Neil Sterritt: a Gitxsan hero
In Mapping My Way Home (Creekstone 2017), Sterritt traced the Skeena and Bulkley Rivers’ junction history, his Hazelton boyhood, and… FULL STORY
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Neil Sterritt (1941 – 2020)
Neil Sterritt, winner of BC Book Prizes’ 2017 Roderick Haig-Brown for the best book to contribute to the understanding and… FULL STORY
M is for John McKay
John McKay has written Sovereign of the Seas 1637: A Reconstruction of the Most Powerful Warship of its Day (Seaforth… FULL STORY
The stutterer and the statesman
Macnair will have readers reaching for the ‘P’ section in their dictionaries to check the meanings of words like panegyric, psellism… FULL STORY
Chantal Gibson wins Lowther Award
Chantal Gibson’s debut book of poetry, How She Read (Caitlin $20), has won the Pat Lowther Memorial Award presented annually,… FULL STORY
Forsythe’s history lauded
The British Columbia Historical Federation has announced that Mark Forsythe from the Langley Heritage Society is the recipient of the… FULL STORY
Himalaya karma
Mountaineer and entrepreneur, Michael Schauch turned his attention to fundraising and international mentorship after 20 years working in global investment…. FULL STORY
Renate goes roaming
When German-born Renate Belczyk set out in 1955 to tour the world with her childhood friend Sigrid, two young women… FULL STORY
The tale of Takaya
After spending several years documenting a lone coastal wolf on the islands of Discovery and Chatham, mere miles off Victoria’s… FULL STORY
B.C. by boat
Alex Zimmerman has self-published, Becoming Coastal: 25 years of exploration and discovery of the British Columbia coast by paddle, oar… FULL STORY
Hughes honoured for 24 novels
B.C. author, Matt Hughes has been inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction & Fantasy Association’s Hall of Fame. The CSFFA’s… FULL STORY
Harland Bartholomew and Vancouver Urban History 1928 to 1952 (VIDEO)
When I look back in Vancouver history to find the source of escalating house prices, sclerotic city processes and sterile… FULL STORY
T is for Tan
Coen Caraway is left with more than heartache after his fiancé, Elias Santos fatally crashes an airplane one week before… FULL STORY
Friends for life
There is a new kids book, Terry Fox and Me (Tundra $21.99), written from the perspective of Terry Fox’s boyhood… FULL STORY
Brotherly love
“I’m not special.” — Terry Fox “I am not a dreamer.” – Terry Fox To mark the 40th anniversary of… FULL STORY
Vancouver’s real estate swindle
Land of Destiny: A History of Vancouver Real Estate (Anvil $20) by Jesse Donaldson Review by John Moore Depending on… FULL STORY
The Stutterer and the Statesman
In his debut novel, Panegyric (Now or Never $19.95), Logan Macnair is giving us two opposing wordsmiths, one verbal and… FULL STORY
Botanists arrive on Vancouver Island
“In Nature’s Realm” completes Michael Layland’s Vancouver Island historical trilogy covering early maps, explorers’ tales, and now stories and pictures… FULL STORY
Bysouth’s difficult characters
Darci Bysouth, who was raised in B.C.’s ranchlands of British Columbia and studied literature at UBC and creative writing at… FULL STORY
Buddhist monastery holiday
A moment of clarity led travel writer Bruce Kirkby to jump a freighter with his wife, Christine and their two… FULL STORY
