Bathroom Book of Alberta Trivia: Weird, Wacky and Wild

Michaelides, Marina

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Blue Bike Books

<p>These women have never followed the rules. From the earliest days of Canada's history to the newspaper headlines of today, these women fought for their beliefs and made a difference. Read about: - Kate Ryan, the original Klondike Kate, frontier nurse and the first female member of the North West Mounted Police - Naomi Klein, journalist, author of the international bestseller No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies, and anti-globalization activist - Nell Shipman, silent film actress, producer and director who did her own stunts and was the first woman ever to do a nude scene in Back to God's Country, the most successful Canadian silent film ever made - Jenny Smillie Robinson, Canada's first female surgeon who operated in a private residence because no hospital allowed her privileges - Penny Hoar, Rhinoceros Party candidate, comedienne, and sexual renegade - Alanis Obomsawin, documentary filmmaker and humanitarian activist - Cougar Annie, Clayoquot Sound pioneer who survived four husbands, chased off cougars with a shotgun and cleared a still-surviving two-hectare garden out of the wilderness - Daurene E. Lewis, who was elected as North America's first black woman mayor in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia - Mina Hubbard, who trekked across Labrador in 1905 to complete the voyage that killed her husband, Leonidas Hubbard, and prove that he had not been responsible for the failure of his expedition. And many more...</p>

Renegade Women of Canada: The Wild, Outrageous, Daring and Bold (Great Canadian Stories)

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Folklore Publishing

Box set containing Bathroom Book of Alberta Trivia, Bathroom Book of Alberta History, and Weird Alberta Places.

Alberta Trivia Box Set: Bathroom Book of Alberta Trivia, Bathroom Book of Alberta History, Weird Alberta Places

Isitt, Geraint

<p>Alberta is more than just black gold, wheat fields and stampedes--it has a fascinating, bizarre and amazing history: Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is named after a brave who got too close to the action and was squashed as a result; Red River carts made such an obnoxious noise that the Metis blamed them for driving the bison off the prairies; Fur trader Peter Pond planted Alberta's first garden in 1779; The Calgary-Edmonton corridor, Alberta's most urbanized area, was originally a natural glacier corridor; In 1907, Lesser Slave Lake dried up, and the government built a road across it--but the water came back and nobody knows where the road is today; The price for a corner lot in Calgary was $450 in 1883; John Ware, one of Alberta's most famous cowboys, began life as a slave in the U.S.; Canada's first female combat soldier and first female fighter pilots completed their training at Alberta military bases in 1989; And more great facts about how the West was won.</p>

Bathroom Book of Alberta History: Intriguing and Entertaining Facts about our Province's Past

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