Mindfulness in the woods
So begins John Gellard’s review of veteran outdoorsman Rob Wood’s memoir, At Home in Nature: A Life of Unknown Mountains… FULL STORY
Author Archive
#212 Our vanishing glaciers
Our Vanishing Glaciers: The Snows of Yesteryear and the Future Climate of the Mountain West by Robert William Sandford Victoria:… FULL STORY
Ecotrilogy presents 192 columns
Ray Grigg, author of numerous internationally sold books on Eastern philosophy, and an environmental columnist who wrote a weekly Shades of… FULL STORY
#211 A mysterious, difficult architect
ESSAY: The Mysterious and Difficult Hermann Otto Tiedemann By Robert Ratcliffe Taylor * In this Ormsby exclusive, Robert (Rob) Ratcliffe… FULL STORY
Bill Stenson’s hard-won ascendancy
Mother Tongue Publishing of Salt Spring Island B.C. has announced Bill Stenson has won its 4th Great BC Novel Contest… FULL STORY
#210 Of strawberries & graves
REVIEW: Hallowed Ground: Stories of the Yale Pioneer Cemetery by Ian Brown Victoria: FriesenPress, 2017. $23.95 / 9781525508646 [Available at… FULL STORY
#209 Gary Cristall’s ball
Jeannie Kamins has written and published a VFMF history with a memoir by Gary Cristall who says, “I guess I… FULL STORY
Vancouver Folk Festival: a history
Jeannie Kamins has written and published a VFMF history with a memoir by Gary Cristall who says, “I guess I… FULL STORY
A wilderness of tigers
The Society for the Destitute Presents Titus Bouffonius Adapted from William Shakespeare’s Titus Adronicus by Colleen Murphy Rumble Theatre Cultch… FULL STORY
#208 Autobiography of a WASP
REVIEW: Edges of Empire: A Documentary by Rhodri Jones (Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe) Vancouver: Rarebit Press. 2017. $20.00 / 9780994941237 Reviewed by… FULL STORY
Rafe Mair’s last kick (1931-2017)
Born in Vancouver on December 31, 1931, former CKNW talk show radio host, Social Credit cabinet minister and lawyer Rafe… FULL STORY
A hunk, a hunk of Robbie Burns love
None can match the fervour of adoration felt in B.C. for Robbie Burns–as Fred Braches recalls after his discovery of… FULL STORY
Getting Tecknical
Whereas books pertaining to logging and fishing in British Columbia are common, literary attempts to profile events in the mining… FULL STORY
#207 From the fur trade to UBC
Royal Blood: A Memoir by Laurenda Daniells Vancouver: Paper Trail Publishing, 2016 $22.95. / 9780994930309 Reviewed by Nancy Marguerite Anderson… FULL STORY
A century of student life at UBC
Founded in 1915, UBC Vancouver is one of Canada’s largest campuses, with a total enrollment of 54,000 and an alumni… FULL STORY
Indian Horse gallops into cinema
INDIAN HORSE, THE MOVIE BASED ON RICHARD WAGAMESE’S AWARD-WINNING NOVEL, WILL OPEN IN THEATRES ACROSS CANADA ON APRIL 13th, 2018… FULL STORY
#206 Robbie Burns remembered
Ask someone to name B.C.’s most popular poet and you might hear names such as Earle Birney, bill bissett, Patrick… FULL STORY
#199 Richard Wagamese
LOCATION: Paul Lake, B.C. Paul Lake Provinical Park is a half-hour drive northeast of Kamloops, in the Thompson-Shuswap region While… FULL STORY
#198 Trevor Carolan
LOCATION: Chinese Benevolent Association former headquarters. 500-block Main Street, Vancouver In Return To Stillness: Twenty Years With A Tai Chi… FULL STORY
#205 125,000 reluctant patriots
REVIEW: Reluctant Warriors: Canadian Conscripts and the Great War by Patrick M. Dennis Vancouver: UBC Press, 2017. $39.95 9780774835978 Reviewed… FULL STORY
