Graeme Pole has been writing professionally since 1989.
His thirteen published titles have cumulative sales of more than 300,000 copies.
Canadian Rockies SuperGuide(1991, 1997)
The Canadian Rockies: A History in Photographs (1991)
Walks and Easy Hikes in the Canadian Rockies (1992, 1996, 2012)
Classic Hikes in the Canadian Rockies (1994, 2003, 2011)
The Spiral Tunnels and The Big Hill (1996, 2009)
Healy Park (1998)
David Thompson (2003)
Summit Tales (2005)
Great Railways of the Canadian West (2006)
Gravity, Steam, and Steel (2009)
Canadian Rockies Explorer(2010)
Rails Across the Rockies(2015)
Siren Call(2016)
Since 2009, Graeme has successfully self-published his catalogue in print and eBook formats. Graeme’s wilderness essays and historical essays have been widely published, with his annual contributions to the Canadian Alpine Journal being among the better known.
Nine of Graeme’s titles have been finalists in the Banff Mountain Book Festival. Classic Hikes in the Canadian Rockies won the Mountain Exposition category in 1994. Gravity, Steam and Steelreceived an Honourable Mention Citation in the 2009 BC Historical Federation Writing Awards. Graeme has been a runner-up for the Andy Russell Nature Writers’ Award (1995), a finalistin the Crown of the Continent Nature Writing Award (1998), and in 1997 received a Northwest Outdoor Writers’ Association “Excellence in Craft Award,” and the inaugural Teddi Brown Award for Nature Writing, for which he was also runner-up.
In 2017, his essay, Designs of the Wild, which appeared in Canadian Rockies Annual,
took Gold for non-fiction essays published in Alberta the previous year. In 2017,
Graeme contributed research for the script to the CBC series, Canada: The Story of Us.
Graeme lives with his family near Hazelton in northwestern BC, where he serves as a paramedic