The rugged west coast of Vancouver Island offers some of the most spectacular and storied hiking in the Pacific Northwest. Home to the world-famous West Coast Trail, once a lifeline for marooned sailors and still among the most breath-...
British Columbia Collection
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Author:Leadem, TimSummary: - Author:Cox, ConstanceSummary:
A new edition of the groundbreaking 1959 publication created in collaboration with the Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs. This beautiful new edition of the histories and laws of the Gitanyow (literally "people of the small/narrow place," once...
- Author:Scoones, AnnySummary:
Glamorgan Farm is one of the oldest farms on Vancouver Island. The original log barns house rare breeds of livestock; heirloom plants thrive in its orchards and gardens. Owner Anny Scoones meets the challenges of restoring and...
- Author:James, Simon DanielSummary:
In this tale there is an old man who keeps the sky, the stars, the moon, and the light of the world in a set of boxes. Raven tricks him into opening the boxes. Raven then steals the sun, and the world around him becomes instantly...
- Author:Wharton, ThomasSummary:
In 1898, Doctor Edward Byrne slips on the ice of the Arcturus glacier in the Canadian Rockies and slides into a crevasse, wedged upside down nearly sixty feet below the surface. As he fights losing consciousness, a stray beam of...
- Author:Knott, HelenSummary:
Helen Knott, a highly accomplished Indigenous woman, seems to have it all. But in her memoir, she offers a different perspective. In My Own Moccasins is an unflinching account of addiction, intergenerational trauma, and the wounds...
- Author:Delany, VickiSummary:
Trouble is brewing in the small, bucolic mountain town of Trafalgar, British Columbia. An American who came to Trafalgar as a Vietnam War draft dodger has left land and money to the town. But there’s a catch. The money must be used to...
- Author:McCreary, TylerSummary:
Indigenous Legalities, Pipeline Viscosities examines the relationship between the Wet'suwet'en and hydrocarbon pipeline development, showing how colonial governments and corporations seek to control Indigenous claims and how the Wet'...
- Author:Archibald, Jo-AnnSummary:
Jo-ann Archibald worked closely with Coast Salish Elders and storytellers, who shared both traditional and personal life-experience stories, in order to develop ways of bringing storytelling into educational contexts. Indigenous...
- Author:Marks, LynneSummary:
British Columbia is at the forefront of a secularizing movement in the English-speaking world. Nearly half its residents claim no religious affiliation, and the province has the highest rate of unbelief or religious indifference in...
- Author:McEwen, JoanSummary:
In early-1980s Vancouver, Ivan Henry was an ex-convict still adjusting to civilian life when he was detained on a break-and-enter charge. A short time later he found himself on trial for ten charges of sexual assault—crimes he...
- Author:Price, StevenSummary:
Acclaimed Canadian poet Steven Price has conjured a stunning debut novel that explores what we ask from each other, and how much we are prepared to give. Set in the city of Victoria, British Columbia, Into That Darkness opens at the...
- Author:Kheraj, SeanSummary:
In early December 2006, a powerful windstorm ripped through Vancouver's Stanley Park. The storm transformed the city's most treasured landmark into a tangle of splintered trees and shattered a decades-old vision of the park as timeless...
- Author:Whishaw, IonaSummary:
The fourth book in what the Globe and Mail has proclaimed "a terrific series" by "a writer to watch." Summer descends over the picturesque King's Cove as Darling and Lane's mutual affection blossoms. But their respite from solving crime...
- Author:Ferguson, Julie H.Summary:
James Douglas' story is one of high adventure in pre-Confederation Canada. It weaves through the heart of Canadian and Pacific Northwest history when British Columbia was a wild land, Vancouver didn't exist and Victoria was a muddy...
- Author:Harvey, Kim SenklipSummary:
"Come along for the ride to Kamloopa, the largest Powwow on the West Coast. This high-energy Indigenous matriarchal story follows two urban Indigenous sisters and a lawless Trickster who face our postcolonial world head-on as they come...
- Author:Lee, NormanSummary:
The latest addition to TouchWood Editions’ Classics West Collection, Klondike Cattle Drive is the colourful tale of a formidable trek undertaken by legendary Cariboo rancher Norman Lee.In 1898, Lee set out to drive 200 head of cattle...
- Author:Bourgeois, Stéphanie, Marcotte, Danielle S.Summary:
Été 1786. Deux garçons orphelins de quinze ans sont sur un voilier parti de Southampton, en Angleterre, pour le Nord-Est du Pacifique. Alexis, d'origine acadienne, cherche ce qu'il reste de sa famille dispersée, et Hugh rêve d'une vie...
- Author:Harris, Douglas C.Summary:
Landing Native Fisheries reveals the contradictions and consequences of an Indian land policy premised on access to fish, on one hand, and a program of fisheries management intended to open the resource to newcomers, on the other....
- Author:Gareau, LyneSummary:
Ceci est le deuxième ouvrage de Lyne Gareau avec les Éditions du Blé. Après le succès de son roman « La librairie des insomniaques », une des meilleures ventes de la maison ces 5 dernières années, Lyne Gareau revient avec trois...
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