Harbour Publishing Co Ltd : 124 books
by Roy Henry Vickers, Robert Budd
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
In a time when darkness covered the land, a boy named Weget is born who is destined to bring the light. With the gift of a raven's skin that allows him to fly as well as transform, Weget turns into a bird and journeys from Haida Gwaii into the sky. There he finds the Chief of the Heavens who keeps...
Ginty's Ghost
A Wilderness Dweller's Dream
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
After nearly three decades of wilderness dwelling far from neighbours and roads, with the nearest community accessible only via float plane or days of hiking, Czajkowski purchases a derelict homestead with rough road access at Ginty Creek, an hour’s drive south of Anahim Lake. Although the property...
by Rick M. Harbo
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2017
Still compact and the perfect size for travelling, Pacific Reef and Shore has been updated with new species, up-to-date scientific information and many brilliant photographs of the more than 300 common plants and animals found in the intertidal zone off the coast of North America—from the Aleutian...
From the West Coast to the Western Front
British Columbians and the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2014
It has often been observed that the First World War jolted Canada into nationhood, and as Mark Forsythe and Greg Dickson show in this compelling book, no province participated more eagerly in that transformation or felt the aftershock more harshly than British Columbia. In From the West Coast to the...
Crossing Home Ground
A Grassland Odyssey through Southern Interior British Columbia
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2016
Like John Muir, David Pitt-Brooke stepped out for a walk one morning-a long walk of a thousand kilometres or more through the arid valleys of southern interior British Columbia. He went in search of beauty and lost grace in a landscape that has seen decades of development and upheaval. In Crossing...
Cape Scott and the North Coast Trail
Hiking Vancouver Island's Wildest Coast
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2015
Part trail map, part field guide, part regional history, Cape Scott and the North Coast Trail is the first comprehensive guidebook about one of Vancouver Island’s most iconic destinations. Each year, thousands of backpackers and nature lovers head to the northern limits of Vancouver Island, bound...
A Better Place on Earth
The Search for Fairness in Super Unequal British Columbia
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2015
In British Columbia, like most of the world, the wealth of the richest one percent has grown exponentially in recent decades, while the majority have found their incomes stagnant or even declining. The top 10 percent in BC now hold 56.2 percent of the wealth, a greater share than anywhere else in...
Off the Beaten Path, Expanded Second Ed.
A Hiking Guide to Vancouver's North Shore
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
With a total of 31 North Shore hikes (15 in West Vancouver and 16 in North Vancouver), plus two in the Pemberton area, this is the most comprehensive collection of North Shore hiking trails to be found anywhere. Focusing on the varied and interesting hiking trails through the wilderness of Metro Vancouver’s...
Forecast
Selected Early Poems (1970-1990)
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015
Forecast recovers early out-of-print work by Governor General’s Award-winning poet John Pass. The poems engage potentialities—travel, an orchard he cares for, evolving relationships, house-building, becoming a poet and husband and father. They’re grounded in place and time, but attuned, as he...
by Cornelia Hoogland
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2017
In response to her brother's sudden death, Cornelia Hoogland explores the shift in gravity his dramatic absence creates. Set on the Salish Sea on Vancouver Island's east coast, Trailer Park Elegy reaches back two thousand years to the First Peoples, as well as to the brother whose delight was summers...
The Promise of Paradise
Utopian Communities in British Columbia
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2017
The West has long attracted visionaries and schemers from around the world. And no other region in North America can outstrip British Columbia for the number of utopian or intentional settlement attempts in the past 150 years. Andrew Scott delves into the dramatic stories of these fascinating, but...
Views of the Salish Sea
One Hundred and Fifty Years of Change around the Strait of Georgia
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
It is not mere coincidence that two-thirds of the population of British Columbia occupies lands bordering its great inland sea, the Strait of Georgia, and connected waterways collectively known as the North Salish Sea. Averaging forty kilometres in width and stretching some three hundred kilometres...
Echoes of British Columbia
Voices from the Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2014
In a follow-up to his well-received Voices of British Columbia, Robert Budd returns with more captivating tales of the province’s pioneering past in the very words of the people who lived them.
Between 1959 and 1966, the late CBC Radio journalist Imbert Orchard travelled across British Columbia...
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...