Harbour Publishing imprint: 76 books
Deadlines
Obits of Memorable British Columbians
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
For more than a decade, the Globe and Mail has featured comprehensive obituaries of notable British Columbians by columnist Tom Hawthorn. He recounts the lives of the recently departed in an engaging style, finding anecdotes to illuminate personality, giving voice to those who no longer have one....
by Robert Budd
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Cloudwalker, describing the creation of the rivers, is the second in a series of Northwest Coast legends by Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd. Their previous collaboration, Raven Brings the Light (2013), is a national bestseller.
On British Columbia’s northwest coast lies the Sacred Headwaters-the...
Vancouver Blue
A Life Against Crime
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2015
Wayne Cope has TV to blame for starting him on his long career as an officer of the Vancouver Police Department. He grew up watching gunslingers like James Arness and Richard Boone, inspiring him to join up even before he finished college-and his real-life working career has turned out to be more...
Poachers, Polluters and Politics
A Fishery Officer's Career
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Retired fishery officer Randy Nelson’s first love was catching poachers. That obsession, plus a devious mind and enthusiasm for marathon running, spelled big trouble for law-breaking fishermen. Thirty-five years in the field (and stream) netted a gold mine of stories with hair-raising tales of grizzly...
Vertical Horizons
The History of Okanagan Helicopters
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2017
"Looking back over thirty years of flying for Okanagan, I see the experience has given me an interesting life. I have never really considered flying as work. It is more a way of life, a way of life that nourishes a free spirit, something that not many jobs can give you. I just cannot imagine...
On the Line
A History of the British Columbia Labour Movement
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2018
The BC tradition of fighting back against unfair pay and unsafe working conditions has been around since before the colony joined Confederation. In 1849 Scottish labourers at BC’s first coal mine at Fort Rupert went on strike to protest wretched working conditions, and it’s been a wild ride...
Made in British Columbia
Eight Ways of Making Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2015
Is there such a thing as British Columbia culture, and if so, is there anything special about it? This is the broad question Dr. Maria Tippett answers in this work with an assured yes!” To prove her point she looks at the careers of eight ground-breaking cultural producers in the fields of painting,...
Red Robinson
The Last Deejay
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
Red Robinson: The Last Deejay details the life and career of Red Robinson, one of Canada’s most celebrated pioneers of rock and roll. Robinson began spinning hits while in high school in the early 1950s, laying the foundation for what would become a glamorous, impossible-to-stop and ultimately fulfilling...
Heart & Soil
The Revolutionary Good of Gardens
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Writer, environmentalist and gardener Des Kennedy has gathered together his best, most outrageous and most contemplative articles and essays of the past decade into a book full of playful wit and insight.
Kennedy recounts one newspaper’s April Fool’s Day prank that had men across the UK...
John Clarke
Explorer of the Coast Mountains
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Clarke had no interest in trophy climbs” and never did ascend many of BC’s highest peaks. On the other hand, he explored more virgin territory and racked up more first ascents than any other climber-perhaps more than any climber who ever lived.
Although he came to be honoured far and...
Stalking Salmon & Wrestling Drunks
Confessions of a Charter Boat Skipper
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2016
Each fisherman steps onto the docks, sees Peter Gordon's boat the MV Kalua, glances at the other members of the charter and feels a rush of anticipation. The challenge is on to see who will catch the biggest fish.
Told with a skipper's authority, Stalking Salmon and Wrestling Drunks recounts...
Adventures in Solitude
What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound, Abridged
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
From Captain George Vancouver to Muriel Curve of Time” Blanchet to Jim Spilsbury’s Coast” Spilsbury, visitors to Desolation Sound have left behind a trail of books endowing the area with a romantic aura that helps to make it British Columbia’s most popular marine park. In this hilarious...
by David Zieroth
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2018
The title poem in David Zieroth’s *the bridge from day to *night follows the speaker across the Second Narrows Bridge to North Vancouver, a well-worn moment in a daily commute that opens a window into the sublime: “from the apex / of the bridge with traffic flying / I look directly into / their...
Raven Walks Around the World
Life of a Wandering Activist
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2017
In 1970, twenty-two-year-old Thom Henley left Michigan and drifted around the northwest coast, getting by on odd jobs and advice from even odder characters. He rode the rails, built a squatter shack on a beach, came to be known as "Huckleberry" and embarked on adventures along the West Coast...