Harbour Publishing imprint: 76 books
Ranch in the Slocan
A Biography of a Kootenay Farm, 1896–2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2018
In 1888, a prosperous industrial family in Calne, Wiltshire, sent one of its younger sons, a lad judged to have no head for business, to Guelph Agricultural College in Ontario to learn to be a farmer.
Joseph Colebrook Harris, the author’s grandfather, didn’t take to Ontario and after...
Tragedy on Jackass Mountain
More Stories from a Small-Town Mountie
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2011
Former RCMP Sergeant Charlie Scheideman, author of Policing the Fringe: The Curious Life of a Small-Town Mountie, is back with the same wry humour and a new collection of incredible stories drawn from his twenty-seven years of patrolling the small communities of the interior of British Columbia.
These...
The Best of Adrian Raeside
A Treasury of BC Cartoons
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
For over three decades editorial cartoonist and BC resident Adrian Raeside has trained his laser wit on a subject he knows well-the foibles of life on Canada’s wet coast. From yoga devotees to redneck fishermen, political potheads to bloated bureaucrats, plus provincial pet peeves like leaky condos,...
The Art of the Impossible
Dave Barrett and the NDP in Power, 1972-1975
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
At his first cabinet meeting Premier Dave Barrett takes off his shoes, leaps onto the leather-inlaid cabinet table and skids the length of the room. Are we here for a good time or a long time?” he roars. His answer: a good time, a time of change, action, doing what was needed and right, not what...
Strange New Country
The Fraser River Salmon Strikes of 1900 and the Birth of Modern British Columbia
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2018
Salmon gillnetting in the turbulent waters of the Fraser River at the turn of the last century was dangerous, back-breaking work. Skiffs were equipped with a single sail, but most maneuvering had to be accomplished by oars, an almost impossible task against any current or tide. Once towed to the grounds...
The Queen of the North Disaster
The Captain's Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2016
Few recent events in British Columbia have seized the public mind like the 2006 sinking of the BC Ferries passenger vessel Queen of the North. Across Canada, it was one of the top news stories of the year. In BC it has attained the status of nautical legend. Ten years later, questions are still being...
The Royal Fjord
Memories of Jervis Inlet
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2015
The most accessible and popular of British Columbia’s great scenic fjords, Jervis Inlet punches 60 kilometres into the Coast Mountains a day’s cruising north of Vancouver. It deserves to be called the Royal Fjord” on two counts: the long zigzagging watercourse is comprised of four segments...
Tofino and Clayoquot Sound
A History
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2014
Clayoquot Sound, on the West Coast of Vancouver Island is not only a place of extraordinary raw beauty, but also a region with a rich heritage and fascinating past.
Tofino and Clayoquot Sound delves into all facets of the region's history, bringing to life the chronicle that started with the...
Light Years
Memoir of a Modern Lighthouse Keeper
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2015
In 2007, Caroline Woodward was itching for a change. With an established career in book-selling and promotion, four books of her own and having raised a son with her husband, Jeff, she yearned for adventure and to re-ignite her passion for writing. Jeff was tired of piecing together low-paying part-time...
Harry
A Wilderness Dog Saga
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2017
Living alone in the remote wilderness, Chris Czajkowski has given her dogs a rich life, although not without its difficulties. Often residing in areas accessible only by float plane, the dogs have encountered grizzlies and cougars, slept in the snow, hiked with packs of food and equipment, and occasionally...
Shore to Shore
The Art of Ts'uts'umutl Luke Marston
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2014
Stanley Park, Vancouver, September 2014. A fourteen-foot bronze-cast cedar sculpture is being erected. Dignitaries from all levels of government are present, including leaders of the Coast Salish First Nations and representatives from Portugal’s Azores Islands. Luke Marston, carver/artist, supervises...
Disaster in Paradise
The Landslides in Johnson's Landing
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2015
On the morning of July 12, 2012, Mandy Bath left her picturesque home and garden in Johnson’s Landing, BC, for a day trip to nearby Kaslo. She had no forewarning of what the placid summer day would bring. But just over an hour later, a massive landslide tore into the community, destroying her home...
by Mi Park
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2018
The IMF and WTO: Geopolitical Tools?
Global governance organizations such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Word Trade Organization (WTO) serve geopolitical objectives of powerful member states. From credit lending to free trade, geopolitical interests of powerful member states...
by Mark Leiren-Young
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Like all great adventures, this one starts with someone trying to get a girl. After all, King Meneleaus didn't go to Troy for the baklava.
Playwright, journalist, comedian and bestselling author Mark Leiren-Young recalls his teenage escapades in this hilarious memoir and coming-of-age story....