BCBookLook adopts an African village
“I went there to learn about a pioneer in the treatment of epilepsy, Dr. Louise Jilek-Aall. And instead I discovered… FULL STORY
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Ormsby #94 Saving the Chilcotin Ark
Now photographer Chris Harris says the Chilcotin Ark, a 2.5 million hectare tract of B.C. wilderness, should be saved from… FULL STORY
Ormsby #88 The Empire Games of ’54
Reviewer Roger Robinson insists the Games helped transform Vancouver from a colonial outpost to a multicultural metropolis. REVIEW: The Miracle Mile…. FULL STORY
Ormsby #92 Of salmon and abalone
In People of the Saltwater, UBC anthropologist Charles Menzies provides an ethnography of his own people, known variously as the… FULL STORY
Ormsby #90 Yellowcake & destruction
Patricia Sandberg recalls happily growing up in a boom town that was a key supplier of uranium in response to… FULL STORY
Ormsby #89 Leishmaniasis in Peru
Vancouver Islander Inge Bolin is now helping a Peruvian “Culture of Respect” eradicate a deadly, disfiguring disease. Inge Bolin’s first… FULL STORY
Ormsby #85: Site C will flood Eden
Mark Eliesen, former CEO of BC Hydro, considers the Site C dam a “white elephant” that will mire Hydro so… FULL STORY
Ormsby #84: The coast was not clear
Captain Colin Henthorne was one of five crewmembers whose employment was eventually terminated by BC Ferries. REVIEW: The Queen of… FULL STORY
Ormsby #81: A Fen fan on Lansdowne
The ROM was showing J. Fenwick Lansdowne’s work in 1956, the Vancouver Art Gallery mounted a one-man show in 1981,… FULL STORY
Ormsby #80: The sanity of diversity
To say that Wade Davis has had an extraordinary, brilliant, and in the end very lucky career, says reviewer David… FULL STORY
Ormsby #79: In praise of grass
His new book recalls tramping 1,000 kilometres through the grasslands of southern B.C. from the border to the Cariboo and… FULL STORY
Ormsby #77: Rubber chicken & sexism
Ginny Ratsoy reviews a surprisingly engaging account of smalltown politics and one woman’s unsuccessful bid for the job of mayor…. FULL STORY
Ormsby #75: Before the flood
Through the eyes of mail-order bride Else Seel, who arrived in the community of Wistaria from Berlin in 1927, Sherwood… FULL STORY
Ormsby #74: Street views pre-Google
Nick Russell celebrates 147 of the City of Victoria’s most noteworthy residences in Glorious Victorian Homes, reviewed by Larry McCann…. FULL STORY
Ormsby #72: Reservations on reserves
Although she was illiterate, her activism and distrust of the male hierarchy resulted in her Squamish people rejecting self-government to… FULL STORY
Ormsby #70: Booze once ruled Victoria
Refused, she took the case to the B.C. Supreme court and won the right for women to drink in public… FULL STORY
Ormsby #66: Scorn for media moguls
“I feel like we are being robbed blind, mugged by the oligarchs, and fed a diet of content you wouldn’t… FULL STORY
Oxymoronic sustainable development
The Sustainability Dilemma recounts the B.C. Forest Service’s efforts to manage the forests before “sustainability” began to trip lightly off the… FULL STORY
From Irish Sea to Salish Sea
A sublime casting director gathers sixty years of fish lit with conservation concerns always on his mind. “How fortunate we… FULL STORY
A fox behind a smile
Her biographer Judi Tyabji believes Clark is much more than “a heartless, arrogant, corporate sellout.” REVIEW: Christy Clark: Behind the Smile… FULL STORY
