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Join Liz Bryan on 18 picturesque journeys through the diverse landscapes of the British Columbia Interior.

Best known for his original series of Arthurian novels, A Dream of Eagles (called The Camulod Chronicles in the US), and his Knights Templar trilogy, Jack Whyte has authored 10 international bestse

They were nicknamed Snow Eagle, Flying Knight, Bush Angel, Punch, Doc and Wop.

Haida Gwaii, ancestral home of the Haida First Nation, was once as inaccessible and mysterious as it was beautiful.

In August 1914, Canada found itself jolted from its splendid isolation by the onrush of a European catastrophe.

The West was a lawless domain when Jerry Potts was born into the Upper Missouri fur trade in 1838.

Despite being neighbouring provinces with long ranching histories, British Columbia and Alberta saw their ranching techniques develop quite differently.

On July 3, 1961, Ian Parsons reported to RCMP Depot Division in Regina as a raw recruit.

During the second half of the 19th century, thousands of Chinese men arrived on the west coast of North America, seeking to escape poverty and make their fortunes in the goldfields or working on th

The history of British Columbia's transportation systems north of the Canadian National Railway's mainline may not be well known—but it certainly is colourful.

The expansive ancestral territory of the Blackfoot Nation ranged from the North Saskatchewan River in Alberta to the Missouri River in Montana and from the Rocky Mountains east to the Cypress Hills

During the frenzied Klondike Gold Rush, many daring women ventured north to seek riches and adventure or to escape a troubled past.

After Royal Navy captain Sir John Franklin disappeared in the Arctic in 1846 while seeking the Northwest Passage, the search for his two ships, Erebus and Terror, and survivors of his expedition be

This colourful account of the Chilcotin War is an insightful and absorbing examination of an event that helped to shape the course of British Columbia history.

In 1907, a shy bank clerk sent a collection of his poems south from the Yukon to be privately published and shared with a small group of friends.