#302 When camping was no picnic
Alan Caswell Collier, Relief Stiff: An Artist’s Letters from Depression-era British Columbia by Peter Neary (editor) Vancouver: UBC Press, 2018…. FULL STORY
Author Archive
#301 Glory days of Park Wardens
The Green Horse: My Early Years in the Canadian Rockies — A Park Warden’s Story by Dale Portman Victoria: Rocky… FULL STORY
When horses are wishes
Now she’s written a memoir about adjusting to life in a 6.4 million hectare wilderness area in the northern Rockies…. FULL STORY
#300 If horses were wishes
Summer of the Horse: A Memoir by Donna Kane Madeira Park: Harbour Publishing, 2017. $19.95. 9781550178197 Reviewed by Heather Longworth… FULL STORY
#299 Seaweed’s nonchalant tough love
Seaweed under Fire by Stanley Evans Victoria: Ekstasis Editions, 2017 $25.95 / 9781771711920 Reviewed by Phyllis Reeve * A hiker… FULL STORY
The Iron Promise
Many of the characters in Steve Hunter’s first novel, The Cameron Ridge Conspiracy, set in the 1860s, reappear in his… FULL STORY
#298 Three tributes to Al Neil
An obituary on this site has already recorded the life and times — and books — of Al Neil. But… FULL STORY
The under-heralded Kathy Page
Page’s themes have been identified as loss, survival and transformation: “the magic by which a bad hand becomes a good… FULL STORY
#297 From Gallant to Kafka
The Two of Us by Kathy Page Windsor, Ontario: Biblioasis, 2016. $19.95 / 9781771960991 Reviewed by Paul Headrick Kathy… FULL STORY
#296 Margaret’s Ormsby’s milieu
Essay: Margaret A. Ormsby: British Columbian Historian By Daniel Marshall * This month, as The Ormsby Review eclipses two pilot… FULL STORY
At the heights of his powers
Mary Sanseverino compares the work of the Banff-based photographer to American wilderness lensmen Ansell Adams and Galen Rowell. The Canadian… FULL STORY
#295 Cinderella Campaign revisited
The Cinderella Campaign: First Canadian Army and the Battles for the Channel Ports by Mark Zuehlke Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre,… FULL STORY
#294 From A (Ansel) to Z (Zizka)
The Canadian Rockies: Rediscovered by Paul Zizka Victoria: Rocky Mountain Books, 2017. $50 / 9781771602310 Reviewed by Mary Sanseverino *… FULL STORY
Non-Jewish author wins Jewish Holocaust prize
Winners of the second annual Western Canada Jewish Book Awards have been announced in four categories at the Sidney and… FULL STORY
Emotional time bombs
“This is a terrific debut and a book to reread just to admire the use of the language and to… FULL STORY
#293 Emotional time bombs
The Promise of Water by Judy LeBlanc (Oolichan: 2017) 978-0-88982-320-4 $19.95 tp Review by Caroline Woodward * Judy LeBlanc’s debut… FULL STORY
Hegemony next door
Contested Boundaries: A New Pacific Northwest History by David J. Jepsen and David J. Norberg Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017…. FULL STORY
#292 What’s OK & not OK in OK
A Legacy of Canadian Art, from Kelowna Collections by Roger H. Boulet Kelowna: The Kelowna Art Gallery, 2017. $15 /… FULL STORY
After Emily came Unity
“Never paint from anything but real life whether it is a person or flower.” — Unity Bainbridge [We have only… FULL STORY
Unity Bainbridge (1916-2017)
“Never paint from anything but real life whether it is a person or flower.” — Unity Bainbridge [We have only… FULL STORY
