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“How“How II becamebecame aa yaktivist”yaktivist” Michael Buckley exposes how China’s desecration GRATITUDE of the Tibetan Plateau imperils the lives Tibetan groups first protested climate of more than a bilion people in Asia. change in Copenhagen at the Climate Change See page 7 Conference in 2009.

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3 BC BOOKWORLD WINTER 2014-2015 my June Danial Neil The Sunshine Coast is the setting for this hauntingly beautiful novel capturing the heartscape of a man who, when his wife unexpectedly dies, is thrown into an emotional wasteland before finding his way back to a world of sunlight, friendship and joy — along with a nail-biting sailing trip on the West Coast in the midst of a ferocious Northwester.

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Cadillac Cathedral Vancouver Is Ashes Jack Hodgins The Great Fire of 1886 A humorous and moving tale about an Lisa Anne Smith old-time Finnish logger who rescues a 1930’s Using first-person eye-witness accounts, Smith Cadillac Cathedral hearse to drive it down-island recreates the great fire that razed most of Vancouver to pick up the body of an old friend and attempt to the ground — as the population first battled the a reunion with his childhood sweetheart. blaze and then ran for their lives. 45 b&w photos. 978-1-55380-298-3 (PRINT) 978-1-55380-320-1 (PRINT) 978-1-55380-300-3 (EBOOK) 220 pp $18.95 978-1-55380-322-5 (EBOOK) 200 pp $21.95

House Made of Rain How I Won the War Pamela Porter for the Allies house In this breathtaking collection of poems, One Sassy Canadian Soldier’s Story made Pamela Porter invokes the twin mysteries of of love and loss to illumine the heart burdened Doris Gregory rain by grief, yet comforted and renewed by the In this stirring memoir Doris Gregory recounts her beauty of the natural world. life in the Canadian Women’s Army Corps, serving overseas in London during WWII. 50 b&w photos. 978-1-55380-341-6 (PRINT) pamela porter 978-1-55380-342-3 (EBOOK) 110 pp $15.95 978-1-55380-317-1 (PRINT) 978-1-55380-319-5 (EBOOK) 208 pp $21.95 Loose to the World Chaos Inside Henry Rappaport Thunderstorms TO THE The co-publisher of the former renowned Garry Gottfriedson Intermedia Press comes to us with a new collection
poems  Poems that take the reader into the centre that meditates and questions, dances and sings. of the tumultuous historical reality of First In these wise and lyrical poems, each small human Nations experience in Canada today. gesture carries the enormity of the felt world. 978-1-55380-326-3 (PRINT) 978-1-55380-338-6 (PRINT) Henry Rappaport 978-1-55380-328-7 (EBOOK) 126 pp $15.95 978-1-55380-339-3 (EBOOK) 98 pp $15.95 GARRY GOTTFRIEDSON

The White Arrow through Mouse Tales Jellybean Mouse Oneida the Axes STORY: Philip Roy STORY: Philip Roy Jean Rae Baxter Patrick Bowman ART: Andrea Torrey Balsara ART: Andrea Torrey Balsara An historical adventure novel in The third volume in this Wonderfully touching colour The second volume in which Joseph Brant chooses exciting retelling of Homer’s illustrations tell the story of the series tells how Happy Broken Trail, a white boy adopted Odyssey has Alexi, the Trojan Happy, the pocket mouse, ask- becomes bored when he by the Oneida, to be his protegé in slave of Odysseus, completing ing for bedtime stories to help has to go with John to a searching out Tecumseh in the the journey to Ithaca and him sleep — stories from the laundromat — until he joyfully uniting of all the First Nations to helping Odysseus defeat Grimm brothers that keep succeeds in outwitting the create a country of their own. Penelope’s suitors. him wide awake. jellybean machine. 978-1-55380-332-4 (PRINT) 978-1-55380-323-2 (PRINT) 978-1-55380-262-4 (PRINT) 978-1-55380-344-7 (PRINT) 978-1-55380-334-8 (EBOOK) 978-1-55380-325-6 (EBOOK) FULL COLOUR FULL COLOUR 280 pp $11.95 220 pp $11.95 32 pp 9 x 9 $9.95 32 pp 9 x 9 $11.95 (HC)

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Sylvia Olsen

EFORE WRITING KNITTING spent more than fifteen years buying and Stories (Sono Nis $22.95), selling Cowichan sweaters from her home Sylvia Olsen wondered on the Tsartlip Indian Reserve near Victoria. Bif she had anything more to A closely knit family: Although the business closed its doors in say about knitting. Olsen’s 1991, almost every day since Olsen says award-winning book about Coast Salish she has been engaged in some way with knitters Working with Wool (Sono Nis Cowichan sweaters or with knitting. 2010) had been the subject of her MA the- Coast Salish style In 2012, Olsen started a new small busi- sis and a film, The History of Coast Salish ness called Salish Fusion. Joining her were Knitters. She also wrote a children’s book Sylvia Olsen two of her children, Adam and Joni, who called Yetsa’s Sweater (Sono Nis 2006). Storyteller markets original woolen are of mixed ancestry: Coast Salish and Was another book warranted? designs with her daughters and son as models. Scottish/English. Rather than traditional “The answer is yes, of course. Knit- Cowichan handspun wool, Adam and Joni ting stories are as varied as the garments used wool processed into Aran weight, we knit,” she writes in her introduction. giving them a broad range of design op- “Like all good stories, they tell us things started to unravel its intricacies.” portunities. They came up with beautiful about ourselves and about what it means It was a visit with a young Coast Salish new looks that referenced and honoured to be a human being. We will never grow woman that inspired Olsen. “One day, dur- the old knitters as well as traditions from tired of stories like that. Handwork has oc- ing a conversation with the granddaughter their British Isles roots. Nine of these new cupied people for millennia. What we’ve of an old Coast Salish knitter I had worked patterns are included in Knitting Stories. all learned since knitting became trendy with for years, I expressed my relief at “Whether making garments for others, a few years ago is that it is not something finally being finished with writing about or myself they have been a personal expres- new. Knitting is arguably one of the oldest knitting. ‘But you’re so lucky to have spent sion—the embodiment of my inner world,” activities in the sense that it is a way of so much time with all the old knitters,’ she writes Olsen. “Translating my designs creating things with our hands to keep us said. ‘There must be many more stories into something other knitters could share, warm and make us look beautiful. It sits at to tell.’” translating my designs into patterns that an interesting intersection between function It got Olsen thinking and soon she was can be made with commercial yarn is a new and fashion, and I think that we have only jotting down stories. Previously she had adventure.” 987-1-55039-232-6

Knitted designs by Sylvia Olsen as modelled by her children.

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In a nutshell, one way or another, over a billion people will be seriously affected by Chinese min- ing and megadams in the Tibetan Plateau—a fig- ure that includes Chinese downstream on the Yellow and Yangtse rivers (lead- ing to Yangtse Delta and Yellow River Delta). The major trans-boundary riv- ers that will be impacted by China’s dam-building and mining are the Mekong, the Salween (starting up with a string of megad- ams now), and the Yarlung Tsangpo which runs from Tibet through Bangladesh and India (with start-up of five new megadams in Tibet, as well as extensive mining close to the river). Why Michael Buckley became a Yaktivist

