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Frontenac House

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Canadian publishing company

Frontenac House is an independent publishing house located in Okotoks, Alberta, Canada, founded in 2000 by Rose and David Scollard. The publishing house focuses on poetry, but has reached into other genres as well, including fiction, photography, Children/YA books, and non-fiction. Since its founding in 2000, the press has published over 120 original titles.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

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2000Founded1
  • HeadquartersCalgary1

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Frontenac House is an independent publishing house located in Okotoks, Alberta, Canada, founded in 2000 by Rose and David Scollard. The publishing house focuses on poetry, but has reached into other genres as well, including fiction, photography, Children/YA books, and non-fiction. Since its founding in 2000, the press has published over 120 original titles.2

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In recent years, Frontenac House has expanded their mandate beyond poetry to publish art books, aviation history, and political satire. Some of the recent titles published by Frontenac House include:

This Was Our Valley by Shirlee Smith Matheson and Earl K. Pollon, a history of the W.A.C. Bennett Dam that went online in 1967 and subsequently started the erosion of the banks, loss of forestry, and damage to fish and wildlife habitats – effects that continue to be experienced. This Was Our Valley was the Winner of the Alberta Culture Non-Fiction Book Award.

A Brush With Depth by Rick Sealock and Christina Vester featuring wild and wacky illustrations for Sealock's clients as varied as Rolling Stone, Texas Monthly, The Washington Post, Natural Health Magazine, and GQ Magazine. The book Won the 2021 BPAA Book Illustration Award.

Borderlands by Mark Vitaris, a photographic discourse on the country that straddles the forty-ninth parallel from the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains to the grasslands of Saskatchewan and to the western Dakotas. Borderlands won the BPAA Regional Book of the Year Award in 2021, and was a Finalist for the High Plains Book Award - Art & Photography that same year.

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This Wound is a World by Billy-Ray Belcourt—a call to turn to love and sex to understand how Indigenous peoples shoulder sadness and pain like theirs without giving up on the future. This Wound is a World won the 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award and the Governor General Award for Poetry in the same year.

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