#160 Leonard N. Neufeldt
LOCATION: Yarrow Library, 4670 Community Street, Yarrow, Fraser Valley, 90 kilometres east of Vancouver, 12 miles southwest of Chilliwack. DIRECTIONS:… FULL STORY
Literary Landmarks
#159 Al Neil
LOCATION: 222 East Broadway, Vancouver This was the location of The Cellar, founded in 1956, as Vancouver’s foremost jazz venue,… FULL STORY
#158 Alexandra Morton
LOCATION: Echo Bay, on Gilford Island The most prolific literary town in Canada on a per capita basis has got… FULL STORY
#157 Adrien-Gabriel Morice
LOCATION: Camp Morice, in Sowchea Bay, Stuart Lake, near Fort St. James. DIRECTIONS: 11 kilometres from Fort St. James. Head… FULL STORY
#156 Arthur Mayse
LOCATION: 3912 S Island Highway, at Stories Beach, north of Oyster Bay, 15 minutes south of Campbell River. Veteran scribes… FULL STORY
#155 J.S. Matthews
LOCATION: 1158 Arbutus Street. Major J.S. Matthews, who was Vancouver’s foremost civic historian prior to Chuck Davis, lived at this… FULL STORY
#154 Grant Lawrence
LOCATION: Desolation Sound Marine Park, at the confluence of Malaspina Inlet and Homfray Channel, 32 km north of Powell River…. FULL STORY
#153 Tim Lander
LOCATION: The Bookstore on Bastion Street. 1 Bastion Street, Nanaimo. Long the literary hub of the province’s “hub city” of… FULL STORY
#152 Debra Komar
LOCATION: Fort Stikine, near the mouth of the Stikine River, on Etolin Island, between Prince of Wales Island to the… FULL STORY
#151 Roy Kiyooka
LOCATION: 600 Block Keefer Street. Roy Kiyooka and his then-partner Daphne Marlatt moved onto this street soon after he published… FULL STORY
#150 Rudyard Kipling
LOCATION: 339 West Pender, site of the Acland Hood Hall, aka Pender Hall, Dominion Hall and Boilermakers Hall. Perhaps the… FULL STORY
#149 Peter Johnson
LOCATION: William Head Quarantine Station, near William Head Prison, via William Head Road, (between Parry Bay and Pedder Bay, north… FULL STORY
#148 Zaccheus Jackson
LOCATION: Café Deux Soleils, 2096 Commercial Drive, Vancouver. Here, in 2005, at this vegetarian restaurant, Zaccheus Jackson Nyce made his… FULL STORY
#147 Anosh Irani
LOCATION: 1181 Seymour Street, original site of The Arts Club. Having grown up near Kamhathipura, Bombay’s red-light district, Anosh Irani… FULL STORY
#146 Steven Hunter
LOCATION: Big Lake Ranch, 55 km. northeast of Williams Lake, on the road to Likely, on the Cariboo gold rush… FULL STORY
#145 Matti Halminen
LOCATION: The isolated village of Sointula, on Malcolm Island, is located northeast of Port McNeil, as part of Vancouver Island,… FULL STORY
#144 John Galsworthy
LOCATION: 1151 Milton Street, site of the #1 Esplanade mine, Nanaimo. It’s well-known that John Galsworthy won the Nobel Prize… FULL STORY
#143 Randy Fred
LOCATION: The Bookstore on Bastion Street, 76 Bastion Street, Nanaimo. A nephew of George Clutesi, Randy Fred of the Nuu-chah-nulth… FULL STORY
#142 Gordon Elliott
LOCATION: Simon Fraser Unversity, Burnaby. When Simon Fraser University opened in 1965, the only B.C.-born member of the English faculty… FULL STORY
#141 Ralph Edwards
LOCATION: Lonesome Lake, Atnarko Valley, 60 miles east of Bella Coola. In February of 1956, Ralph Edwards and his wife… FULL STORY
