora of the Canadian Prairie Provinces.
- Ottawa: Queen's Printer, 1987. [revision
of Archibald C. Budd's work]
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- Canada. National Library of Canada. Books
in Native languages in the rare book collection.
- Ottawa: 1985.
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- Canada. National Museum of Man. The Athapaskans:
strangers of the North. Ottawa, 1974.
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- Carr, Anna and Susan Lawrence. "Peace
River: the land of wine and honey." Canadian
- Living, September
1989.
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- Carrothers, E.H. "Three trips to Peace
River country." Alberta Historical Review. Autumn,
1965.
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- Chalmers, John West. Fur Trade Governor:
George Simpson, 1820-1860. Edmonton: Institute
- of Applied Art, 1960.
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- Chalmers, John West. "Missions and schools
in the Athabaska." Alberta History. Winter, 1983.
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- Chalmers, John West. "Season's greetings
from Fort Chip." Alberta History. Winter, 1976.
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- Chalmers, John West. "Social stratification
of the fur trade." Alberta Historical Review.
- Winter, 1969.
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- Chamberlin, Richard J. "Monkman Pass."
Beaver. Summer, 1981.
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- Chapman, J.D. and J.S. Gilmore. Peace
River - South: land utilization survey, 1948 - 1951.
- Victoria: Province of British Columbia, Dept.
of Lands and Forests, n.d.
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- Charyk, John Constantine. The little white
schoolhouse, Volume 1. Saskatoon: Prairie Books/
- Western Producer, 1971.
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- Clare, Gerald. Homesteaders in the South
Peace, 1912 - 1930. [printout of database] Dawson Creek,
- 1998.
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- Clare, Nannette E.S. and Gerald R. Peace
River sources: an annotated bibliography of print
- and non-print sources. Dawson Creek: School District #59, 1978.
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- Clemson, Donovan. Living with logs: British
Columbia's log buildings. Saanichton: Hancock, 1974.
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- Coates, Kenneth. North to Alaska.
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1992.
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- Cohen, Stan. The forgotten war: a pictorial
history ... Alaska and northwestern Canada.
- Missoula, Montana: Pictorial History Publishing
Co., 1981.
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- Cohen, Stan. The trail of '42: a pictorial
history of the Alaska Highway. Missoula, Montana:
- Pictorial Histories Publishing Co., 1979.
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- Colley, Kate. While rivers flow: stories
of early Alberta. Saskatoon: Western Producer-Prairie
Books, 1970.
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- Comfort, D.J. "William McMurray: the
name behind the fort." Alberta History. Autumn, 1975.
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- Cooke, Edgar D. "Peter Pond: forgotten
developer of the North West." Alberta Historical
- Review. Winter,
1974.
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- Cosick, Thelma et al. History of
the Auxiliary to the Dawson Creek and District Hospital, 1932
-1982.
- Dawson Creek: Hospital Auxiliary, n.d.
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- Cosick, Thelma. History of the Women's
Auxiliary to St. Joseph General Hospital, Dawson
- Creek, B.C., 1932-1968. Dawson Creek: Hospital Auxiliary, n.d.
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- Coull, Cheryl. "Prophets of Peace."
Beautiful British Columbia, Summer 1998.
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- Coutts, Marjorie E. Ann's Letter.
[Fiction] Dawson Creek: Friends of the Library, 1996.
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- Coutts, Marjorie E. Dawson Creek past
and present. Edmonton: Dawson Creek Historical
- Society, n.d.
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- Cox, Doug. Pioneering the Peace. Penticton,
B.C.: Skookum Publications, 1993.
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- Daniels, H. W. The forgotten people: Metis
and non-status Indian land claims.
- Ottawa: Native Council of Canada, 1979.
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- Daniels, James Roy. Alexander Mackenzie
and the North West. Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 1971.
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- Davies, Marguerite and Cora Ventress. Fort
St. John pioneer profiles. Fort St. John, B.C.:
- Fort St. John Centennial Committee, 1971.
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- Dawson, C.A. The Settlement of the Peace
River Country. Toronto: University of Toronto
- Press, 1934.
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- Dawson Creek Official Community Plan,
1980. Vancouver: Underwood McLellan
Ltd., 1980.
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- "Deal of the Century?" Canadian
Geographic. Nov/Dec 1999, pp. 22-23.
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- Dempsey, Hugh A. "David Thompson on
the Peace River, Part 1." Alberta Historical Review.
- Winter, 1966.
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- Dempsey, Hugh A."David Thompson on the
Peace River, Part 2." Alberta Historical Review.
- Spring, 1966.
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- Dempsey, Hugh A. "David Thompson on
the Peace River, Part 3." Alberta Historical Review.
- Autumn, 1966.
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- Dempsey, Hugh A. Indian names for Alberta
communities. Calgary: Glenbow-Alberta
- Institute, 1969.
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- Dempsey, Hugh A. "The Indians of Alberta."
Alberta Historical Review. Winter, 1967.
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- Dempsey, Hugh A. Indian tribes of Alberta.
Calgary: Glenbow-Alberta Institute, 1978.
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- Dene. Victoria:
Province of British Columbia, 1953.
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- Dene Nation: the colony within. [Mel Watkins, Editor] Toronto: University of Toronto,
1977.
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- Denney, C.D. The Athabasca Landing trail.
[pamphlet] Athabasca, Alberta: CD Denney, 1971.
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- Denny, Cecil. "Trail to the Yukon."
Alberta Historical Review. Summer, 1967.
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- Dion, Joseph F. My tribe, the Crees.
Calgary: Glenbow Museum, 1979.
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- Eagle, John A. "J.D. McArthur and the
Peace River Railway." Alberta History. Autumn, 1981.
