#5 Elizabeth Smart
LOCATION: St. Mary’s Hospital, 4339 Garden Bay Road, Pender Harbour. Renovated and re-opened as the Sundowner Inn in 1964, the… FULL STORY
Author Archive
#14 BC Crimes Stories: Train Bomb
— This story is from the book, Dead Ends: BC Crime Stories (University of Regina Press $19.95), by journalist Paul… FULL STORY
#13 BC Crime Stories: The Big Con
The Big Con Everything about Ian Thow was big. The investment adviser’s house was a $5.5-million waterfront mansion outside Victoria,… FULL STORY
Icelandic-First Nations Lit
Active within the Aboriginal Writers Collective on the West Coast, Metis/Icelandic Jonina Kirton coordinated the first National Indigenous Writers Conference… FULL STORY
Newspapers’ death exaggerated
Marc Edge has explored the history and finances of North American newspapers and media conglomerates in Greatly Exaggerated: The Myth… FULL STORY
Beyond Talking Dirty
Rachel Ditor became literary manager and dramaturge at the Arts Club Theatre in 2001 having first worked in play development… FULL STORY
The Greatest Lover
Neil McKinnon’s The Greatest Lover of Last Thursday (Thistledown $19.95) is a humourous novel about an 80-year-old who has searched… FULL STORY
Osborn archive at UBC
Library Students at UBC have created a digital archive called The Bud Osborn Collection to honour the work of Downtown… FULL STORY
#4 Hubert Evans
LOCATION: Roberts Creek Pier, 999 Roberts Creek Road, at the foot of Roberts Creek Road, Sunshine Coast. Hubert Evans, the… FULL STORY
You can’t keep a good poet down
Having undertaken a 100-venue, cross-Canada reading tour in 2014, Kevin Spenst of Vancouver will undertake a 50-venue, all-in-B.C. tour to… FULL STORY
#32 Miracles never cease
Hi Darlin’: My ten-year-old granddaughter Lilli is visiting (HOOORAY!!!), and my “daughter of another mother,” Deb, joined us for Easter…. FULL STORY
From the Azores to Brockton Point
As well, she profiles First Nations artist, Luke Marston, who created the monumental bronze sculpture. Suzanne Fournier is a journalist… FULL STORY
Leaf book nominated for Lowther
Ursula Vaira’s lively imprint, Leaf Press, headquartered in Lantzville, has gradually gained ground in the B.C. publishing scene since 2011… FULL STORY
Inuit Testimony resurfaces
As a 17-year-old scuba diver, David Woodman, born in 1956, first went looking for shipwrecks in Lake Superior. He has… FULL STORY
#3 M.A. Grainger
LOCATION: One Mile Creek was the name for Hunter Creek which flows into the Similkameen River from the west, about… FULL STORY
#2 M. Wylie Blanchet
LOCATION: 2457 Tyron Road, North Saanich M. Wylie Blanchet (1891-1961) lived at the tip of Curteis Point in Sidney, at… FULL STORY
Hey, Jude, Hey, Aaron
The second book of poetry by Bowen Islander Jude Neale (pictured at right), A Quiet Coming of Light: A Poetic… FULL STORY
Obituary McCann, Leonard
Leonard McCann has died of pneumonia at Burnaby Hospital on Friday, March 27. He was 88. The Vancouver Maritime Museum… FULL STORY
B.C. leads the way in homebirthing
These illustrated memoirs, all by mothers and fathers in British Columbia, are celebratory endorsements of the homebirth process. Preece’s “manifesta”… FULL STORY
Thrillers of northern B.C.
An admirer of the writing of Ivan Coyote and Jack Whyte, Lin Weich of Quesnel is a retired teacher who… FULL STORY
