R.I.P. David Kerfoot (1948 – 2020)
Born in Kelowna in 1948, one of B.C.’s well-known booksellers, David Kerfoot, died of cancer on January 11 at Vancouver… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
Robin Ridington
Robin Ridington began working with the Beaver Indians, or Dane-zaa, in 1964; his wife Jillian began working with the Dane-zaa… FULL STORY
An Eden in our midst
The Fraser River is B.C.’s largest, most ecologically diverse and productive waterway. Between the towns of Hope and Mission is… FULL STORY
B.C.’s great hunting guide
With retired journalist Andrew Bruce Richards, Hiram Cody Tegart wrote his memoirs about being a hunting guide in B.C.’s Columbia… FULL STORY
From Harvey River to Halfmoon Bay
Lorna Goodison, of Halfmoon Bay, B.C. (there is a Halfmoon Bay in Jamaica as well) has won the annual Queen’s… FULL STORY
Yamagishi novel shortlisted
Canadian author, Kunio Yamagishi’s The Return of a Shadow (London, Austin Macauley, 2018) was one of eight books shortlisted in… FULL STORY
Man of destiny
Jesse Donaldson’s new book, Land of Destiny: A History of Vancouver Real Estate (Anvil $20) will be launched December 19…. FULL STORY
Grieving a stillbirth
Thirty-nine weeks and six days pregnant, Emma Hansen’s baby stops moving inside of her. Doctors confirm her baby is dead… FULL STORY
The iconic polar bear
Although natural historians began writing about the polar bear as early as the mid-eighteenth century, it wasn’t until 1971 that… FULL STORY
An over-anxious wiener dog
Winner of the 2019 Victoria Children’s Book Prize for her debut picture book, Sterling, Best Dog Ever (Farrar, Straus and… FULL STORY
Saving wild birds
Eight-year-old Gabi accidentally drops food one day that a crow swoops down and eats. A few days later, Gabi drops… FULL STORY
Wagging the dog
Founder of the blog, Companion Animal Psychology, where she writes about training methods and the human-dog relationship, Zazie Todd has… FULL STORY
Black sheep of the tribe
Mad Hatter by Amanda Hale (Guernica Editions, 2019 $29.95) Reviewed by Sally Campbell * Some books are simply better than… FULL STORY
Natelle Fitzgerald
When journalism graduate Natelle Fitzgerald of tiny Beaton, B.C. (formerly Thomson’s Landing, at the head of Upper Arrow Lake) isn’t… FULL STORY
Shotguns in libraries
Librarians not only help readers find books, some also write them. Cranbrook Public Library’s community development librarian is the latter…. FULL STORY
Vancouver’s brave new architecture
What particularly impressed a mandarin from the east, Robert H. Hubbard, were the West Coast architects who were designing a… FULL STORY
Karen Schauber
Montreal-raised Karen Schauber edited The Group of Seven Reimagined: Contemporary Stories Inspired by Historic Canadian Paintings (Heritage 2019), an anthology… FULL STORY
Peter Ward and why we bathe so much
In the Western world, we bathe and change clothes often. At least, far more often than our ancestors did according… FULL STORY
When Gary Karlsen ran away to sea
Fresh out of high school in 1965, Vancouver’s Gary Karlsen was expected to go to university. He had other ideas…. FULL STORY
Sara Panton
Sara Panton, co-founder of essential oil company vitruvi has written Essential Well Being: A Modern Guide to Using Essential Oils… FULL STORY
