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A collection of fascinating stories of the extraordinary and astonishing in BC's history. Daniel Marshall uncovers the stories of BC you've never heard.

Toques, mittens and scarves are all associated with northern climates, but the quintessential garment of Canadian knitting is surely the bulky and distinctly patterned West Coast cardigan.

After a young girl moves to a small island community, she and a local Indigenous boy form a strong friendship over the summer.

The tragic and shameful story of Indigenous erasure and genocide at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in Canada In May 2021, the world was shocked by news of the detection of 215 unmarked grav

A full-colour guide to more than 200 species of coniferous and broadleaf trees found throughout the parks, woodlands, and urban green spaces of Victoria, BC.

The tale begins in sixteenth-century Venice, when explorer Juan de Fuca encountered English merchant Michael Lok and relayed a fantastic story of a marine passageway that connected the Pacific and

One of British Columbia's most colourful figures was Albert "Ginger" Goodwin, a slight young English immigrant who arrived on Vancouver Island in 1910 to join hundreds of others slav

After nearly three decades of wilderness dwelling far from neighbours and roads, with the nearest community accessible only via float plane or days of hiking, Czajkowski purchases a derelict homest

Mike Gouchie is an indigenous Nashville recording artist.

A road trip through the prairies prompts acclaimed writer Sharon Butala to unearth the stories of the natural world around her, and at the same time revisit her own personal histories.

Acts of Darkness exposes the many faces of crime, and the many faces of injustice. Some acts of darkness are brutal and unmistakable: murder, drug wars, and violence behind prison walls.

Online education is often heralded as a solution for accessibility to higher education; however, ableism thrives online.

Dominant scholarship identifies Islamophobia as a form of racism where race and religion have become conflated in social structures.

This is the first book about the life and work of Harley Parker (1915-1992), Canadian museum exhibition designer, typographer, and painter.

Alice Munro and the Art of Time / reveals how one of the world's greatest writers of short stories challenged and reconfigured traditional assumptions about time.