BY MICHAEL BUCKLEY AN ADVENTURE TRAVEL WRITER EXPLAINS THE GENESIS OF hydro system, supplying energy to Lhasa. Meltdown In Tibet: China’s Reckless Destruction of Ecosystems Tibetan protest to save the sacred lake fell OMETIMES YOU JUST FALL RIGHT on deaf ears. into a story. In late 2005, I from the Highlands of Tibet to the Deltas of Asia (Raincoast $31.50) I assumed that Tibet’s incredible natural returned to Tibet intent on sure to be one of the most internationally discussed books of the year. beauty would always be there for future updating my guidebook to the travellers to enjoy. But instead, I found it China’s poisoning of rivers due to extensive mining in Tibet, and the troubled region, and to check changing right before my eyes. What struck Sout the completion of the new railway building of massive dams in the Tibetan plateau, will have disastrous me was the incredible speed of change ac- linking China with Tibet for the first time. consequences downstream on the lives and livelihoods of at least one celerated by the arrival of the new railway The new Golmud-Lhasa line was com- in Lhasa. The building of that railway was pleted at a cost of over US$4 billion, more billion people from China and Vietnam to Pakistan. facilitated by the involvement of Montreal- than the entire budget spent in Tibet on based Bombardier and Power Corporation education and healthcare since the Chinese (building special high-altitude rail-cars), invasion in 1950. This railway was not built protested against dams and mining at great bet’s incredible wide-open spaces, drink- Nortel (communication network for the for philanthropic purposes. risk, with a number killed, injured or locked ing in the towering snowcaps, the ethereal Lhasa railway), and other corporations My railway investigation got derailed away for long prison terms. lakes, and huge grasslands. When you are from Canada. when, out of curiosity, I decided to take a Under the highly repressive Chinese on a mountain bike, you feel rather insig- That railway makes it possible to ex- one-day rafting trip from Lhasa. This was regime, Tibetans have been given sentences nificant next to the highest peaks on earth. ploit Tibet’s resources on a large scale, by a pure adrenaline rush: riding the wildest of five years or more for simply writing an Our small group of mountain-bikers bringing Chinese migrant workers in by the whitewater I’d ever been on. But the raft- email, making a phone-call or singing a had skirted Lake Yamdrok Tso, a turquoise train-load, and by shipping minerals out ing guides lamented the fact that the rivers song critical of Chinese policy. beauty that is highly revered by Tibetans. economically. The migrant workers build were being compromised by the building of Back in 1986, when I cycled from Lhasa But ten years later, the lake had been defiled dams or work at mining sites. Up to 20,000 massive dams by Chinese engineers. to Kathmandu, I had been dazzled by Ti- by a highly controversial pumped-storage Chinese migrant workers might descend on I’d never heard of major dam-building a remote valley in Tibet to build a megadam. in Tibet. And yet it made perfect sense: the Returning to Vancouver in 2006, I could biggest drops of any river in the world are find very little about damming Tibet’s riv- in Tibet, so there’s huge hydro potential. ers in Western media, so I set out to make The more I delved into this hydro develop- a short documentary about it—a film called ment, the scarier it became. It soon became Meltdown in Tibet. I didn’t know how to put evident that China had its hand on the tap a film together, but in the digital age, you for the water that feeds most of Asia through can basically do it all on a laptop. Tibet’s mighty rivers—the Mekong, Sal- There is a steep learning curve involved ween and Yarlung Tsangpo (Brahmaputra) in mastering the software. One skill trans- in particular. ferable from years of writing was the abil- I took as much undercover video footage ity to edit video to forge a storyline. Cut- as I could on this trip not knowing what I ting and pasting of video, stills and music PHOTO would do with it, but shooting anyway. I fig- came naturally to me. The documentary ured, as a guidebook writer, if I didn’t know

SEVCIK was finally completed in 2009. It screened

anything about these new megadams, few PETR on the fringes of the UN Climate Change Westerners would know about them either. Coincidental with the exposé in his hands, Michael Buckley has released a 24-min- Conference, in Copenhagen, in December China severely restricts access to foreign ute documentary, Plundering Tibet, focusing on China’s mining in Tibet and Canadian that year, and at dozens of other venues journalists entering Tibet, and imposes a complicity. “Canadian mining companies are involved in exploration and technology worldwide. It didn’t screen as a great vi- used in Tibet,” he says, “and several Canadian corporations were involved in the reign of terror to silence Tibetans within railway to Lhasa, which makes all this exploitation possible.” His book was first sual experience. It screened because few Tibet. Despite this, Tibetans have bravely reviewed, simultaneously, by the Washington Post and B.C. BookWorld. continued on page 8

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continued from page 7 British Columbia Probate Kit - 3rd NEW all the way downstream into Asia, threaten- EDITION people had heard of the environmental ing the lives of millions of people stretching Edition issues portrayed. from Vietnam to Pakistan. by Mary-Jane Wilson, LAWYER Here’s an inconvenient truth for Tibet: A handful of Canadian mining corpora- • Everything you need to China is prone to blaming everything bad tions, mostly based in Vancouver, set up probate an estate without that happens to the environment on climate operations in Tibet: they were needed for hiring a lawyer! change. Tens of thousands of glaciers in their advanced technology and know-how. Tibet feed the mighty rivers sourced there. These included Continental Minerals, • Updated to reflect the new Wills, But these glaciers are shedding ice at a fast Sterling Group, Inter-Citic, El Dorado Gold Estates and Succession Act (with rate due to a massive rain of black soot and Corp and Tri-River Ventures. But as the all the revised forms) that went due to elevated carbon dioxide levels in the mines moved closer to production, Chinese into effect April 1st, 2014. atmosphere. China blames the melting ice officials stonewalled on permits, and most • Restructured format and ordering on climate change and says nothing can be of those companies were forced to sell out for easier understanding. done about it, but that’s not true. The fact to state-run mining ventures. $39.95 Guide & Forms + CD-ROM is this is a man-made disaster and China is This has not happened to China Gold the leading cause of it, due to excessive car- International Resources, based in Vancou- bon dioxide emissions and large amounts ver, because it is essentially owned by the Study Smarter, Not Harder - 4th Edition of black soot emitted, particularly from Chinese Communist Party, which is using by Kevin Paul, MA NEW coal-burning. China accounted for over the Canadian stock market to raise revenue • Teaches new science-of-learning elements EDITION 20 percent of worldwide with a sharp focus on practical CO2 emissions in 2013. application to study skills. Those emissions can be • Handle pressure from your greatly reduced by decreas- ing coal-burning, but China family and friends to get good has absolutely no intention grades. of doing that. And black PHOTO • Addresses current learn- soot emissions could be ing issues such as; distrac- capped by introducing more RHINELANDER tions created by the internet, efficient stoves for cooking. overcoming information age In 2010, I went back MARCUS problems, and using technology to Tibet to shoot video for Megadam under construction on the upper Yangtse to your advantage! another short documentary River. Buckley claims China has more megadams about the sad demise of within its borders than the rest of the world combined. $21.95 Paperback Tibetan nomads who have been forcibly shifted off their traditional to exploit Tibet’s valuable resources. Your Right To Know grassland habitat and moved into concrete In 2010, China Gold acquired the exten- by Jim Bronskill and David McKie ghettoes. On an earlier trip, my guide Dorje sive copper-gold mining site of Gyama, east • Learn how to use the law to get told me that Chinese officials created mas- of Lhasa. The venture was touted as a model sive national parks in Tibet, but these were mine, using the best mining practices. But government secrets. “paper parks”—made as an excuse to get on March 29, 2013, a massive mud-rock • Get what information the rid of nomads. avalanche buried 83 miners at a mountain government hides and hold Tibetan nomads are the stewards of the location near Gyama. Critics of the opera- institutions accountable. vast grasslands of Tibet. Over the course tion claim this tragedy occurred due to hasty • Includes download kit with Access of 4,000 years, they have developed an mining done without concern for safety. to Information (CAN) and Free- ingenious culture that depends on their Security is very tight at remote mining dom of Information (US) forms for herds of yaks, sheep and goats. The yak locations. I couldn’t go to Tibet to get video applying in each territory. provides everything from milk, cheese and footage of mines. Instead I dropped in on curd to shelter (yak-hair tents), clothing mining sites from 400 kilometres overhead, $18.95 Paperback + Download Kit (yak-skin boots) and ropes. The comical virtually riding a satellite relaying Google yak resembles a cow with dreadlocks. They Earth satellite imagery. After obtaining per- Avoiding Workplace Discrimination derive from wild yak stock. Wild yaks are mission from Google Earth to use flyovers, by David Harris double the size of domesticated yaks, and I put together a short documentary about your chances of spotting one are rare: there mineral exploitation in Tibet, called Plun- • A definitive guide for both are thought to be fewer than a thousand dering Tibet. For film details, visit www. employers and employees. wild yaks remaining on the Tibetan plateau. WildYakFilms.com. • Know the law and best Their numbers were annihilated by Chinese With the mountain of research accumu- practices. settlers and military, who machine-gunned lated from making these three short docu- them for food and for sport. The wild yak mentaries, I starting thinking about a book. • Learn how to avoid legal has gone the way of the bison in 19th-cen- I approached a literary agent who shopped troubles and costly lawsuits. tury America. Similar to native American it around and landed a major publisher in $24.95 Paperback peoples like the Blackfoot Indians, Tibetan New York, Palgrave-Macmillan. nomads have become beggars in their own Nine years after that rafting trip in 2005, land, with their culture decimated by the the book version of Meltdown in Tibet has Faster, Cheaper, Better Chinese policy of resettlement. finally been published. It took the legwork of by Jack Borden As an excuse to settle Tibetan nomads, three documentaries to pull all the research • Learn how to start and operate a Chinese propagandists blame deteriorating together. The challenge was to take the mass business in the trades. grassland quality on overgrazing by no- of information and distill it and make the mads, but the fact is that extensive Chinese situation clear to the average reader. That’s • Provides readers with ideas, mining is the main culprit. Tibet has huge a skill I learned from writing guidebooks. direction and concepts that they reserves of lithium, copper, gold and other The story of the devastation of Tibet’s can apply in their construction or precious metals. environment, and the tremendous impact contracting business. And here, Canadian mining corporations this will soon have on the nations down- • Helps the budding entrepreneur have been at the forefront. These mining stream in Asia, simply must be told. This get it right! companies are exploiting mineral, oil and environmental horror story has been under- gas resources in a region occupied by an reported by Western media or not reported $14.95 Paperback + invading force (China), without regard for at all, hence the necessity of an unusually Download Kit the environment, and without consulting long subtitle for the book: China’s reckless the Tibetans—who vigorously oppose destruction of ecosystems from the high- www.self-counsel.com mining because it poisons their rivers, their lands of Tibet to the deltas of Asia. 1-800-663-3007 livestock and their crops. The story chose me. I fell into it. It has The poisoning of rivers due to extensive been a wilder and scarier ride than any mining in Tibet now has the potential to go rafting trip. 978-1-137-27954-5

