#120 Jane Rule
LOCATION: “Writers’ Corner,” Cemetery, Galiano Island. DIRECTIONS: From the main ferry dock, you can walk for about an hour, taking… FULL STORY
Literary Landmarks
#119 Alice Munro
LOCATION: Kitsilano Public Library, 2425 MacDonald St., Vancouver The first Canadian author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, Alice… FULL STORY
#118 Tom Wayman
LOCATION: 1111 Commercial Drive, Vancouver The Vancouver Industrial Writers’ Union (1979-1993) staged many readings throughout the 1980s at La Quena… FULL STORY
#117 Ethel Wilson
LOCATION: Kensington Place Apartments, 1386 Nicola Street, at Pacific Avenue, Vancouver Born in 1888, Ethel Wilson was Vancouver’s most respected… FULL STORY
#116 Michael Turner
LOCATION: Northeast corner of Gladstone and Kingsway (2211 Kingsway). As described in Michael Turner‘s third book, Kingsway, here the Gladstone… FULL STORY
#115 John Twigg
LOCATION: West Coast Trail, Vancouver Island Born on March 9, 1949 in North Vancouver and raised in West Vancouver, John… FULL STORY
#114 Malcolm Lowry
LOCATION: Harwood Bandstand, 1755 Beach Avenue @ Bidwell Street, Vancouver. Malcolm Lowry was an alcoholic novelist whose relationship to Vancouver… FULL STORY
#113 Dorothy Livesay
LOCATION: English Bay, Vancouver [near the former bathhouses] Few locales have evoked more poetic response than English Bay. In his… FULL STORY
#112 Patrick Moore
LOCATION: Winter Harbour, Vancouver Island. Northwest corner of Vancouver Island, south of Cape Scott, north of Brooks Peninsula, at the… FULL STORY
#111 Margaret Laurence
LOCATION: 3556 West 21st Avenue, Vancouver Canada’s most revered novelist in the 1970s, Margaret Laurence, wrote the first draft of… FULL STORY
#110 Joy Kogawa
LOCATION: Joy Kogawa House, 1450 West 64th Avenue, Marpole district, Vancouver This house was confiscated from the Kogawa family under… FULL STORY
#109 D.M. Fraser
LOCATION: 4394 Main Street, Vancouver D.M. Fraser lived above Morris’s Second Hand Store at this location in an apartment dubbed… FULL STORY
#108 Brian Fawcett
LOCATION: Prince George In the early 1970s, Brian Fawcett first notably wrote about his hometown of Prince George and its… FULL STORY
#107 Anne Cameron
LOCATION: Press Gang, 603 Powell Street, former headquarters of Press Gang Publishing The bestselling book of B.C. fiction from a… FULL STORY
#106 Frank Calder
LOCATION: Atlin And you thought Atlin wouldn’t have any literary history… Here are ten literary connections to the town next… FULL STORY
#105 bill bissett
LOCATION: Vancouver Art Gallery, 750 Hornby Street As much a painter as he is a poet, bill bissett has supported… FULL STORY
#104 Earle Birney
LOCATION: “Lieben” Writers Colony, ten acres of now forested land situated below 1390 Eaglecliff Road, Bowen Island. DIRECTIONS: From Snug… FULL STORY
#103 Jeannette Armstrong
LOCATION: En’owkin Centre, Lot 45, Green Mountain Road, Penticton Indian Reserve In 1989, Jeannette Armstrong oversaw the creation of the… FULL STORY
#102 Yosef Wosk
LOCATION: 2, Street of Light, Israel Torah Research Institute, Jerusalem [Yeshivas Itri] The Vancouver-born poet, philosopher, rabbi, philanthropist, scholar, educator… FULL STORY
#101 Renee Rodin
LOCATION: 2742 West 4th Avenue, former site of R2B2 Books, Vancouver Active in the literary community on a variety of… FULL STORY
