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RCMP Corporal Paul Blakemore is jolted from his mundane policing duties in the Monashee Mountain village of Bear Creek by the discovery of a frozen corpse on a snowy slope just outside of town.

On June 17, 1958 the bridge being built across Burrard Inlet collapsed, killing eighteen workers.

In 1988, Chris Czajkowski walked into British Columbia's Central Coast Mountains to build a homestead, a business, and a life.

Pan Phillips and Rich Hobson founded some of the most isolated ranches in North America.

In 2002 a young killer whale was discovered alone in Puget Sound. A team of scientists transported "Springer" north where she rejoined her family.

M. Wylie Blanchet's book "The Curve of Time", introduced an adventurous woman who cruised the coast in a 25-foot boat with her five children and their dog.

In 1808, seeking a route to the western sea, Simon Fraser descended the great river that now bears his name. Stephen Hume followed in Fraser's footsteps for four years.

A compilation of 12 cover stories first presented in the pages of the "Vancouver Courier".

Here you will encounter gamblers, adventurers, conmen, and liars. Scalawags, the lot of them. But not all adventurers, conmen, and gamblers are scalawags.

Gabor Mate, a doctor who himself has Attention Deficit Disorder, offers a completely new perspective on ADD, as well as hope and advice for those living with the challenges ADD presents.

The story of a young six-year-old boy, Quy, separated from his family as they are fleeing Vietnam to begin a new life in Canada. Twenty years later his mother still lives in hope of finding him.

Lynn V. Andrews takes the reader with her as she goes on inward journeys with the help of the Sisterhood of the Shields, and relates the stories of others.