Monday, July 30, 2007

Historic Calgary Week - with Ernie Lakusta

Find out more about The Intrepid Explorer: James Hector's Explorations in the Canadian Rockies at a talk presented by author Ernie Lakusta in conjunction with the annual Historic Calgary Week. (Check out their events schedule!)

Tuesday, Jul 31, 7:00 p.m., Memorial Park Library

No registration required

And, Ernie Lakusta is headed to Jasper in September. Event details to follow.

Friday, July 13, 2007

Stampede Week Reviews in ffwd

I opened the ffwd weekly today to plan my Stampede weekend and was surprised and delighted to also see two glowing reviews of Fifth House Books: Spaghetti Western: How My Father Brought Italian Food to the West and How the West Was Written: The Life and Times of James H. Gray - both published last Fall.

Of Spaghetti Western they say, "Cioni's loving memoir captures a period in Calgary's history and tells the story of a warm, dynamic man who could be described as Calgary's first celebrity chef.


And of How the West Was Written, they say, "Brennan does a superb job of revealing Gray the man, and has uncovered much previously unknown material from archived correspondence, such as the story of how Canada's Bronfman family was displeased about Booze. Without a doubt, this will remain the definitive biography of a major Canadian popular historian.

Happy Stampede!


Monday, July 9, 2007

Myrna Kostash, author of Reading the River will be in Winnipeg August 9-11 to give a Keynote to the Annual Conference of the Ukrainian Canadian Committee.
Reading the River: A Traveller's Companion to the North Saskatchewan River, won the 2006 Award for Publishing at the Saskatchewan Book Awards. "Kostash and Burton have woven their journey down the Saskatchewan with love and considerable insight. A joy to read."