Place Names Of Alberta : Volume I Mountains, Mountain Parks and Foothills

Place Names Of Alberta : Volume I Mountains, Mountain Parks and FoothillsPlace Names Of Alberta : Volume I Mountains, Mountain Parks and Foothills , Aphrodite Karamitsanis First volume in a four part series, providing the origins and historical background of place names in southern Alberta.

A central focus is the dramatic shift brought by increasing American expansion westward in the 1800s

Chapters include hors d'oeuvres

during the Souris coal miners’ strike

A trappers memoir -  Sturgis born Ed Theriau recalls twenty-four years living a trappers life

Beaver Dale

spanning from the Precambrian to the Recent

health-conscious kitchens

and his double life on the Prairie West

and the development of thera­pies to treat alcoholism--until Timothy Leary hit the scene and undermined everything with his public pronouncements

Revenge Of The Land : A Century Of Greed

when Canada became a key supplier of uranium for the nuclear age

Located in the Elrose - Lacadena region