#515 Fulford Harbour’s silent poet
Almost Islands: Phyllis Webb and the Pursuit of the Unwritten by Stephen Collis Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2018 $24.95 / 9781772012071 Reviewed… FULL STORY
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#514 Consider the Indian Act
21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality by… FULL STORY
#513 Victoria’s Secret: diversity
City in Colour: Rediscovered Stories of Victoria’s Multicultural Past by May Q. Wong Victoria: TouchWood Editions, 2018 $22.00 / 9781771512855… FULL STORY
#512 A Ponderosa Pine time capsule
Growing Up in Wild Horse Canyon by Karen Autio, illustrated by Loraine Kemp Vancouver: Crwth Press, 2018 $25.95 / 9781775331902… FULL STORY
#511 Gold, gamblers, and greenhorns
Gold Rush Manliness: Race and Gender on the Pacific Slope by Christopher Herbert Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018 $30.00… FULL STORY
#510 Joe’s monsters and critters
Bite Me! Musings on Monsters and Mayhem by Joe Rosenblatt Erin, Ontario: Porcupine’s Quill, 2019 $16.95 / 9780889844247 Reviewed by… FULL STORY
#509 Let sleeping dogs stir
No Dog Barked: Who Killed the MacLauchlans? by Rob Drown and Ken McIntosh New Westminster: Archives New West, 2018 $30.00… FULL STORY
#508 Sex, speed, and moonshine
A Violent Streak by Stephanie Warner Markham, Ontario: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2018 $15.00 / 9781554554461 Reviewed by Elee Kraljii Gardiner… FULL STORY
#507 What rhymes with alma mater
The Hundred-Year Trek: A History of Student Life at UBC by Sheldon Goldfarb, with a preface by the Right Honourable… FULL STORY
#506 Scribes of the Stó:lō Nation
Towards a New Ethnohistory: Community-Engaged Scholarship among the People of the River by Keith Thor Carlson, John Sutton Lutz, David… FULL STORY
#505 Ethel Wilson would approve
A Lamb by P.W. Bridgman Victoria: Ekstasis Editions, 2018 $23.95 / 9781771712736 Reviewed by David Stouck * I first encountered… FULL STORY
#504 Joe Rosenblatt obituary
“Joe was one of the most generous and kind artists [of any genre] I ever met, a truly lovely person,… FULL STORY
#503 Brain surgery at Zero Rock
Sea Trial: Sailing After My Father by Brian Harvey Toronto: ECW Press, 2019 $21.95 / 9781770414778 Reviewed by Theo Dombrowski… FULL STORY
#502 Patrick Lane (1939-2019)
On the same day, the Spring issue of B.C. BookWorld carried the news that Lane would be the 26th recipient… FULL STORY
#501 My Private Chinatown
MEMOIR: My Private Chinatown by Grahame Ware * The literature of remembrance turns the lost world of objects into emblems… FULL STORY
#500 A tall tale from Port Renfrew
Big Lonely Doug: The Story of One of Canada’s Last Great Trees by Harley Rustad Toronto: House of Anansi Press… FULL STORY
#499 Joining generations in Nelson
Growing Together: Conversations with Seniors and Youth by Lee Reid Nelson: Nelson CARES Society Press, 2018 $25.00 / 9781775399308 See… FULL STORY
#498 A co-creator with God
Exposed by Eileen Curteis Terrace: CCB Publishing, 2018 $44.06 (via Amazon) / 9781771433594 Reviewed by Phyllis Reeve * A poem… FULL STORY
#497 Vancouver’s master broadcaster
George Garrett: Intrepid Reporter by George Garrett Madeira Park: Harbour Publishing, 2019 $26.95 / 9781550178661 Reviewed by Michael Sasges *… FULL STORY
#496 Too much sail, not enough ballast
Across Oceans of Law: The Komagata Maru and Jurisdiction in the Time of Empire by Renisa Mawani Durham, North Carolina:… FULL STORY
