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

Posts Tagged: First Nations

#2 The Mecca of B.C. is Friendly Cove at Nootka Sound

On Wednesday, August 13th, 1924, His Honour Walter Cameron Nichol, Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia, unveiled at Nootka Sound, Vancouver… FULL STORY

Tilly & her sisters

Has anyone noticed? We’ve had a flurry of books only about the lives of individual First Nations women of BC…. FULL STORY