R.I.P Irene Howard (1922 – 2023)

“Irene Howard (left) wrote an important bio of  the first woman to be elected to Vancouver City Council. But she is probably best known for the memoir about her immigrant mining family.FULL STORY

 

 

M is for John McKay

May 11th, 2020

John McKay has written Sovereign of the Seas 1637: A Reconstruction of the Most Powerful Warship of its Day (Seaforth Publishing $68.95 hc), which includes a history of the ship and a folio of drafted plans and drawings of it’s design, from the hull to the sails and rigging. The book has already been nominated for best nautical research award. McKay, a professional draftsman and authority on the design of ships from the sailing era, first got into writing books while researching HMS Victory, a museum ship in England best known as Lord Nelson’s flagship at 1805’s Battle of Trafalgar. That resulted in, The 100-Gun Ship Victory (Conway Maritime 1987), which has had six reprints and established McKay as a maritime historian. He lives in Langley. 978-1-5267-6629-8

 

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