Happy triple-release day to So She Went Ahead, The Best Gift Ever/Kishchi li miiyeur prayzoon, and the board-book edition of A Little Camper Love! Available now online and at your local indie bookstore. heritagehouse.ca.
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#DYK that April 21 is #BCBookDay? A day to celebrate & support our province’s independent book & magazine publishers, authors, illustrators, independent bookstores, libraries, & festivals that connect us with local stories!
Enthusiastic birders, rejoice! 🦉 A Field Guide to the Birds of Alberta promises to be the definitive guide for locals and visitors alike!
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“Marion McKinnon Crook’s meticulous research powers a rich reimagining of one woman’s dramatic experience of that transformative and tumultuous event.” —Stephen Hume, author of Lilies and Fireweed: Frontier Women of British Columbia.
“Florence Wilson was a key player in British Columbia history. McKinnon Crook offers an engaging story that lets us experience the ups and downs that textured her life as an independent and adventuresome woman.” —Linda Peterat, author of From Denmark to the Cariboo: The Epic Journey of the Lindhard Sisters
From the literary circles of Charles Dickens to gold-rush saloons in the Cariboo, Bloomsbury to Barkerville chronicles the fascinating life and intrepid spirit of Florence Wilson (1823–1902). Available now.
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Happy Pub Day to Bloomsbury to Barkerville and The Next Big Pigs! 📚 🐖 Prospectors, poets, pigs, and Broadway dreams, oh my! Available now online and at your local indie bookstore. heritagehouse.ca
Hidden Flowers: A Memoir placed Third in the Prose Illustrated category at the 43rd #AlcuinSocietyAwards for Excellence in #BookDesign in Canada! Congratulations to our fantastic Senior Designer Setareh and author Keiko Honda.
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We’re celebrating the essential role of trees on #InternationalDayofForests! 🌲Join young activist Sydney in A Promise to Protect, where she finds new meaning and joy in protecting an old-growth forest. Available now.
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Artist Jaad Kuujus–Meghann O’Brien is exhibiting her remarkable work at the MOA at UBC until March 29, 2026! You won’t want to miss it. 🌸
Read more about Jaad Kuujus–Meghann O’Brien’s creative process in Bloom Where You Are Planted.
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Read about the remarkable life of Alice Jamieson, first female judge of a juvenile court in the British Empire, in So She Went Ahead. Available for pre-order from our website or your local independent bookstore.
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The Thing About Birds is nominated for the 2025 Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Canadian Picture Book Award! Congrats Christy Obalek! 🪶
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Quirky characters, bizarre dreams, and tall tales abound in The Trophy Hunter by David Giblin, the final instalment of interconnected narratives based on David’s stories as a seasonal salmon fishing guide in the 1980s.
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What makes a bird a bird? Best friends Ellie and Ollie explore this fascinating question in The Thing About Birds, a fun, rhyming romp through nature. A perfect read for #WorldWildlifeDay!
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This #FreedomToRead Week, we’re joining organizations across Canada to champion intellectual freedom! 📚💡💪 Learn about challenged books and how you can take action at freedomtoread.ca #FTRW26
We’re celebrating adventurous cats and loyal canine companions for #LoveYourPetDay! 🐾
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This Valentine’s Day, fall in love with one of our many memoirs, local histories, or art books! ♥️
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Sydney and her friends try to save an old-growth forest in A Promise to Protect, the perfect read for young activists with an interest in sustainability and conservation!
Available now.
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“A story as soul-nourishing and refreshing as an old-growth forest”, A Promise to Protect is the middle-grade novel for young activists everywhere!
Available now.
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Announcing our Spring 2026 list! 🌸
This season, we’re celebrating a love of nature, trailblazing women of history, and zany adventures.
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Experience Hidden Flowers, a memoir exploring shifting identity, transition, artistic expression, and community by scientist, writer, and painter Keiko Honda.
Available now.
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Based on a true story, Separated from Santo depicts the rarely-told story of injustice toward Italian-Canadians and their internment during the Second World War in dynamic graphic novel format.
Available now.
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Heritage House’s first graphic novel, Separated from Santo, depicts the poignant true story of Santo Pasqualini as he is wrongfully interned as an "enemy alien" during WW2.
Available now.
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In Her Words by Doris Jeanne MacKinnon introduces the never-before-seen writings of Marie Rose Delorme Smith (1861–1960) and sheds light on Métis identity during a period of cultural, political, and economic change.
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Historian and biographer Doris Jeanne MacKinnon presents In Her Words, an extensive array of the works of Mary Rose Delorme Smith (1861–1960), a prolific and accomplished Métis matriarch.
Available now.
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Happy New Year from Heritage House! ✨ New year, new stories to discover—what are you reading first in 2026?
✨📚 All of us at Heritage House wish you a holiday season full of celebration and rest. Hopefully, there will be time for a good book or two as well! 📚✨ See you in 2026.
In her new young adult book, What Friends Are For, award-winning author Harriet Zaidman tackles the subject of teen pregnancy during Canada’s 1983 abortion debate.
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We were deeply saddened to hear about the sudden passing of Rosalie I. Tennison last month. It was an honour to work with her on her powerful memoir, Naomi’s Houses. She will be missed by everyone at Heritage House.
Our condolences and thoughts are with her family and friends.
Ebooks make ideal gifts for on-the-go readers or those who prefer the features in ebook platforms. Most of our books, including new releases, are available on Kindle, Kobo, and iBooks—no shipping required!
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Music by Samuel F. Johanns from Pixabay
Any memoir aficionado would be happy to get their hands on a copy from this stack!
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This holiday season, unwrap a picture book the whole family can enjoy!🎄Check out the full list at heritagehouse.ca
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