OBIT: Truman Green (1945-2021)
By Alan Twigg “His was the first black novel to come out of Western Canada and it got passed over.”… FULL STORY
Obits
OBIT: Robert R. Reid (1927–2022)
By Alan Twigg “As for computer-generated type and the personal computer, an association would have been as unthinkable as making… FULL STORY
OBITUARY – Louise Jilek-Aall
By Alan Twigg The heroic physician and psychiatrist Louise Jilek-Aall (at right), author of two books, has died at Mountain… FULL STORY
Lee Maracle 1950 – 2021
One of the first Indigenous writers in Canada to publish fiction, Lee Maracle died at the age of 71 on… FULL STORY
Ray Woollam (1927 – 2021)
Born on December 27, 1927, Ray Woollam taught school in Kispiox, B.C. and served as a United Church Minister in… FULL STORY
Jerry Zaslove (1934 – 2021)
Professor emeritus at Simon Fraser University in the departments of English and Humanities, Jerry Zaslove died June 23. His publications… FULL STORY
James Heneghan 1930 – 2021
Born in Liverpool on October 7, 1930, James Heneghan came to Vancouver in 1957 where he eventually began writing fiction… FULL STORY
Jack White 1940 – 2021
One of B.C.’s most successful historical novelists, Jack Whyte has died. At the age of 52, Whyte burst onto the… FULL STORY
Silver Donald Cameron (1937 – 2020)
The maritime writer known as Silver Donald Cameron died on June 1, 2020 in Halifax from complications arising from lung… FULL STORY
Neil Sterritt (1941 – 2020)
Neil Sterritt, winner of BC Book Prizes’ 2017 Roderick Haig-Brown for the best book to contribute to the understanding and… FULL STORY
OBIT Ken Belford (1946 – 2020)
The poet and environmentalist Ken Belford, author of Talonbooks’ first published book in 1967, Fireweed, died in Prince George on… FULL STORY
Trevor Clark (1955-2019)
Born in Toronto in 1955, ex-Vancouverite Trevor Clark died in Montreal on April 4, 2019. Clark, who moved to Vancouver… FULL STORY
#566 George Payerle (1945-2019)
George Thomas Payerle was a founding member of the Writers Union of Canada. His major novel Unknown Soldier was reviewed… FULL STORY
Greg Younging (1961 – 2019)
Formerly an Assistant Director of Research for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Dr. Greg Younging died at the… FULL STORY
Wayson Choy (1939-2019)
At age 80, Wayson Choy has died at home on April 28, 2019. Wayson Choy was born on April 20,… FULL STORY
Patrick Lane: Poet, mentor, pool shark
Patrick Lane has died of a heart attack on March 7, 2019. A free community gathering to honour and remember… FULL STORY
#486 Edith Iglauer obituary
LITERARY LOCATION: 5192 Claydon Road, Garden Bay, Sunshine Coast Having lived for many decades in a waterfront cottage that was… FULL STORY
Jim Taylor (1937-2019)
Born on March 16, 1937 in Nipawin, Saskatchewan, Jim Taylor died on January 7, 2019, at the age of 82…. FULL STORY
Eldon Lee (1923 – 2018)
The endurance of B.C.’s pioneer doctors was only surpassed by that of their wives according to Eldon Lee, when he… FULL STORY
Dave Perrin
Dave Perrin has died on August 6th, 2018, in Calgary, Alberta at the Foothills Medical Center at age 70. A… FULL STORY
