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The new paperback edition of this excellent illustrated history includes additional information about recent developments up to 2025.

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

Received Honourable Mention for the 2019 Lieutenant Governor's Medal for Historical Writing.

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

Following the success of First Invaders (Ronsdale, 2004), Alan Twigg turns his attention to First Nations writers, unearthing more than 300 books by more than 170 mostly unheralded British Columbia

In 1885, Vancouver Island's E&N rail service carried coal to smelters and ships, and the towns in the railway's path prospered as the tracks expanded.

This Short History of British Columbia is designed to provide the average reader with a quick but accurate survey of the broad outline of British Columbia's development.

A brisk chronicle of Vancouver, BC, from early days to its emergence as a global metropolis, refracted through the events, characters and communities that have shaped the city.

An award-winning historian and mariner takes readers on an engrossing international journey of self-discovery that explores timely themes of human conflict, ethics, and reconciliation.

Esteemed historian Jean Barman brings new insights on the seemingly disparate events that converged to lay the foundation of the present-day province.

"A thorough investigation into the history of craft beer"—Kendall Hunter, author of Beer Hiking Canadian Rockies.

Shirley Martin weaves accounts of shipwrecks and sea serpents, settlement and dispossession, tragedy and resilience, unsolved mysteries and surprising revelations to depict the rich and vibrant his

This trailblazing history of early British Columbia focuses on a single year, 1858—the year of the Fraser River gold rush—the third great mass migration of gold seekers after the Californian and Au

An entertaining biography of cattle baron and land magnate Cornelius O'Keefe, founder of the Historic O'Keefe Ranch.

On a cold night in February, 1884, just metres north of the border on Sumas Prairie, BC, an Indigenous boy named Louie Sam was lynched by a mob of mounted vigilantes.