University of Calgary Press

01/02/2026

Start the new year off well with Open Access titles from Bighorn Books. Read for free online, with no cutoffs and no limits.

Featuring Where Histories Meet, an essential history of Indgienous-settler relations in the Toronto region: https://ow.ly/QSa850XAo85

01/02/2026

Today we have “Power House Cliff” by Jeanine Rhemtulla
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This post is a featured excerpt from Mountain Voices: The Mountain Legacy Project and a Century of Change in Western Canada (November 2025), edited by Eric Higgs, Zac Robinson, Mary Sanseverino, and Kristen Walsh. This collection is the latest book in our Canadian History and Environment series with University of Calgary Press, which is edited by Alan MacEachern. This excerpt is published in collaboration with the Alpine Club of Canada.
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Image: On Powerhouse Cliff looking eastward over the Athabasca River: M. P. Bridgland, 1915, Library & Archives Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada ecopy numbers e011433316 to e011433319
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https://niche-canada.org/2026/01/01/power-house-cliff/
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12/24/2025

Happy Holidays from the University of Calgary Press! We wish you a wonderful new year and are looking forward to so many great books in 2026!

12/19/2025

Everyone's heard of the multiverse. But where does the idea come from? And could it be real?

In The Multiverse, Jeremy Butterfield introduces the multiverse in philosophy and physics for newcomers, providing a clear explanation of leading theories that does not require prerequisites to understand.

Watch for The Multiverse in June 2026.

12/17/2025

Kyle Flemmer subjects Wikipedia to chance operations and poetic constraints, random number generators, arbitrary limits, and hyperlink jumps and creates a core sample of an ever shifting network, a poetic bricolage of the paratactic leap. A bold step forward in digital poetics. Coming June 2026.

12/16/2025

CKCU's The Lit Room welcomes book of smaller author rob mclennan to talk poetry, family, and so much more. https://ow.ly/sXAR50XGz66

12/15/2025

Chiam Frydman survived the Holocaust. He was the only member of his family who did. In Sole Survivor his son Avi traces the Frydmans to their roots in Poland and follows their footsteps to homes, factories, and synagogs, to ghettos and camps, on death marches, in a memoir that will resonate for years to come.

12/12/2025

rob mclennan's book of sentences hits the CBC Books Best Poetry of 2025 list!

https://ow.ly/Youa50XIzie

12/12/2025

Paul Chastko talks The Boom on CBC Calgary Eyeopener!

https://ow.ly/ZaQ550XHGaT

12/10/2025

When the Calgary Petroleum Products’s Dingman No. 1 Well began operation in Turner Valley on May 14, 1914, it unleashed a spectacular frenzy of greed and excess. In a fever of free-market capitalism over 500 oil companies were created, selling fortunes on paper to eager investors. But fewer than fifty ever drilled for oil, and the Alberta oil industry suddenly began to look like one big swindle.

Just Published, this is a history of the Turner Valley era that rescues the miscreants and charlatans from obscurity. Industry historian Paul Chastko returns the larger-than-life promoters, wildcatters and oil evangelists to the story. He shows the ways that Albertans, determined to overcome the obstacles of economics, geography, geology, and the market, made a conscious choice to pursue petroleum development and created an oil culture that continues to this day.

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12/08/2025

Seren was doomed to a country club cage and a leash of pearls until, one night in 1969, she said no. Now, more than fifty years later, she looks back on her life and each choice that followed, beautiful and tragic and completely her own.

A new novel from the author of An Honest Woman, coming May 2026

12/05/2025

Listed to a special talk from the editors of Behind the Bricks presented by the Ontario Historical Society discussing the ways this unique project has brought togeter historians and community to create this important new book.

September 30, 2025September 30, 2025Watch OHS Presentation “Behind the Bricks: The Life and Times of the Mohawk Institute”by Sarahin News0On September 29, 2025, the Ontario Historical Society presented a talk by the editors of a new book, “Behind the Bricks: The Life and Times of the Mohawk In...