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The nautical reference book you never knew you needed: an encyclopedia of all superstitions maritime and marine, learn your A-B-Seas of sailors' guiding magic and mythos—and why you should nev

Veteran hockey writer Ed Willes takes an irreverent look back at the sometimes thrilling, often infuriating and always fascinating history of the Vancouver Canucks.

We all share a common humanity. No matter how long or difficult the path ahead, we are all one. Reconciliation belongs to everyone.

The unusual and moving tale of Muggins, a famed fundraising dog who became a mascot of the Canadian Red Cross during the First World War.

A fascinating tour through BC's historical gold rush trails, focusing on the nineteenth-century churches that were pivotal to the establishment of early settler communities.

A whimsical exploration of Vancouver's favourite family landmark, filled with gorgeous illustrations and fascinating facts.

Broadcaster and bestselling author Mike McCardell haunts British Columbia's past in order to summon spellbinding tales of Western Canada.

Forty years ago, droves of young women migrated away from urban settings and settled in rural areas across North America.

Elizabeth May was born to be an activist. As a young girl, Elizabeth was worried about the health of the planet and believed it was her job to protect it.

This autobiography by Emily has been called "probably the finest...

At age nineteen, Pat Ardley packed up her belongings and left Winnipeg for Vancouver, looking for adventure.

The first book to reveal the 1858 mining milieu by those who witnessed it firsthand. Only four extensive miners' journals are known to have survived from 1858.

Living in pre-Civil War Philadelphia, young Black activist Mifflin Gibbs was feeling disheartened from fighting the overwhelming tide of White America's legalized racism when abolitionist Juli

A writer and educator reflects on the idealistic, tumultuous, and eye-opening time she spent as a back-to-the-land hippie homesteader in Kootenays in the 1970s.

It has often been observed that the First World War jolted Canada into nationhood—and as Mark Forsythe and Greg Dickson show in this compelling book, no province participated more eagerly in that t