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The Lieutenant Governors of British Columbia

The Lieutenant Governors of British Columbia

by Jenny Clayton, foreword by Janet Austin
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The office of Lieutenant Governor has been a constant in British Columbia from the province’s colonial beginnings to the modern era. Originally tasked with selecting the province’s premier and giving royal assent to provincial legislation, and invested with the power to dismiss governments, the role of the Crown’s representative has continual …

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Iron Road West

Iron Road West

An Illustrated History of British Columbia’s Railways
by Derek Hayes
edition:Hardcover
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British Columbia wouldn’t exist without the railway; the province was brought into the Canadian Confederation in 1871 in exchange for the promise of a transcontinental line to the West Coast. It was the arrival of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1886 that set off economic development in the province, created the city of Vancouver and spurred othe …

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The Gulf Islands and Vancouver Island

The Gulf Islands and Vancouver Island

Victoria & Sooke to Nanaimo, Revised Fourth Edition, 2018
by Anne Yeadon-Jones & Laurence Yeadon-Jones
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These popular cruising companions offer charts, tips and data that will enhance the enjoyment and safety of any voyage. The guides feature informative and charming hand-drawn shoreline plans of selected marinas and small boat anchorages, ranging from safe all-weather havens to secluded picnic spots and marine parks. Intended to complement official …

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On the Line

On the Line

A History of the British Columbia Labour Movement
by Rod Mickleburgh
edition:Hardcover
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The BC tradition of fighting back against unfair pay and unsafe working conditions has been around since before the colony joined Confederation. In 1849 Scottish labourers at BC’s first coal mine at Fort Rupert went on strike to protest wretched working conditions, and it’s been a wild ride ever since. For years the BC labour movement was the m …

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Strange New Country

Strange New Country

The Fraser River Salmon Strikes of 1900–1901
by Geoff Meggs
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Salmon gillnetting in the turbulent waters of the Fraser River at the turn of the last century was dangerous, back-breaking work. Skiffs were equipped with a single sail, but most maneuvering had to be accomplished by oars, an almost impossible task against any current or tide. Once towed to the grounds by a cannery tug, the fishermen were on their …

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Hiking the Gulf Islands of British Columbia

Hiking the Gulf Islands of British Columbia

4th Edition
by Charles Kahn
edition:Paperback
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Nestled in the Strait of Georgia between British Columbia’s mainland and Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands are a hiker’s paradise, each boasting an eclectic character and an array of flora and fauna unique to the temperate climate of the southern West Coast of Canada. Discover the panoramic views, inviting beaches and friendly hospitality of t …

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Dreamspeaker Cruising Guide, Volume 3

Dreamspeaker Cruising Guide, Volume 3

Vancouver, Howe Sound & the Sunshine Coast (third edition)
by Anne Yeadon-Jones & Laurence Yeadon-Jones
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These popular cruising companions offer charts, tips and data that will enhance the enjoyment and safety of any voyage. The guides feature informative and charming hand-drawn shoreline plans of selected marinas and small boat anchorages, ranging from safe all-weather havens to secluded picnic spots and marine parks. Intended to complement official …

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Desolation Sound & the Discovery Islands

Desolation Sound & the Discovery Islands

Revised Fourth Edition
by Anne Yeadon-Jones & Laurence Yeadon-Jones
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One of the most sought-out cruising areas of the Pacific Northwest, the protected waters of Desolation Sound and the surrounding network of the Discovery Islands are world-famous for their pristine and spectacular natural beauty. The interconnecting waterways encompass large tracts of accessible wilderness that entices boaters, sailors and kayakers …

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The Peace in Peril

The Peace in Peril

The Real Cost of the Site C Dam
by Christopher Pollon, photographs by Ben Nelms
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In the next decade, a 60-metre-high wall of compacted earth will stretch more than a kilometre across the main stem of the Peace River, causing the waters behind it to swell into a 93-square-kilometre artificial lake, drowning the best topsoil left in the BC north. The waters will swallow fifty islands and a valley that is home to farmers, ranchers …

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Crossing Home Ground

Crossing Home Ground

A Grassland Odyssey through Southern Interior British Columbia
by David Pitt-Brooke
edition:Hardcover
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Like John Muir, David Pitt-Brooke stepped out for a walk one morning--a long walk of a thousand kilometres or more through the arid valleys of southern interior British Columbia. He went in search of beauty and lost grace in a landscape that has seen decades of development and upheaval. In Crossing Home Ground he reports back, providing a day-by-da …

