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Series: Dancing on MountainsPaperback
Luanne Armstrong9781773860893
$26.00LITERARY COLLECTIONS
Jan 01, 2024
Nestled among pristine lakes, powerful rivers and awe-inducing mountain ranges, the Kootenay region of British Columbia has always drawn a distinctly adventurous crowd. The dramatic and somewhat isolated landscape has long been a fertile ground for artists, musicians, back-to-the-landers, hippies, environmentalists, free thinkers, and those seeking to escape the confines of big cities to the east and west and the political dynamics to the south. Others have called the area home for millennia—the Sinixt Nation, which spans the interior plateau o... + Read More
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Series: Douglas Lake RanchEmpire of GrassHardcover
Donna Yoshitake Wuest9781990776427
$50.00HISTORY
Nov 25, 2023
Explore the rich history of Canada’s largest ranch. Douglas Lake is the largest ranch in Canada, encompassing over one million acres of BC’s south-central interior, and thousands of people have worked there since it was founded in the mid 1880s. Douglas Lake now includes BC’s first cattle ranch, Alkali Lake Ranch, as well as Circle S Ranch, Quilchena Ranch, Riske Creek Ranching and the infamous Gang Ranch. It has had a succession of wealthy owners including Charles “Chunky” Woodward of Woodward’s Stores and current owner, US real estate and sp... + Read More
The Chilcotin’s magnificent wild horses are under threat. British Columbia’s vast Chilcotin region is home to a magnificent population of what most people call wild horses, although technically they are “feral” horses since they descend from stock that was long ago tame. They are romantic and beautiful, but they are also controversial: they are seen as intruders competing for range land with native species and domestic cattle and, as a result, they have been subject to government culls and are not officially protected. In this compelling book... + Read More
Celebrated historian Barry Gough brings a defining era of Pacific Northwest history into focus in this biography of Richard Blanshard, the first governor of Vancouver Island—illuminating with intriguing detail the genesis and early days of Canada’s westernmost province. Early one wintry day in March 1850, after seven weary weeks out of sight of land, a well-dressed Londoner, a bachelor aged thirty-two, stood at the ship’s rail taking in the immensity of the unfolding scene. From Her Britannic Majesty’s paddlewheel sloop-of-war Driver, steadily... + Read More
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Series: The Best Loved BoatThe Princess MaquinnaHardcover
Ian Kennedy9781990776403
$34.95HISTORY
Oct 28, 2023
Built in 1913, the Canadian Pacific Railway's ship Princess Maquinna steamed up and down the rugged west coast of Vancouver Island in summer and winter, calm weather and storms, for over forty years, and has become one of the most beloved boats in BC’s maritime history. Princess Maquinna, sometimes referred to as the “Ugly Princess” but most often “Old Faithful,” transported Indigenous people, settlers, missionaries, loggers, cannery workers, prospectors and travellers of all kinds up and down Vancouver Island’s rugged and dangerous west coast... + Read More
Keiko Honda is living a successful, busy life as a scientist of cancer epidemiology at Columbia University in New York City when one morning she abruptly loses all strength in her legs. She phones a friend to care for her twenty-month-old daughter and rushes to the hospital. Within hours, she can barely breathe. She soon discovers she is permanently paralyzed from the chest down due to a rare autoimmune disease with a frequency of approximately one case per million per year. Suddenly, she’s that one. As Keiko struggles for life, she learns thro... + Read More
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Series: Live at the CommodoreThe Story of Vancouver's Historic Commodore Ballroom—New Updated EditionPaperback
Aaron Chapman9781551529370
$32.95HISTORY
Oct 17, 2023
A new edition of the storied history of Vancouver’s Commodore Ballroom, by the author of Vancouver After Dark.The Commodore Ballroom, located in the heart of downtown Vancouver, remains one of the best-loved music venues in Canada, if not the world; it’s played host to a who’s who of music greats: the Police, the Clash, Blondie, Talking Heads, Nirvana, New York Dolls, U2, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Snoop Dogg, and the White Stripes, among others.The Commodore’s history extends back to 1930, when it was built in the splendour of art deco style. Thro... + Read More