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IONEER B.C. BOOKSELLER In the winter, when he can’t go on Bill Ellis served on trips, he supplies university and library P archives, often selling self-published the Native Arts and local histories that he comes across Crafts Committee to Ottawa, during his summer trips. He also sells antiquarian books. For example, Ellis alongside Jim Houston recently came into possession of a rare and Bill Reid, that was in- title by pioneer artist Paul Kane. Often considered the founding strumental in opening up the The roving bookseller father of Canadian art, Paul Kane was world market for Inuit and the first professional Canadian artist Northwest Coast First Nations to skillfully depict the Pacific North- west. Among his subjects was Chief art. He also broke new ground Sepayss, aka Chief of the Waters, in the book trade as a mobile who was the father or grandfather of Chilliwack Chief William Se- purveyor of First Nations pass (aka K’HHalserten, meaning [FN] titles. “Golden Snake”) of Skowkale, near Sardis in the Fraser Valley. William “Dad sold his books from his Sepass, it might be noted, became home on Haida Gwaii,” says David the earliest-born (but not the first) Ellis, “but he also sold on carefully Aboriginal author in British Columbia. planned road and boat trips to mainly Nearly one hundred of Kane’s FN communities. He noted to me that sketches have survived from his the era of bookstores was coming to three months spent on and around the a close as high rents and real estate southern tip of Vancouver Island. In prices had led to the need for a new 1847, Kane painted Fort Victoria and business model—a travelling book- individual Aboriginals from different store—something he had done already tribes who were visiting that fort. As for twenty years, in B.C. and Alaska, the result of his unprecedented work with books and prints.” along the Western Slope, Paul Kane After a stint in the fishing industry, became the first Canadian painter to returning to UBC to get a degree in have a best-selling book. His Wander- Natural Resource Management, and ings of an Artist, published in 1859, another as a fisheries consultant to was soon translated into French, Dan- David Ellis First Nations and others (fishermen ish and German. with students at the and environmental groups, including John D’or School David Ellis is now selling the Ger- the David Suzuki Foundation), David in northern man edition of Paul Kane’s pre-gold Ellis inherited his father’s independent Alberta. rush account of coming over the Rock- bookselling business in 2003. ies and both observing and painting When David Ellis took over his father’s David Ellis has expanded his father’s unique opera- almost pre-contact First Nation life. “When trade, he expanded the service area to I recently purchased a collection,” Ellis says, all of BC, half of Alberta and the Yukon tion as a travelling salesman who practices “preci- “in it was the original German first edition and NWT, and for the first eight years he that I noted had some value on the internet. focussed his business on bringing First Na- sion bookselling” for First Nations communities. Attached to the copy was a photo of a tree tions books to schools. In recent years, as blaze Kane had autographed and dated. So literacy has increased in the First Nations now I am trying a sort of ‘internet auction’ to communities, he has increasingly moved contacts I have developed along Kane’s route towards First Nations sales. and pre-buying and when I am on the road I a vast western area—from Haida to Dene over the Rockies to Victoria. I now have 100 “Eighty per cent of my visits are now often travel in the evenings, sometimes 100 to Blackfoot to Kootenay—but his job has email contacts along the route, a new way of direct to FNs,” he says. “So, for example, km to the next community.” become much easier with the advent of selling, I hope, as I get a bit older!” when I go on a trip now to visit the Shuswap First Nation in each valley has a differ- more paved roads. Every book he sells has a story with people in the interior of B.C., I will have a ent local history, so Ellis brings the exact “This work is exciting and fun!” he it. For instance, for the obscure Kane vol- full selection that now includes almost all books germane to each area. “It’s kind of exclaims. “A few weeks ago I was eating ume, he talked to people in Grande Cache, of the books by or about them, ethnogra- like hitting the moon with a rocket,” he says. dried pounded caribou meat/belly fat with Alberta, whose Métis relatives had guided phy, linguistics and archaeology, as well “I call it precision bookselling.” the Tlicho, formerly “Dogrib” people, near David Thompson over the Athabaska Pass as other issues they are concerned about, David Ellis now has about 60,000 books Yellowknife. In the spring, when I visited in the Rockies on their new trail. This was such as pipelines and historic references for and about more than one hundred First the Nuuchnulth people on the West Coast of the fur trade trail that Paul Kane took to to past salmon abundance. In fact, I even Nations, expanding his father’s original Vancouver Island, I was eating boiled chi- reach Victoria. hiked the pipeline and did some research of inventory from the 20,000 he inherited. He ton with them, a special seafood unknown my own. These trips take a lot of research works on about a three-year rotation, over outside the native community.” Contact: [email protected]

9 BC BOOKWORLD WINTER 2014-2015 A Celebration of Phyllis Webb

Peacock Blue The Collected Poems

by Phyllis Webb edited by John F. Hulcoop

When Phyllis Webb published Wilson’s Bowl in 1980, Northrop Frye hailed it as “[Phyllis Webb] has always been distinguished by “a landmark in Canadian literature”: landmark, an event that marks a turning point in something (in this case, Canadian literature); and an instantly recognized feature of the profundity of her insights, the depth of her a landscape (in this case, the landscape of Canadian poetry).Wilson’s Bowl was emotional feeling, the delicacy and accuracy of her Webb’s fifth volume of poetry. Three more followed and then she fell silent, turning rhythms, the beauty and mysterious resonance – from literature to abstract painting. of her images – and by her luminous intelligence.” Peacock Blue compiles in a single volume all of Webb’s published, unpublished, and – Stephen Scobie uncollected works from a writing career that spanned fifty years. It offers readers the opportunity to relish the arc of Webb’s entire poetic oeuvre, from the modernist lyricism of her early works, to the groundbreaking volume Naked Poems (1965), in “A philosophical poet par excellence.” which Webb created for herself a new minimalist language; from Wilson’s Bowl to – Stephen Collis what Douglas Barbour calls “Webb’s loving and subversive engagement with the ghazal” in Water and Light (1984); and finally to the postmodernist prose poems of Hanging Fire (1990). The concluding section of Peacock Blue contains almost fifty poems previously uncollected, some of which have never been published before. It is full of brilliant but forgotten poems and poetic surprises.

