A typical morning paradise in the Broughton Archipelago. Photo Dan Hillert.
The photos by Dan Hillert are of classic west coast scenes but author Gwen Curry is hard-hitting about the ugly impact of human activity in this special region off the north coast of Vancouver Island. FULL STORY
She became one of the most celebrated landscape architects of the 20th century, undertaking more than 500 projects, including over… FULL STORY
The newly-wed couple were hired to work at the Alert Bay Student Residence in 1970. Within days of starting their… FULL STORY
David Goldberger always knew he had a story to tell and remember; he just never found a voice for it…. FULL STORY
Train robber Bill Miner & labour leader Ginger Goodwin became folk heroes after they evaded the law but they were… FULL STORY
Janet Gallant, the wig-maker had a story to tell and poet Sharon Thesen had the creativity and sensitivity to work… FULL STORY
Thomson’s book is a conversation between first & second generation immigrants to Canada, a decades-long argument between mother and daughter,… FULL STORY
Howard White’s Here on the Coast: Reflections from the Rainbelt culminates with a sketch about Hubert Evans, who lived in Robert’s Creek… FULL STORY
The fifth installment in her B.C. Blues Crime series follows the model created by police procedural writers who focus on… FULL STORY
In a new graphic novel, Myriam Steinberg shares her tumultuous and at times heart-breaking journey through several miscarriages to at last… FULL STORY
A small loosely-knit group, the Vancouver School of Yiddish translators has come together to remedy the loss of their culture’s… FULL STORY
According to the Auschwitz Museum, as many as 196 prisoners can be said to have escaped from Auschwitz-Birkenau and its… FULL STORY
Empowered by her own voice, Mary Jayne Blackmore says she is compelled to keep asking the big questions of womanhood… FULL STORY
Quarmby writes about washing up on shore with “nothing but wilderness between me and the next polar bear,” total daylight,… FULL STORY
Along with “new” Holocaust stories, purportedly some of the last in living memory to be recorded, Schallie’s book combines Jewish scholarship,… FULL STORY
Amanda Watson explores the mythology of the contemporary mother in the media: a typically white, middle-class woman on the verge of… FULL STORY
Gilly is a whiz at running her boat: she catches fish; she consoles a multi-millionaire who loses a trophy-sized tyee… FULL STORY
Like environmental crusader Greta Thunberg, Bakan believes CEOs are making it look like real action is happening when little is… FULL STORY
The heroine, Annie, is beckoned back in time to the 10th century by a great-aunt to set sail on a… FULL STORY
For his extensive contributions as a scholar, writer and educator, and for his wide-ranging philanthropy, B.C. author Yosef Wosk has… FULL STORY