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Series: Law and SocietyThe Notorious GeorgesCrime and Community in British Columbia's Northern Interior, 1905-25Paperback
Jonathan Swainger9780774869416
$32.95HISTORY
Oct 15, 2023
Boozy and boisterous. The Georges – the communities of South Fort George and Fort George that ultimately became Prince George – acquired a seedy reputation for a century, at times branded the dubious title of Canada’s “most dangerous city.” Is Prince George really such a bad lad? The Notorious Georges explores how the pursuit of respectability collided with caricatures of a riotous settlement frontier in its early years. Anxious about being marginalized by the provincial government and venture capitalists, municipal leaders blamed Indigenous an... + Read More
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Series: Working Canadians: Books from the CCLHTriumph and SolidarityBC Communists in the Early Years of the Great DepressionPaperback
Jon Bartlett9781771993951
$34.99HISTORY
Oct 01, 2023
British Columbia was the site of some of the most significant events in the history of the labour movement and had some of the best-organized and most politically conscious communist workers. In this illuminating volume, Jon Bartlett follows the activities of BC Communists from the onset of the Great Depression to the coming of the Popular Front and investigates the collisions between these Communists and the organs of the federal, provincial, and municipal governments. Reflecting on the vectors of cultural resistance, from the creation of vern... + Read More
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Series: Gumboot GuysNautical Adventures on British Columbia's North CoastPaperback
Lou Allison9781773861180
$26.00BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Sep 15, 2023
Gumboot Girls and Dancing in Gumboots chronicled the fascinating and inspiring stories of the 1970’s migration of women seeking a new way of life on BC’s West Coast, from Prince Rupert and Haida Gwaii to the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island. But what about the men who came in search of their own adventure, who became smitten with boats and the smell of salty air? Now, Gumboot Guys joins the two previous collections in chronicling this exciting decade, when all seemed possible.Stories of buying, fixing, building and running boats; learning to na... + Read More
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Series: Knots and StitchesCommunity Quilts Across the HarbourPaperback
Kristin Miller9781773861203
$26.00BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Sep 15, 2023
In 1979, Kristin Miller and her partner hitched a ride on a fishboat to a remote community across the harbour from Prince Rupert, BC. Entranced with the wild beauty of the rocky inlet, they bartered a handmade quilt for half the price of a sturdy skiff and bought a ramshackle cabin for $3,500. Together, they imagined settling down in this rustic paradise. But that dream fell apart and Kristin moved in alone. Bereft, angry, and in fragile health after a disastrous failed pregnancy and a faltering marriage, she sought refuge in the cabin to harbo... + Read More
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Series: Stewards of SplendourA History of Wildlife and People in British ColumbiaPaperback
Jennifer Bonnell9781039900004
$34.95HISTORY
Sep 12, 2023
The subject of wildlife both unites and deeply divides British Columbians. From concern over dwindling orca populations to deeply political debates over hunting and harvesting, questions surrounding fish and wildlife harvest rights and methods, and the effects of industrial resource extraction, tourism, and residential development upon wildlife populations, have produced an atmosphere of conflict and distrust in BC. Spanning the deep history of human relationships with wildlife, from pre-contact Indigenous land stewardship to the present day, ... + Read More
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Series: 9781773271804
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Series: The Eventful Life of Philip HankinWorld-Wide Traveller and Witness to British Columbia's Early HistoryPaperback
Geoff Mynett9781773861197
$26.00BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Sep 01, 2023
Today’s explorers of Vancouver Island may be familiar with the name “Hankin”—Hankin Island lies off the coast of Ucluelet within the famous Pacific Rim National Park; Mount Hankin looms amidst the dense forests of central Vancouver Island; and nestled in the San Juan Islands, Hankin Point sits on the easternmost tip of Shaw Island. The man behind the name is Philip Hankin, a little-known but fascinating figure who led an eventful life marked by immense swings in fortune.In 1849, at just thirteen years old, Philip Hankin, then in England, entere... + Read More
