Botanists arrive on Vancouver Island
“In Nature’s Realm” completes Michael Layland’s Vancouver Island historical trilogy covering early maps, explorers’ tales, and now stories and pictures… FULL STORY
B.C.’s long-suffering suffragists
In 1917, B.C.’s women were finally allowed to vote but not until after Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta got the franchise… FULL STORY
Cast out of the garden
As bombs fell and armed militias invaded cities, towns and the countryside, Juma’s friend said, “Maison Rouge is a refugee… FULL STORY
Off the beaten track
Reviewer John Moore says the constant in Carolan’s stories is the timeless-centered lives of people he encountered, whether they are… FULL STORY
Publisher’s Message
This is one of the few times in human history when being a scribe might be considered a preferable profession…. FULL STORY
One-night stands
Her second collection, The Swan Suit, contains a story called “East O” in which we are introduced to the last… FULL STORY
Canada’s overlooked pandemic
For the Dene and Inuvialuit in the NWT in 1928, “the white man introduced them to a new way to… FULL STORY
Epilepsy pioneer finally gets her due
Doing house calls by canoe, sharing rooms with bats and scorpions, and getting poked and prodded by curious villagers were… FULL STORY
The constable and the train robber
“Even though Bill was modest and did not push himself forward or seek the centre of attention,” writes Hatch, “his… FULL STORY
Inter-generational trauma
“Nishga is not a poem, essay or a letter,” writes reviewer Latash Maurice Nahanee. “It is a documentation of one… FULL STORY
B.C.’s mighty sea otter
Being a “keystone species” otters have the power to hold an ecosystem together and their return to B.C. started a… FULL STORY
Orca-strations
Mark Leiren-Young has written Orcas Everywhere: The Mystery and History of Killer Whales (Orca $24.95) for young people, inspired by… FULL STORY
Tolstoy’s Words To Live By
Leo Tolstoy’s first collection of “Daily Thoughts” was originally published in Russian in 1903. It’s available in November, for the… FULL STORY
Fighting for the right to read books
In response, African Americans began creating “Freedom Libraries” and over 80 appeared in the deep south as documented by B.C…. FULL STORY
Vancouver’s brave new architecture
What particularly impressed a mandarin from the east, Robert H. Hubbard, were the West Coast architects who were designing a… FULL STORY
Defender of the Wet’suwet’en
Alfred Joseph’s memoirs highlight how white settlers changed Wet’suwet’en lives: from being independent hunters and fishers to wage-earners of white-owned… FULL STORY
Family trees
“What are families other than fictions?” asks one of Michael Christie’s characters. “And like all stories, families are not born,… FULL STORY
Highway murder
You know a novel is working when you are disappointed when it ends—and you would prefer to remain in the… FULL STORY
A self-propelled man
His memoir, Lines on a Map, has been shortlisted for the Banff Mountain Book Competition in the Adventure Travel category…. FULL STORY
Revolving W and Flying Pigs
Now art critic Robert Amos provides an appreciative look at McKellar’s magical visions of Vancouver in the 1970s and 1980s…. FULL STORY
