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Bill Waiser

Bill Waiser is one of Canada's foremost historians. For more than three decades, he was a history professor at the University of Saskatchewan. He is now a full-time writer and public speaker. Bill has published nineteen books, in addition to plying his trade in radio, television, and print media. He's known for an engaging, popular style that draws on the power of stories. His most recent book, In Search of Almighty Voice: Resistance and Reconciliation, was launched at the One Arrow First Nation's community powwow at the request of the Elders.

Books by Bill Waiser

Cheated

The Laurier Liberals and the Theft of First Nations Reserve Land

by (author) Bill Waiser & Jennie Hansen

Loyal Till Death

Indians and the North-West Rebellion

by (author) Bill Waiser & Blair Stonechild

Gordie's Skate

by (author) Bill Waiser
illustrated by Leanne Franson

In Search of Almighty Voice

Resistance and Reconciliation

by (author) Bill Waiser

Reconsidering Confederation

Canada’s Founding Debates, 1864-1999

edited by Daniel Heidt
contributions by J.R. Miller, Marcel Martel, Colin Coates, Martin Paquet, Maxime Gohier, Phillip Buckner, Robert Wardhaugh, Barry Ferguson, Patricia Roy, P. Whitney Lackenbauer, Ken S. Coates, Bill Waiser, Raymond B. Blake & Andre Legare

Saskatchewan

A New History

by (author) Bill Waiser
photographs by John Perret

A World We Have Lost

Saskatchewan Before 1905

by (author) Bill Waiser

A Century of Parks Canada, 1911-2011

contributions by Alan MacEachern, John Sandlos, Ben Bradley, Bill Waiser, C.J. Taylor, George Colpitts, Oliver Craig-Dupont, Ronald Rudin, David Neufeld, Brad Martin, E. Gwyn Langemann, I.S. MacLaren & Lyle Dick
edited by Claire Campbell

All Hell Can't Stop Us

The On-to-Ottawa Trek and Regina Riot

by (author) Bill Waiser

Who Killed Jackie Bates?

by (author) Bill Waiser

Tommy's Team

The People Behind the Douglas Years

by (author) Bill Waiser & C.S. Houston

Portraits of an Era

The Aerial Photography of Howdy McPhail

by (author) Bill Waiser
photographs by Howdy McPhail

Everett Baker's Saskatchewan

Portraits of an Era

by (author) Bill Waiser

Who Killed Jackie Bates?

by (author) Bill Waiser

The Prairie West as Promised Land

contributions by R. Douglas Francis, Doug Owram, Chris Kitzan, Laurence Kitzan, Matthew Wrangler, David Hall, Sarah Carter, Anthony W. Rasporich, Bill Waiser, Randi Warne, Bradford J. Rennie, Catherine A. Cavanaugh, Steve Hewitt, George Melnyk, Michael Fedyk & Brett Fairbairn

Tommy Douglas

by (author) Bill Waiser

All Hell Can't Stop Us

The On-to-Ottawa Trek and Regina Riot

by (author) Bill Waiser

Park Prisoners

by (author) Bill Waiser

The New Northwest

The Photographs of the Frank Crean Expeditions 1908-1909

by (author) Bill Waiser