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Collected from Emily Carr's private and public writings, these previously unpublished pieces reveal the outspoken artist at her most forthright.

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.

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

Delores Churchill, Haida weaver, shares the stories of her life, her culture, and the importance of passing cultural knowledge from one generation to the next.

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

"Few artists are also historians, and few historians have the talent to illustrate the people and events they study.

For more than 150 years, thousands of Indigenous children were taken from their families and sent to residential schools across Canada.

Bold, inventive Indigenous art of the Northwest Coast is distinguished by its sophistication and complexity.

Magnificent and haunting, the tall cedar sculptures called totem poles have become a distinctive symbol of the native people of the Northwest Coast.

Robert Bateman is one of the world's greatest wildlife artists and most committed naturalists.

Arthur Erickson, Canada's pre-eminent philosopher architect, was renowned internationally for his innovative approach to landscape, his genius for spatial composition, and his epic vision of a

Over his lifetime, Bill Reid created many historic pieces of art including the large bronze sculpture The Spirit of Haida Gwaii, nicknamed the Jade Canoe and displayed at the Vancouver Internationa

A retrospective on one of BC's most famous artists that features beautifully reproduced landscape paintings from all over mainland BC, and unveils new photographs, sketches, and ephemera from

The latest instalment in the award-winning series on the life and work of E. J. Hughes brings the reader into this very private artist's home and studio on Shawnigan Lake.

During the groundbreaking Charles Edenshaw exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2013, poet Colin Browne found himself returning often to study three large argillite platters carved by the Hai