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Larry Kwong became the first player of Asian descent in the NHL when he played one shift with the New York Rangers in 1948.

Recovery is the longest road toward a better future. "When you are that far into addiction, one of the things you are ruled by, you live for, is the drug.

A third-generation British Columbia logger returns to the forests of Haida Gwaii, in the grip of change.

The tumultuous rags-to-riches story of the famed O'Keefe ranching family.

A sweeping family history, chronicling the journey of a group of Russian refugees who settled in rural Alberta in 1924, this book pays tribute to countless people who have found a safe haven in Can

Acclaimed author Tom Wayman's account of his shift from urban to rural. The recent pandemic accelerated an existing trend among urban Canadians to move to the country.

Ex-logger and gas station owner Frank White says living to the age of one hundred is not all it's cracked up to be but it has some plusses.

What do you do when you decide you no longer want to be responsible for anyone but yourself?

At his first cabinet meeting Premier Dave Barrett takes off his shoes, leaps onto the leather-inlaid cabinet table and skids the length of the room.

Some of Western Canada's most enduring legends involve wilderness fugitives like the Mad Trapper of Rat River or Gunanoot of the Skeena.

Celebrated historian Barry Gough brings a defining era of Pacific Northwest history into focus in this biography of Richard Blanshard, the first governor of Vancouver Island—illuminating with intri

Hailed as a contemporary classic of oral literature. The Days of Augusta is Shuswap elder Augusta Evans' memories of a lifetime that spanned from 1888 to 1978.

From Captain George Vancouver to Muriel “Curve of Time” Blanchet to Jim “Spilsbury's Coast” Spilsbury, visitors to Desolation Sound have left behind a trail of books endowing the area with a r

The Farrell name is respected all along the British Columbia coast.

LD is the colourful biography of Louis Taylor, the longest-serving mayor in Vancouver's history; he was first elected mayor in 1910, and served off and on until 1934, for a total of eleven yea