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Vancouver, Howe Sound & the Sunshine Coast

Vancouver, Howe Sound & the Sunshine Coast

Including Princess Louisa Inlet & Jedediah Island
by Anne Yeadon-Jones & Laurence Yeadon-Jones
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These popular cruising companions offer charts, tips and data that will enhance the enjoyment and safety of any voyage. The guides feature informative and charming hand-drawn shoreline plans of selected marinas and small boat anchorages, ranging from safe all-weather havens to secluded picnic spots and marine parks. Intended to complement official …

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The San Juan Islands

The San Juan Islands

Including Anacortes, Bellingham, Blaine & Point Roberts, New Revised Second Edition
by Anne Yeadon-Jones & Laurence Yeadon-Jones
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These popular cruising companions offer charts, tips and data that will enhance the enjoyment and safety of any voyage. The guides feature informative and charming hand-drawn shoreline plans of selected marinas and small boat anchorages, ranging from safe all-weather havens to secluded picnic spots and marine parks. Intended to complement official …

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Made in British Columbia

Made in British Columbia

Eight Ways of Making Culture
by Maria Tippett
edition:Hardcover
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Is there such a thing as British Columbia culture, and if so, is there anything special about it? This is the broad question Dr. Maria Tippett answers in this work with an assured "yes!" To prove her point she looks at the careers of eight ground-breaking cultural producers in the fields of painting, aboriginal art, architecture, writing, theatre a …

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Voyages to Windward

Voyages to Windward

Sailing Adventures on Vancouver Island's West Coast
by Elsie Hulsizer
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This print-on-demand title is available by request from most booksellers.

When Elsie Hulsizer was little, she lived on the shores of Puget Sound in Washington where she spent the summers sailing in a small open sailboat with her parents. Her parents would always start out by sailing to windward, or against the wind, so they would have an easy ride …

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A Better Place on Earth

A Better Place on Earth

The Search for Fairness in Super Unequal British Columbia
by Andrew MacLeod
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In British Columbia, like most of the world, the wealth of the richest one percent has grown exponentially in recent decades, while the majority have found their incomes stagnant or even declining. The top 10 percent in BC now hold 56.2 percent of the wealth, a greater share than anywhere else in Canada. Our richest have wealth counted in the billi …

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Ian McTaggart-Cowan

Ian McTaggart-Cowan

The Legacy of a Pioneering Biologist, Educator and Conservationist
by Wayne Campbell; Ronald D. Jakimchuck & Dennis A. Demarchi
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A born naturalist, Ian McTaggart-Cowan grew up exploring the woods around his North Vancouver home and went on to embrace his passion and energize others with his enthusiasm and knowledge. He greatly influenced conservation and scientific documentation of nature within the province and beyond.

Ian McTaggart-Cowan contributed significantly to the Roy …

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Echoes of British Columbia

Echoes of British Columbia

Voices from the Frontier
by Robert Budd
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In a follow-up to his well-received Voices of British Columbia, Robert Budd returns with more captivating tales of the province's pioneering past in the very words of the people who lived them.

Between 1959 and 1966, the late CBC Radio journalist Imbert Orchard travelled across British Columbia with recording engineer Ian Stephen, conducting intervi …

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From the West Coast to the Western Front

From the West Coast to the Western Front

British Columbians and the Great War
by Mark Forsythe & Greg Dickson
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It has often been observed that the First World War jolted Canada into nationhood, and as Mark Forsythe and Greg Dickson show in this compelling book, no province participated more eagerly in that transformation or felt the aftershock more harshly than British Columbia. In From the West Coast to the Western Front, Forsythe, host of CBC Radio's mid- …

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Off the Beaten Path

Off the Beaten Path

A Hiking Guide to Vancouver's North Shore, Expanded Second Edition
by Norman D. Watt
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The most detailed collection of North Shore hiking trails is now more comprehensive than ever!

From Horseshoe Bay and Lighthouse Park to the Baden-Powell Trail and Goldie Lake, discover the rugged beauty of the North Shore up close and on foot.