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And Slowly Beauty Birth of a Bridge Michel Nadeau Maylis de Kerangal Translated by Maureen Labonté Translated by Jessica Moore Mr. Mann is a buttoned-down, middle management type The consortium of workers who gather during the whose life consists of meetings, schedules, and an construction of a mythical bridge – engineers, designers, endless inbox of work. All of this changes after he divers – with their various nationalities and social attends a production of Chekhov’s Three Sisters. classes present a microcosm of not just California, but Having become obsessed with the story, Mann's life humanity as a whole. begins to unravel. And Slowly Beauty is a drama that Winner of the 2010 Médicis Prize explores the way art can change life. Winner of the 2010 Franz Hessel Prize Nominated for the 2014 Governor General’s Award $16.95 / 256 pp / Fiction / 978-0-88922-889- 4 $17.95 / 128 pp / Drama / 978-0-88922-786-6 e-book / 978-0-88922-890-0 e-book / 978-0-88922-787-3

Christina, The Girl King Crossing the City Michel Marc Bouchard Michel Tremblay Translated by Linda Gaboriau Translated by Sheila Fischman Enigmatic, flamboyant, and unpr edictable, with a passion In the second novel in Tremblay's Derosiers for philosophy and the arts, Sweden’s Queen Christina Diaspora series, we follow Maria, the mother of seeks to make her country the most sophisticated in all Rheauna, as she leaves Providence, Rhode of Europe. But her personal aspirations – and her Island, pregnant and without a husband, to join her unconventional sexuality – put her profoundly at odds brother and two sisters in Montreal. Crossing the with her culture’s expectations of her, both as a monarch City takes place a year before and a year after that and as a woman. She was Sweden’s Elizabeth Rex. of the previous novel, Crossing the Continent. Nominated for the 2014 Governor General’s Award $16.95 / 192 pp / Fiction / 978-0-88922-893-1 e-book / 978-0-88922-894-8 $16.95 / 96 pp / Drama / 978-0-88922-898-6 e-book / 978-0-88922-899-3

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Much of John Wilson’s time in the last many ways, it is my personal favourite. The year has been spent living in the past— cover of the original edition featured the preparing his World War One book for face of my wife’s great uncle, an eighteen- republication, And in the Morning (Heri- year-old boy who died at the battle of Loos tage House), researching a series of WWI on September 25, 1915. And in the Morning novels, Tales of War (Doubleday); reading is also a diary, based on many actual diaries original soldiers’ diaries at the Canadian researched in the Imperial War Museum in War Museum for an upcoming non-fiction London, but ultimately my diary, or at least book (Tundra) and writing a blog to mark the one I might have written as a teenager the anniversary of World War One. We between 1914 and 1916. asked him why war books are essential. My second fictional journey was Shot at Dawn (Scholastic’s I am Canada Series, BY JOHN WILSON 2011) and it deals in more depth with issues touched on in And in the Morning, mainly HE OTHER DAY I WAS Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or Shell having a phone con- Shock as it was called back then. It is also versation with a pub- a diary of sorts, the memories of a young lisher concerning an Honeymooner Jeni Wilson at the Tank Corps Memorial near Poziers on the Somme soldier, Allan McBride, in 1918 as he upcoming non-fiction in 1975. The fence is made from six pounder gun barrels and tank driving chains. waits in a shed the night before he is due to book on WWI. We be executed for cowardice. were talking about Then, in Wings of War (book 1 in possible publication dates to tie in with Doubleday’s Tales of War Series), I visited T Billy Bishop significant anniversaries and eventually the flyers in WWI, not came to a conclusion. “Okay,” I said, “the and the Red Baron, but the early fliers spring of 1917 should work well.” Obsessed with of 1915 and 1916. These were some of There was a silence on the other end the boys who learned to fly in homemade of the line. This wasn’t the only time that aircraft on prairie farms in 1913 and 1914, I recently got dates wrong by 100 years. I and who, when they went to war, had to don’t have some strange form of historical struggle with the uncertain technology as Alzheimers. The problem is my obsession World War One much as the enemy. with history, and WWI in particular. Book 2 in the Tales of War Series, Dark I was born only 33 years after the end For his honeymoon, John Wilson Terror, will be published in 2015 and tells of the Great War. While I was growing the story of a young Newfoundland miner up in Scotland, the mutilated survivors visited war memorials. digging tunnels deep beneath the enemy of that war, many only in their fifties and trenches. Book 3 has no name yet and the sixties, were a very vis- journey is not yet complete, but it will tell of ible part of the cultural a young Belgian nurse recruited into spying landscape, but I paid Everything changed because of what was the Somme, Ypres, Vimy Ridge, Arras, for the Allies. little attention to them. recorded on those memorials. Before 1914 Amiens, Verdun. Not all my trips back are fiction, Des- My heroes growing was history, a ghostly world of memory I want to travel in time, to visit the perate Glory: The Story of WWI (Dundurn, up were from a more hardly more real than the Renaissance, lost world of 1914 and experience the 2008) is non-fiction. With the extensive recent war: Spitfire pi- after it was recognizable as the world I, events that destroyed it and created my use of historic photographs, sidebars and lots in the Battle of and you, live in. world of today. That’s what I spend my short explanatory texts segments, it does John Wilson Britain, Commandoes On my honeymoon, my wife realized life trying to do. Every story I write is exactly what the title promises, tells the storming enemy beaches, escaped POWs, what she had signed up for when I took her more than just a book for other people to story of the war. and spies eluding Gestapo torturers in oc- on a cycling tour of the Somme battlefields read, it is an attempt to recapture the past My newest project is different, because cupied Europe. and pointed out encouragingly which wood in my mind, to travel in time, and for the for the first time it is not primarily my jour- It was only when I began reading war the soldiers of 1916 had marched from and reader, I hope, an invitation to join me ney. Tentatively titled, An Artist’s War: The memorials that I realized there was some- where the machine-guns that slaughtered on my journey. Illustrated WWI Diary of Russell Hughes thing different about this older war. them had been placed. Since then I have I have travelled to the First World War Rabjohn (Tundra) it is the book that I told Every little village in the west of Scot- dragged my family up mountains to ex- four times so far and I have more trips my publisher should come out in 1917. land has its war memorial. They were amine Cathar castles in France, trudged up planned. Each time I go to somewhere Rabjohn was a draughtsman and drew what erected in the 1920s and 30s and range Cemetery Ridge at Gettysburg, and stood different and somewhere other people he experienced between 1916 and 1919. He from a bronze soldier to a plain column. on countless hilltops imagining battles, both rarely go. also kept five volumes of written diary and The plinth at the base usually has “Lest vast and small, ebbing and flowing around My first journey was And in the Morn- it is my job to combine these elements to We Forget 1914-1918” carved on the front me. But, because of those village memori- ing, published by KidsCan Press in 2003 tell his story, not mine. and this is followed by a list als from my childhood, I always return to and reissued in 2014 by Heritage House. In I have come to under- of names, often 30 or more, stand and learned to live commemorating the young with my obsession. No, men from the surrounding that’s not true, I love my area who went to war and obsession, I embrace it and never returned. On the back I am eternally grateful that there is sometimes a similar, I have lived long enough to more recent carving memori- see the 100th anniversary alizing the dead from the war of my favourite piece of my heroes fought in—but it history. Over the next four usually only has two or three years I can wallow in my names carved on it. obsession, give it free rein Even to my teenage mind, and not appear too out of there was something very place. Welcome to 1914. different about this first war. And In the Morning: 978-1-772030-14-3 I began reading about it and Wings of War: 978-0-385-67830-8 gradually realized the huge cultural impact that war had. In some cases, the names on Born in Edinburgh in 1951, the fronts of the memorials John Wilson, grew up on the represented 1 in 5 or 6 of the Isle of Skye and in Paisley, young men from that area. near Glasgow. He now lives For these villages, and for Eu- on Vancouver Island where rope in general, these losses he has written 39 books for and the manner in which they both young adults and adults. occurred, were an almost When all was quiet on the western front, words outweighed bombs. Visit John Wilson at: the-war- unimaginable catastrophe. to-end-wars.blogspot.ca

