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The Human Factor

At the beginning of Canada’s oldest company

Michael Taube

Sense of an Ending

Whether that nation can long endure

David Marks Shribman

Those Ancient Lands

Where and when did this conflict begin?

John Lorinc
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Simon M. Evans

Simon M. Evans is an adjunct professor of geography at the University of Calgary. He is author of four books, most recently The Bar U and Canadian Ranching History (University of Calgary Press, 2004), and a score of articles on Western Canada.

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Echoes in the Cypress Hills

A review of A Geography of Blood: Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape October 2012
Candace Savage’s A Geography of Blood: Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape is a wonderful book, in turns delightful, demanding and discomforting. Unlike her tour de force, Prairie: A Natural History, which painted a broad-brush canvas of grasslands from Texas north to the Alberta Park Belt, this book is a…