Walter Hildebrandt

Walter Hildebrandt (Honours B.A., M.A. in History, University of Saskatchewan) is an award-winning Albertan historian and poet, currently residing in Edmonton, Alberta. He was  an historian for Parks Canada, and is considered an historian of the Canadian Prairies. From 1983 to 1992, he edited NeWest Review, then was Director of University of Calgary Press and Athabasca University Press. He is a consultant on Aboriginal treaties, consulting for the Treaty 7 Tribal Council, the Office of the Treaty Commissioner of Saskatchewan, and various First Nations communities, and the Banff Bow Valley Task Force. Mr. Hildebrandt is a full member of the League of Canadian Poets and has published over twelve books of poetry.

Titles highlighted In the following list of his publications are titles that have received awards. 

  • 1992, Sightings*, Cormorant Books
  • 1994, with Brian Hubner, The Cypress Hills The Land and Its Peoples, Purich Publishing, UBC Press
    1997, Outlier, Ekstasis Editions
  • 1997, Treaty 7 Elders and Tribal Council with Walter Hildebrandt, Sarah Carter, and Dorothy First Rider, The True Spirit and Original Intent of Treaty 7**,  McGill-Queen’s University Press
  • 1998, Brooks: Coming Home, Bayeux Arts Inc.
  • 2004, Where the Land Gets Broken***, Ekstasis Editions.
  • 2007, with Brian Hubner, The Cypress Hills An Island by Itself, Purich Publishing
  • 2008, Finding Louis O’Soup, Ekstasis Editions
  • 2008, © Canadian Plains Research Center, Views From Battleford: Constructed Visions of an Anglo-Canadian West, AU Press
  • 2011, Winnipeg from the Fringes, Ekstasis Editions
  • 2011, The Time in Between / Adorno’s Daemons, Ekstasis Editions
  • 2012, with Jean Teillet, The Battle of Batoche, Small British Warfare and the Entrenched Metis, Talon Books Ltd.
  • 2015, Now Time / Jetztzeit / Nunc Stans, Ekstasis Editions
  • 2016, Documentaries, NeWest Press
  • 2017, Blackfoot Country, Ekstasis Editions
  • 2020, Rupture North-West 1885, Turnstone Press
  • 2020, Conatus, Ekstasis Editions

*nominated McNally-Robinson Book of the Year in Manitoba

**Myers Outstanding Books Awards and The Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America (1998)

***Stephan G. Stephansson Award for best poetry book in Alberta

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2021 Update

It is with a very heavy heart that I am noting, on my website, of Walter’s passing on October 11, 2021.  He was one of my most favourite authors to work with. He was an endearing, appreciative gentleman, one whom I hold in deep respect and regard.  

Here is his obituary (Edmonton Journal).

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