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memorates British Columbi- MARK FORSYTHE IS LEAVING CBC as host of BC Alma- ans who fought in World War nac soon, but not before he I from a particular community. and Greg Dickson have She tells the stories behind gathered stories for From the the names of 280 soldiers West Coast to the Western engraved on cenotaphs and Front: British Columbians memorials around BC’s Koo- and the Great War (Harbour tenay Lake. $26.95), one of several major Sylvia Crooks also cel- works to mark the 100th an- ebrated the extraordinary niversary of World War One. sacrifices of her community Among those they pro- in her first book Homefront filed is First Nations sol- & Battlefront: Nelson BC in dier George McLean World War II (Granville Is- who earned a Distinguished land, 2005). Nelson compatri- Conduct Medal, the second- ots raised eight million dollars highest award for gallantry for Victory Bonds, shipped available to non-commis- 17,000 pounds of clothing and sioned officers and privates eight tons of jam overseas, in the Great War. During the and lost 70 lives from the Battle of Vimy Ridge, armed 1,300 men and women who with a dozen “pineapples” enlisted after 1939. There are – Mills Bombs also known 28 geographical sites in B.C. as grenades – he launched a named in honour of men from solo attack and captured 19 the Nelson area who died in WW II. prisoners, getting wounded in the process. Okanagan World War One hero George McLean (far right), profi led in From The Related to the so-called “Wild McLean West Coast to the Western Front, was related to the Wild McLean Gang. Nelson previously sent more men to the Gang,” McLean was a rancher from the Boer War per capita than any other compa- Nk’maplqs (Head of the Lake) Band in the rable Canadian town and its 54th Kootenay Okanagan who enlisted in Vernon in 1916, Infantry Battalion suffered heavy losses having previously served with the Canadian during WW I. Mounted Rifles during the Boer War. The trend for high enlistment from B.C. New books, old wars was repeated in World War Two, when Shot in the arm by a sniper at Vimy, McLean returned to Canada, where he died 90,976 men from B.C. joined up — again, in 1934. His grave was recently located on the highest per capita enlistment in Canada. the reserve of the Upper Nicola Band. There It’s not just the 100th anniversary of World War Incredibly, more than half of all B.C. men are plans to install a granite military marker joined up, and that’s not even counting the I this year; Remembrance Day will mark the 75th women who were in uniform for the first if the band approves. 978-1-55017-666-7 time. 9781926991474 anniversary of the outbreak of World War II. ✫ IN HIS NEW SERIES FOR YOUNG ADULTS, John Wilson imagines the bloody trenches of WWI through the eyes of PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED IN BC BOOKWORLD, by the experience. Barry Gough, a 1956 15-year-old Jim Hay for And In the Morn- Sherrill Grace’S Landscapes of War school alumni, retraces the lives of 20 ing: Fields of Conflict—The Somme, and Memory: The Two World Wars former Victoria High students who fought 1916 (Heritage $12.95) . in Canadian Literature and the Arts, in the trenches and on the battlefields of Jim Hay impatiently waits for the day 1977-2007 (U. of Alberta $49.95) is an the Somme, Vimy Ridge, Passchendaele, he can march off to war and fight for his extensive study of the literature, theatre and Amiens and other frontlines. country. To Jim, war will be a glorious art related to memories of both world wars On a wall outside Victoria High School’s adventure filled with acts of courage and Elinor Florence blogs about both and connects readers with wartime trials and principal’s office today is a plaque on which heroism. World Wars on her website. traumas that many Canadians have never the graduating classes of 1917 and 1918 When his big moment for enlistment ar- experienced. 978–1–77212–000–4 recorded the names of each student who rives, following his father’s death in battle ELINOR FLORENCE OF INVERMERE HAS ✫ published a fine, first novel set during answered the call to arms. A small red and his mother’s nervous breakdown, Jim DORIS GREGORY TAKES THE READER BACK TO the Second World War, Bird’s Eye View diamond marks the names of those who leaps at the opportunity to escape from the her days in the Canadian Women’s Army (Dundurn $24.99), about an idealistic gave their lives. 978-1-772030-05-1 realities of his own life. Corps How I Won the War for the Al- ✫ prairie farm girl who joins the air force, And In the Morning reveals how naïve lies: One Sassy Canadian Soldier’s Story becomes an aerial photographic interpreter AFTER SIX YEARS OF RESEARCH, SYLVIA dreams of glory can be obliterated by the (Ronsdale $21.95). She travels across the and views the war through a microscope. Crooks’ second book, Names on a ugliness and death at the core of war’s real- Atlantic at the height of the U-boat infes- Rose Jolliffe is part of an intelligence Cenotaph: Kootenay Lake Men in World ity. Jim’s longing for adventure is quickly tation and takes refuge in underground system that spies on the enemy from the War I (Granville Island $19.95), com- replaced by a battle to survive. 978-1-772030-14-3 shelters while bombs fall on London. sky from a converted mansion in England, Gregory recalls office life under some less- just north of London. The mansion was than-brilliant supervisors and her off-duty requisitioned by the Royal Air Force and adventures: cycling along traffic-free roads renamed RAF Medmenham. [Nowadays through southern England, the midlands and it’s a luxury hotel called Danesfield House.] Scottish lowlands, hopping on the ferry to Of the 611,000 Canadians who fought Ulster, slipping into neutral, forbidden Éire, for King and Country in World War One, and looking into the gun barrel of an angry 55,570 were from British German sentry. 978-1-55380-317-1 Columbia. That was the ✫ highest per capita enlist- BARRY GOUGH’S FROM CLASSROOM TO ment rate in Canada. Of Battlefield: Victoria High School that contingent, 6,225 and the First World War (Heritage died in battle at a time $19.95) coincides with the 100th an- when the overall popu- niversary of Victoria High School, the lation of B.C. was only oldest public high school in Western 400,000. 9781459721432 Canada. Five hundred Vic High students went to war, many dying in the muddy Sherrill Grace fields and trenches of Europe. The ones that returned were forever changed Students becoming soldiers in Nelson, BC, from Names on a Cenotaph

13 BC BOOKWORLD WINTER 2014-2015 LITERARY COUPLES Battles & beavers

A diligent duo digs deep into thoroughly Canadian subjects—working independently of one another

LOTS OF B.C. WRITERS ARE MARRIED TO B.C. Zuehlke, from the Okanagan, had Stephen Reid & Susan Musgrave writers—there are at least twenty such trained and worked as a journalist and also (Haida Gwaii) Brad Cran & Gillian Jerome (Vancouver) couples—but the majority, like Mark taught writing. Then he moved east to earn Zuehlke and Frances Backhouse, a history degree; Backhouse, from Ontario, 25 BC couples who retain different surnames. had trained and worked as a biologist, then Backhouse and Zuehlke became life taught high school in Malawi with the both write books partners after they met twenty years ago, World University Service of Canada. through the Periodical Writers of Canada Each resettled in Victoria, freelancing Roderick & Jean Barman (Vancouver) local chapter. Disciplined and productive, for magazines while writing historical Audrey & Paul Grescoe (Bowen Island) they now approach writing as a challenging books. They bonded over manuscript drafts, Terence & Patricia Young (Victoria) daytime job, keeping most weekends free plus hiking, biking and kayaking around Pat & Ron Smith (Lantzville) for outdoor recreation. Vancouver Island. David & Andrea Spalding (Pender Island) “Mark and Frances are dream clients,” says their agent, Carolyn Swayze. BY DAVID R. CONN DIFFERENT SURNAMES: “They are true professionals in the very Sharon Brown & Andreas Mark Zuehlke & Frances Backhouse (Victoria) best way—ethical, diligent and dedicated.” N THE 1990S, MARK ZUEHLKE MOSTLY Schroeder (Roberts Creek) Alicia Priest & Ben Parfitt (Victoria) Neither writer seeks the limelight. Few wrote regional reference volumes, but Patrick Friesen & Eve Joseph (Brentwood Bay) I Susan Mayse & Stephen Hume (Victoria) would recognize them as a power couple, he also began to write history, complet- Gary Geddes & Ann Eriksson (Thetis Island) even though they have written 33 books. ing popular studies of western Canadian J.B. MacKinnon & Alisa Smith (Vancouver) Their travel is usually related to book re- remittance men and Canadians who fought Michael Kluckner & Christine Allan (Vancouver) search or promotion and their lives follow in the Spanish Civil War. Teresa Kishkan & John Pass (Pender Harbour) publishing seasons and schedules. Zuehlke’s uncle had been in combat Robert Bringhurst & Jan Zwicky (Quadra Island) The couple shares a renovated heri- with the Canadian army, operating tanks in Lorna Crozier & Patrick Lane (Victoria) tage home and flourishing garden in the Italy, and told stories about his experiences. Frank White & Edith Iglauer (Pender Harbour) Fernwood district of Victoria. Having just Later Zuehlke was listening to a veteran Ernest Hekkanen & Margrith Schraner (Nelson) completed another World War II battle describing the battle of Ortona. He thought, Robert Hilles & Pearl Luke (Saltspring Island) history, Zuehlke is preparing for a national “Why don’t I know anything about this?” Celine Rich & Julian Darley (Vancouver) reading tour while planning his next book He searched for a history, found none, and Dede Crane & Michael Elcock & Marilyn Bowering (Sooke) about a trek though Sicily; Backhouse is resolved to tell it himself. He plunged in, Bill Gaston (Victoria) Ajmer Rode and Surjeet Kalsey (Vancouver) well into a manuscript about Canadians’ traveling to Italy to research. As he asserts, long relationship with the beaver. “You can’t write about battles without BCBookLook is breaking new ground. You bring the popcorn.

