New World Dreams finalist for Alberta Literary Awards 2024

Heritage House is delighted to share that New World Dreams: Canadian Pacific Railway and the Golden Northwest by David Laurence Jones is a finalist for the 2024 Alberta Literary Awards in the category Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction.

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The Writers’ Guild of Alberta (WGA) announced the finalists for the 2024 Alberta Literary Awards on April 2, 2024. WGA reported that jurors deliberated on an overwhelming number of submissions to select the following 31 finalists in ten categories. Finalists represent excellence in literary work written by Alberta authors and published or created in 2022–23. The Alberta Literary Awards Gala, where winners will be announced, will take place in Edmonton on Saturday, June 8, the same weekend as the WGA Conference. There will also be readings with the finalists in Calgary and Edmonton on May 3 and May 5 respectively.

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New World Dreams: Canadian Pacific Railway and the Golden Northwest is an in-depth exploration of how a transportation company created a vision for a burgeoning nation and played a leading role driving immigration to the Canadian West. Illustrated with more than four hundred archival photos and colour advertisements, New World Dreams is the most extensive history of Canadian Pacific ever published. Take a look inside!