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This 25th edition of Raincoast Chronicles intertwines Alan Haig-Brown's experiences of his formative years as a deckhand on a We Wai Kai seiner with the historical and cultural context of BC&#

In 1970, twenty-two-year-old Thom Henley left Michigan and drifted around the northwest coast, getting by on odd jobs and advice from even odder characters.

In 1888, a prosperous industrial family in Calne, Wiltshire, sent one of its younger sons, a lad judged to have no head for business, to Guelph Agricultural College in Ontario to learn to be a farm

Of the settlers, prospectors, trappers, mountaineers and loggers who came to British Columbia's remote Bute Inlet between the 1890s and the 1940s, few remained long.

From the 1960s through the 1980s, RCMP Sergeant Charlie Scheideman spent much of his time patrolling the "dark corners of the Interior of British Columbia" where "the citizens would

Retired fishery officer Randy Nelson's first love was catching poachers.

Evangelical pastor, talk-show host, politician.

While studying art in London, Emily Carr seriously undermined her health and was sent to a sanatorium for a complete rest cure.

Past the End of the Road recounts a free-range adolescence in mid-century Port Hardy on northern Vancouver Island, at a time when with no roads south, the town was only connected to the rest of the

The pelt of a dog named "Mutton" languished in a drawer at the Smithsonian for 150 years until it was discovered, almost accidentally, by an amateur archivist.

For more than two decades, Hilary Peach worked as a transient welder, and one of the only women, in the Boilermakers Union.

Former RCMP Sergeant Charlie Scheideman, author of Policing the Fringe: The Curious Life of a Small-Town Mountie, is back with the same wry humour and a new collection of incredible stories drawn f

Deeply personal yet incredibly witty.

Up until the 1930s, Refuge Cove was one of the most remote places on the West Coast of Vancouver Island.

The office of lieutenant governor has been a constant in British Columbia from the province's colonial beginnings to the modern era.