#516 Chilliwack to Ts’elxwéyeqw
Being Ts’elxwéyeqw: First Peoples’ Voices and History from the Chilliwack-Fraser Valley, British Columbia by the Ts’elxwéyeqw Tribe (producers) and David… FULL STORY
Author Archive
#515 Fulford Harbour’s silent poet
Almost Islands: Phyllis Webb and the Pursuit of the Unwritten by Stephen Collis Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2018 $24.95 / 9781772012071 Reviewed… FULL STORY
Consider the Indian Act
21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality by… FULL STORY
A ponderosa pine time capsule
From a seedling to its death in 2003’s Okanagan Park fire, the tree survives eras from the fur trade, gold… FULL STORY
#514 Consider the Indian Act
21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality by… FULL STORY
#513 Victoria’s Secret: diversity
City in Colour: Rediscovered Stories of Victoria’s Multicultural Past by May Q. Wong Victoria: TouchWood Editions, 2018 $22.00 / 9781771512855… FULL STORY
#512 A Ponderosa Pine time capsule
Growing Up in Wild Horse Canyon by Karen Autio, illustrated by Loraine Kemp Vancouver: Crwth Press, 2018 $25.95 / 9781775331902… FULL STORY
#511 Gold, gamblers, and greenhorns
Gold Rush Manliness: Race and Gender on the Pacific Slope by Christopher Herbert Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018 $30.00… FULL STORY
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize finalists
Award winner Laisa Rosnau’s latest poetry collection Our Familiar Hunger (Nightwood Editions 2018) is a finalist for this year’s Dorothy… FULL STORY
Speed, sex and moonshine
We encounter “the kinked garden hose/ of catastrophic thinking” and we share in the thrill of rushing towards a lover… FULL STORY
#510 Joe’s monsters and critters
Bite Me! Musings on Monsters and Mayhem by Joe Rosenblatt Erin, Ontario: Porcupine’s Quill, 2019 $16.95 / 9780889844247 Reviewed by… FULL STORY
#509 Let sleeping dogs stir
No Dog Barked: Who Killed the MacLauchlans? by Rob Drown and Ken McIntosh New Westminster: Archives New West, 2018 $30.00… FULL STORY
What rhymes with alma mater?
The Hundred-Year Trek: A History of Student Life at UBC by Sheldon Goldfarb, with a preface by the Right Honourable… FULL STORY
Brain Surgery at Zero Rock
Harvey’s account evokes icy winds, malevolent rocks and environmental eyesores. He also writes of weird parallels between boating and brain… FULL STORY
#508 Sex, speed, and moonshine
A Violent Streak by Stephanie Warner Markham, Ontario: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2018 $15.00 / 9781554554461 Reviewed by Elee Kraljii Gardiner… FULL STORY
#507 What rhymes with alma mater
The Hundred-Year Trek: A History of Student Life at UBC by Sheldon Goldfarb, with a preface by the Right Honourable… FULL STORY
Mickleburgh to receive Ryga Award
The George Ryga Award for Social Awareness will be presented for this first time in Victoria—at 1 pm on Saturday,… FULL STORY
#506 Scribes of the Stó:lō Nation
Towards a New Ethnohistory: Community-Engaged Scholarship among the People of the River by Keith Thor Carlson, John Sutton Lutz, David… FULL STORY
#505 Ethel Wilson would approve
A Lamb by P.W. Bridgman Victoria: Ekstasis Editions, 2018 $23.95 / 9781771712736 Reviewed by David Stouck * I first encountered… FULL STORY
Remembrance of Chinatown meals past
Yen Lock. Ho Restaurant. Marco Polo Theatre Restaurant. “I remember the last time I ate at the Ho Inn, in… FULL STORY
