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Intelligence Operator 230
In the Service of Canada
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Forget the tuxedos and shaken martinis. This isn’t fiction—it’s colder, quieter, and much more real. As an intelligence operator during the tense Cold War period, Mike served as a Peacekeeper and operated covertly behind the Iron Curtain, where...
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The History of Lucasville 1827-1970
Based on the August 2, 1827, Deeds of James Edward Lucas and Moses Oliver
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Based on the August 2, 1827 deeds of James Edward Lucas and Moses Oliver an account of the community of Lucasville, originally Lucas Settlement, has been researched from 1827-1970. Lucasville, is an historical black community that is in between...
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Behind the White Picket Fence
Life In the North with the HBC
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Born in the early 1950s, Ron Gosbee grew up in unusual circumstances: living in remote Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) trading posts with his father, mother, and his two sisters. As the family sustained their distinctive way of life amidst the...
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Medieval Architecture Revival in British Columbia
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This book which you are now looking at is a cursory study of Medieval Revival Architecture as it was manifest first in England's two Crown Colonies: The Colony of British Columbia and The Crown Colony of Vancouver Island; and subsequently after...
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The Dorchesters
Four Generations and 100 Years in West Vancouver
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Every family has a story, and this is the story of the last four generations of my family . . . So begins The Dorchesters—a remarkable story about a remarkable family. Told from the perspective of Frank, part of the third generation, it...
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Flemingdon Park
No Mean Neighbourhood
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Since Eric Arthur’s 1964 publication of Toronto, No Mean City, no book has provided such deep insight into a community as Flemingdon Park, No Mean Neighbourhood. From prehistory to the arrival of Indigenous peoples, European settlers, the simple...
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My Father's War
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How an ordinary family survived extraordinary circumstances, while also helping others through a perilous period of modern Dutch history. With arrest and starvation, frequent hazards under the Nazi regime, lives could unexpectedly be changed or...
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Shadows in the Burmese Jungle
The Story of Red Maddox Behind Enemy Lines 1941 - 1945
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Often referred to as the Forgotten War, the Battle for Burma was fought in a geographically challenging and isolated region far from the major population centers of the time. But for the people who took part in it, the battle was a personal...
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Before Brittney
A Legacy of Champions
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This book is about champions in women’s athletics at Baylor University–the champions who competed, the champions who coached, the champions who provided the advocacy and leadership for the women’s athletic program, and the champions who have...
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More Than History
Stories of Helena Petrov Thiessen (1909-1996) and Peter Aron Reimer (1903-1958)
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Yes, this is family history! It is an immigrant story. It includes significant scholastic research. It situates the personal and family narrative within the broader political, economic, and social context of the 1920s and the subsequent decades....
