#159 Al Neil
LOCATION: 222 East Broadway, Vancouver This was the location of The Cellar, founded in 1956, as Vancouver’s foremost jazz venue,… FULL STORY
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#158 Alexandra Morton
LOCATION: Echo Bay, on Gilford Island The most prolific literary town in Canada on a per capita basis has got… FULL STORY
#157 Adrien-Gabriel Morice
LOCATION: Camp Morice, in Sowchea Bay, Stuart Lake, near Fort St. James. DIRECTIONS: 11 kilometres from Fort St. James. Head… FULL STORY
#156 Arthur Mayse
LOCATION: 3912 S Island Highway, at Stories Beach, north of Oyster Bay, 15 minutes south of Campbell River. Veteran scribes… FULL STORY
#155 J.S. Matthews
LOCATION: 1158 Arbutus Street. Major J.S. Matthews, who was Vancouver’s foremost civic historian prior to Chuck Davis, lived at this… FULL STORY
#154 Grant Lawrence
LOCATION: Desolation Sound Marine Park, at the confluence of Malaspina Inlet and Homfray Channel, 32 km north of Powell River…. FULL STORY
#153 Tim Lander
LOCATION: The Bookstore on Bastion Street. 1 Bastion Street, Nanaimo. Long the literary hub of the province’s “hub city” of… FULL STORY
#152 Debra Komar
LOCATION: Fort Stikine, near the mouth of the Stikine River, on Etolin Island, between Prince of Wales Island to the… FULL STORY
#151 Roy Kiyooka
LOCATION: 600 Block Keefer Street. Roy Kiyooka and his then-partner Daphne Marlatt moved onto this street soon after he published… FULL STORY
#150 Rudyard Kipling
LOCATION: 339 West Pender, site of the Acland Hood Hall, aka Pender Hall, Dominion Hall and Boilermakers Hall. Perhaps the… FULL STORY
#149 Peter Johnson
LOCATION: William Head Quarantine Station, near William Head Prison, via William Head Road, (between Parry Bay and Pedder Bay, north… FULL STORY
#148 Zaccheus Jackson
LOCATION: Café Deux Soleils, 2096 Commercial Drive, Vancouver. Here, in 2005, at this vegetarian restaurant, Zaccheus Jackson Nyce made his… FULL STORY
#147 Anosh Irani
LOCATION: 1181 Seymour Street, original site of The Arts Club. Having grown up near Kamhathipura, Bombay’s red-light district, Anosh Irani… FULL STORY
#146 Steven Hunter
LOCATION: Big Lake Ranch, 55 km. northeast of Williams Lake, on the road to Likely, on the Cariboo gold rush… FULL STORY
#145 Matti Halminen
LOCATION: The isolated village of Sointula, on Malcolm Island, is located northeast of Port McNeil, as part of Vancouver Island,… FULL STORY
Hail to thee, Blythe spirit
Identity politics and duality are the concerns voiced in Twoism (Gooose Lane 2015), the first poetry collection by poet Ali… FULL STORY
#144 John Galsworthy
LOCATION: 1151 Milton Street, site of the #1 Esplanade mine, Nanaimo. It’s well-known that John Galsworthy won the Nobel Prize… FULL STORY
#143 Randy Fred
LOCATION: The Bookstore on Bastion Street, 76 Bastion Street, Nanaimo. A nephew of George Clutesi, Randy Fred of the Nuu-chah-nulth… FULL STORY
#142 Gordon Elliott
LOCATION: Simon Fraser Unversity, Burnaby. When Simon Fraser University opened in 1965, the only B.C.-born member of the English faculty… FULL STORY
#141 Ralph Edwards
LOCATION: Lonesome Lake, Atnarko Valley, 60 miles east of Bella Coola. In February of 1956, Ralph Edwards and his wife… FULL STORY
