It's thumbs up on the Encyclopedia of British Columbia!

"Daniel Francis is a widely respected historian who has done a masterful job--for more than 10 years--of shepherding this enormous project to completion. There are more than 4,000 articles, ranging from the economy to society to arts and cultural life. Many have been written by specialists in the field and represent the current state of thinking or research on subjects like the future of the forest industries or the political currents generated by the Nisga'a Treaty. [T]here is much to be learned here for all Canadians."
--Roger Hall, The Globe and Mail

"The EBC is lively, serious, profusely illustrated, authoritative, funny, and a thing we should all be proud of. . . . No household in British Columbia should be without one."
--Terry Glavin, Georgia Straight

"The Encyclopedia of British Columbia is a remarkable work. It can be consulted for quite specific information. It can be browsed with much pleasure and a sense of discovery. It has taken a decade to make and has involved a great many people, a labour amply justified by the product. The overall result is an encyclopedia that is basically an accessible inventory of a great deal of information (as any encyclopedia must be) but that also offers a considerable opportunity for thoughtful engagement with the province--I find it hard to imagine a more successful result than this."
-- Cole Harris, BC Studies

"It is clearly written, nicely organized, politically balanced and makes frequent use of explanatory pictures, maps and charts. . . . As far as I know, it's the first succinct source for immediate answers to historical, economic, geographical or miscellaneous questions concerning BC."
--Barry Link, Vancouver Courier

"It's got geoducks and Baby Duck, Cougar Smith and Cougar Annie and the legend of `Twelve Foot' Davis. It's got the Lions of the Canadian Football League, the Canucks of the National Hockey League and the thugs of the Asiatic Exclusion League. And it's the only book in the world where Doug and the Slugs and Major C.H. Douglas, founder of Social Credit, share the same page. . . . From abalone to George Zukerman, the Encyclopedia of BC is packed with weighty entries."
--Tom Barrett, Vancouver Sun

"More than its open-door inclusiveness, the EBC's biggest triumph may be that the sum of all its many parts captures the rustic, contradictory and sometimes downright goofy nature of our province. When Stan Persky and Murray Pezim share a page, you know this bountiful book got us right."
--Lee Bacchus, Vancouver Province

"BC's first-ever encyclopedia is a magnificent accomplishment. Howard White and Daniel Francis have done the impossible: produced an authoritative reference work that is a joy to behold, and at a reasonable price. . . The meticulously edited articles are surprisingly comprehensive, given that the whole shebang takes up just 824 pages. The CD-ROM adds a significant dimension to an already impressive publication. It includes the full content of the squashed-tree version, complete with hyperlinks, and it really shines in its audio-visual material.

This is a book that should be on every desk in BC. I don't know how we ever got along without it."
--Russ Francis, MyBC.com