New Book Coming Soon

​About the Book

Explore the Red Deer River, from the mountains of Banff National Park to the open, prairie lands of the Saskatchewan border. 

In Blue Sky, Red Canoe, his second book of western Canadiana, Neil Gower encounters the rugged Red Deer River Valley physically, historically, and personally from the stern seat of a red canoe. Full of detail, introspection, and reflection on a life fully lived, Gower’s memoir brings the river and its history to vivid life.

Paddle with him through unique landscapes as he searches for adventure, and meaning, telling stories about the river and his experiences on it. Explore the Red Deer River through the eyes of a descendant of prominent Alberta pioneers, discovering, along the way, much about the call of running water, the natural world, and the intersection of Indigenous and settler history.

​About the Author

Neil Gower K.C. is a writer, and retired lawyer. Holding a B.A. in history, and an LL. B. from the University of Alberta, he has long enjoyed the outdoors as a skier, paddler and explorer. Gower’s extensive journeys through the largely unsettled lands of the west carry on a family tradition of exploration first recounted in his great, great Grandfather’s letters from the west starting in 1882.   

Writing for his grandchildren, and the curious everywhere, Gower’s stories and reminiscences seek to instil a sense of that history through fresh eyes, sharing the grandeur of the Canadian northwest, the power and effect of its rivers, and the wisdom of the land.  

Neil Gower is the author of the best-selling biographical history, A Métis Man’s Dream, From Traplines to Tugboats in Canada’s North, a long active volunteer board member for numerous not-for-profits locally and nationally, and the father of four daughters. He lives in Edmonton, Alberta.

www.NeilGower.ca