Caitlin Press: 50 books
The Flour Peddler
A Global Journey into Local Food from Canada to South Sudan
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
In 2008, a small-scale flour miller from British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast created a handmade bike mill to attract a dedicated farmers’ market following. Chris Hergesheimer wanted to challenge the belief that there is only one way—the big way—to grow, process and market grain and flour. For...
by Rosella Leslie
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Surgei Galipova, a Russian immigrant and a rancher in the Cariboo region of British Columbia, owes his life to the Countess Catherine Stanislavovna Federov. When the Countess asks Surgei to send his eighteen-year-old daughter, Alice, to help her in a private hospital she is establishing in St. Petersburg,...
Jacob's Prayer
Loss and Resilience at Alkali Lake
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
In 1974 Lorne Dufour moved to Alkali Lake Reserve, a Shuswap community near Williams Lake in British Columbia, to help reopen the local elementary school. Like many First Nation communities across Canada, Alkali Lake had been ravaged by decades of residential schools and forced religion. Colonialism...
by G. Stewart Nash
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Most of this novel is based on historical fact, including the actual names of rivers, mountains and towns — a few of which were christened by those who actually constructed the telegraph line. By early 1866, the overland telegraph line had been built to Fort Fraser, east of Prince George. Exploration...
by David Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Joshua Waldo Lake Shackelton, born in New Mexico in 1946, could never ignore the call of the wild. In 1964, spared from the draft, he slips up the coast as far as the tip of Vancouver Island before moving inland. Wending his way through BC’s inlets and coastal mountains, Joshua discovers the nature...
by David Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
In this humourous and refreshing collection of short stories, David Thompson reveals the charm and grit of life in the Yukon. Talking at the Woodpile is a masterful blend of fact and fiction, history and the contemporary and intriguing stories that begin as long as 10,000 years ago. An unsuspecting...
Back to the Red Road
A Story of Survival, Redemption and Love
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
In 1954, when Florence Kaefer was just nineteen, she accepted a job as a teacher at Norway House Indian Residential School of Manitoba. Not fully aware of the difficult conditions the students were enduring, Florence and her fellow teachers nurtured a school full of lonely and homesick young children.
Edward...
Becoming Wild
Living the Primitive Life on a West Coast Island
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Nikki van Schyndel is not your typical grizzled survivalist. She is a contemporary, urban young woman who threw off modern comforts to spend nineteen months in a remote rainforest with her housecat and a virtual stranger.
Set in the Broughton Archipelago—a maze of isolated islands near northern...
by Christine Lowther
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Born Out of This follows Christine Lowther’s journey from the unutterable loss of her mother to the discovery of her own poetic voice through deep reflection and her intimate connection to the coastal rainforest. She looks back on her mother’s poetry and activism. She recalls the day the police...
Drawn to Sea
Paintbrush to Chainsaw—Carving Out a Life on BC’s Rugged Raincoast
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
In the early 1980s, Yvonne Maximchuk, a single mother of two, was living in Whiterock, BC, and making a living as a working artist and art instructor. Then she fell in love with Albert, a crab fisherman who fished the waters of Boundary Bay. Drawn to his seemingly idyllic life and her desire for connection...
This Place a Stranger
Canadian Women Travelling Alone
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2015
Sometimes tragic, sometimes uproariously funny, This Place a Stranger is a diverse collection of Canadian women writing about their experiences of travelling alone. From the deceptiveness of the everyday to the extremes of geography, weather and violence, these stories go beyond the usual tales of...
The Junction
Stories of Land and Place in the BC Interior
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
In his third book, The Junction, John Schreiber invites us to join him on a journey into the hidden corners of BC’s Cariboo Chilcotin, where he observes and describes a land of mountains and old trails, coyotes and bighorn sheep, Aboriginal folk, homesteaders, ranchers and the stories of long ago.
Driven...
Silenced
The Untold Story of the Fight for Equality in the RCMP
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
When thirty-two women were hired as mounted police officers in 1974, it was a media sensation. After all, these were not the brawny heroes of Canadian history, or the dashing and handsome Mounties portrayed in over two hundred Hollywood movies. Women were thought to be afraid of guns and incapable...
Old Lives
In the Chilcotin Backcountry
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Set in the wild country north of Lillooet and west of the great Fraser River, Old Lives: In the Chilcotin Backcountry paints the rugged landscape and equally rugged lives of the Chilcotin’s enigmatic old-timers: Aboriginal and settler, male and female, deceased and alive. It takes vigilance, persistence,...