Alberta
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From  NEW! AlbertaFrom: Canada's Main Street |
In this chapter, Baird examines Alberta’s Trans-Canada Highway journey to the 1956 completion of its 536-kilometre stretch through the Rockies. | Craig Baird | 11 | 2025 | $1.10 Add |
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From  NEW! "Beyond Imagination"From: Jasper on Fire |
In this chapter, Scace recounts the devastating day of July 24, 2024, discussing the wildfire that consumed much of Jasper, Alberta. | Matthew Scace | 18 | 2025 | $1.80 Add |
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From  BibliographyFrom: Hanged in Medicine Hat |
The endnotes and bibliography for Hanged in Medicine Hat (2022) document the Canadian prisoner-of-war system during the Second World War, 1939 to 1946, with particular focus on Camps 132 and 133 … | Nathan Greenfield | 5 | 2022 | $0.50 Add |
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From Epilogue: Executing JusticeFrom: Hanged in Medicine Hat |
In this epilogue, Greenfield examines the 1945 to 1946 civilian trials of German prisoners of war accused of murdering fellow POWs at Camp 132 in Medicine Hat, Alberta. | Nathan Greenfield | 16 | 2022 | $1.60 Add |
Hanged in Medicine HatMurders in a Nazi Prisoner-of-War Camp, and the Disturbing True Story of Canada's Last Mass Execution |
For three years during the Second World War, 12,000 Nazis were held in a prisoner-of-war camp at the edge of Medicine Hat, an isolated city of 12,000 people on the bald Canadian prairie. The camp … | Nathan Greenfield | 281 | 2022 | View |
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NEW! Jasper on FireFive Days of Hell in a Rocky Mountain Paradise |
On a brilliant sunny day at the height of the summer, July 2024, residents and visitors to the picturesque tourist town of Jasper, Alberta, learned that fast-moving forest fires were burning both … | Matthew Scace | 97 | 2025 | View |
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From  Laurier and the Golden A ge of Federalism, 1896–1911 |
Discusses federalism under Sir Wilfrid Laurier from 1896 to 1911, when Alberta and Saskatchewan were established as provinces. | Ed Whitcomb | 11 | 2017 | $1.10 Add |
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From Lehmann Appeals and Pleas for Clemency September 6 to December 17, 1946From: Hanged in Medicine Hat |
In this chapter, Greenfield examines the appeals and clemency petitions filed in 1946 on behalf of four German prisoners of war convicted of murdering Karl Lehmann near Medicine Hat, Alberta. | Nathan Greenfield | 15 | 2022 | $1.50 Add |
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From Life in Canadian POW Camps 1942-1945From: Hanged in Medicine Hat |
In this chapter, Greenfield examines the daily existence of German prisoners of war held in Canadian camps from 1942 to 1945, drawing on personal accounts and official records. | Nathan Greenfield | 22 | 2022 | $2.20 Add |
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From PrefaceFrom: Hanged in Medicine Hat |
In this chapter, Greenfield recounts the 1946 mass hanging of four German soldiers in Medicine Hat, Alberta, following murders at Camp 132. | Nathan Greenfield | 3 | 2022 | $0.30 Add |
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From PrologueFrom: Hanged in Medicine Hat |
In this chapter, Greenfield discusses how in 1946, sixteen-year-old Joyce Reesor attended the first of six murder trials in Canadian history in Medicine Hat, Alberta, where German prisoners of … | Nathan Greenfield | 13 | 2022 | $1.30 Add |
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From NEW! Rare and RemoteFrom: Jasper on Fire |
In this chapter, Scace traces how Jasper, a remote Alberta townsite in the Rocky Mountains, was shaped by federal control. | Matthew Scace | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
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From Rex v. Adolf Kratz March 7 to March 16, 1946From: Hanged in Medicine Hat |
In this chapter, Greenfield examines the 1946 trial of Adolf Kratz, a German prisoner of war, unfolded in Medicine Hat, Alberta, where he faced a murder charge for the killing of August Plaszek, … | Nathan Greenfield | 15 | 2022 | $1.50 Add |
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From The Appeals in the Plaszek Murder Trials, Rex v. Johannas Wittinger, and the Execution of Adolf Kratz April to June 1946From: Hanged in Medicine Hat |
In this chapter, Greenfield examines the legal proceedings surrounding the murder of Canadian soldier August Plaszek at Camp 132 in Medicine Hat, Alberta, from April to June 1946. | Nathan Greenfield | 13 | 2022 | $1.30 Add |
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From The Establishment of POW Camps in Canada and the Transfer of the Captured Afrika Corpsmen to Canada 1941-1942From: Hanged in Medicine Hat |
In this chapter, Greenfield traces how Canada accepted captured German Afrika Corpsmen between 1941 and 1942, following the North African campaigns. He describes Private August Plaszek’s … | Nathan Greenfield | 9 | 2022 | $0.90 Add |
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From The Investigation into the Murder of Dr. Karl Lehmann September 11, 1944 to April 8, 1945From: Hanged in Medicine Hat |
In this chapter, Greenfield examinesthe investigation into the murder of Dr. Karl Lehmann, a prisoner of war killed at Camp 132 in Medicine Hat, Alberta, in September 1944. | Nathan Greenfield | 25 | 2022 | $2.50 Add |
