Combining colourful illustrations with ancient stories, the Northwest Coast Legends series by Roy Henry Vickers and Lucky Budd explores Indigenous legends passed down through generations. Vickers ...

An indispensable companion and an essential reference for anyone interested in British Columbia history. Read details of the intriguing stories behind more than 5,000 BC coast places.

The most comprehensive collection of photographs of Pacific Northwest marine life ever published. A must-have resource for anyone interested in marine life and beautiful underwater photography.

Abounding with historical photographs and rare glimpses into the daring and difficult lives of the pioneering women who helped shape BC, from fearless immigrants to indigenous women in the workforce.

From the gold rush to the Gumboot Navy and from “bride ships” to W.A.C. Bennett, BC history comes alive in this highly illustrated and vivid chronicle for young readers.

It has often been observed that the First World War jolted Canada into nationhood, and no province participated more eagerly in that transformation or felt the aftershock more harshly than BC.

A look into all facets of the geographically and culturally rich land's history, bringing to life the chronicle that started with the drama of geological formation and continues to the present day.

The Strait of Georgia is one of the world’s great inland seas. Rich in history, teeming with wildlife and marine traffic, the waterway is essential to BC for food, jobs, travel and recreation.

The authoritative guide to over 100 common species of seaweeds in the Pacific Northwest, from identification and biology to the essential roles seaweed plays in the marine ecosystem and our lives.

Combining hundreds of illustrations with the personal accounts of residents and a lively text, the book presents the story of North Vancouver in all its colour and complexity.

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.

The landmark story of British Columbia’s first Black pioneers and their pivotal role in shaping the province.

A comprehensive look into the methods and importance of fishing for the First Nations of the Northwest Coast.

A comprehensive chronicle of the labour movement in British Columbia.

Saul Indian Horse has hit bottom. His last binge almost killed him, and now he’s a reluctant resident in a treatment centre for alcoholics, surrounded by people he’s sure will never understand ...

Internationally praised and the subject of a critically acclaimed film, Richard Van Camp’s bestselling novel about coming of age in Canada’s North has achieved the status of an Indigenous classic ...

A forgotten Haudenosaunee social song beams into the cosmos like a homing beacon for interstellar visitors. A computer learns to feel sadness and grief from the history of atrocities committed ...

Built in 1913, the Canadian Pacific Railway's ship Princess Maquinna steamed up and down the rugged west coast of Vancouver Island in summer and winter, calm weather and storms, for over forty years, ...

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

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 ...

A beloved Pacific Northwest classic, in an expanded new edition, including maps and previously unpublished photographs.

The Kelowna Story is a comprehensive full-length history of the largest metropolitan centre outside BC’s Lower Mainland, a labour of love by a leading local historian whose family roots have been ...

A fascinating account that links early maritime history, Indigenous land rights, and modern environmental advocacy in the Clayoquot Sound region by award-winning author and historian Barry Gough.