#38 Fact, Myth, and Powerpoint
REVIEW: Paid Price: The Fight for First Nations Survival by Bev Sellars Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2016 $19.95 / 9780889229723 Reviewed by… FULL STORY
FEATURE REVIEWS
#37 AWOL in IKEA
REVIEW: Renovation or teardown: He loves me, he loves me not. Clea Young’s Teardown succeeds by revealing how scarey and… FULL STORY
#36 Eelgrass, cement and serenity
REVIEW: Tod Inlet: A Healing Place By Gwen Curry Victoria: Rocky Mountain Books, 2015. $25. ISBN 9781771600767 Reviewed by Peter… FULL STORY
#35 Aloha Wanderwell, tomboy starlet
REVIEW: Idris Hall transformed herself into a globe-trotting celebrity as Aloha Wanderwell. Bonnie Reilly Schmidt looks at her fascinating biography…. FULL STORY
#34 Hannah and her sisters
The homesteading letters of Hannah Kirby and her brother Murdoch reveal the delights and drudgery of Fraser Valley pioneering at… FULL STORY
#33 Courtenay gets its due
REVIEW: Watershed Moments: A Pictorial History of Courtenay and District By Christine Dickinson, Deborah Griffiths, Judy Hagen, and Catherine Siba Madeira… FULL STORY
#32 Putin’s Potemkin Village
Every two years, Russian-born fiction writer Marina Sonkina of Vancouver takes her SFU and UBC students from Continuing Studies for… FULL STORY
#31 People are strange
REVIEW: The Woods: A Year on Protection Island. By Amber McMillan. Gibsons: Nightwood Editions, 2016. $19.95 978-0-88971-329-1 Reviewed by Howard… FULL STORY
#30 Bob Bouchette, Everyman scribe
Long before Allan Fotheringham or Eric Nicol, Vancouver’s most popular columnist was Bob Bouchette. The prolific non-conformist Bob Bouchette wrote… FULL STORY
#29 Althea Moody, first female author
Susanna Moodie (1803-1895) of Eastern Canada is famous for her book, Roughing it in the Bush, inspiring a collection of… FULL STORY
#27 Let them eat dirt
REVIEW Let Them Eat Dirt: Saving Our Children from an Oversanitized World by B. Brett Finlay and Marie-Claire Arrieta (Greystone)… FULL STORY
#26 Moby Doll revisited
REVIEW: The Killer Whale Who Changed the World By Mark Leiren-Young Vancouver: Greystone Books and the David Suzuki Institute, 2016…. FULL STORY
#25 Remembering Jim Douglas
Jim Douglas called himself “just a book pedlar.” At age 15, he started in the book biz in Edinburgh delivering… FULL STORY
#24 The Usain Bolt of 1954
The Bannister-Landy Miracle Mile at the Commonwealth Games in Vancouver in 1954 is the subject of perhaps the most famous… FULL STORY
#23 Across the Bright Continent
English-born Susanna Moodie (1803-1895) of Eastern Canada is famous for having published Roughing it in the Bush in 1852, a… FULL STORY
#22 Haig-Brown & Al Purdy
“I want to catch some kind of Haig-Brown essence with the halo slightly askew.” — Al Purdy, 1974 by Ron… FULL STORY
About the Editor – Richard Mackie
RICHARD SOMERSET MACKIE – EDITOR, ORMSBY REVIEW Richard Somerset Mackie has twice won the province’s top honour for historical writing… FULL STORY
#21 Down the Danube
The Ormsby Review is pleased to present a book-length memoir by Howard Stewart, born in Powell River in 1952 and… FULL STORY
#20 Master orator Charlie Yahey
Arts of the Dreamer: Dane-zaa Communities Remember Charlie Yahey by Robin Ridington First Nations literature, as indeed all literature, begins… FULL STORY
#19 Trade Unionist Harvey Murphy
By Ron Verzuh Harvey Murphy is not a name that echoes loudly throughout the annals of 20th-century British Columbia labour… FULL STORY
