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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.

Take a trip across British Columbia with this enchanting collection of essays from thirty local writers. What makes wandering the vibrant land called British Columbia really special?

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

The Soo Line's Famous Trains To Canada is a brief history of a small and unique Class 1 railway and its famous Canada–USA tourist trains.

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.

Billy Proctor, resident legend of Echo Bay, BC, recounts almost a century's worth of experience with this collection of stories, memories and local knowledge of the central BC coast region aro

A story of the Skwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation): past, present, and future.

Seconde Guerre mondiale, 1944, intérieur de la Colombie-Britannique.

Clayoquot Sound, on the West Coast of Vancouver Island is not only a place of extraordinary raw beauty, but also a region with a rich heritage and fascinating past.

Wartime, 1944, in the British Columbia Interior—a farm boy becomes curious about the predicament of two Japanese-Canadian teenagers marooned on a nearby farm with their families, unable to live in

A vital collection of writings about First Nations people and culture as it existed on the island coasts of the Depression-era Pacific Northwest and originally published in the pages of Victoria&#0

The West has long attracted visionaries and schemers from around the world.

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

A lively recounting of the tough men and heroic but overworked packhorses who broke open BC to the big business of the 19th century fur trade.