#66 The demise of news
REVIEW: No News is Bad News: Canada’s Media Collapse — and What Comes Next By Ian Gill, foreword by Margo Goodhand Vancouver: Greystone… FULL STORY
Author Archive
From forklift to fiction
Born in Vancouver in 1953, Vic Cavalli has been teaching English at the university level since 1987, and Creative Writing… FULL STORY
#65 Happy New Year
I’m having some repairs done on the sardine can. I might check myself into the mental before it’s over. Got… FULL STORY
From Vespa to Land Rover
In a tribute to the model of Land Rover known as “the Defender”, the production of which was discontinued in… FULL STORY
A fox behind a smile
Her biographer Judi Tyabji believes Clark is much more than “a heartless, arrogant, corporate sellout.” REVIEW: Christy Clark: Behind the Smile… FULL STORY
#65 A fox behind a smile
REVIEW: Christy Clark: Behind the Smile by Judi Tyabji Victoria: Heritage House, 2016. $ 32.95 / 9781772031065 Reviewed by John Douglas… FULL STORY
#64 Growth of a Man
ESSAY: For good or ill, Harvey Reginald (H.R.) MacMillan (1885-1976) is a name synonymous with the forestry business in British… FULL STORY
Alice Ravenhill: Never Say Die
Copyright © 2016 by Mary Leah de Zwart All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be… FULL STORY
Chapter One
A Visit from Francis [1] Alice Ravenhill collected her going-out items from the room she shared with her sister Edith… FULL STORY
Chapter Two
Offering Service to Canada (1910-1926) The Shawnigan Lake community that Alice and Edith Ravenhill saw in November of 1910 combined… FULL STORY
Chapter Three
Sixty-Seven Years Old and What Next? As some of Alice Ravenhill’s critics have noticed, she had little previous knowledge in… FULL STORY
Chapter Four
The Tale Behind the Tale The lounge of the Windermere Hotel was busy on the evening of December 27, 1939…. FULL STORY
Chapter Five
Meeting Mr. Coyote “Oh good, it’s Friday” Clarence Walkem[1] said to his best friend, Oliver Stewart. It had been a… FULL STORY
Chapter Six
Getting It All Done The summons came just after lunchtime on August 23, 1941. “Miss Ravenhill” the anxious voice of… FULL STORY
Chapter Seven
The Last Ten Years The view out the corner window of the Aged and Infirm Old Women’s Home at 857… FULL STORY
Chapter Eight
What’s It All About? What have we learned about Alice Ravenhill? How was she shaped by her family background and… FULL STORY
From Robert’s to Partridge
That many readers attend and lead meetings is a fact of life; that many also look for ways to make… FULL STORY
The true north origins of B.C.
Anthony Kenyon’s The Recorded History of the Liard Basin 1790-1910: Where British Columbia Joins the Yukon and N.W.T. is a… FULL STORY
#63 An Imperial crackpot in B.C.
REVIEW: Guilty But Insane: J.C. Bowen-Colthurst — Villain or Victim? by James W. Taylor Cork, Ireland: Mercier Press, 2016. €14.99 / 978-1781174210 Reviewed… FULL STORY
#86 From Malaspina to the Andes
Inge Bolin’s first novel, When Condors Call (Nanaimo: Chaska Publications, 2010) follows a young physician from the Peruvian Andes in… FULL STORY
