Marion Mckinnon Crook

January 22nd, 2026

From Victorian drawing rooms to gold-rush saloons in BC, Marion McKinnon Crook has long been drawn to lives shaped by courage, curiosity and reinvention. In Bloomsbury to Barkerville: The Life of Florence Wilson (Heritage House $26.95), Crook turns her meticulous research and narrative flair to the true story of Florence Wilson, a poet-turned-entrepreneur who left London, England to become the cultural heartbeat of Barkerville as a saloon owner and founder of the Theatre Royale. An award-winning historian and storyteller, Crook brings Wilson’s transatlantic journey to life, revealing a frontier heroine whose influence on BC’s cultural history deserves renewed attention. 9781772035643

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