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Series: Burning SagePoems from the Lytton FirePaperback
Meghan Fandrich9781773861289
$20.00POETRY
Sep 01, 2023
On the day that Lytton, BC burned to the ground, Meghan Fandrich ran from the flames. She saw the village turn into a black pillar of smoke, and went home after a month-long evacuation to its ashes. Her house, on the edge of the fire, was saved; her community and her small business were not. Life as she knew it was gone, and somehow, in spite of the trauma and the ongoing onslaught of natural disasters, she had to keep going. Living. Surviving.Burning Sage shares Meghan’s deeply personal story of the fire, the ensuing trauma, and the path out o... + Read More
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Series: School Statue ShowdownPaperback
David Starr9781459417540
$16.95YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 - 16
Sep 01, 2023
This mystery/adventure set in a small BC lumber town is a fictional account of an event that is similar to many across the country – a sudden conflict over a school name and the historic figure it recognizes. Educator and childrens’ novelist David Starr builds a compelling fictional narrative using elements drawn from the history of resource exploitation at the expense of First Nations’ communities. In this book, the son of the owners of the town’s lumber mill goes to a school named after his grandfather. When his grandfather’s statue is spl... + Read More
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Series: DecrimHow We Decriminalized Drugs in British ColumbiaPaperback
Kennedy Stewart9781990776304
$24.95LAW Aug 26, 2023
A timely, insider account of an important and controversial step in British Columbia’s strategic effort to respond to the overdose crisis.Canada is in the middle of an opioid crisis. Since the province of British Columbia declared a public health emergency in 2016, more than 9,400 people have died of drug poisoning in BC—an average of six people a day—with nearly 1,500 apparent opioid-related deaths in the first eight months of 2022.In Decrim, Kennedy Stewart, mayor of Vancouver from 2018 to 2022, recounts historic progress in addressing this c... + Read More
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Series: Robin's Egg BooksEast Side StoryGrowing Up at the PNEPaperback
Nick Marino9781551529332
$21.95HUMOR
Aug 08, 2023
A sly, sentimental, and wickedly funny memoir about growing up at the local fair. A ROBIN'S EGG BOOK The PNE (Pacific National Exhibition) is a Vancouver tradition, an annual fair started in 1910 that is famous for its farm animals, dog trick shows, and amusement park - highlighted by Canada's oldest wooden roller coaster still in existence. In 1980, when Nick Marino was twelve years old, he started working at the PNE and quickly learned that there was more to the fair than winning stuffed animals and eating mini donuts. He had to contend wi... + Read More
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Series: Exploring VancouverTen Tours of the City and its Buildings (Fifth Edition)Paperback
Harold Kalman9781990776274
$29.95ARCHITECTURE
Jun 17, 2023
This new edition of the classic urban guidebook brings the city’s architectural story up to date. Harold Kalman and Robin Ward, long-time chroniclers of Vancouver, offer an authoritative and highly readable book about Vancouver’s most interesting places and explain how, why and by whom the city’s urban environment was created. Containing more than four hundred entries, ten self-guided tours highlight significant buildings from all eras in the city and its metro region, and feature new projects that transform the skyline more radically than eve... + Read More
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Series: Protecting the Coast and OceanA Guide to Marine Conservation Law in British ColumbiaHardcover
Stephanie M. Hewson9780774865494
$39.95NATURE
Jun 01, 2023
Fish were once so abundant in BC waters that Indigenous elders recall dried salmon being stacked like firewood behind the stove, and the sound of herring at night reminiscent of rainfall. But declines on the BC coast have accelerated over the last century, with marine wildlife cut in half in just four decades. Protecting the Coast and Ocean explores how we can reverse such precipitous declines.This meticulous work catalogues not only the laws and designations that governments in Canada can draw on – marine protected areas, Indigenous protected ... + Read More
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Series: Lessons in LegitimacyColonialism, Capitalism, and the Rise of State Schooling in British ColumbiaPaperback
