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You can order any of the available materials described below by clicking on the mail box icon at left and sending me an email. Don't forget to give me your complete mailing address.
People Places: The Historical Gazetteer of Saskatchewan, by Bill Barry
This is the database upon which the books are based. It contains almost 50,000 records detailing virtually everything in Saskatchewan that has or had a name. The gazetteer comes on a CD, is easy to get up and running, can be sorted in several ways, and is user friendly. Cost is $50 postage free.
Version 2.1.7 is now available. It contains many new features and now allows users to amend the data. Please click on the email icon at left to send me your order. If you are a previous purchaser of People Places, please note that fact - you're entitled to a 50% discount!
Geographic Names of Saskatchewan, by Bill Barry
Geographic Names of Saskatchewan is the culmination of more than two decades of research into the magic of our province’s place names by author Bill Barry. More than 15,000 names are documented including – for the first time anywhere – thousands of geographic features in the north. Special emphasis is given to names with aboriginal origins with the assistance of First Nations linguists.
From Kakinagimak to Kalamazoo, from Penile to Punnichy, from Tiger Lily to Tickville – Geographic Names of Saskatchewan is a thoroughly fascinating look at our names and the people behind them.
Geographic Names of Saskatchewan (2005), large format (8 1/2 x 11) soft cover, ISBN 1 897010 19 2, 480pp, $30, endleaf map
Age Shall Not Weary Them: Saskatchewan Remembers its War Dead, by Bill Barry with Doug Chisholm and Beth Parsons
Special for the Saskatchewan Centennial and the Year of the Veteran, Age Shall Not Weary Them tells the story of the 5,000 Saskatchewan men and women who gave their lives for Canada in World War II, in Korea and on peacetime operations since the war. Details are provided on each casualty’s military service, on their families, and on the geographic features in Saskatchewan’s north that have been named in their honour. The authors have been able to acquire photographs of approximately a third of the casualties.
Age Shall Not Weary Them provides a fitting companion to the Saskatchewan war memorial unveiled on the Legislature grounds in October 2005, both helping to ensure that We Will Remember Them.
My co-authors have both also written books on Saskatchewan war casualties. You can find out more about Doug's book, Their Names Live On, by clicking here, and you can send a message to Beth to inquire about her book Till We Meet Again by clicking here.
Age Shall Not Weary Them (2005), large format (8 1/2 x 11) soft cover, ISBN 1 897010 20 6, 512pp, $30, about 2000 illus., endleaf map
People Places: Contemporary Saskatchewan Place Names, by Bill Barry
PEOPLE PLACES: Contemporary Saskatchewan Place Names is the indispensable source for
information on Saskatchewan’s fascinating place names… designed to cover the names that
will be encountered by the tourist – both the travelling and the armchair
variety – on the highways and byways of the land of living skies… keyed to the current Saskatchewan
road map and - unlike Geographic Names of Saskatchewan - it is designed to fit conveniently in your glove compartment… includes many new
derivations PLUS an ALL NEW pronunciation guide – a great argument settler!
People Places: Contemporary
Saskatchewan Place Names (2003), ISBN 1 894022 92 0, trade paper, 288 p., illus, $20
postage free anywhere in North America.
Ukrainian People Places: The Ukrainians, Germans, Mennonites, Hutterites and Doukhobors and the Names they brought to Saskatchewan
This
book tells the stories of the five groups of pioneers who came to
Saskatchewan from Ukraine, and gives the details of the many fascinating
place names they brought with them.
The groups are the Ukrainians themselves, the Germans (90% of
Saskatchewan’s German speaking people came from Ukraine), the Mennonites, the
Hutterites and the Russian speaking Doukhobors. These stories are hugely interesting – their customs and beliefs, how they got here, their place names – and the book is a good read.
Ukrainian
People Places (2001), ISBN 1 894022 65 3, trade paper, 160pp., illus.,
maps, $15
People Places, the video
In 2000, with the help of Birdsong Communications, I produced a set of short television pieces for SCN. They used them when they had to fill 3-4 minutes at the end of an hour. The vignettes tell the stories of eight Saskatchewan names: Indian Head, Punnichy, Fort Qu'Appelle, Wolseley, Claybank, Moose Jaw, Gravelbourg and Biggar accompanied by great historical and contemporary visuals. I'd be happy to send you a copy of the CD for $5.
Ordering...
Simply click on the mailbox icon at left and send me an email. Be sure to include your full mailing address.
GST
will be added to the above items if purchased from within Canada, and the PST
applies on the video and the Gazetteer within Saskatchewan.
Check out the SPECIAL OFFER at the very bottom of this page.
SHIPPING
IS FREE to any North American address.
Please
contact me for discounts on multiple orders People
Places Publishing Ltd. Box
33030 Regina
SK S4T 7X2 (306)
525 6101 fax 569 3260
OUT OF PRINT TITLES
PEOPLE PLACES: Saskatchewan and its Names is a coffee table style book with over 100
illustrations and 16 maps. It takes a
thematic approach to Saskatchewan history, so the first chapter deals with
First Nations names, the second with the railways and their influence on our
toponymy, the third with various ethnic groups who came to Saskatchewan,
etc. The Canadian Plains Research
Centre at the University of Regina published it in 1997 (ISBN0 88977 114 6,
trade paper, xii + 204pp, illus., index, end leaf maps, $29.95). Sorry – it is now out of print – I hope to do a revised
edition in the future. Check out the Leader Post review of People Places
PEOPLE PLACES: The Dictionary of Saskatchewan
Place Names is the
reference book and contains locations, dates and name derivations from Aaskana
to Zumbro and 4,000 places in between.
It contains all the 3,000 post offices that have ever existed in
Saskatchewan plus another thousand names which have been current in the
second half of the 20th century.
My own company, People Places Publishing Ltd., Regina, published it in
1998 (ISBN1 894022 19 x, trade paper, 416pp, $20.). OUT OF PRINT
People Places Cookbook (2000), ISBN 1 894022 51 3, trade paper, 160pp, illus.
SPECIAL OFFER Although the Cookbook is out of print, I still have a few copies left. If you are ordering any other books from me, for an extra $5 I'll throw in a copy for you. Guaranteed it will be the best fiver you ever spent!
Sorry, it's not economic to ship single copy orders, unless you are ordering other books.
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