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Literary Landmarks

#140 Margaret Craven

LOCATION: Kwakwaka’wakw community of Kingcome Inlet, located about 500 kilometres north of Vancouver, and five kilometres up a shallow fjord…. FULL STORY

#139 Sidney Cole

LOCATION: Bethlehem Copper mine (renamed Highland Valley Copper), at Logan Lake, 27 miles east of Ashcroft, southwest of Kamloops. 50°30’9″N… FULL STORY

#138 Winston Churchill

LOCATION: Mount Winston, on the west side of Kechika River, south-east of Mount Skook Davidson, Cassiar Land District; Denetiah Provincial… FULL STORY

#137 Nathalie Chambers

LOCATION: Madrona Farm, 4317 Blenkinsop Road. Directions: a 12-minute drive to Saanich from downtown Victoria. Canada needs more farmland and… FULL STORY

#136 Maureen Brownlee

LOCATION: Valley Sentinel community newspaper, 1012 Commercial Street, Valemount Maureen Brownlee grew up in the farming community of Dunster in… FULL STORY

#135 Gerry Bracewell

LOCATION: Alpine Wilderness Lodge, nestled against the south end of Potato Mountain, south of Tatlayoko Lake, in Tatlayoko Valley, four… FULL STORY

#134 Sadhu Binning

LOCATION: Fraser & 49th Avenue, Vancouver Sadhu Binning’s fiction collection in English, Fauji Banta Singh & Other Stories (2014), examines… FULL STORY

#133 Lily Adams Beck

LOCATION: About ten minutes drive from Empress Hotel, via Fairfield Road, adjoining Beach Drive in Oak Bay, is the short… FULL STORY

#132 Lynne Bowen

LOCATION: Courthouse, 35 Front Street, Nanaimo In Lynne Bowen’s Boss Whistle (1982), she describes the Big Strike (1912-1914) of coal… FULL STORY

#131 Al Purdy

LOCATION: Al Purdy Electrical Box, 7th Avenue & Beacon Street, ‘Sidney Booktown’, Sidney. Like Pauline Johnson who also came to… FULL STORY

#130 Luisa Maria Celis

LOCATION: Plaza Bolivar, Caracas. The cathedral at the intersection of Avenida Sur and Avenida Este 0 marks the spot where… FULL STORY

#129 Robert Service

LOCATION: Robert Service Memorial Park, Cowichan Bay, Duncan. DIRECTIONS: When you’re driving on Cowichan Bay Road on Vancouver Island, towards… FULL STORY

#128 Roderick Haig-Brown

LOCATION: Above Tide, 2250 Campbell River Road, Campbell River. DIRECTIONS: Turn left onto Highway 19A from Highway 19 if proceeding… FULL STORY

#127 Eric Nicol

LOCATION: Walk of Fame, North Plaza, Library Square, 350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver In 1995, humourist Eric Nicol fittingly became… FULL STORY

#126 Marina Sonkina

LOCATION: 17 Arbat Street, Moscow Marina Sonkina grew up in Moscow, about two kilometres from the Kremlin on a famous… FULL STORY

#125 David Suzuki

LOCATION: David Suzuki Foundation, #219, 2211 West Fourth Avenue, Vancouver. One of the few British Columbians who needs little or… FULL STORY

#123 Ernest Hekkanen

LOCATION: New Orphic Gallery, 706 Mill Street, Nelson. Directions: Near the intersection of Mill and Hall, four blocks from Selkirk… FULL STORY

#122 Robin Skelton

LOCATION: 1255 Victoria Avenue, Victoria For many decades Robin Skelton lived here with wife as the major literary presence in… FULL STORY

#121 Peter Trower

LOCATION: Site of former Alcazar Hotel, corner of Dunsmuir & Homer Peter Trower, one of B.C.’s finest poets, drank here… FULL STORY

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