#216 Ignorance is not bliss
British Columbia: A Natural History of Its Origins, Ecology, and Diversity With a New Look at Climate Change by Richard… FULL STORY
FEATURE REVIEWS
#215 Island of Blue Foxes
The longlisted books for the 2018 RBC Taylor Prize are: 1. Island of the Blue Foxes: Disaster and Triumph on Bering’s… FULL STORY
#214 At home on the road
Dirty Windshields: The Best and the Worst of the Smugglers Tour Diaries by Grant Lawrence Madeira Park: Douglas & McIntyre,… FULL STORY
#213 The forest smokeaters
Chasing Smoke. A Wildfire Memoir by Aaron Williams Madeira Park: Harbour Publishing, 2017. $22.95 / 9781550178050 Reviewed by Dan Gallacher… FULL STORY
#212 Our vanishing glaciers
Our Vanishing Glaciers: The Snows of Yesteryear and the Future Climate of the Mountain West by Robert William Sandford Victoria:… FULL STORY
#211 A mysterious, difficult architect
ESSAY: The Mysterious and Difficult Hermann Otto Tiedemann By Robert Ratcliffe Taylor * In this Ormsby exclusive, Robert (Rob) Ratcliffe… FULL STORY
#210 Of strawberries & graves
REVIEW: Hallowed Ground: Stories of the Yale Pioneer Cemetery by Ian Brown Victoria: FriesenPress, 2017. $23.95 / 9781525508646 [Available at… FULL STORY
#209 Gary Cristall’s ball
Jeannie Kamins has written and published a VFMF history with a memoir by Gary Cristall who says, “I guess I… FULL STORY
#208 Autobiography of a WASP
REVIEW: Edges of Empire: A Documentary by Rhodri Jones (Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe) Vancouver: Rarebit Press. 2017. $20.00 / 9780994941237 Reviewed by… FULL STORY
#207 From the fur trade to UBC
Royal Blood: A Memoir by Laurenda Daniells Vancouver: Paper Trail Publishing, 2016 $22.95. / 9780994930309 Reviewed by Nancy Marguerite Anderson… FULL STORY
#206 Robbie Burns remembered
Ask someone to name B.C.’s most popular poet and you might hear names such as Earle Birney, bill bissett, Patrick… FULL STORY
#205 125,000 reluctant patriots
REVIEW: Reluctant Warriors: Canadian Conscripts and the Great War by Patrick M. Dennis Vancouver: UBC Press, 2017. $39.95 9780774835978 Reviewed… FULL STORY
#204 Wood’s mindfulness in the woods
REVIEW: At Home in Nature: A Life of Unknown Mountains and Deep Wilderness by Rob Wood Victoria: Rocky Mountain Books,… FULL STORY
#203 Mack, the life
ESSAY: The Transcontinentalist: Or, The Joys of the Road Manuscript in the Laing Papers at the B.C. Archives, written in… FULL STORY
#202 Al Neil (1924-2017)
Elder statesman of the avant-garde has “gone on before.” November 17th, 2017 “Whatever I’m doing belongs right here in Vancouver.”… FULL STORY
#201 Peter Trower (1930-2017)
A GATHERING TO REMEMBER AND HONOUR PETER TROWER WILL BE HELD FROM 3 – 6 PM AT THE FORMER LOCATION… FULL STORY
#200 Emily’s compartmentalized friend
Emily Carr As I Knew Her by Carol Pearson, with a foreword by Robert Amos. Victoria: Touchwood Editions, 2016. $19.95 … FULL STORY
#199 What the Heckman
REVIEW: Heckman’s Canadian Pacific: A Photographic Journey by Ralph Beaumont, foreword by John Geiger Mississauga, Ontario: The Credit Valley Railway… FULL STORY
#198 Inspector Vance aka J.F.C.B.
Blood, Sweat, and Fear: The Story of Inspector Vance, Vancouver’s First Forensic Investigator by Eve Lazarus Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press,… FULL STORY
#197 Power to the people
REVIEW: Powering Up Canada A History of Power, Fuel, and Energy from 1600 by Ruth Sandwell (editor) Montreal and Kingston:… FULL STORY
