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
FEATURE REVIEWS
#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
#18 The pianist and the knitter
Ann Eriksson’s fifth novel The Performance (D&M $22.95) contrasts the worlds of elite classical piano with urban homelessness. Hana Knight,… FULL STORY
#17 W.P. Kinsella (1935-2016)
Born in Edmonton, Alberta, on May 25, 1935, William Patrick (Bill) Kinsella invoked the assisted dying provisions of Bill C-14… FULL STORY
#16 Significant B.C. literature to 1997
There is no critical study of B.C. writing to date, no critical overview; no statistics. Here then, to mark the… FULL STORY
#1 Welcome to The Ormsby Review
The Ormsby Review will be named after Margaret Orsmby, the venerable historian who often met with Mackie for tea and… FULL STORY
#15 A Thruppance for your thoughts
In 1944, Sylvia Thrupp expressed her belief that knowledge of local history is “essential for any one who professes to… FULL STORY
#14 BC Crimes Stories: Train Bomb
— This story is from the book, Dead Ends: BC Crime Stories (University of Regina Press $19.95), by journalist Paul… FULL STORY
#13 BC Crime Stories: The Big Con
The Big Con Everything about Ian Thow was big. The investment adviser’s house was a $5.5-million waterfront mansion outside Victoria,… FULL STORY
#12 BC Crime Stories Rattlesnake Isl.
They called him Crazy Eddie in the Okanagan Valley. Eddie Haymour complained constantly that powerful forces were conspiring against him,… FULL STORY
#11 Pioneers: Alys McKey Bryant
This is the fourth and final installment of a Rear View Mirror series on early aviation in B.C., as… FULL STORY
#10 Pioneers: Flying Billy Stark
The following article about early aviation in B.C. is excerpted from a long article written by Frank H. Ellis and… FULL STORY
#7 How the Douglas fir was named
One of the most prominent of the roving fraternity of nineteenth-century plant hunters who scoured North America for plant species… FULL STORY
#5: James Douglas doted on Martha
James Douglas’ twinned chords of hope and fatherly guidance are captured in the following article by W. Kaye Lamb in… FULL STORY
#3 When Nanaimo was Colville
The Second Annual Report and Proceedings of the British Columbia Historical Association in 1924 records how 250 “Pioneers” of B.C…. FULL STORY
#2 The Mecca of B.C. is Friendly Cove at Nootka Sound
On Wednesday, August 13th, 1924, His Honour Walter Cameron Nichol, Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia, unveiled at Nootka Sound, Vancouver… FULL STORY
