#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
Literary Landmarks
#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
#197 Jan Peterson
LOCATION: Nanaimo Harbour Walk, Nanaimo. While industrialist Robert Dunsmuir has long been recognized as the most important figure in nineteenth… FULL STORY
#196 Jay Clarke / Michael Slade
LOCATION: 919 Robson Street, formerly the main outlet for Duthie Books At this location in 1957, next to the Vancouver… FULL STORY
#195 Jim Wong-Chu
LOCATION: 311 East 41st Avenue, Vancouver Here Jim Wong-Chu did most of his writing for Chinatown Ghosts, the first commercially… FULL STORY
#195 Madeleine Thien
LOCATION 245 East Broadway, Vancouver Before Ricepaper went digital-only in 2016, this was the main editorial address of the publication… FULL STORY
#194 Althea Moody
LOCATION: Yale Historic Site, 31187 Douglas Street, Yale The wonderful little Yale Museum is the main repository for archival materials… FULL STORY
#193 David Day
LOCATION: Rocky Point, District of Metchosin, Vancouver Island. If asked to name B.C.’s topselling authors, few would cite Toronto-based David… FULL STORY
#192 Andreas Schroeder
LOCATION: 900 Block West 7th Avenue. Long before Andreas Schroeder led Canada to adopt Public Lending Right and helped found… FULL STORY
#191 Daphne Marlatt
LOCATION: Burrard Bridge, Vancouver. Daphne Marlatt was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2006 and became the 19th recipient… FULL STORY
#190 Evelyn Lau
LOCATION: Quayside Marina, at the foot of Davie St. & Marinaside Crescent, Vancouver Evelyn Lau walks this stretch of seawall… FULL STORY
#189 Pauline Johnson
LOCATION: Pauline Johnson monument. Above Third Beach, near Stanley Park tearoom. When Canada’s most famous First Nations poet, Pauline Johnson,… FULL STORY
#188 W.P. Kinsella
LOCATION: Former residence, #1607, 1188 Howe Street, Vancouver W.P. (Bill) Kinsella lived here in a condominium in the late-1990s. His… FULL STORY
#187 Raymond Hull
LOCATION: Former site of central branch of Vancouver Public Library, Burrard Street at the corner of Robson. One of the… FULL STORY
#186 George Fetherling
LOCATION: Sylvia Hotel, 1154 Gilford Street, on English Bay near Stanley Park, Vancouver Probably the consistently best-known haunt for literary… FULL STORY
#185 Samuel Bawlf
LOCATION: Sam’s Deli, in the Belmont Building, 805 Government Street, Victoria This deli was founded by Sam Bawlf in 1972,… FULL STORY
#184 Margaret Atwood
LOCATION: 3886 West 11th Avenue, Vancouver. One of Canada’s foremost authors, Margaret Atwood lived here in 1964-1965 while working as… FULL STORY
#183 Wuitchik, Michael
LOCATION: Sumbuya, on the Sewa River, Sierra Leone DIRECTIONS: Take the main road from Freetown, through Hastings, through the market… FULL STORY
#182 Neil Sterritt
LOCATION: Temlaham Ranch, on Skeena River, near Chicago Creek, 55″ 13.5′ north and 127″ 41.5’ west From 1975 to 2009,… FULL STORY
#181 Chris Plant
LOCATION: Moha, closest community to the birthplaces of both New Catalyst and Lived Experience. DIRECTIONS: Moha had a post office… FULL STORY
