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
True tales of a Buddy Holly wannabe
In Dirty Windshields, Smugglers’ frontman Grant Lawrence delightfully chronicles Ambition, Good Times and Pre-Adult Denial through sixteen years of touring… FULL STORY
Smokeaters for hire, for fire
Aaron Williams’ Chasing Smoke: A Wildfire Memoir (Harbour $22.95) describes 16-hour, high-adrenaline days in apocalyptic fiery landscapes. Chasing Smoke. A… FULL STORY
SOG. Save our glaciers
An unprecedented array of full-colour photographs of some of western Canada’s most striking glaciers and icefield elicits awe. Our Vanishing… FULL STORY
Mindfulness in the woods
So begins John Gellard’s review of veteran outdoorsman Rob Wood’s memoir, At Home in Nature: A Life of Unknown Mountains… FULL STORY
Vancouver Folk Festival: a history
Jeannie Kamins has written and published a VFMF history with a memoir by Gary Cristall who says, “I guess I… FULL STORY
A hunk, a hunk of Robbie Burns love
None can match the fervour of adoration felt in B.C. for Robbie Burns–as Fred Braches recalls after his discovery of… FULL STORY
