Bill Waiser
Bill Waiser is one of Canada's foremost historians. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including A World We Have Lost: Saskatchewan before 1905, winner of the 2016 Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction.
He personally presented a copy of his award-winning Saskatchewan: A New History to Queen Elizabeth II at a private ceremony in 2005. One reviewer of his work in the Globe and Mail claimed that “Saskatchewan has found its historian.”
Bill has appointed to the Order of Canada, named to the Saskatchewan Order of Merit, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and granted a D.Litt. Most recently, he received a Clio – The Prairies Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian Historical Association, was presented with the Governor General’s History Award for Popular Media (the Pierre Berton Award) and the Royal Society of Canada’s Tyrrell Medal for outstanding work in Canadian History.
Bill lives in Saskatoon with his bride Marley, a retired Environment Canada research scientist. He is a recreational runner who also likes to hike, canoe, and garden.
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Books by Bill
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Saskatchewan : A New History: Delux Edition
Author Bill Waiser
$70.00 ISBN: 9781894856751 Binding: Trade Cloth Publisher: Fifth House Publication Date: 2005-08-24 -
A World We Have Lost : Saskatchewan Before 1905
Author Bill Waiser
$70.00 ISBN: 9781927083390 Binding: Trade Cloth Publisher: Fifth House Publication Date: 2016-05-12 -
Portraits of an Era : The Aerial Photography of Howdy McPhail
Author Bill Waiser Photographs by Howdy McPhail
$40.00 ISBN: 9781897252581 Binding: Trade Cloth Publisher: Fifth House Publication Date: 2009-10-16 -
Saskatchewan : A New History
Author Bill Waiser Photographs by John Perret
$36.95 ISBN: 9781894856492 Binding: Trade Paper Publisher: Fifth House Publication Date: 2018-08-10 -
All Hell Can't Stop Us : The On-to-Ottawa Trek and Regina Riot
Author Bill Waiser
$29.95 ISBN: 9781894004886 Binding: Trade Paper Publisher: Fifth House Publication Date: 2003-07-29 -
Who Killed Jackie Bates?
Author Bill Waiser
$24.95 ISBN: 9781897252185 Binding: Trade Cloth Publisher: Fifth House Publication Date: 2008-08-12 -
In Search of Almighty Voice : Resistance and Reconciliation
Author Bill Waiser
$24.95 ISBN: 9781771770019 Binding: Trade Paper Publisher: Fifth House Publication Date: 2020-06-16 -
Loyal Till Death : Indians and the North-West Rebellion
Author Bill Waiser & Blair Stonechild
$21.95 ISBN: 9781771770217 Binding: Trade Paper Publisher: Fifth House Publication Date: 2023-08-11 -
Everett Baker's Saskatchewan : Portraits of an Era
Author Bill Waiser
$20.00 ISBN: 9781897252451 Binding: Trade Paper Publisher: Fifth House Publication Date: 2008-09-29 -
Park Prisoners
Author Bill Waiser
$16.95 ISBN: 9781895618747 Binding: Trade Paper Publisher: Fifth House Publication Date: 1999-03-15