Saint X & the boy
Now there is a sixth. The only little boy with blond hair that Saint-Exupéry knew at all well during the… FULL STORY
B.C. History
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
Mapping the way back home
From 1975 to 2009, Neil Sterritt and his family lived at Temlaham Ranch, the site of a Gitxsan ancestral village… FULL STORY
Struggles & triumphs
A journalist since 1990, order Ding Guo has contributed to World Economic Review magazine, China Times Weekly, World Journal, Asian… FULL STORY
Commodore gets its due
In recent memory, most people know the iconic Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver has played host to musical greats like The… FULL STORY
We built submarines in Burnaby
Nothing remains of the factory now other than a creek named in its honour, but in its heyday, safely concealed… FULL STORY
Unearthing B.C. History
By Arthur Joyce For an historian, it’s a rare day you get to unearth and publish an original manuscript. Cole… FULL STORY
Secret graves
You’ve heard of Ellis Island, the processing station in New York harbour for millions of immigrants who came to America… FULL STORY
A Miner celebrity
At the outset of the Philip Borsos movie The Grey Fox, often cited as one of the best Canadian films… FULL STORY
Tilly & her sisters
Has anyone noticed? We’ve had a flurry of books only about the lives of individual First Nations women of BC…. FULL STORY