Featuring detailed information on thirty-nine routes winding through the North Shore's spectacular wilderne …

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Home Truths

Home Truths

Highlights from BC History
edited by Richard Mackie & Graeme Wynn
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History in BC grows profusely and luxuriantly, but with odd undergrowth," observed historian J.M.S. Careless many years ago. This claim is fully borne out by this impressive anthology of some of the province's most distinguished historians, geographers, and writers gleaned from over forty years of British Columbia's leading scholarly journal, BC St …

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Seasonings

Seasonings

Flavours of the Southern Gulf Islands
by Andrea Spalding & David A.E. Spalding
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Salt Spring, Pender, Galiano, Mayne and Saturna are the best known of the Southern Gulf Islands. Their residents value a rich food and drink heritage, and experiment busily with new foods and approaches to improve diversity and flavour, and support special diets and local sustainability. They celebrate slow foods--and slow islands; and many embrace …

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Trucking in British Columbia

Trucking in British Columbia

An Illustrated History
by Daniel Francis
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Trucks are everywhere--crowding the highways, lining up for the ferries, roaring down dusty logging roads--and yet trucking is often left off the list when talk turns to British Columbia's major industries. It shouldn't be, as this gorgeous new illustrated history celebrating the BC Trucking Association's 100th anniversary shows. With annual revenu …

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The Sunshine Coast

The Sunshine Coast

From Gibsons to Powell River, 2nd Edition
by Howard White, photographs by Keith Thirkell; Dean van’t Schip & Allan Forest
edition:Hardcover
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British Columbia's Sunshine Coast is a sublimely scenic 160-kilometre stretch of waterfront between Howe Sound and Desolation Sound, reached by a 40-minute ferry ride from West Vancouver. Join Howard White, award-winning humorist and lifelong coast denizen, on a guided tour from Gibsons, where the long-running TV series The Beachcombers was filmed, …

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Bob Lenarduzzi

Bob Lenarduzzi

A Canadian Soccer Story
by Jim Taylor & Bob Lenarduzzi
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Question: How much in love with a sport does a boy have to be when, at age 14, he asks his parents for permission to leave home and move to England on his own so he can join Reading FC to try to become a soccer professional—and warns that if they say no he will never forgive them? Answer: As much in love as the scared-stiff Bobby Lenarduzzi was w …

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Caring and Compassion

Caring and Compassion

A History of the Sisters of St. Ann in Health Care in British Columbia
by Darlene Southwell
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The Catholic Congregation of the Sisters of St. Ann had a humble start in Quebec in 1850 and at first concentrated on teaching locally. But when Bishop Modeste Demers asked for help at his West Coast diocese, the Sisters said yes. At a time in history when most people were born and raised in the same area in which they would live and die, these wom …

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A Walk with the Rainy Sisters

A Walk with the Rainy Sisters

In Praise of British Columbia's Places
by Stephen Hume
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This book is a lyrical testament to a great love affair between the writer and his region. In A Walk with the Rainy Sisters, one of British Columbia's favourite authors writes with passion about his favourite topic--the geography of British Columbia. Stephen Hume guides readers through the natural world, moving from the thin, cold air of British Co …

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Boat Camping Haida Gwaii

Boat Camping Haida Gwaii

A Small Vessel Guide
by Neil Frazer
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With information on ancient native settlements, hidden campsites and everything in between, Boat Camping Haida Gwaii is a fascinating and comprehensive guide to this wild and beautiful archipelago, written especially for kayakers and other small vessel operators. The book has
a wide range of informative maps and photographs of the north, south, ea …

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The Wild Side Guide to Vancouver Island's Pacific Rim

The Wild Side Guide to Vancouver Island's Pacific Rim

Long Beach, Tofino, Ucluelet, Port Alberni, Nitinat & Bamfield
by Jacqueline Windh
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The Pacific Rim of Vancouver Island's wild west coast, with its picturesque coastal villages of Tofino and Ucluelet and expansive wave-washed sands of Long Beach, has become one of Canada's top tourist destinations. In The Wild Side Guide to the Pacific Rim, longtime Tofino resident, wilderness traveller, author and photographer Jacqueline Windh sh …

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A Life in the News

A Life in the News

by Tony Parsons
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To say that Tony Parsons is a household name and that his is one of the most recognizable faces in BC are almost understatements. Having served over 35 years as anchor of the News Hour, the province's most popular television news program, Parsons is a virtual member of millions of BC families. Many British Columbians really don't believe a thing un …

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Only in Whistler

Only in Whistler

Tales of a Mountain Town
by Stephen Vogler
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For several weeks in February, the eyes of the world will be on Whistler, BC, as it hosts the 2010 Olympic Winter Games and the appetite for a story to go with the place will be extreme. Stephen Vogler has that story, and in this book he tells it fully for the first time.

