#296 Margaret’s Ormsby’s milieu
Essay: Margaret A. Ormsby: British Columbian Historian By Daniel Marshall * This month, as The Ormsby Review eclipses two pilot… FULL STORY
FEATURE REVIEWS
#295 Cinderella Campaign revisited
The Cinderella Campaign: First Canadian Army and the Battles for the Channel Ports by Mark Zuehlke Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre,… FULL STORY
#294 From A (Ansel) to Z (Zizka)
The Canadian Rockies: Rediscovered by Paul Zizka Victoria: Rocky Mountain Books, 2017. $50 / 9781771602310 Reviewed by Mary Sanseverino *… FULL STORY
#293 Emotional time bombs
The Promise of Water by Judy LeBlanc (Oolichan: 2017) 978-0-88982-320-4 $19.95 tp Review by Caroline Woodward * Judy LeBlanc’s debut… FULL STORY
#292 What’s OK & not OK in OK
A Legacy of Canadian Art, from Kelowna Collections by Roger H. Boulet Kelowna: The Kelowna Art Gallery, 2017. $15 /… FULL STORY
#291 Disturbing: The Peace
Breaching the Peace: The Site C Dam and a Valley’s Stand against Big Hydro by Sarah Cox, foreword by Alex… FULL STORY
#290 Grieving with Google
Sitting Shiva on Minto Avenue, by Toots by Erín Moure Vancouver: New Star Books. $21 / 9781554201419 Reviewed by Claire… FULL STORY
#289 Coming of Age on Salt Spring
Mod ‘n Lavender: Salt Spring Island in the ‘60s by John Grain Kelowna: Tadpole Publishing, 2017. $18.95 / 9780973863413 Reviewed… FULL STORY
#288 Mabel Lake, not Maybellene
Flowing through Time: Stories of Kingfisher and Mabel Lake by Joan Cowan (editor) and Kingfisher History Committee (Jean Clark, Judy… FULL STORY
#287 Enjoying the rat race
A Peakbagger’s Guide to the Canadian Rockies: North by Ben Nearingburg and Eric Coulthard Victoria: Rocky Mountain Books, 2017. $35.00 … FULL STORY
#286 Endpiece: Recalling New Orphic
Here Margrith Schraner recalls her twenty years as Associate Editor of The New Orphic Review. “I now conceive of Endpiece… FULL STORY
#285 Mapping first contacts
Explorers of the Maritime Pacific Northwest: Mapping the World through Primary Documents by William L. Lang and James V. Walker… FULL STORY
#284 Field Guide to Insects
A Field Guide to Insects of the Pacific Northwest by Robert Cannings Madeira Park: Harbour Publishing, 2018. $7.95 / 9781550178340… FULL STORY
#283 Salish seething
Views of the Salish Sea: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Change around the Strait of Georgia By Howard Macdonald… FULL STORY
#282 Sea creatures as teachers
Pacific Reef and Shore: A Photo Guide to Northwest Marine Life from Alaska to Northern California (Revised Second Edition) by… FULL STORY
#281 Baudelaire, Rimbaud and Jamie
A Temporary Stranger: Homages, Poems, Recollections by Jamie Reid Vancouver: Anvil Books, 2017. $18 / 9781772140989 Reviewed by Andrew Parkin… FULL STORY
#280 From Beurling to Bashow
All the Fine Young Eagles: In the Cockpit with Canada’s Second World War Fighter Pilots (updated and expanded second edition)… FULL STORY
#279 The wisdom of Solomon
The Clean Money Revolution: Reinventing Power, Purpose, and Capitalism by Joel Solomon with Tyee Bridge Gabriola Island: New Society Publishers,… FULL STORY
#278 Trotsky’s locomotive out of steam
The Locomotive of War: Money, Empire, Power, and Guilt by Peter Clarke London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017. $40.00 / 9781408851654 Reviewed… FULL STORY
#277 The new turf of Indigenous Lit
From Oral to Written: A Celebration of Indigenous Literature in Canada, 1980-2010 by Tomson Highway Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2017 $29.95 / … FULL STORY