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emy paratroopers, taking heavy casualties. her bestselling Women of the Klondike. Zuehlke’s narrative follows Allied and Coincidentally, while researching, she was German preparations, then the grinding ac- writer-in-residence at Berton House Writ- tion on the ground. His epilogue claims that ers’ Retreat, in Dawson City. while tactically flawed, those offensives Backhouse’s new natural history work in shortened the war in Europe. progress, Once They were Hats, combines During his fall book tour, Zuehlke will her interests in human and natural history. visit Ottawa to receive the Governor Gen- “It’s my most personal book to date,” she eral’s History Award for Popular Media, says. also known as The Pierre Berton Award. Research has included observing bea- Given that Zuehlke counts Berton’s classic vers in the wild, working with a trapper, Vimy (1985) as a strong influence on his attending a fur auction and touring a hat own approach to history, the Berton Award factory. She started with “open-ended marks an important milestone in his career. curiosity” and now hopes her book will His next book, Through Blood and encourage Canadians to revise their impres- Sweat, will recount his hiking around Sic- sion of the humble beaver, now considered ily. It will be both a World War II travel- a keystone species. ogue and “a meditation on remembrance.” ✫ Lately Zuehlke has also contributed to WHILE ZUEHLKE AND BACKHOUSE HAVE WRIT- graphic novels, adding text to The Loxleys ten about each other, they have never col- and the War of 1812 (Renegade Arts En- laborated. They say their methods are too tertainment $19.99) and writing the script different. Both practice creative non-fiction, for an upcoming title about confederation. but Zuehlke pushes ahead in a “free fall ✫ technique,” then edits later, while Back- FRANCES BACKHOUSE HAS CONTINUED TO house prefers to compose from outlines and SO CANADIAN: Mark Zuehlke has just received the Pierre Berton History Award; freelance for magazines while producing edit as she writes. Frances Backhouse has a forthcoming book about beavers. five history and nature books. She now While they no longer scan each other’s teaches in the writing department at the drafts, Backhouse muses, “We talk about walking the battlefields.” writes without plot lines. As he puts it, University of Victoria alongside one of work a lot—at lunchtime or when we take With his best-selling Canadian Battle “I’ve got a character, and suddenly there’s the province’s more widely-known liter- a break to go for a walk. We’re probably the series, now boasting a dozen titles, Zuehlke a situation, and away we go!” He hints there ary couples, Patrick Lane and Lorna first person we each tell about a new idea. is now widely regarded as one of Canada’s may be more McCann episodes to come. Crozier. Backhouse has written books It’s great to have that trusted person under pre-eminent World War II historians. Zuehlke’s new Forgotten Victory: about the Klondike gold rush and nature the same roof to help make that first foray.” Beginning in 2000, Zuehlke also ven- First Canadian Army and the Cruel titles about woodpeckers and owls of North Forgotten Victory 97817716204136 Loxleys 9780992150808 tured into fiction with a trio of mystery Winter of 1944-45 (D&M $37.95) details America. Children of the Klondike 9781552859506 novels set in Tofino. Mild-mannered coro- several bitter operations that pushed Ger- Her most recent book, Children of the ner Elias McCann enjoys a relationship with man forces east out of the Rhineland. With Klondike (Firefly $19.95), reconstructs David R. Conn is a Vancouver-based Cambodian businesswoman Vhanna Chan. limited aerial and armoured support, the the experiences of the youngsters raised in freelance researcher, writer and He sets out to solve murders committed in Canadians mostly slogged through muddy placer camps and boomtowns of the Yukon, editor. He guest edited Raincoast his windswept beach bailiwick. Zuehlke fields and forests to assault entrenched en- more that a century ago. It’s a spin-off from Chronicles 22 (Harbour 2013).

15 BC BOOKWORLD WINTER 2014-2015 Celebrating 46 Years of Publishing in Canada

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Coast Salish artist the spindle whorl. From secretary Susan Point’s In the Americas, only the Incas of Peru monumental 3-D public art pieces domesticated alpacas for easier access to to Coast in glass, cedar, metal and other their wool and the Salish Sea peoples of the materials greet visitors to the Central Pacific coast domesticated “wool” Vancouver International Airport dogs. The Tlingit weavers in the North Salish maven and travellers on BC Ferries. They collected mountain goat wool to make their adorn museums, theatres, plazas prized Chilkat blankets on hanging looms, “For me, my prints are my finger- and office buildings here and a much more arduous task. prints; they reveal my thoughts and around the world. Her artworks Dale Croes believes that Susan Point feelings on paper.” — Susan Point have been included in dozens pays homage to those industrious wealth of exhibitions since 1981. An creators, the women weavers whose blan- ND SO SUSAN POINT ACKNOWLEDGES elegant new book, Works On kets were a primary barter item and visible Athat all her work, in every mate- Paper (Figure One $29.95) has sign of well-being, by incorporating and rial, is connected to the common now appeared exclusively about transforming their spindle whorls in her foundation of her printmaking. She loves Susan Point’s printmaking, the 2-D own art. She made Flight as a print in 1995 the process, the simplicity and the ex- limited-edition art form she values and as a 17-foot carved red cedar spindle perimentation as “my real body of work.” It fea- whorl commissioned for the International involved with tures 169 of the first 320 prints she Terminal at YVR in 1994. pulling each has made. We asked Caroline We can be grateful that Susan Point’s print by hand, Woodward to review the book. potential was spotted early and that she after making left her career as a legal secretary behind drawings in tigious high profile commissions followed He provides fascinating critical details when George (Bud) Mintz of Potlatch black and white and her husband, Jeff Cannell, and their which link Point’s printmaking to specific Arts in Vancouver first saw her work and CarolineWoodward first, to reveal four children, Brent, Rhea, Thomas and well-preserved ancient elements (Point and actively encouraged her, assisting with the stark con- Kelly, all of whom are established artists, Cannell have toured a major excavation commissions and undertaking local, na- trast of her essential design. often collaborate with her on public art site in Musqueam territory with Croes). tional and international exhibitions of her Susan Point was born into a family of pieces and some prints as well. The intricate checker-weave used in large serigraphs. Mintz saw in her the “talent and Musqueam “People of the Grass” weavers As a printmaker, she has mastered an pack baskets over three thousand years old drive to revitalize the Coast Salish art form at the mouth of the Fraser River, surrounded array of techniques, making variations is utilized in her 2003 woodblock print, in the 1980s when it did not have the degree by the intricate baskets of her foremothers. on woodblock prints, serigraphs, litho- Sacred Weave, for example. of success it now enjoys.” Her earliest prints interpreted the carved graphs and mono prints, sometimes using Recovered items from flooded or mud This gorgeously produced book is designs on stone, bone or wood spindle handmade paper, intaglio, aquatint, gold slide-covered village sites like cedar bark dedicated to Bud Mintz, a testament to his whorls. embossing and other techniques to steadily string gill nets, twisted cedar harpoon early recognition that Northwest Coast art Gary Wyatt in his introduction notes create a number of new prints every year. lines, wooden hair combs and mat creas- is beautiful and culturally significant. that it was Point’s ability to weave tradi- Dale Croes, the third contributor of ers, yarn spools, weavers’ batons, double 978-0-9918588-9-7 tional forms and new story metaphors—to text to this book, is an archaeologist and bar looms (aka ‘true’ looms) and spindle continually experiment with scale, materi- professor at Washington State University whorls have all made their way into her Caroline Woodword is a als and methods—that established her as a who specializes in excavating waterlogged 2-D works. No less than seventy of her West Coast lightkeeper and former book- major talent very early in her career. Pres- Coast Salish sites in the Pacific Northwest. prints explore the form and carvings of seller who works and lives near Tofino.

