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On the morning of July 12, 2012, Mandy Bath left her picturesque home and garden in Johnson's Landing, BC, for a day trip to nearby Kaslo.

Vancouver is now North America's third largest center for film and television production, recently witnessing the filming of Halle Berry's Catwoman and Will Smith's I, Robot, among o

Explore the rich history of Canada's largest ranch.

In a follow-up to his well-received Voices of British Columbia, Robert Budd returns with more captivating tales of the province's pioneering past in the very words of the people who lived them

"A penetrating study based on unique archival material and a deep analysis into hundreds of wartime works of art." — Tim Cook, author of The Fight for History: 75 Years of Forgetting, Rem

A rivetingly imagined re-telling of the voyages of Frances Barkley (1769–1845), who as a young woman travelled the world on a trading mission with her sea captain husband.

The fascinating origin story of Wilson Duff, the pioneering BC anthropologist and museologist remembered for his contributions to research on First Nations cultures of the Northwest Coast.

A popular history of late 19th and early 20th century railways as they blasted their way into southeastern British Columbia.

Where Mountains Meet the Sea commemorates the 125th anniversary of the District of North Vancouver's incorporation as a municipality.

Between 1959 and 1966, the late CBC Radio journalist Imbert Orchard travelled across British Columbia with recording engineer Ian Stephen interviewing nearly a thousand of the province's pione

Interweaving geography, biology and resource economics with history, this is a deft examination of the Strait of Georgia from the 1850s to the modern era.

Aaron Chapman's latest Vancouver book explores the gritty history of the West End in the 1970s and '80s.

Vancouver has a rich and beguiling history.

A revealing study of two tragic events that took place at an Indian residential school in British Columbia which underline the profound impact the residential school system had on aboriginal commun

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.