#429 Trail, the bomb, and Blaylock
Codename Project 9: How a Small British Columbia City Helped Create the Atomic Bomb by Ron Verzuh CreateSpace Independent Publishing… FULL STORY
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Derek Hayes stays on track
The intrepid geographer’s 15th magnum opus doesn’t disappoint, according to local historian Walter Volovsek, an expert on the Columbia &… FULL STORY
#428 Gulf Islands charcoal kilns
Island Forest Embers: The Japanese Canadian Charcoal Kilns of the Southern Gulf Islands by Rumiko Kanesaka and Brian Smallshaw, editors… FULL STORY
#427 Counterculture wanderlust
Thumbing a Ride: Hitchhikers, Hostels, and Counterculture in Canada by Linda Mahood Vancouver: UBC Press, 2018 $89.95 / 9780774837330 (hard… FULL STORY
Throwing off the cloak of invisibility
To paraphrase Mark Twain, the reports of their extinction were exaggerated, as evidenced by Not Extinct: Keeping the Sinixt Way,… FULL STORY
Not just salmon poems
The collected early works of Wah (born 1939) and Marlatt (born 1942) reflect origins in the 1960s with Tish, the… FULL STORY
#426 Moving amid the mountains
Iron Road West: An Illustrated History of British Columbia’s Railways by Derek Hayes Madeira Park: Harbour: 2018 $44.95 / 9781550178388… FULL STORY
#425 Let them have art galleries
Spaces and Places for Art: Making Art Institutions in Western Canada 1912-1990 by Anne Whitelaw Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University… FULL STORY
#424 In search of Laura Jamieson
The Last Suffragist Standing: The Life and Times of Laura Marshall Jamieson by Veronica Strong-Boag Vancouver: UBC Press, 2018. $89.95… FULL STORY
A tale of trauma rises to the top
According to reviewer David Milward, Darrel J. McLeod “offers a brutally honest front-seat view of the havoc” wrought by intergenerational… FULL STORY
#423 Not just salmon poems
Intertidal: The Collected Earlier Poems, 1968–2008 by Daphne Marlatt, edited by Susan Holbrook Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2017 $49.95 / 9781772011784 *… FULL STORY
Kathy Page wins big — at last
Finally, the Salt Spring Island author has been awarded the $50,000 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize for Dear Evelyn, a… FULL STORY
#422 A tale of trauma and achievement
Darrel J. McLeod Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age Madeira Park: Douglas & McIntyre, 2018. $29.95 / 9781771622004 Reviewed by… FULL STORY
#421 Suffragist city
One Hundred Years of Struggle: the History of Women and the Vote in Canada by Joan Sangster Vancouver: UBC Press,… FULL STORY
#420 Why the red poppies matter
ESSAY: A century since Vimy and Passchendaele: Two wars, two families, one message By Howard Macdonald Stewart * For Remembrance… FULL STORY
#419 Talking federal politics
Talking Past Each Other: Quebec and the Federal Dialogue in Canada, 1867-2017 by Hamish Telford New York and Bern: Peter… FULL STORY
Life in Boswell on a century-old farm
Luanne Armstrong’s memoir of an enduring friendship, both joyful and stricken. A Bright and Steady Flame: The Story of an… FULL STORY
#418 Boswell’s woman of words
A Bright and Steady Flame: The Story of an Enduring Friendship by Luanne Armstrong Halfmoon Bay: Caitlin Books, 2018 $22.95… FULL STORY
#417 Living wild in Clayoquot Sound
Wild Fierce Life: Dangerous Moments on the Outer Coast by Joanna Streetly Halfmoon Bay: Caitlin Press, 2018 $22.95 / 9781987915655… FULL STORY
#416 Nirvana in Nootka Sound
Klee Wyck Journal: The Making of a Wilderness Retreat by Lou McKee Fairbanks, Alaska: Epicenter Press, 2017 9781935347750 Reviewed by… FULL STORY