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Elsie Paul has lived more “My grandfather had this huge than eight decades on the dugout canoe...And he used it a BC coast, mainly within “The ocean was our fridge, lot. Just going out fishing in front of the village, or travelling further the Tla A’min (Sliammon) up the coast. It was our vehicle.” First Nation between Pow- Entertainment included gather- ell River and Lund, op- the canoe our vehicle” ings at a small dance hall at which posite Harwood Island. some Sliammon played musical Raised by her grandparents instruments like accordions and Memoirs of a Sliammon elder, guitars. There were no chairs, only who taught her the Sliam- Elsie Paul benches lining the walls. mon language, Elsie Paul BY BEVERLY CRAMP HORTLY AFTER SHE WAS BORN grandparents in their traditional Everyone brought their own is one of the last surviving in 1931, Elsie Paul moved territory looking for food. “People cups for the tea that was served Written as I Remember It: Teachings

mother-tongue speakers. (?e ms ta?aw) from the Life of a Sliammon with her parents to Vancou- just lived everywhere in nature,” with sandwiches. Children car- Elder by Elsie Paul (UBC Press $34.95) S She has shared the ver Island. They already had two she writes. ried pillow cases to the hall to be small children so she was adopted They travelled to seasonal filled with oranges and apples to knowledge passed onto by a grandmother, who had lost camps and wood cabins shared take home. her from her grandparents her youngest to the residential by all Sliammon and whoever Occasionally there would be in her new memoir Writ- school experience. else might be in the area, with marching band competitions in ten as I Remember It. Paul recounts the tragic story the permission of the Sliammon, the Sliammon village during spe- of how her grandparents had to to harvest and hunt. cial days or sporting events such go by canoe to pick up their near- Salmon, cod, other fish, clams, as canoe racing and bone games. death ten-year-old daughter from oysters, herring roe, ducks, deer, But mostly days were filled a Sechelt church-run institution. mountain goats and a variety of finding and preparing food. Elsie The little girl had got so sick at berries, shoots and roots were Paul’s grandmother would get the school after only a few plentiful. her up at dawn. “Doesn’t matter months. Nobody knew how “The ocean was their fridge. whether it was winter or summer, or why. You know, you want fresh fish, ‘It’s getting daylight – you get up Elsie Paul flourished as you’re going to go out there and now.’ So we had long, busy days. she moved around with her get a fresh fish. You want clams, The people didn’t sleep in....Our you’re going to go down the beach lives were very scheduled, very Elsie Paul in and dig clams... structured.” Steveston, where she worked in the cannery alongside her grandpar- ents, late 1940s

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Much time was spent smoking of a house. “There was no inside “All of the things that I fish, clams, ducks and deer meat plumbing. There’s no running remember growing up for winter provisions. water. It was called a two-room “A lot of food was cooked and a path. [chuckles] Yeah, in that our people did is in a pit. Like it’s not barbecued those days we just had outhouses all gone... When I talk but it’s covered and cooked over around here.” hot rocks, so it steams and cooks It wasn’t long before indoor about the things we did, under all this cover....It’s almost plumbing, electricity and cup- my grandchildren don’t like a slow cooker. Once that part boards were added. understand what I’m is done you can smoke it in the Elsie Paul already had a child smokehouse. And dry it.” when she moved into her first talking about. It’s so Trading was done between home. Eight more children fol- different for them... I other First Nation communities lowed and extra rooms were support education. It’s and with European neighbours added to the little structure. and some cash was earned by When her husband wasn’t very important. The tools selling baskets her grandmother working Elsie Paul picked up odd that our children need made, or items her grandfather jobs: first at an oyster plant, then harvested such as mink and ot- later at Walnut Lodge (a rooming for the future. To get by, ter furs. house in Powell River for mill to survive in this world. Many of Elsie Paul’s Sliam- workers) and at the hospital in But at the same time, I mon teachings come through housekeeping. Elsie Paul legends and stories. “And those When the Sliammon Band tells it like it was. stress the importance of legends always had a moral to took over administration of their remembering who you the story. So that was your class- social service department in 1972, the age of forty-five due to heart She had to be convinced to take room.” Elsie Paul was asked to fill that failure. on the latter role. are, where you came ✫ role because she was fluent in the Elsie Paul continued working “I guess it takes other people to from, and our culture WHEN SHE WAS A TEENAGER, ELSIE language and could communicate for social services for 24 years and tell you what you’re worth,” she and how rich it was. It’s Paul took part-time work in can- with the elders. “I didn’t have any got her high school upgrading at says in her book. neries or in places like Chilliwack training but was told, ‘You got the Malaspina College when it opened In 2010, Elsie Paul received not that we’re gonna go where they could pick berries for ability. You can do it. Just follow in Powell River. She later attended an honorary doctor of letters from back there and want to commercial growers. the policy.’” UBC in Vancouver to get her Vancouver Island University for live the way our ances- In 1950, at the age of 18, Elsie Two of her children died be- registered social work certificate. her life and career in service to married William Dave Paul, fore they reached adulthood--one She eventually retired and was others and dedication to support- tors lived. But to look at whose family had transferred to as a baby due to illness, the other later elected to her band council. ing First Nations well-being. that and say, ‘I’m from a Sliammon. He worked at remote as a teen in a car accident. Even when she retired in 1999, 9780774827102 logging camps and came home One of her three sons died in Elsie Paul continued to do com- rich culture.’” for weekends. adulthood and she also lost her munity work and teach part-time Beverly Cramp is a — Elsie Paul Their first home was a shell hard-working husband in 1977 at at the local Malaspina College. Vancouver freelance writer.

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When the kid, Mickey, asks what that means, he gets lem now seems ridiculous but it was well-meant. a detailed response: Mr. Higginson Unlike Mr. Higginson, our teachers were Olympian Mr. Bryant explained that human beings bore a grave figures, distant and often mythical. We guessed at their responsibility because we’ve evolved. It was our duty to Y CURRENT SERIES OF CHILDREN’S BOOKS, first names—was F for Fanny, M for Millicent? Friend- demonstrate tolerance and compassion just as it was our about a girl named Ellen Fremedon, feature ship was not possible. “I like your frock, Miss.” “Don’t duty to exercise the extraordinary reasoning abilities only Ma grade school teacher in a small Vancouver be familiar,” one might be rebuked. human beings possess. He said we would be studying all Island school who is a quietly heroic character and a main- So where did my Mr. Higginson come from? He repre- about this in science, in social studies, in language arts, in stay in Ellen’s life. He recognizes that Ellen has a difficult sents the best of my daughters’ experiences thirty years every subject across the whole curriculum, because it was time at home because of her mother’s multiple sclerosis. later. what really mattered. Then he congratulated Mickey for When Ellen faces a lonely summer, it’s this teacher who Today teachers are expected to care about the well- being the first one in the class to show an interest in the gets her involved in a home for the elderly; and when Ellen being of their students. One of the finest depictions of subject. starts a newspaper, he becomes a proofreader. When her such teachers that I’ve read recently occurs in Caroline Circumstances and nasty people all conspire to make mother dies, it is Mr. Higginson who draws her out of her Adderson’s 2012 young adult novel Middle of Nowhere. Curtis turn out badly. But instead he becomes a resilient, grief. There, her main character’s kindergarten and grade school nurturing intelligent person. We can’t be sure that Mr. Such a character could not have existed in my teachers are presented as beacons of kindness and wis- Bryant’s influence is the crucial factor in determining that schooldays. Our teachers, when I was growing up in Eng- dom in a bleak world. outcome. Yet it is clear that no one other than the teacher land, were not concerned with our emotional well-being or In Middle of Nowhere, Curtis faces a crisis when his is in a better position to exert that influence. family problems. It was none of their business; it was mother disappears and he must cope alone with a younger The current labour dispute in B.C. and the public reac- beyond the realm of their responsibility. In grade school brother. When the food runs out, he instructs his little tion to it have highlighted an unfortunate fact. While the there was a truant officer to round up kids who went brother to tell his kindergarten teacher that he forgot to teachers’ role has expanded, making demands on them AWOL, but there were no counsellors. If our teachers bring lunch. From his own kindergarten days, Curtis knows very high, and their work is more important than ever, were heroic in those days, it was because they were to- that if a kid has no lunch, Mrs. Gill will ask everybody in respect for that work has proportionately decreased. tally dedicated to our education. the class to contribute an item from theirs. Now I wonder if such teachers as Adderson describes High schools insisted on rigid discipline and hard work. Curtis remembers Mrs. Gill’s reaction a few years ear- will be possible in the future. Perhaps they are already If we, the students, were overworked (as I think we were), lier when his mother failed to pick him up after school. part of a [new] bygone era. What is likely to happen to the so were the teachers. We had piles of homework every First she gave him a puzzle to do. Then she asked him to Mr. Higginsons, Mrs. Gills, and Mrs. Bryants in our time? night, and there were no excuses. Mostly we wrote es- help her set up the class for the next day’s activities. says and the teachers must have spent their evenings grad- Then, since he had a latch key around his neck, she drove Joan Givner’s latest book in her series, A Girl Called ing them. A few kindly souls reached out. Our enlightened him home and decided to wait with him until his mother Tennyson, is The Hills Are Shadows (Thistledown French teacher organized a weekly Nail Biters Club: we returned. $12.95). 978-1-927068-91-5

