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Red Laredo Boots
As a girl growing up in British Columbia, and now as a mother with a family of her own, Theresa Kishkan has travelled and camped the length and breadth of the province. In these lyrical essays describing her journeys, Kishkan brings to life a landscape impregnated with history and memory, from the Skeena Valley in the north through the dry plateau …
Indians at Work
Indians at Work provides an historical background to native labour in BC from the Gold Rush to the beginning of the Great Depression. It counters the common misconception that native people responded to European settlement and industrial development by retreating to a reserve existence. Evidence amassed from logging, transport, construction, longsh …
Turning, The
In 1870, while France and Prussia are at war, an English ship is wrecked on the coast of France and a stranger enters the lives of a village family. Elisa Gagnon is married to the man bent on salvaging the wrecked Lady Morgan at any cost; her daughter Janik sees angels, but her father would rather see her married than enter the convent; Alan Bridge …
High Slack
"Engaging ... Williams writes sensitively and with a minimum of academic jargon ... successfully reveals some of the anxieties of the colonial project in British Columbia without losing sight of the fact that the war, far from being a mere anecdote on the colonial stage, was the 'thin edge of the wedge' of the latent violence that has always simmer …
No Way to Live
For No Way to Live, Sheila Baxter interviewed more than fifty BC women who live in poverty. These women are fed up. They are sick of not having enough money to feed their kids, to live in safe housing, or to go to the dentist. They are sick of the governments and social workers telling them how to live their lives. One by one, they describe the obs …
The Green Shadow
A hilarious, illustrated account of life in the previously sleepy town of Tofino, during the heated controversy over the proposed logging of BC's Clayoquot Sound. The Green Shadow, which was originally serialized in the Georgia Straight, earned Struthers a 1995 National Magazine Award for Humour and a nomination for two 1995 Western Magazine Awards …
Chiwid
Chiwid was a Tsilhqot'in woman, said to have shamanistic powers, who spent most of her adult life "living out" in the hills and forests around Williams Lake, BC. Chiwid is the story of this remarkable woman told in the vibrant voices of Chilcotin oldtimers, both native and non-native. Chiwid is number 2 in the Transmontanus series.
All Possible Worlds
British Columbia — the last temperate part of the New World to be mapped — has long conjured up images of Utopia, a word that comes from the Greek "no place." Indeed, utopian experiments started springing up soon after the first European explorers passed through. In All Possible Worlds, Justine Brown explores the attraction BC holds for utopian …
Adam's River
The Adam's River sockeye run is one of the natural wonders of the world. Every October, the river turns red as hundreds of thousands of mature, scarlet?humped sockeye salmon return from the Pacific Ocean to spawn and die in the same gravel beds where they hatched four years earlier.
Adam's River tells the story of the salmon's epic journey far out i …
Put Work in Its Place
Fed up with the old "one'size?fits?all" workweek? Do you want more time for family, friends, education, travel, or recreation? Do you want a work schedule that is customized to fit your life — and not the other way around?
A comprehensive guide to the flexible workplace, Put Work in Its Place is a practical, and often humorous handbook explaining …
Child Is Not A Toy, A
One in six children in Canada lives in poverty. These children go to school hungry, in clothes that aren't warm enough for northern winters. They get sick more often than other children. They are more likely to drop out of school and end up in a low?paying job, out of work or on the street. In A Child Is Not a Toy, Sheila Baxter provides a voice fo …
Social Work with Rural Peoples
Social workers choosing to work in smaller towns or rural communities face a different set of conditions and concerns from their city colleagues. Ken Collier wrote his now?classic text Social Work with Rural Peoples, for those social workers, whether they are just starting out or already in the field.
The gist of Collier's genuinely radical book is …
Working Harder Isn't Working
In the 1960s, futurists predicted that advances in technology and increased automation would bring about an Age of Leisure and Abundance. Technology has performed its miracle: today's workers can produce twice as much per hour as their 1950s counterparts. So why are we told that we must work longer and harder — for less money — to survive in to …
Captivity Tales
This early non-fiction work by critically acclaimed novelist Elizabeth Hay displays the qualities that have resonated with readers — the pitch-perfect register of human psychology, the clear, unsentimental yet intimate sentences — in her bestselling novels A Student of Weather, Garbo Laughs, Late Nights on Air, and Alone in the Classroom. Capti …
Run of the River, The
In his portrait of eleven British Columbia rivers, veteran Vancouver Sun reporter Mark Hume focuses on the environmental impact of our communities and ways of life. In BC's multifaceted ecological problems, Hume covers the problem to solution spectrum in detail, suggesting logical solutions to prevent further damage.
Nemiah
Finalist, Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award (1993).
"Chilcotins, they never got beat. Never got beat." — Henry Solomon, in Nemiah: The Unconquered Country
Those words were true in 1864, when the Tsilhqot'in Nation were among the very few First Nations peoples to win a war against European settlers (the Chilcotin War). They were true in 1990, wh …
Burial Ground, The
The year is 1860. A priest, sent on a mission to an Indian village on the coast of British Columbia, believes he is successfully converting the people to Christianity. He is unaware of the anger, selfishness, and love that dictate their actions, and that lead to fatal consequences.
With multiple viewpoints and haunting images, Pauline Holdstock recr …
Where the Fraser River Flows
White Hoods
White Hoods is the first book about the Hooded Empire in Canada. Award?winning journalist and author Julian Sher traces the Canadian Ku Klux Klan from its birth in the early 1920s, through its powerful influence within Saskatchewan's Conservative party in the 1920s and 1930s, to its renaissance under James McQuirter in the 1980s. McQuirter led the …