Vogler is one of those rare Whistlerites who actually grew up in Whistler and …

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The Cowichan

The Cowichan

Duncan, Chemainus, Ladysmith and Region
photographs by Kevin Oke, by Georgina Montgomery
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The Cowichan Region is the large area that lies between the cities of Victoria and Nanaimo on Vancouver Island, reaching from the protected eastern shores of the island nearly all the way west to the Pacific Ocean. Its cornucopia-like shape is fitting for a place of such remarkable bounty, and this area is home to a growing number of newcomers seek …

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Bravo!

Bravo!

The History of Opera in British Columbia
by Rosemary Cunningham
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Those who think arts and culture in British Columbia is a recent development might be surprised to learn that opera has been flourishing in the province for well over a hundred years. The first full performance in Victoria took place in 1877 and in Vancouver in 1891. This first-ever history of opera in BC celebrates important milestones for BC's tw …

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Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names

Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names

A Complete Reference to Coastal British Columbia
by Andrew MacLeod
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Winner of the 2010 Roderick Haig-Brown Regional BC Book Prize

Winner of the 2009 Lieutenant-Governor's Medal for Historical Writing

In 1909 Captain John T. Walbran published one of the most beloved and enduring of all BC books, British Columbia Coast Names. Harbour Publishing celebrates the hundredth anniversary of that landmark work by presenting th …

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Fort St. James and New Caledonia

Fort St. James and New Caledonia

Where British Columbia Began
by Marie Elliott
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As BC 150 celebrations have made us aware, modern British Columbia began in the central interior of the province, where Simon Fraser founded the fur trade empire known as New Caledonia. Today only the restored trading post of Fort St. James and the ancient trails remain. Fort St. James and New Caledonia is the first history of this crucial chapter …

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Tidal Passages

Tidal Passages

A History of the Discovery Islands
by Jeanette Taylor
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At the north end of British Columbia's great inland sea, the Inside Passage divides amongst a scatter of islands whose breathtaking beauty makes them one of the Northwest's most popular cruising destinations. Unofficially known as the Discovery Islands (named after the main passage through them), Read, Cortes, Sonora, Maurelle, Hardwicke, Stuart, R …

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British Columbia

British Columbia

Spirit of the People
by Jean Barman
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In 2008, BC celebrates the founding of the Crown Colony of British Columbia and 150 years of cultural diversity, community and achievement. British Columbia: Spirit of the People celebrates this milestone, capturing the province's history, beauty and complex character in a lavish coffee-table book.

The text, by respected historian Jean Barman, is am …

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What the Bleep is Going on Here?

What the Bleep is Going on Here?

by Rafe Mair
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Lawyer, politician, radio broadcaster--and crusader! That's Rafe Mair. Even at 75 he is still fighting to save the planet, this country, this province, the Pacific salmon, our public health care and our electoral system. He castigates lawyers for cashing in on the compensation to aboriginals abused in the residential schools, slaps the wrists of st …

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Exploring the BC Coast by Car

Exploring the BC Coast by Car

by Diane Eaton & Allison Eaton
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With its island-studded Inside Passage, towering fjords, open-ocean beaches, quaint villages and sparkling cities, the BC coast is known as one of the world's great maritime cruising destinations. What many travellers may not realize is that you don't need to own a yacht or go on a cruise ship to explore it. This indispensable book shows how you ca …

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The Darien Gap

The Darien Gap

Travels in the Rainforest of Panama
by Martin Mitchinson
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Finalist for the 2009 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction

If you want to drive from North America to South America, you'll have a hard time when you reach Panama's southernmost province, Darien. The Pan-American Highway ends just sixty miles short of Colombia. It's the only missing link in what would otherwise be uninterrupted highway from …

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Enchanted Isles

Enchanted Isles

The Southern Gulf Islands
by David A.E. Spalding, photographs by Kevin Oke
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Longlisted for the 2007 Victoria Butler Book Prize

