UBC Professor Emeritus Cole Harris at his family's restored ranch house.
Cole Harris has long suggested that social change in settler societies has come about through geographical change. FULL STORY
“There is a lot of stuff going on that you’d never find in the land of Holmes or Poirot,” says… FULL STORY
Blacklisted by two American presidents, the Universal Soldier songstress breastfed her child on Sesame Street in 1977 and won a Best… FULL STORY
Reviewed by Mark Dwor, Claire Sicherman’s memoir revives the story of her murdered great grandmother so she can pass it… FULL STORY
Carpenter John Smyly built a precise model of q’una (Koona) which has remained on view at the RBCM ever since its… FULL STORY
As feminism arose, reviewer Larry Hannant says, “the RCMP did what it did best — keeping the recording machine running.”… FULL STORY
RCMP threatened to charge Michalko with obstruction of justice unless he dropped his unofficial investigation. Ex-Mountie Bonnie Reilly Schmidt reviews his… FULL STORY
In Deep River Night, for 416 pages, we are immersed in an unnamed sawmill village along the North Thompson River… FULL STORY
Reviewer Carys Cragg calls Livingston’s journey, told in The Suitcase and the Jar, “masterfully overwhelming and at once heartbreaking and stunningly… FULL STORY
In 1971, the local government burned down the squatters’ ramshackle huts and cabins that were perched on a tidal plain… FULL STORY
Seventeen people profiled in Lee Reid’s Growing Home: The Legacy of Kootenay Elders include author Tom Wayman, plus Doukhobors Ellie… FULL STORY
George had a youthful dream to become a lighthouse keeper, and Pat was up for adventure. Grizzlies, Gales, and Giant… FULL STORY
“These women and situations ring familiar, and then hit you with subversive notes.” Don’t Tell Me What to Do by… FULL STORY
His memoir describes how Sikhs must build bridges with Indigenous peoples, Christians, Jews, Muslims and LGBT groups. An Uncommon Road:… FULL STORY
Peace River farmer Arlene Boon reminds us that “We have until the water rises to stop the dam.” Damming the… FULL STORY
“The only part that surprises me is that it didn’t win… Maybe it was deemed too ‘regional’ to win a… FULL STORY
Writing in the Times Literary Supplement, Jan Morris has described Gough’s dual biography as “enthralling” and “a work of profound… FULL STORY
Reviewer Sheldon Goldfarb would have liked a more critical perspective to prevail; Steele instead supplies the life story as W.P…. FULL STORY
According to reviewer Becki L. Ross, “Lori Brotto’s Better Sex not only inoculates the reader against the scourge of sexual… FULL STORY
More than a decade later, their communal practice of women helping women has maintained its radically egalitarian ethic. Mudgirls Manifesto: … FULL STORY
