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Article: Remembering Chinook Country: Told and Untold Stories of Our Past.(Brief article)(Book review)
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- Alberta History
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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Remembering Chinook Country: Told and Untold Stories of Our Past
Calgary: Deselig Enterprises Ltd., 360 pp., illus., paper, $32.95.
Some of the best writers in the Calgary area have combined their talents to produce this book to mark Alberta's centennial. There are thirty articles that range from Native peoples to pioneer life, personalities, and urban life.
Just look at this partial list of authors: Henry Klassen, Max Foran, Brian Brennan, Kate Reeves, Faye Reineberg Holt, David Finch, John Gilpin and Don Smith. What they have produced is first rate.
The book starts with Harry Sanders telling the history of the Chinook Country ...