Here’s a list of works I mentioned on my Jane’s Walk on May 7, 2016. Links will take you to the relevant post on my blog Writing the City: Calgary Through the Eyes of Writers, or to external websites.
Thanks for joining me on this year's literary Jane's Walk of Calgary, and happy Calgary reading!
The above photo shows Linton's Bookstore circa 1890, one of Calgary's first, located at 112-8th Ave SE (Photo: Glenbow Museum).
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Introduction
Kroetsch, Robert, Alberta (1st ed. 1968; 2nd ed. 1993)
Kroetsch, Robert, Alibi (1983)
van Herk, Aritha, "Our Odysseus," Alberta Views (Dec. 2010)
Oil Patch Literature
Ballem, John, Alberta Alone (1981)
John Ballem, Oil Patch Quartet (2005)
Gillmor, Don, Long Change (2015)
Howard, Barb, Whipstock (2001)
Wales Hotel/Devonian Gardens
Callaghan, Barry, “After the Fall: A Sadness at the Heart of Calgary,” Saturday Night (Nov 1983)
Ravvin, Norman, Café des Westens (1991)
Alberta Hotel/Stephen Avenue
Gard, Robert E., Johnny Chinook: Tall Tales and True from the Canadian West (1946)
Govier, Katherine, Between Men (1987)
Huston, Nancy, Plainsong (1993)
Huston, Nancy, “A Bucking Nightmare,” Saturday Night (1997)
Trainer, Yvonne, Tom Three Persons (2002)
Grain Exchange/Memorial Park Library
Maxwell Bates:
Bates, Maxwell, Far-Away Flags (1964)
Snow, Kathleen, Maxwell Bates: Biography of an Artist (1993)
P.K. Page:
Djwa, Sandra, Journey With No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page (2012)
Page, P.K., The Hidden Room (1997)
Palliser Hotel
Alford, Edna, “Half Past Eight” (1981)
Endicott, Marina, The Little Shadows (2012)
Govier, Katherine, The Three Sisters Bar & Hotel (2016)
Russell King, Caroline, The Palliser Suite (2015)
van Herk, Aritha, Restlessness (1998)
Wiebe, Rudy, My Lovely Enemy (1983)
Calgary Station
MacKay, Isabel Ecclestone, “Calgary Station,” Fires of Driftwood (1922)
Herald Block
McGoogan, Ken, Canada’s Undeclared War: Fighting Words from the Literary Trenches (1991)
Wright, L.R., Among Friends (1984)
Early Calgary Bookstores
Klassen, Henry, Eyes on the Future: Business People in Calgary and the Bow Valley, 1870-1900 (2002)
Vaudeville Theatres on 8th Ave
Endicott, Marina, The Little Shadows (2012)
The Calgarian Hotel
Hahnel, Lori, Love Minus Zero (2008)
Kinsella, Warren, Fury’s Hour: A Sort of Punk Manifesto (2005)
McCullough, Bruce, Let’s Start a Riot (2014)
Sutherland, Sam, Perfect Youth: The Birth of Canadian Punk (2012)
8th Avenue East
Anderson, Doris, Rebel Daughter: An Autobiography (1996)
Hunter, Bruce, “The Many Happy Returns of Kenny Dawes,” Country Music Country (1996)
Ravvin, Norman, Hidden Canada: An Intimate Travelogue (2001)
Stringer, Arthur, The Prairie Child (1922)
Women Are Persons! (Olympic Plaza)
McClung, Nellie, The Stream Runs Fast (1945)
Other Calgary resources worth checking out
Dempsey, Hugh, Calgary: Spirit of the West (1994)
Melnyk, George, The Literary History of Alberta, Volume 1 (1998), Volume 2 (1999)
Sanders, Harry, Historic Walks of Calgary (2005)
Smith, Donald, Calgary’s Grand Story (2005)