Sean Carleton9780774868082
$34.95HISTORY
May 15, 2023
Between 1849 and 1930, schooling in what is now British Columbia supported the development of a capitalist settler society. Lessons in Legitimacy examines government-assisted schooling for Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples – public schools, Indian Day Schools, and Indian Residential Schools – in one analytical frame. Sean Carleton demonstrates how church and state officials administered different school systems that trained Indigenous and settler children and youth to take up and accept unequal roles in the emerging social order. This impor... + Read More
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Series: Printer's DevilsThe Feisty Pioneer Newspaper That Shaped the History of British Columbia's Smelter City 1895-1925Paperback
Ron Verzuh9781773861036
$28.00HISTORY
May 12, 2023
The grisly murder of a nurse, a crippling 1917 strike, death on the wartime battlefield, the 1918–19 flu pandemic, life on the home front—these are just some of the historic events covered in the early days of the Trail Creek News. In Printer’s Devils, historian Ron Verzuh offers both a study of pioneer journalism and a social history of the smelter city of Trail as it grew into a small but prosperous community. He traces the stories of residents and their evolving attitudes, pastimes and opinions as they respond in times of economic crisis, wa... + Read More
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Series: The Science and Superpowers of SeaweedA Guide for KidsPaperback
Amanda Swinimer9781990776199
$24.95JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 6 - 12
May 06, 2023
A middle-grade and family-friendly introduction to the enchanting world of seaweed. Young readers will be delighted to learn about the wonderful, watery world of seaweed, where emerald-green kelp forests grow as tall as trees and rainbow seaweeds shimmer like gemstones in the sunlight. Seaweed can be fun too, providing tasty snacks like nori crisps and cool things to do: hunt for dead man’s fingers to squeeze like a squirt gun, have a popping contest with rockweed or make seaweed art. Seaweeds are also critical to the health of the planet—they... + Read More
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Series: This Place Is Who We AreStories of Indigenous Leadership, Resilience, and Connection to HomelandsPaperback
Katherine Palmer Gordon9781990776137
$39.95NATURE
May 06, 2023
This Place Is Who We Are profiles Indigenous communities in central and northern coastal BC that are reconnecting to their lands and waters—and growing and thriving through this reconnection. Indigenous peoples and cultures are integrally connected to the land. Well-being in every sense—physical, social, environmental, economic, spiritual and cultural—depends on that relationship, which is based on a fundamental concept: when the land is well, so are the people. With increasing strength, Indigenous peoples in this vast region of BC—which spans... + Read More
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Series: Sheltering in the BackrushA History of Twin IslandsPaperback
Jeanette Taylor9781990776113
$24.95HISTORY
Apr 22, 2023
Coastal historian Jeanette Taylor unveils the unique past of Twin Islands. Twin Islands form part of the lacey fringe at the southern edge of the Discovery Islands archipelago, where it meets the north Salish Sea. This is the interface between wilderness and urban settlement. To the north, heavily treed slopes rise vertically from the sea and fast tides churn through the constricted passages of a maze of islands and inlets. Navigating these waters is a white-knuckle challenge many recreational boaters avoid, ending their travels to the east in... + Read More
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Series: First Voices, First TextsLegends of the CapilanoPaperback
E. Pauline Johnson9781772840179
$27.95FICTION
Apr 14, 2023
Bringing the Legends homeLegends of the Capilano updates E. Pauline Johnson’s 1911 classic Legends of Vancouver, restoring Johnson’s intended title for the first time. This new edition celebrates the storytelling abilities of Johnson’s Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) collaborators, Joe and Mary Capilano, and supplements the original fifteen legends with five additional stories narrated solely or in part by Mary Capilano, highlighting her previously overlooked contributions to the book.Alongside photographs and biographical entries for E. Pauline Johnson... + Read More
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Series: The Whole AnimalPaperback
Corinna Chong9781551529158
$19.95FICTION
Apr 11, 2023
