Surrey highlighted from 1850s to 1980s
In Surrey: A City of Stories, she has provided a well-researched, engaging, and inclusive historical overview of B.C.’s fast-growing city…. FULL STORY
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Georgia Straight endures & thrives
“Georgia Straight: A 50th Anniversary is a must-read for those interested in B.C. and Lower Mainland life in the last… FULL STORY
Cold feet in Tatshenshini
The walker who came in from the cold is the subject of a new book that has already won the… FULL STORY
Lupick earns top non-fiction honour
“We need new ideas,” says Travis Lupick. “We need to begin talking about legalizing and regulating illicit narcotics. I don’t… FULL STORY
Secwépemc history prevails
Marianne Ignace and Ronald E. Ignace have represented ten thousand years of settlement with Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws: Yerí7… FULL STORY
Norman Bethune and women
In the forthcoming Rediscovering Norman Bethune, Larry Hannant maintains Bethune was not a crass womanizer, as alleged by unreliable biographer… FULL STORY
Alberta/BC & the Great Divide
Jay Sherwood’s superb Surveying the Great Divide recalls how Canada’s longest provincial boundary was formalized by a few brave men… FULL STORY
We came, we saw, we skated
His history begins with early Indigenous bone and wooden skates in Canada and Finland; metal skates were developed in Europe… FULL STORY
Ryga Award shortlist announced
Shortlisted titles are Gary Geddes’ Medicine Unbundled, Travis Lupick’s Fighting for Space and David Suzuki & Ian Hanington’s Just Cool… FULL STORY
Binning House (1941 – ????)
A California book provides a guide to a much-lauded West Vancouver landmark for West Coast architecture. Binning House by Matthew… FULL STORY
Kaho’olawe, the 8th Hawaiian isle
A Grunt Gallery exhibit highlights the social memory of Coast Salish people of Hawaiian ancestry and their return to Hawaii… FULL STORY
High risks, high expectations
Kelowna historian K. Wayne Wilson recommends Douglas Grant’s account of hard work, technological innovation and tenacity.
Going to the dogs
Coren has written one of the world’s bestselling non-fiction books about dogs, The Intelligence of Dogs, as well as Why… FULL STORY
Howe Sound advice
Pauline Le Bel’s Whale in the Door suggests activities and actions to deep readers’ connections to Howe Sound, as well… FULL STORY
The unforgettable Major Matthews
Bizarrely, in 1969, John Pass was hired to take over from Vancouver’s first archivist, an Imperial bulldog from the late… FULL STORY
Ted Hughes: Titan of Fairness
Now Craig McInnes’s candid and engaging biography outlines the achievements of British Columbia’s most respected public servant. The Mighty Hughes:… FULL STORY
The malleable truth
Stephen Wadhams’ The Orwell Tapes is a collection of memories from those who crossed paths with the complex character who… FULL STORY
The young woman and the sea
Refuge in the Black Deck also illustrates how the women of Canada’s military are still required to prove themselves in… FULL STORY
The bane of the British Admirality
The Scotsman Rae was pilloried for daring to report Inuit accounts of cannibalism among the doomed Franklin expedition. Finding John… FULL STORY
Green behind and below the ears
The Green Mackinaw in Europe recalls his adventures in England, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Greece, the former Yugoslavia and Austria. Green… FULL STORY
