Thousands of years ago in the village of Kitkatla, four hunters leave home in the spring to harvest seaweed and sockeye. When they arrive at their fishing grounds, exhaustion makes them lazy and they throw their anchor overboard without...
British Columbia Collection
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Auteur:Vickers, Roy HenrySommaire: - Auteur:Smith, Lisa Anne, Rogers, BarbaraSommaire:
When a young black man named Seraphim “Joe” Fortes arrived in Vancouver in 1885, with little to his name, no one could have possibly suspected that one hundred years later he would be voted “Citizen of the Century.” Our Friend Joe is...
- Auteur:Kopas, CliffSommaire:
Babes in the woods. That’s how Ruth and Cliff Kopas were described by one of many colourful characters the pair encountered on their amazing journey across the Rockies through to British Columbia’s west coast in 1933. Married on the day...
- Auteur:Budd, Robert, Vickers, Roy HenrySommaire:
The children of the Tsimshian village of Kitkatla love to play at being hunters, eager for their turn to join the grown-ups. But when they capture and mistreat a crow, the Chief of the Heavens, angered at their disrespect, brings down a...
- Auteur:Sommaire:
Spectacular imagery adorns this fascinating anthology of the Lil’wat, Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations stories and legends. The book is a unique commemorative collection that celebrates the four host First Nations...
- Auteur:Stonier-Newman, LynneSommaire:
Powerful and diligent, Peter O’Reilly played a role in shaping British Columbia in the last quarter of the 1800s. An immigrant from Ireland, O’Reilly landed in Victoria during the height of the Cariboo Gold Rush and was appointed gold...
- Auteur:Horvath, PollySommaire:
From Newbery Honor— and National Book Award—winning author Polly Horvath comes a story of four sisters searching for home. Fiona, Marlin, Natasha, and Charlie McCready are left on their own when their missionary parents are washed away...
- Auteur:Harcourt, Mike, Lekich, JohnSommaire:
An inspiring and revealing memoir by one of Canada's most revered public figures. Mike Harcourt fought back from a near-fatal accident that doctors initially thought could leave the former B.C. premier permanently confined to a...
- Auteur:Deverell, WilliamSommaire:
In Platinum Blues, Oliver Gulliver is a small-town lawyer in northern California, and he's slowly going broke. He's a plodder and a dreamer, has never tested himself in a big trial, and is immensely protective of his two teenage girls....
- Auteur:Jennings, Neil L.Sommaire:
A full-colour field guide for the curious amateur naturalist, traveller, or hiker who wishes to learn to identify flowering plants that may be encountered while in the outdoors of South-Central British Columbia during the usual blooming...
- Auteur:Scott, Tracie LeaSommaire:
In 1999 the Nisga’a First Nation in northwestern British Columbia signed a landmark agreement which not only settled their land claim but outlined significant powers that could be exercised by its government. The Nisga’a Final Agreement...
- Auteur:Poole, MichaelSommaire:
When Nathan and Leah meet in Silva Landing, on the Sunshine Coast, in 1913, it is love at first sight; but they find their passion tested at every turn. Leah engages in a battle of wills with her mother, who feels she is too young for a...
- Auteur:Virk, ManjitSommaire:
Shortlisted for the 2009 George Ryga Award. This is the story of an average family that has never been the same . . . since its eldest child was swarmed and killed by her peers on a moonlit night, November 14, 1997 . . . It is the story...
- Auteur:Gray, NowickSommaire:
A wilderness cabin becomes a dream-box of catastrophe and survival, in this true adventure with a paranormal twist. Will hikes with a companion to meet his wife and three-year-old daughter in B.C.’s remote Jumbo Pass. An overnight storm...
- Auteur:Juby, SusanSommaire:
Prudence Burns is an overly idealistic Brooklyn girl who has inherited a derelict plot of land named Woefield Farm. Her motley crew of farm hands consists of Earl, an elderly, reclusive bluegrass legend; Seth, an agoraphobic heavy-metal...
- Auteur:Levy, PaulSommaire:
Few men can honestly be said to have attained the status of living legends in the BC business world, and even fewer women, but Lucille Johnstone, fondly known as "Tugboat Annie," was a notable exception. Lucille was twenty-three years...
- Auteur:Williams, JimSommaire:
After the death of his wife, Peter abandons his life in Toronto for one of exile in Rock Reject, a mountain-top asbestos mine in northern British Columbia. He soon witnesses the devastating effects of mining on the health of his fellow...
- Auteur:Manson, AinslieSommaire:
As Rick Hansen wheels around the globe on his incredible Man in Motion World Tour, the children he meets are encouraged to dream their own dreams and work to make them come true. Readers also discover little-known facts about the great...
- Auteur:Edwards, IsabelSommaire:
Biographical account of pioneer life in the Bella Coola region of British Columbia, near Lonesome Lake in the 1930s and 1940s, including trapping and fishing.
- Auteur:Raglin, RodSommaire:
Kimberley James is hoping her new assignment will jumpstart her stalled career with a New York corporate relations firm. Her client wants to develop a mega ski resort in northern Canada. Her job is to convince the current owners of the...
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