#140 Margaret Craven
LOCATION: Kwakwaka’wakw community of Kingcome Inlet, located about 500 kilometres north of Vancouver, and five kilometres up a shallow fjord…. FULL STORY
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#139 Sidney Cole
LOCATION: Bethlehem Copper mine (renamed Highland Valley Copper), at Logan Lake, 27 miles east of Ashcroft, southwest of Kamloops. 50°30’9″N… FULL STORY
#138 Winston Churchill
LOCATION: Mount Winston, on the west side of Kechika River, south-east of Mount Skook Davidson, Cassiar Land District; Denetiah Provincial… FULL STORY
#137 Nathalie Chambers
LOCATION: Madrona Farm, 4317 Blenkinsop Road. Directions: a 12-minute drive to Saanich from downtown Victoria. Canada needs more farmland and… FULL STORY
#136 Maureen Brownlee
LOCATION: Valley Sentinel community newspaper, 1012 Commercial Street, Valemount Maureen Brownlee grew up in the farming community of Dunster in… FULL STORY
#135 Gerry Bracewell
LOCATION: Alpine Wilderness Lodge, nestled against the south end of Potato Mountain, south of Tatlayoko Lake, in Tatlayoko Valley, four… FULL STORY
#134 Sadhu Binning
LOCATION: Fraser & 49th Avenue, Vancouver Sadhu Binning’s fiction collection in English, Fauji Banta Singh & Other Stories (2014), examines… FULL STORY
BC Book Prizes shortlist announced
Two books for this year’s BC Book Prizes have been nominated in more than one category: The Real Thing: The… FULL STORY
#133 Lily Adams Beck
LOCATION: About ten minutes drive from Empress Hotel, via Fairfield Road, adjoining Beach Drive in Oak Bay, is the short… FULL STORY
Lost ‘n’ Harbour founder
The documentary has resurfaced twenty-six years later. Introduced by Rowland Lorimer, who co-created the Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing,… FULL STORY
A Woman of Note duly noted
Carol M. Cram of Bowen Island is one of three B.C. writers whose books will now be marketed by Thomas… FULL STORY
Buday wins and loses Great BC Novel contest
Grant Buday was announced as the winner of the third Great BC Novel Contest for Atomic Road (to be published… FULL STORY
#132 Lynne Bowen
LOCATION: Courthouse, 35 Front Street, Nanaimo In Lynne Bowen’s Boss Whistle (1982), she describes the Big Strike (1912-1914) of coal… FULL STORY
Red skin, white masks
At UBC’s Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, 1825 Main Mall, on Tuesday, March 8, at 1 pm, Glen Coulthard… FULL STORY
#131 Al Purdy
LOCATION: Al Purdy Electrical Box, 7th Avenue & Beacon Street, ‘Sidney Booktown’, Sidney. Like Pauline Johnson who also came to… FULL STORY
Dancing words or literary duets
Dance is physical ephemera on a stage. Writing is squiggles on a page. The Chan Centre has instigated a new… FULL STORY
Out with old, in with the Younging
Formerly an Assistant Director of Research for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Dr. Greg Younging has resumed his… FULL STORY
#130 Luisa Maria Celis
LOCATION: Plaza Bolivar, Caracas. The cathedral at the intersection of Avenida Sur and Avenida Este 0 marks the spot where… FULL STORY
Al Purdy’s deathbed drama
Al Purdy, twice winner of the Governor General’s Award for poetry and a member of the Order of Canada, died… FULL STORY
Move over, Switzerland
Alain Deneault’s Canada: A New Tax Haven (Talonbooks) shows how the swashbuckling pirates of yesteryear have morphed into modern plunderers,… FULL STORY
