We came, we saw, we skated
His history begins with early Indigenous bone and wooden skates in Canada and Finland; metal skates were developed in Europe… FULL STORY
Ryga Award shortlist announced
Shortlisted titles are Gary Geddes’ Medicine Unbundled, Travis Lupick’s Fighting for Space and David Suzuki & Ian Hanington’s Just Cool… FULL STORY
Binning House (1941 – ????)
A California book provides a guide to a much-lauded West Vancouver landmark for West Coast architecture. Binning House by Matthew… FULL STORY
Kaho’olawe, the 8th Hawaiian isle
A Grunt Gallery exhibit highlights the social memory of Coast Salish people of Hawaiian ancestry and their return to Hawaii… FULL STORY
High risks, high expectations
Kelowna historian K. Wayne Wilson recommends Douglas Grant’s account of hard work, technological innovation and tenacity.
Going to the dogs
Coren has written one of the world’s bestselling non-fiction books about dogs, The Intelligence of Dogs, as well as Why… FULL STORY
Howe Sound advice
Pauline Le Bel’s Whale in the Door suggests activities and actions to deep readers’ connections to Howe Sound, as well… FULL STORY
The unforgettable Major Matthews
Bizarrely, in 1969, John Pass was hired to take over from Vancouver’s first archivist, an Imperial bulldog from the late… FULL STORY
Ted Hughes: Titan of Fairness
Now Craig McInnes’s candid and engaging biography outlines the achievements of British Columbia’s most respected public servant. The Mighty Hughes:… FULL STORY
The malleable truth
Stephen Wadhams’ The Orwell Tapes is a collection of memories from those who crossed paths with the complex character who… FULL STORY
The young woman and the sea
Refuge in the Black Deck also illustrates how the women of Canada’s military are still required to prove themselves in… FULL STORY
The bane of the British Admirality
The Scotsman Rae was pilloried for daring to report Inuit accounts of cannibalism among the doomed Franklin expedition. Finding John… FULL STORY
Green behind and below the ears
The Green Mackinaw in Europe recalls his adventures in England, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Greece, the former Yugoslavia and Austria. Green… FULL STORY
Reconciliation dances and divides
Reviewer Andrew Woolford considers the political history of genocide and argues for the inclusion of more indigenous viewpoints. > Residential… FULL STORY
Franklin findings at last
The Erebus was found in 2014 just off O’Reilly Island, a hundred kilometres due west of Starvation Cove; two years… FULL STORY
One damned river before another
The pro-industrial bias of B.C. governments is traceable back to the damning of the Campbell River’s origins, outlined in People,… FULL STORY
Better, but not benign
Former Tsimshian students recall attending Anglican and Methodist schools at Spaksuut (Port Essington) and Terrace in Helen Raptis’ collaboratively written… FULL STORY
Haig-Brown nature book revived
Each bird encountered offers subtle teachings, not just on nature, but on the relationships between humans and the natural world,… FULL STORY
Here’s mud in your eye
A group of women including Molly Murphy and Sheera Cipilinski have decided to make their own homes using mud—one of… FULL STORY
It’s the environment, stupid
“Our largest environmental problem remains the general natural history illiteracy of a large majority of British Columbians,” says reviewer Loys… FULL STORY
