#75 Before the flood
REVIEW: Ootsa Lake Odyssey: George and Else Seel — A Pioneer Life on the Headwaters of the Nechako Watershed by… FULL STORY
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Ormsby #74: Street views pre-Google
Nick Russell celebrates 147 of the City of Victoria’s most noteworthy residences in Glorious Victorian Homes, reviewed by Larry McCann…. FULL STORY
#74 Street views before Google
REVIEW: Glorious Victorian Homes: 150 Years of Architectural History in British Columbia’s Capital By Nick Russell Victoria: TouchWood Editions, 2016…. FULL STORY
#73 Taking John Jacob Astor risks
REVIEW: The Fur Trade Gamble: North West Company on the Pacific Slope, 1800-1820 by Lloyd Keith and John C. Jackson… FULL STORY
Ormsby #72: Reservations on reserves
Although she was illiterate, her activism and distrust of the male hierarchy resulted in her Squamish people rejecting self-government to… FULL STORY
#72 Reservations about reserve biz
REVIEW: The Amazing Mazie Baker: the Squamish Nation’s Warrior Elder by Kay Johnston Halfmoon Bay: Caitlin Press, 2016. $24.95 / 978-1-987915-06-8… FULL STORY
#71 Put down your smartphone
REVIEW: Jon Turk’s Crocodiles and Ice (Oolichan 2016) By Jeremy Twigg If you’ve ever wondered how to survive a crocodile… FULL STORY
Ormsby #70: Booze once ruled Victoria
Refused, she took the case to the B.C. Supreme court and won the right for women to drink in public… FULL STORY
#70 Aqua Vitae means booze
REVIEW: Aqua Vitae: A History of the Saloons and Hotel Bars of Victoria. 1851-1917 Glen A. Mofford TouchWood Editions, Victoria,… FULL STORY
Robbie Burns’ long-suffering wife
Published on Robert Burns Day, January 25th, Melanie Murray’s second book, Should Auld Acquaintance: Discovering the Woman Behind Robert Burns… FULL STORY
The Art of Arthur
Arthur (Art) Maitland Twigg was a proud British Columbian who self-published a hardcover history called Union Steamships Remembered 1920-1958, a… FULL STORY
Ormsby #66: Scorn for media moguls
“I feel like we are being robbed blind, mugged by the oligarchs, and fed a diet of content you wouldn’t… FULL STORY
Zoey Leigh Peterson has published her first novel, Next Year, For Sure (Penguin Random House $22) about longtime romantic partners Kathryn… FULL STORY
Oxymoronic sustainable development
The Sustainability Dilemma recounts the B.C. Forest Service’s efforts to manage the forests before “sustainability” began to trip lightly off the… FULL STORY
#69 Balloons & oxymorons
REVIEW: The Sustainability Dilemma: Essays on British Columbia Forest and Environmental History by Robert Griffin and Richard A. Rajala Victoria: Victoria:… FULL STORY
#68 Won Alexander Cumyow
ARTICLE: As the Vancouver School Board’s newest school is being built for 520 elementary students at the edge of Chinatown,… FULL STORY
#67 In praise of Drinkwater Library
ESSAY: A Denman Island Porch Song… By Bill Engleson Once a week, every Wednesday from 1-4 in the afternoon, I… FULL STORY
Learning with Levings
Colin Levings’ encyclopedic treatment of how sea going salmon, trout and char make their transition from fresh to salt water… FULL STORY
Why the Pisa Tower leans
Trevor Newland’s Race to Pisa! (Mosaic $14.95) reveals the real reason why the world-famous Tower of Pisa leans a little… FULL STORY
From Irish Sea to Salish Sea
A sublime casting director gathers sixty years of fish lit with conservation concerns always on his mind. “How fortunate we… FULL STORY