A refreshingly original debut collection of short stories that grapple with the self-alienation and self-discovery that make us human. For fans of Souvankham Thammavongsa, Lynn Coady, and Lisa Moore comes a striking debut collection of short stories that explore bodies both human and animal: our fascination with their strange effluences, growths, and protrusions, and the dangerous ways we play with their power to inflict harm on ourselves and on others. Throughout The Whole Animal, flawed characters wrestle with the complexities of relations... + Read More
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Series: White RiotThe 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in VancouverPaperback
Henry Tsang9781551529196
$32.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Apr 04, 2023
Essays and photographs that document the anti-Asian riots of 1907 in the context of contemporary anti-Asian sentiment. White Riot: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver explores the conditions leading up to and the impact of a demonstration and parade in Vancouver, Canada, organized by the Asiatic Exclusion League and the ensuing mob attack on the city's Chinese Canadian and Japanese Canadian communities. Emblematic of a systemically racist era, White Riot reveals the social and political environment of the time, when racialized communities w... + Read More
An unnamed speaker navigates a world where God comes in the shape of a cardinal, speaks in the voice of Georgia O’Keeffe, and paints the desert with bones. Driven by sound, heartbreak, and the baffling limits and possibilities of language, a nameless speaker sets out into a dream-like wilderness where lyric and narrative meet, time dissolves, and figures as various as Moses, the apostle Paul, Virginia Woolf, Blaise Pascal, and Zora Neale Hurston gather in a colloquy. Born from a region of preachers and stuttering prophets, from the gift of ton... + Read More
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Series: One Summer in VancouverPaperback
Tony Correia9781459417168
$22.95YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 13 - 18
Apr 04, 2023
The 1990 Gay Games in Vancouver were an inspiring and culture-shifting event in the history of LGBTQ2S+ culture and visibility. One Summer In Vancouver is a fiction which takes place in the midst of an event which is reconstructed with careful detail by an author who was there. This is a story of self-discovery and romance for young adult readers today -- but it will also engage adult readers of historical fiction, sports fiction, LGBTQ2S+ fiction, and romance. Tom, a teen struggling to understand his sexual identity, flees Toronto for a summ... + Read More
The very first guidebook written just for snorkellers exploring these unique ecosystems. The chilly waters surrounding Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands are rich in colourful and diverse marine life. Scuba divers have long been aware of this submarine cornucopia, and Jacques Cousteau himself recognized the Pacific Northwest as one of the world’s premier temperate diving destinations. But scuba diving is an elite hobby, requiring training and costly equipment, and consequently is accessible only to a relatively small number of people. Snorke... + Read More
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Series: Dreamspeaker Cruising GuidesThe West Coast of Vancouver IslandRevised Third Edition, 2023Revised Third Edition, 2023Paperback
Anne Yeadon-Jones9781990776298
$49.95SPORTS & RECREATION
Mar 11, 2023
Written in the personal style of a boater’s logbook, the Dreamspeaker Cruising Guide series provides vital information about featured locations, notes on recreational activities, and is an indispensable reference for every boater.With its rugged, rock-studded shoreline, relentlessly crashing ocean swells, miles of sandy beaches, diversity of wildlife and countless coves and bays, Vancouver Island’s western shoreline presents a challenging and thrilling adventure. Volume 6 covers the best spots from Cape Scott to Sooke, including Bull Harbour, t... + Read More
Lise, Appoline and Anne are related, though they live on opposite coasts at different moments of time, with the vast geography of Canada and decades of change in between. The three women are linked by generations of hardship, displacement, and an eighteenth-century French musket that has been passed down through the LeBlanc family since the time of the Acadian expulsion. In contemporary Victoria, BC, Lise’s estranged son, Daniel, reappears in Nova Scotia just when she’s making significant changes in her life, including a nasty divorce from Dani... + Read More
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Series: Kechika ChroniclerWillard Freer's Northern BC and Yukon Diaries, 1942-1975Paperback