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- Erasmus, Peter. Buffalo days and nights.
Calgary: Glenbow-Alberta Institute, 1976.
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- Evans, R. G. Murder on the plains.
Frontier Books, 1968.
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- Farley, A.L. Atlas of British Columbia.
Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1979.
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- Farrow, Moira. Nobody here but us: Pioneers
of the north. Vancouver: J.J. Douglas, 1975.
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- Farstad, L., T. Lord, et.al. Soil survey
of the Peace River area in British Columbia.
- Vancouver: University of British Columbia,
1965.
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- Fast, Vera Kathryn. Missionary on wheels:
Eva Hasell and the Sunday Schools Caravan
- Mission. Toronto:
Anglican Book Centre, 1979.
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- Faustmann, John. "Northeast Coal."
BC Outdoors. December, 1980.
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- Fenton, Carroll. The fossil book: the
exciting story of plants, animals and lesser creatures
- during the past two billion years. Garden City, N.J.: Doubleday & Co., 1958.
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- Fieber, Frank. "Natural medicines of
the Cree Indians." Beaver. Spring, 1979.
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- Flock, Elizabeth Burnett. Wild Flowers
of the Prairie Provinces. Regina: School Aids and
- Text Book Publishing Co. Ltd., 1942.
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- Foon, Dennis. Raft baby: a play. Vancouver:
Talon Books, 1978.
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- Forbis, Richard George. Cluny: an ancient
fortified village in Alberta. Calgary: University
- of Calgary [Occasional paper #4], 1977.
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- "Fort Edmonton, Christmas 1847."
Beaver. Dec 1986/Jan 1987.
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- "Fort Edmonton: a pictorial feature."
Alberta History. Winter, 1982.
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- Fredrickson, Olive A. The silence of the
north. New York: Crown Publishers, 1972.
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- Fromhold, Joa. "Finding the north trail."
Westworld. Nov/Dec, 1977.
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- Fryer, Harold. The Frog Lake massacre.
Frontier Book #32 [F.W. Anderson], n.d.
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- Gabriel Dumont, Indian fighter. Frontier Book #14 [F.W. Anderson], 1973.
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- Garrioch, Reverend A. "Female Moses
of the Peace" Alberta Folklore Quarterly.
- Volume 1, Number 4: December 1945.
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- Gingrich, Earl. Eastern passage to the
Alaska Highway. Winterburn, Alberta: Earl Gingrich, 1986.
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- Godsell, Philip H. Arctic Trader.
New York: A.L. Burt, 1932.
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- Godsell, Philip H. "Old Fort St. John."
Canadian Geographic. February, 1936.
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- Gooderham, Kent. The days of the treaties.
Toronto: Griffin Press, 1972
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- Gooderham, Kent. Nestum asa:
the way it was in the beginning. Toronto: Griffin Press,
1970.
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- Gom, Leona. Land of the Peace. Saskatoon:
Thistledown Books, 1980.
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- Grande Century: a perspective of Grand
Prairie and area, 1900-2000. Grande
Prairie, Alberta:
- Daily Herald-Tribune/Bowes Publishers Ltd.,
1999.
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- Green, Dianne. In Direct Touch with the
Wide World: Telecommunications in the North, 1865-1992.
- Whitehorse, Y.T., NorthwesTel, 1992.
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- Griffin, Ray. "Follow the voyageurs."
B.C. Outdoors. May, 1980.
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- Grindley, Marion Eleanor. America's Indian
statues. Chicago: The Amerindian, 1966
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- Guest, Wilfred. Poetic Fancies. Grande
Prairie, Alberta: W. Guest, 1978.
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- Guiguet, Charles Joseph. The birds of
British Columbia. [No.9: Diving birds and tube-nosed
- swimmers.] Victoria: British Columbia Provincial
Museum, 1971.
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- Guillet, Edwin C. Pioneer arts and crafts.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1968.
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- Guiltner, James Carl. The Peace River
country and Mackenzie Highway historical and tourist guide.
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- Hansen, Evelyn. Where the boats go: navigation
on the Peace, 1792 - 1952. Peace River, Alberta:
- Friends of the Peace River Centennial Museum,
n.d.
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- Harington, C.R. "Bones say man lived
in Yukon 27,000 years ago." Candian Geographic.
- July/August, 1975.
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- Harington, C.R. "Wildlife in BC during
the ice age." BC Outdoors. Nov/Dec, 1977.
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- Harmon, Daniel Williams. A journal of
voyages and travels in the interior of North America.
- New York: Williams-Barker Co., 1905.
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- Harmon, Daniel Williams. Sixteen years
in the Indian country. Toronto: Macmillan, 1957. [reprint]
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- Harper, Mabel Lillian. Faith in a fertile
land. Pouce Coupe, n.d.
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- Harper, Mabel Lillian. History of the
Ladies' Auxiliary to the Pouce Coupe Hospital. 1967
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- "Harvest time: a picture story."
Alberta History. Autumn, 1978.
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- Hiemstra, Mary. Gully farm. London:
J.M. Dent, 1955.
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- Helgason, Gail. The first Albertans.
Edmonton: Lone Pine Publishing, 1987.
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- Helm, June. The Dogrib hand game.
Ottawa: National Museum [Bulletin 205,
- Anthropological Series 71], 1966.
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- Hind, Cora. "A story of wheat."
Canadian Geographic. February, 1931.
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- History of the Anglican churches in the
Peace River district. [Compiled by
Dorthea Calverley]
- Dawson Creek, 1982.
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- Hodgson, Maurice. "The exploration journal."
Beaver. Winter, 1967.
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- Holmgren, Eric J. "Fort Dunvegan."
Beaver. Autumn, 1981.
-