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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.

Could a horde of American miners have delivered British Columbia into the hands of the U.S. in 1859? The author argues that the new colony was a rifle shot away from war and annexation.

The author's spirited account of her solo two-month journey by canoe to Alaska and through some of the most treacherous waters of the Inside Passage, at a time when much of the area was wild a

The story is told by the author's dog, Lonesome. She did not share her human's love of the wilderness, and wore a martyred expression for most of her life.

In three novellas, Lyon reveals the potential for darkness that lurks behind even the most perfect-seeming veneer, challenging the fragile illusion of goodness in our lives.

The book recalls the drama and confusion arising from the initial contacts between Europeans, Americans and the First Nations on Canada's West Coast.