Jay Sherwood9781773860909
$26.00HISTORY
Feb 24, 2023
Willard Freer lived in remote areas of northern BC for most of his life. Born in Kamloops in 1910 and raised in the Peace River country, Freer came to the Kechika River valley in 1942, where he worked for a number of years with famed packer and guide Skook Davidson. He then built a cabin about 35 kilometres to the north and spent the rest of his life in the valley, and at Fireside, an Alaska Highway lodge near the junction of the Kechika and Liard rivers.By all accounts, Freer was a quiet, introverted person, who faithfully kept a daily diary f... + Read More
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Series: Dreamspeaker Cruising GuidesDesolation Sound & the Discovery IslandsRevised Fifth Edition, 2023Revised Fifth Edition, 2023Paperback
Anne Yeadon-Jones9781990776069
$49.95SPORTS & RECREATION
Feb 18, 2023
The information-packed Dreamspeaker Cruising Guide series covers the most significant and accessible cruising areas of the southern inside passage, and has become standard reference for British Columbia boaters.Volume 2 covers 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. World-famous for its pristine and spectacular natural beauty, the interconnecting waterways encompass large tracts of accessible wilderness that entice boaters,... + Read More
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Series: Tilling the DarknessPaperback
Susan Braley9781773861067
$20.00POETRY
Feb 10, 2023
In Susan Braley’s debut poetry collection, Tilling the Darkness, a young woman born into a family of eleven navigates the inequities of gender roles on the farm and in the church. In this dramatic rural setting—birth and death sudden in the barn, the seasons vivid over the fields—she experiences first-hand how swiftly seedlings become stalks ploughed down, how easily she and her sisters are discounted. Tilling the Darkness explores how we all undertake this tilling ritual, season after season, in the finite field of our lives. Our darkness may ... + Read More
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Series: 9781250848789
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Series: 9781250624208
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Series: Hard Is the JourneyStories of Chinese Settlement in British Columbia's KootenayPaperback
Lily Chow9781773860749
$26.00BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Dec 16, 2022
Award-winning writer Lily Chow shares the difficult history of Chinese Canadians in the Kootenay through first-hand stories that are devastating, heartfelt and inspiring.In Hard is the Journey, award-winning historian and researcher Lily Chow shares the difficult history of Chinese Canadians in the Kootenay. She unearths the racism of early newspapers that portrayed Chinese immigrants as dirty, sinister, and lethargic people not fit to live in BC and uncovers the history of the Chinese labourers who completed the deadly work of blazing the Dewd... + Read More
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Series: 9781788684538
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Series: Workboats for the WorldThe Robert Allan StoryHardcover
Robert G. Allan9781550179873
$99.95HISTORY
Nov 26, 2022
Along the West Coast waterfront and in ship-handling circles around the world, few names are more respected than that of Robert Allan Ltd., the marine architecture firm that has been based in Vancouver for nearly a century. Founded in 1928 by the original Robert Allan, the firm got its start designing stealth speed boats used in rum running, classic fishing boats, small ferries and sumptuous yachts. Under Robert F. (Bob) Allan, the firm began transforming the coastal tug fleet from wood to steel and developed unique innovations such as self-lo... + Read More
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Series: Incredible CrossingsThe History and Art of the Bridges, Tunnels and Inland Ferries That Connect British ColumbiaHardcover
Derek Hayes9781550179903
$46.95HISTORY
Nov 26, 2022
Historian and bestselling author Derek Hayes brings hundreds of colour photographs, archival images and illustrations together with a meticulously researched commentary on the bridges, tunnels and inland ferries that connect British Columbia. The very nature of the topography of BC has meant that engineers have had to be innovative in their solutions to formidable barriers, and the province is home to a multitude of rivers and mountain torrents that had to be bridged to create both railway connections and the modern road network. Their vital na... + Read More
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Series: All the Bears SingStoriesPaperback
Harold Macy9781990776007
$24.95FICTION
