Kevin Allen’s Our Past Matters: Stories of Gay Calgary is available for sale.
Buy the soft-cover edition online for $24.99 + shipping: here. (In Canada shipping and handling = $6.99).
The e-book is available at Amazon for $9.99: here.
GoodReads reviews: here.
Suzette Mayr, the author of Monoceros, writes: “This book is a moving and compelling journey through a history of Calgary that few people know, but that we all should know… This book makes me proud to be a Calgarian.”
John Ibbitson, from The Globe and Mail, explains: “You are going to read about some amazing people, places, and times in these pages… There is no one better equipped than Kevin Allen to give us a tour.”
The book can be found at fine independent bookstores in Calgary including:
Pages on Kensington, and
In Fernie, Our Past Matters is for sale at:
In Edmonton: Audreys Books; in Toronto: Glad Day Bookshop.
If you would like to order multiple copies at a discount: email us: here.
The book was launched at the New Central Library on November 22, 2018.

Book Launch Crowd. Photo: Noel Bégin.

One reader’s annotated copy!

Kevin Allen visiting the book in production in Winnipeg.