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Capitals, Aristocrats, and Cougars

By: Alan Livingstone MacLeod

A fascinating and in-depth look at Victoria's largely unknown professional hockey players in the early twentieth century, and the historical context in which they played.

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Award Winner

The City of Rainbows

By: Blair Mirau

Winner of the Jeanne Clarke Award for Local History.

A vivid and comprehensive history of the City of Prince Rupert, from its ancient roots as a rich, multicultural trading hub between different Indigenous Nations to its current state as an ethnically diverse community set against the stunning natural backdrop of the Great Bear Rainforest.

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Naomi's Houses

By: Rosalie I. Tennison

A woman's poignant account of her impoverished upbringing in isolated rural communities and her mother’s struggle to give her children more than she had.

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300 Mason Jars

By: Joanne Thomson

A charming art book exploring universal themes of family through 300 watercolour paintings of objects "preserved" in Mason jars.

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Always Pack a Candle

By: Marion McKinnon Crook

Winner of the BC Historical Federation's Community History Book Award 2021.

The true story of an adventurous young nurse who provided much-needed health care to the rural communities of the Cariboo-Chilcotin in the 1960s.

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Queenie Jean Is in Trouble Again

By: Christine Read

The chaotic, confusing, funny, and inspiring story of ten-year-old Queenie and her mission to fit in and make friends at her new school while figuring out how to manage her ADHD.

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Slumach's Gold

By: Brian Antonson

Full of intrigue, adventure, greed, and tragedy, the enduring legend of Slumach's gold is examined in riveting detail in this newly expanded edition of a bestselling classic

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A Haida Wedding

By: Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson

A visual and cultural celebration of a traditional Haida wedding ceremony, exploring its roots, rituals, symbolism, joyfulness, and contemporary significance for a thriving Indigenous Nation.

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Broken Circle

By: Theodore Niizhotay Fontaine

A new commemorative edition of Theodore Fontaine's powerful, groundbreaking memoir of survival and healing after years of residential school abuse.

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Who We Are

A BC Publishing Pioneer.

About Heritage House

In 1969, our founding publisher, Art Downs, wrote and released his first book, a pictorial account of the Cariboo Gold Rush trail called Wagon Road North. It was an instant success, becoming one of the bestselling BC books of its era and establishing Downs’s fledgling company, Heritage House, as the go-to source for books on regional and pioneer history.