When the first edition of Raincoast Chronicles was produced by a couple of novice publishers in the unlikely location of Pender Harbour in 1972, it boldly annou

Of the settlers, prospectors, trappers, mountaineers and loggers who came to British Columbia’s remote Bute Inlet between the 1890s and the 1940s, few remaine

Finalist, 2023 Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize – BC and Yukon Book Prizes A beautifully illustrated collection of inspiring life stories of fifty

Francis and Amy Barrow spent the summers between 1933 and 1941 exploring the west coast in their little boat, searching for and recording First Nations rock art

Rivalry and confrontation were part of this epic. From the sixteenth to the nineteenth century European powers contested for the riches of the East and the West