Nov 05, 2022
Harold Macy’s story collection highlights the particular magic of the West Coast, reflecting on how we both shape—and are shaped by—the land we inhabit.Whether he’s chronicling fallen old-growth monarchs sprawled on a steep slope up-coast, the brassy orchestra of trumpeter swans, or the ecstasy of a smokejumper’s fall from the sky, Harold Macy contemplates the beauty of all that British Columbia has to offer with graceful lyricism and appreciation for the natural world.It is the human ties to the land that shine in Macy’s stories: everyday fishe... + Read More
Esteemed historian Jean Barman brings new insights on the seemingly disparate events that converged to lay the foundation of the present-day province. By examining newly accessible private correspondence exchanged with the Colonial Office in London, Barman pieces together the chain of events that caused the distant colony of British Columbia to join the Canadian Confederation as opposed to the very real possibility of becoming one or more American states. Following the division of the Pacific Northwest between Britain and the United States in ... + Read More
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Series: Cold Case BCThe Stories Behind the Province's Most Sensational Murder and Missing Person CasesPaperback
Eve Lazarus9781551529073
$22.95HISTORY
Oct 25, 2022
Finalist, Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award (BC Book Prizes) In her BC bestseller Cold Case Vancouver, crime historian and reporter Eve Lazarus used investigative skills to shine a light on the city's most baffing unsolved murders. In Cold Case BC, Lazarus casts her gaze more widely on long forgotten and unsolved murder cases throughout British Columbia. These include teenager Molly Justice, who was murdered on the outskirts of Victoria after taking the bus home from work, and a follow-up to the tragic 1953 Babes in the Woods story of two ... + Read More
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Series: 9781773271811
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Series: Echoes of the SupernaturalThe Graphic Art of Robert DavidsonHardcover
Gary Wyatt9781773271903
$60.00ART
Oct 18, 2022
Over six decades of brilliant prints and paintings from the most prominent Northwest Coast artist of his generation.Since leaving Haida Gwaii to study art in Vancouver - where he carved argillite with Bill Reid in a department store and hand-sold prints on the UBC campus - Guud sans glans, Robert Davidson has moved between two worlds. As a host of Potlaches, carver of masks and totem poles, and performer and teacher of traditional Haida songs and dances, he has been one of the driving forces in the resurgence of Haida culture in the aftermath o... + Read More
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Series: WayfarerBlue Portugal and Other EssaysUnabridged editionDownloadable audio file
Theresa Kishkan9781772126839
$32.99LITERARY COLLECTIONS
Oct 13, 2022
Using the richness of braided essays, Theresa Kishkan thinks deeply about the natural world, mourns and celebrates the aging body, gently contests recorded history, and considers art and visual phenomena. Gathering personal genealogies, medical histories, and early land surveys together with insights from music, colour theory, horticulture, and textile production, Kishkan weaves a pattern of richly textured threads, welcoming readers to share her intellectual and emotional preoccupations. With an intimate awareness of place and time, a deep sen... + Read More
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Series: 9781773271989
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Series: 9781680513387
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Series: Alone in the Great UnknownOne Woman’s Remarkable Adventures in the Northwestern WildernessPaperback
Caroll Simpson9781550179941
$26.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oct 01, 2022
The inspiring story of how an urban woman came to own and operate a remote fishing lodge nestled deep in the British Columbian wilderness. When Caroll Simpson fell in love with a cabin located on pristine Babine Lake in BC, many miles away from her home in Washington State, she knew her life was about to change. After convincing her husband to abandon their dream of living aboard a sailboat, they began the complicated process of buying the lodge and moving north. For two years, their adventure was a blissful dream. Then, tragedy struck. Followi... + Read More
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Series: TsqelmucwilcThe Kamloops Indian Residential School - Resistance and a ReckoningPaperback
Celia Haig-Brown9781551529059
$22.95HISTORY
Sep 27, 2022
