Community Cookbooks Are Local History in Disguise Rockies & Regional Reading 12 September 2026 8 min read 1725 words A spiral-bound cookbook produced by a church group in a small Alberta town in 1974 does not look like a historical document. It looks like a fundraiser, which is exactly what it was. It is also,…
Reading the Bow Valley: How Local History Gets Written Rockies & Regional Reading 12 September 2026 8 min read 1748 words National histories deal in decades and policies. Local histories deal in families, buildings, mine shafts, and the year the bridge washed out. They are written by people who lived through some of what they…
Why Old Route Guides Still Matter, Even When They Are Out of Date Rockies & Regional Reading 12 September 2026 8 min read 1732 words Every climbing shop in the mountains sells the current guidebook, and rightly so. What we sell, a shelf away, is the previous one, and the one before that, going back…
Building a Canadian Rockies Library, Shelf by Shelf Rockies & Regional Reading 12 September 2026 8 min read 1735 words A good regional library is not assembled in a single afternoon. It accumulates, one collection at a time, as a reader follows their curiosity from the peaks to the railway that made them accessible, and…