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Jim Wong-Chu (1949-2017)

With the passing last week of Vancouver poet, activist and mentor, Jim Wong-Chu, Vancouver lost a pioneer of the Asian… FULL STORY

An Ojibway from the Wabasseemoong First Nation in northwestern Ontario, Richard Wagamese was born in Minaki, Ontario, on October 14,… FULL STORY

The founder of Mosaic Books in Kelowna, the Okanagan’s largest independent bookstore for almost 50 years, has died. Rhoda B…. FULL STORY

Beloved Peace River librarian Howard Overend has died at age 98 in Mission, having published his memoirs as Book Guy:… FULL STORY

A memorial gathering will be held on October 30th. B.C.’s first independent book publisher was arguably Father Adrien-Gabriel Morice. A… FULL STORY

Born in Winnipeg on June 7, 1944, Samuel Bawlf of Saltspring Island was a former Social Credit cabinet minister who… FULL STORY

Larry Loyie (aka Oskiniko) was born in Slave Lake, Alberta, where he spent his early years living a traditional Cree… FULL STORY

Respected and loved as a teacher and an ‘enabler,’ Dona Sturmanis died in the Okanagan of cancer at age 60… FULL STORY

Elizabeth Fischer In October of 2015, multi-media artist Elizabeth Fischer, at age 68, decided she ought to end her life… FULL STORY

Born on February 5, 1941, Dennis Wayne Skene died in Surrey after a lengthy illness on July 5, 2015. “Wayne’s… FULL STORY

Peter Culley lived in South Wellington, near Nanaimo, since the age of 14. Born in 1958, he had grown up… FULL STORY

As one of British Columbia’s most integral grass roots feminists, Mary Billy was the editor of Herspectives magazine from 1989-1995,… FULL STORY

Leonard McCann has died of pneumonia at Burnaby Hospital on Friday, March 27. He was 88. The Vancouver Maritime Museum… FULL STORY