In May 2021, the world was shocked by news of the detection of 215 unmarked graves on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School (KIRS) in British Columbia, Canada. Ground-penetrating radar confirmed the vestiges of children as young as three on this site of the infamous residential school system, which systematically removed children from their families and brought them to the schools. At these Christian-run, government-supported institutions, they were subjected to physical, mental, and sexual abuse while their Indigenous la... + Read More
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Series: River of MistsPeople of the Upper Skeena, 1833-1930Paperback
Geoff Mynett9781773860930
$26.00HISTORY
Sep 16, 2022
In River of Mists, best-selling author and award-winning historian Geoff Mynett returns to the Skeena River community of Hazelton to shed new light on the wide spectrum of characters who left their mark on the area. Delving as far back in time as the early 1820s, Mynett covers over a century of change in the small community which, due to its location at the forks of the Skeena and Bulkley rivers and proximity to mountain ranges, seems destined to be a hub of activity--always industrious, often prosperous, and occasionally scandalous--while main... + Read More
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Series: Bent Back TonguePaperback
Garry Gottfriedson9781773860961
$20.00POETRY
Sep 16, 2022
Canadian Performance Documents and Debates provides insight into performance activities from the seventeenth century to the early 1970s, and probes important yet vexing questions about Canada as a country and a concept. The volume collects playscripts and archival material to explore what these documents tell us about the values, debates, and priorities of artists and their audiences from the past 400 years. Analyses throughout rethink the significance of theatre, dance, opera, circus, and other performance genres and events. This landmark coll... + Read More
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Series: To Share, Not SurrenderIndigenous and Settler Visions of Treaty Making in the Colonies of Vancouver Island and British ColumbiaPaperback
Peter Cook9780774863834
$37.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Aug 15, 2022
To Share, Not Surrender offers an entirely new approach to assessing Indigenous-settler conflict over land, opening scholarship to the public and augmenting it with First Nations community expertise. Informed by cel’aṉ’en – “our culture, the way of our people” – this multivocal work of essays traces the transition from treaty-making in the colony of Vancouver Island to reserve formation in the colony of British Columbia. The collection also publishes translations/interpretations of the treaties into the SENĆOŦEN and Lekwungen languages. An all-... + Read More
The west coast region of Vancouver Island encompasses mountainous terrain, rainforest, mudflats, and ragged coastlines that bear the brunt of storms spawned by an immense ocean. Remote and inaccessible until well into the twentieth century, the “wild west coast” is also one of the most spectacular bird habitats in the world. Here one can observe multitudes of oceanic birds passing offshore, or venturing ashore to breed, and witness the countless avian migrants travelling north and south each year along the great Pacific Flyway.The Birds of Vanc... + Read More
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Series: Law and Society The Notorious Georges Crime and Community in British Columbia's Northern Interior, 1905-25 Paperback 9780774869416 $32.95 HISTORY Oct 15, 2023
Gumboot Guys Nautical Adventures on British Columbia's North Coast Paperback 9781773861180 $26.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 15, 2023
Knots and Stitches Community Quilts Across the Harbour Paperback 9781773861203 $26.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 15, 2023
The Eventful Life of Philip Hankin World-Wide Traveller and Witness to British Columbia's Early History Paperback 9781773861197 $26.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 01, 2023
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Protecting the Coast and Ocean A Guide to Marine Conservation Law in British Columbia Hardcover 9780774865494 $39.95 NATURE Jun 01, 2023
Printer's Devils The Feisty Pioneer Newspaper That Shaped the History of British Columbia's Smelter City 1895-1925 Paperback 9781773861036 $28.00 HISTORY May 12, 2023
Hard Is the Journey Stories of Chinese Settlement in British Columbia's Kootenay Paperback 9781773860749 $26.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Dec 16, 2022
River of Mists People of the Upper Skeena, 1833-1930 Paperback 9781773860930 $26.00 HISTORY Sep 16, 2022