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The Secret Code of The Gospel. The Earthly Story
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Did the heroes of the Gospels live in history, or only in story? What truly happened in Judea two thousand years ago? Who was proclaimed King of the Jews, and what led to his condemnation to death? Can a religious text reflect real “earthly”...
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A Kamloops Neighbourhood Remembered
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Urban revitalization often comes at the cost of history. A Kamloops Neighbourhood Remembered tells the story of a neighbourhood transformed by development, where twenty heritage homes made way for Kelson Group's City Gardens project. Through...
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An Odyssey
My Seven Years as a First Nations Chief
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Bill Tooshkenig became Chief of Walpole Island First Nation at a young age, beginning a journey that would shape his life and community. In An Odyssey: My Seven Years as a First Nations Chief, he shares the stories that led him to leadership and...
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Salty Dips Volume 12
"Who would have thought … I'd end up here."
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“To spin a dip” is a popular sailor’s term meaning “to tell a story”—“salty” because they are of the very essence of the sea. "Who would have thought . . . I’d end up here" is the twelfth volume in the Salty Dips series that began in 1983. It...
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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...
