#172 Scottish lilt, without the kilt
REVIEW: The Nor’ Wester by David Starr Vancouver: Ronsdale Press, 2017. $11.95 978-1-55380-493-2 Reviewed by Steve Pocock David Starr’s… FULL STORY
THE ORMSBY REVIEW: non-fiction
#171 Florence, Dante and Me
REVIEW: Florence, Dante and Me (Godwin Books 2017) Robert Stuart Thomson unpriced 978-0-99587-600-2 by Beverly Cramp * It’s the… FULL STORY
#170 Midwifery, bongos & blue boxes
Canadian Countercultures and the Environment Colin M. Coates (editor) Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2016. $34.95 / 978-1-55238-814-3 reviewed by… FULL STORY
#169 A hero in the garden
Some Useful Wild Plants: A Foraging Guide to Food and Medicine from Nature by Dan Jason Madeira Park: Harbour Publishing,… FULL STORY
#168 Feminist shareholders meet
REVIEW: Making Room; Forty Years of Room Magazine Edited by the Meghan Bell and the Growing Room Collective Vancouver and… FULL STORY
#167 Depths of Shaughnessy Heights
August 31st, 2017 The White Angel by John MacLachlan Gray Madeira Park: Douglas & McIntyre, 2017. $29.95 978-1-77162-146-5 Reviewed by… FULL STORY
#166 Raven’s hunt for female genitalia
REVIEW: Entering Time: The Fungus Man Platters of Charles Edenshaw by Colin Browne Vancouver: Talon Books, 2016. $19.95. 9781772010398 Reviewed by… FULL STORY
#165 Alaska Highway — before GPS
REVIEW: Beyond Mile Zero: The Vanishing Alaska Highway Lodge Community by Lily Gontard (text) and Mark Kelly (photographs) Madeira Park: Harbour… FULL STORY
#164 Cuba from the inside
For anyone with an abiding love or interest in Cuba, there are many books about the place–more than ten of… FULL STORY
#163 Highways to tell
REVIEW: British Columbia by the Road: Car Culture and the Making of a Modern Landscape. by Ben Bradley Vancouver: UBC Press,… FULL STORY
#162 The sisters of war
REVIEW: War Torn Exchanges: The Lives and Letters of Nursing Sisters Laura Holland and Mildred Forbes by Andrea McKenzie (editor). Vancouver:… FULL STORY
#161 Loving in a fog
REVIEW: The Most Dangerous Thing by Leanne Lieberman Victoria: Orca Book Publishers, 2017 $14.95 9781459811843 Reviewed by Carol Anne Shaw … FULL STORY
#160 From sunny ways to better ways
REVIEW: Turning Parliament Inside Out: Practical Ideas for Reforming Canada’s Democracy by Michael Chong, Scott Simms, and Kennedy Stewart (editors)… FULL STORY
#159 Joan Skogan was one of a kind
Born in Comox on September 29, 1945, Joan Skogan knew joy and sorrow. An intrepid researcher and a conscientious writer,… FULL STORY
#158 A province of non-believers
REVIEW: Infidels and the Damn Churches: Irreligion and Religion in Settler British Columbia by Lynne Marks Vancouver: UBC Press, 2017. $34.95 … FULL STORY
#157 Shuswap gets its due
Everything Shuswap by Jim Cooperman Shuswap Press / Playfort Pubishing $35 / 9780995052208 By Mark Forsythe * [Sandwiched between the… FULL STORY
#157 From stage to page
REVIEW: All the World’s a Stage: The Story of Vancouver’s Bard on the Beach By Jayne Seagrave Victoria: Heritage House,… FULL STORY
#156 Frostbitten on Canada’s Everest
REVIEW: Surviving Logan by Erik Bjarnason and Cathi Shaw Victoria: Rocky Mountain Books, $28 2016 / 9781771601924 Reviewed by… FULL STORY
#155 S.C. Heal obituary (1925-2017)
“In my opinion there is no finer interpreter of the marine scene in British Columbia.” — John M. MacFarlane, nautical… FULL STORY
#154 Jim Wong-Chu (1949-2017)
Chinese Canadians weren’t granted the federal vote in Canada until 1947 and they first voted provincially in 1949–the year Jim… FULL STORY
