#40 Eric Collier
LOCATION: Heritage cabin, Meldrum Creek, near Riske Creek. Directions: A rough road leads off the Chilcotin-Bella Coola Highway 20 at… FULL STORY
Literary Landmarks
#39 Wayson Choy
LOCATION: 15 East Pender. Former headquarters of the Jin Wah Sing Musical Association. Wayson Choy emerged foremost among Chinese Canadian… FULL STORY
#38 Lily Chow
LOCATION: Chee Duck Tong building, 197 Quebec Street, Prince George Lily Chow’s father-in-law, Chung Chow, paid the Head Tax of… FULL STORY
#37 Robbie Burns
LOCATION: Adjoining the putting green in Beacon Hill Park, Victoria N 48° 24.764 W 123° 21.882 ROBBIE BURNS IN VICTORIA… FULL STORY
#36 Charles Bukowski
LOCATION: Viking Inn, 828 East Hastings, Vancouver When Charles ‘Hank’ Bukowski made his first trip to Canada in October of… FULL STORY
#35 Charlotte Cameron
LOCATION: Surf Lodge, 885 Berry Point Road, Gabriola Island In 1946, Malcolm Lowry and his wife Margerie took a small… FULL STORY
#34 Eve Lazarus
LOCATION: North of Beaver Lake, Stanley Park In 1953, the skeletons of two little boys were uncovered by a Vancouver… FULL STORY
#33 Ronald Wright
LOCATION: Ollantaytambo, near Cusco, Peru “The urge to write about Peru first came to me when I was ill and… FULL STORY
#32 Marilyn Bowering
LOCATION: Tobhta nan Craobh, aka the ruins of Mary MacLeod’s house, at Berneray, Hebrides, Scotland. DIRECTIONS. Berneray is attached to… FULL STORY
#31 Terry Glavin
LOCATION: Bell tower, Fraser River Heritage Park, Mission. DIRECTIONS: Drive east for an hour-and-forty minutes from Vancouver. In Mission, ascend… FULL STORY
#30 Susan Musgrave
LOCATION: Copper Beech House, 1590 Delkatla Road, Masset, Haida Gwaii Susan Musgrave has been the guest house proprietor and owner… FULL STORY
#29 Michelle Barker
LOCATION: Bielkowo (formerly the German village of Beelkow), within Koszalin County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, north-western Poland, near the Baltic Sea…. FULL STORY
#28 John Pass & Theresa Kishkan
LOCATION: Intersection of May and Memorial, adjacent the Ross Bay cemetery, Victoria Before they took up long-term residency as parents… FULL STORY
#27 Jilek-Aall, Louise
LOCATION: Mahenge Epilepsy Clinic, Mahenge, Tanzania; south east of Singida, in the miombo woodland bio-region, Morogoro Region of Tanzania. 8°… FULL STORY
#26 Stella Leventoyannis Harvey
LOCATION: Kalavryta Museum, Peloponnese, Greece DIRECTIONS: Drive from Athens to Diakofto, then up into the mountains. Despite being occupied many… FULL STORY
#25 Harold Rhenisch
LOCATION: Klaustrið (the Monastery), Gunnar Gunnarsson House, 701 Egilsstöðum, Skriðuklaustur, Iceland Harold Rhenisch (at right, at Go∂afoss, Iceland) successfully applied… FULL STORY
#24 Jay Ruzesky
LOCATION: Hydrurga Rocks, Two Hummock Island, Antarctica Hydrurga Rocks are a collection of rocks just off Two Hummock Island named… FULL STORY
#23 Katharina Rout
LOCATION: Tsengel Khairkhan (“Delight Holy Mountain”), Tsengelkhayrkhan range, near the westernmost inhabited place in Mongolia DIRECTIONS: Approachable via Ölgii, capital… FULL STORY
#22 Sandy Shreve
LOCATION: Vancouver Transit Centre, 9149 Hudson Street, Vancouver In 1995, community activist and poet Sandy Shreve put together a proposal… FULL STORY
#21 George Bowering
LOCATION: Cecil Hotel, 1336 Granville Street, Vancouver Here stood the Cecil Hotel where TISH poet and UBC student Dan McLeod… FULL STORY
