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Sailors, scientists, painters, eccentrics, boat designers and builders - their salty interests may diverge, but all share a passion for the sea.

In the summer of 1981, as teenagers in British Columbia's lower Mainland disappeared, members of the RCMP swung into action.

In the backwoods of British Columbia, Boudreau tells of adventures gone awry, bizarre encounters with creatures in the wilds, and the results of friendships gone sour.

At the heart of Richardson's CBC Radio show is a variety of domestic tales that listeners relate through letters and phone calls. Their stories are sometimes comic and sometimes achingly sad.

In 1924, Phyl Munday did what no woman had done before - reached the summit of Mt. Robson, the highest mountain in the Canadian Rockies.

The remarkable story of Princess Peggy Abkhazi, co-founder of the Abkhazi Gardens in Victoria, B.C.

The story begins during the Ice Age and moves through history, revealing a fascinating cast of characters.

Gleeful and noisy celebrations greeted several dozen nervous young women when they stepped ashore in Victoria in September 1862, through a jostling crowd of boisterous, eager men.

Although she fostered a reputation for being an unambitious latecomer, a happily married doctor's wife who wrote for her own pleasure, Wilson in fact took her writing very seriously, trying fo

The author recounts with warmth, humour and insight, his journey from the family shack in Vancouver to a downtown law practice and twenty-six years on the bench of the Vancouver criminal division o

The uplifting and often humourous story of one woman's life in the raw wilderness.

Bakan contends that the corporation is created by law to function much like a psychopathic personality whose destructive behaviour, if left unchecked, leads to scandal and ruin.

Travel writer Maria Coffey and her husband, photographer Dag Goering, embark on a 3-month journey by wooden boat along Canada's western shores.

From hospitals to dance halls, from the classroom to the cannery, this insightful history examines indigenous and immigrant women's positions in the workplace, home and wilderness.

An inspiring and revealing memoir by one of Canada's most revered public figures.