'Two years of fun': Historian Harry Sanders talks new book on stories behind Alberta's placenames

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'Two years of fun': Historian Harry Sanders talks new book on stories behind Alberta's placenames
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Calgary historian Harry Sanders has an uncontained enthusiasm for his subject and is sharing it with readers in his new book, Abee to Zuma City: How Alberta's Cities, Towns, Villages and Hamlets Got Their Names.

Calgary historian Harry Sanders has an uncontained enthusiasm for his subject and is sharing it with readers in his new book,"You can't make it up. I'm confined by the known facts and if I know the facts, I'm free to zip around and construct a narrative and find the connections. It's like painting a painting or writing a song in my head," Sanders told CTV News.

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