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Award-winning BC historian Jean Barman brings marginalized stories to the fore in her work toward historical redress.

The first independent account of the remarkable voyage of the Tilikum.

This edition celebrates the centennial of the University of British Columbia's storied newspaper with biographical sketches of interesting and accomplished people with bylines in the Ubyssey.

Maritime historian Rick James separates fact from fiction in this authoritative look into BC's rum-running past.

One River, Two Cultures is a well-researched history told in an accessible, conversational style from the point of view of a visitor utterly swept away by the natural beauty of the Bella Coola Valley and the friendliness of its full-time residents.

A memoir of strength and resilience in the remote BC wilderness.

With new hikes and up-to-date information, this user-friendly and informative guide is the essential companion to exploring the diverse network of BC's Gulf Islands. 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 th...

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With unique insight and straightforward prose, Wingwalkers tells the saga of Canada's other airline, a scrappy western mongrel that, through eight decades and numerous name changes--Canadian Airways, Queen Charlotte Airlines, CP Air, PWA, Wardair and Canadian Airlines International--transformed itself from a bush flying and mining operation into an international carrier. This revised edition brings the airline's story up to date with a new fin...

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-day show BC Almanac, marks the 100th anniversary of World War I by teaming with historian Greg Di...

This portable 8-fold guide is the perfect companion to Phillipa Hudsons easy-to-use Coastal Flowers of the Pacific Northwest, and features 112 spectacular photos of flowers found from the mid to alpine elevations on Vancouver Island and the Coast Mountains of the Pacific Northwest. Organized into a two-sided colour coded chart with a ruler printed on the back cover, this handy guide will aid in the quick identification of almost any flower one...

Arthur Black's latest trademark storytelling!

Now available in paperback, Bijaboji is a BC bestseller and a classic of boating literature.

Winner of the 2006 City of Vancouver Book Prize now available in Tradepaper!

Rafe's back tackling controversial issues with his keen sense of humour and critical insight.

>Written with all the warmth and ironic humour his fans have come to know and love, Cardboard Ocean is an affectionate evocation of a childhood in a rough setting, but with the thrills, chills and loves that will be familiar to anyone who was ever young. McCardell was raised by a working mother in the borough of Queens where even the grade schoolers ran in gangs, fiercely protecting their turf from intrusion by the tykes a few blocks away. The...

What if Mike McCardell -- beloved reporter of glasses half-full and the brighter side of life -- is actually dead... or, more specifically, un-dead? Suppose he has continued to walk among the living ever since he was a sapper with the famous detachment of Royal Engineers who came to British Columbia in 1859 and was known as Jock Linn -- the namesake for North Vancouver's misspelled Lynn Creek. And then imagine that after Linn died or, more acc...

The colourful autobiography of Thom Henley: environmentalist, human rights advocate and co-founder of the Rediscovery wilderness program for youth. In 1970, twenty-two-year-old Thom Henley left Michigan and drifted around the northwest coast, getting by on odd jobs and advice from even odder characters. He rode the rails, built a squatter shack on a beach, came to be known as "Huckleberry" and embarked on adventures along the West Coast and ab...

Call me Chick. I've been called Chick since I was six years old. If you call me Donald, I'll know you don't know me. In this story, I'll tell you how my life unfolded over the last eight decades: how I got that nickname, how I met and married the most beautiful girl in the world, and how I came to own and operate S & R sawmills in Surrey, British Columbia. By the end of this book, I'm pretty sure you'll know me well enough to call me Chick." -...

Few recent events in British Columbia have seized the public mind like the 2006 sinking of the BC Ferries passenger vessel Queen of the North. Across Canada, it was one of the top news stories of the year. In BC it has attained the status of nautical legend. Ten years later, questions are still being asked. How did a ship that sailed the same course thousands of times fall victim to such an inexplicable error? Was the bridge crew fooling aroun...