The southern Gulf Islands between Nanaimo and Victoria are among British Columbia's greatest scenic treasures, projecting an appeal so powerful as to make nesomanes (island lovers) of the most unromantic souls. Ranging in size from Saltspring (pop. 12,000) to unoccupied D'arcy, they first began to a …

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The Trail of 1858

The Trail of 1858

British Columbia's Gold Rush Past
by Mark Forsythe & Greg Dickson
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In 1858, over eight decades had passed since Captain James Cook claimed the shores of what would become British Columbia for the British crown, but European settlers had shown little interest in the new lands. The non-aboriginal population was only about 700. Then gold was discovered on the shores of the Fraser River and, overnight, the lonely outp …

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Desolation Sound

Desolation Sound

A History
by Heather Harbord
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Beautiful Desolation Sound, 150 km north of Vancouver, has for many years been the most popular cruising destination on the BC coast, but is today almost as devoid of local occupants as it was in 1792 when the dyspeptic Captain George Vancouver gave it its misleading name. It has not always been this way. Thick clamshell middens in remote bays, rot …

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Stanley Park's Secret

Stanley Park's Secret

The Forgotten Families of Whoi Whoi, Kanaka Ranch, and Brockton Point
by Jean Barman
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Finalist for 2006 BC Book Prize – Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize

 

Shortlisted for George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in B.C. Writing and Publishing

 

Each year, over eight million people visit Stanley Park, a 400-hectare (1000-acre) haven of beauty that offers a backdrop of majestic cedars and firs and an environment teeming with wildlife ju …

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A Field Guide to Gold, Gemstone & Mineral Sites of British Columbia Vol. 2

A Field Guide to Gold, Gemstone & Mineral Sites of British Columbia Vol. 2

Sites within a Day's Drive of Vancouver
by Rick Hudson
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The southwest region of British Columbia offers a motherlode of unique rockhounding experiences for both amateur and more seasoned prospectors. This revised and expanded edition of Rick Hudson's bestseller A Field Guide to Gold, Gemstone & Mineral Sites of British Columbia opens up a whole new world of exploration within a day's drive of Vancouver. …

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The Geology of Southern Vancouver Island

The Geology of Southern Vancouver Island

by Chris Yorath
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"This book is tailor-made for the keen amateur geologist wishing to learn more about geology and apply it to a particular landscape with which he or she is familiar or can readily relate to."
-Jeremy McCall, BC Naturalist

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Updated and expanded, this revised edition includes:

* New sites of interest, including the Alberni Valley, Pacific Rim Natio …

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Rafe

Rafe

A Memoir
by Rafe Mair
edition:Hardcover
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For much of the legendary BC politician-cum-hotliner's career, calling him a socialist would have risked a scorching riposte if not a punch in the nose, but in his latest book that is the label he gives himself. Has the old warrior gone over to the other side? Well, not exactly. Rafe Mair has dominated the British Columbia airwaves for years, pulli …

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The Remarkable Adventures of Portuguese Joe Silvey

The Remarkable Adventures of Portuguese Joe Silvey

by Jean Barman
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British Columbia is known for the colourful pioneers who helped build and shape the character of this weird but wonderful province. And few were as colourful as Portuguese Joe Silvey - a saloon keeper, whaler and pioneer of seine fishing in British Columbia.

Born on Pico Island, of Portugal's Azores Islands, sometime between 1830 and 1840, Joseph Si …

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Ontario Crosswords

Ontario Crosswords

by Glenn Rusth
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* What Ontario city hosted a Wild West show 11 years before Buffalo Bill Cody got his start?
* Where in Ontario does the world's longest street end?
* What Ontarian was the last man to win an Olympic gold medal in golf?
* What native of Cobourg won a Best Actress Oscar?

These and many more fascinating factoids about Canada's most populous province a …

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Voyage of the Dreamspeaker

Voyage of the Dreamspeaker

Vancouver—Desolation Sound Cruising Highlights
by Anne Yeadon-Jones & Laurence Yeadon-Jones
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Its maze of inlets, islands, sandy shores and rocky shoals gives the British Columbia coast some of the best cruising in the world—19,000 kilometres of spectacular coastline.

So it's no surprise that boaters flock here from around the world. Anne and Laurence Yeadon-Jones first found their way to Vancouver Harbour in 1988, after they left London' …

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