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While he waits, he spirals. “Depression’s a com- AVING SURVIVED THE NIGHTMARE OF SERV- Ivan Henry with his daughters mon problem among exonerees,” says Tamara ing 27 years in jail after being wrong- upon his Levy, executive director of the UBC Law Innocence acquittal and Project, one of a few programs in Canada that review fully convicted of major sex crimes, release from claims of wrongful conviction. “While some states in prison, 2010 America provide ‘life after exoneration’ programs, may one day be as our government’s been silent on the subject.” Ivan Henry Lawyers in Henry’s civil case will argue he has well-known to Canadians as suffered humiliation, disgrace and pain, losing his David liberty, reputation and privacy, the enjoyment of or life and everyday experiences, as well as income, Milgaard Steven Trus- benefits and a pension. His suit also seeks com- cott. Meanwhile he’s fighting to proclaim his actual pensation for his daughters, who were deprived of H a father and of the benefits of a father’s love, guid- innocence as lawyer Joan McEwen describes in her ance and affection. remarkable book, Innocence on Trial: The Framing of If past settlements are any indication, he is entitled to a compensation pack- Ivan Henry (Heritage House $22.95). age in excess of $10 million (the amount of tax-free compensation for David Milgaard, who spent 23 years behind bars after his wrongful convic- Labour lawyer Joan McEwen This was also the time when the tion on rape and murder charges). In the meantime, he first heard of Ivan Henry Clifford Olson sexual murders of survives on a pension cheque. through reports of his acquittal in 2010 young people had galvanized the It is the hope of Joan McEwen that her book, by the B.C. Court of Appeal. Curious Lower Mainland. Just as it was being Innocence on Trial: The Framing of Ivan Henry to know how he’d survived in peni- publicized that the RCMP had paid will lead to a timely and just resolution of Ivan Hen- tentiaries as a sex offender for almost Olson’s wife $100,000 in return for ry’s lawsuit. As well, she hopes that it will shed three decades, she contacted him Olson revealing the location of the much-needed light on the lives of the “post-convicted” through his lawyers. corpses, a serial rapist was at work, in general and, in particular, on the lives of those who “Half an hour into our first meeting, week after week. The police badly are actually innocent. at a coffee shop in North Vancouver,” needed to find the rapist and fast. “Ivan Henry is tragic, living testimony to the fal- she recalls, “I was listening, open- With his record, Ivan Henry was a libility of our legal system,” McEwen told journalist mouthed, to the story of his wrongful Ivan likely suspect. Police pulled him over Henry, Gary Stephen Ross. “He’s innocent as a mat- conviction.” in May 1982 and muscled him into circa 1981 ter of fact—not just a matter of law. I want to see him For starters, there was an infamous that bizarre police line-up. Something exonerated, and I want to see him properly compen- police line-up. Struggling for air as three policemen not known at the time is that Henry’s sated for the horrible waste of his life. I don’t plan to held his head in a chokehold, Henry was identified by wife, before she died in 1990, confessed to one of stop until that happens.” six of 11 women as a serial rapist that had been ter- their daughters that she herself had caused the arrest. She is far from alone in her belief. rorizing Vancouver. Though released at the time due She had fingered Ivan Henry as the rapist, not be- According to former Supreme Court of Canada to “questionable line-up identifications,” Henry was cause she believed he was guilty, but because the Justice Ian Binnie, “The disastrous trial and sub- rearrested ten weeks later when a new Vancouver police threatened to turn her daughters over to Child sequent tribulations of Ivan Henry, including a quar- Police Department detective took over as lead and Welfare and paid her $1,000 for her information. ter of a century of hard prison time for multiple sexual resuscitated those same identifications. After the preliminary hearing, Henry—commit- asked to take a lie detector test but it was never assaults he likely did not commit, shines light on an ted to trial on 17 counts of sexual assault involving administered. No physical evidence whatsoever tied appalling miscarriage of Canadian justice. Ivan Henry Ivan Henry had grown up rough in the 15 women—dismissed his legal aid lawyer. Repre- him to the crimes. emerges as stubborn and misinformed; a misguided, prairies, quitting school after Grade 8 senting himself, he cross-examined the complainants self-represented litigant. But there are lots of such and running away from an abusive home for a life of whose cases made it to trial. As the victims cried and Ivan Henry was 35 years old when he people trapped in the courts, and the system needs petty crime. In his early adult years, the crimes got shook under his aggressive cross-examination, Henry was led off in manacles. Most of his time to do a better job of dealing with them. In Ivan Hen- worse. Besides convictions for break-and-enter and as good as accused them of making the whole thing INNOCENCE was served in the Saskatchewan Penitentiary, near ry’s case, it failed miserably.” car theft, his record includes a three-year prison term up. The jurors shook their heads in disgust. Prince Albert, and at Mountain Institution near “The story of Ivan Henry,” says former B.C. Pre- for stealing a television and a five-year term for at- The trial judge made errors, too—errors that would Agassiz, B.C. The horrors of life behind bars as a mier Ujjal Dosanjh, Q.C., “demonstrates that, tempted rape. not have been made had he appointed an amicus cu- sexual offender are disturbing and too many to re- when prosecutors and police blindly pursue convic- In the early 1980s, while on mandatory supervi- riae, a friend of the court, to help Henry through the count here. But whatever his faults, Ivan Henry is a tions, they ignore the inherent obligation of the state sion, Henry came to Vancouver. To support his drug- legal process. man of extraordinary fortitude, faith and persever- to be fair and just. This book should be required read- addicted wife and their two young daughters, he Henry was no saint, but his prior conviction for ance. He read the Bible and he prayed. ing for every law student, prosecutor, defence law- worked on construction sites and pedalled designer attempted rape shouldn’t have been allowed into evi- Henry also spent so much time poring over legal yer and trial judge in Canada.” jeans from the back of his car. dence. “In contravention of the presumption of in- texts that they named the prison library after him. “Reading Innocence on Trial, says exoneree His best friend inside, a serial killer, protected him. Tho- , “brought back vivid memories When Henry’s teeth rotted and he couldn’t get dental mas Sophonow of my own experience of wrongful conviction. There care, he yanked them out with pliers. were so many similarities between Henry’s case and What got him through was his love for his family mine, with many of the same players, that ultimately and his faith that one day the truth would be known. I found it too painful to finish the book.” He never stopped pushing. In October 2010, Ivan “You don’t have to like Ivan Henry,” says nocence, to which every offender is entitled, the Henry was finally acquitted. But there are two kinds Julian , author of Until You are Dead: Steven Truscott’s judgeWITH kept referring to the women’s attacker as HELD of innocence: actual and legal. Sher Long Ride into History, “or agree with everything ‘the accused,’” says McEwen. “It is obvious that Joan McEwen says to shudder in horror at how not only had the women been coached by the po- Like most wrongfully convicted peo- our justice system grinds on and sometimes lice, their memories had been manipulated and dis- ple, Henry was not exonerated, grinds people in its wake.” 9781772030020 torted. merely acquitted. Without an official “Expert studies in the area of memory implanta- declaration of innocence, such people are of- tion show that people can come to honestly believe ten viewed as offenders who got away with Though not a criminal lawyer, Joan McEwen is a strong they saw things they did not. The six trial complain- it, beat the system on a technicality. proponent of social justice and ants who had attended the line-up went from having Henry is now 68. Trying to adjust to a much- believes that both prongs of only fuzzy and distinctly different memories of their changed world, he resides in the basement of a the dual mandate of the attacker to providing very specific and similar de- daughter’s house, playing with his grandchil- Correctional Service of scriptions at trial.” dren, cuddling a chihuahua, struggling to cope. Canada—protection of the public and rehabilitation As for the line-up photo, Ivan Henry maintains Initially someone posted his address in a of the offender—go hand it is fake. He was never in the line-up, and he was nearby mall and he received death threats. in glove. For the first to be certainly never handcuffed. The judge told the jury, He seriously considered whether or not realized, the second must incorrectly, that Ivan Henry’s reluctance to par- returning to the familiarity of prison be honoured and nurtured. Ivan Henry with David Milgaard (left) at the University of British Columbia, 2012. ticipate in the police line-up implied guilt. Henry Ivan Henry is #12 in the lineup photo introduced into evidence at his 1983 trial. might be a better option.

22 BC BOOKWORLD • LOOKOUT • WINTER • 2014-2015 23 BC BOOKWORLD • LOOKOUT • WINTER • 2014-2015 Greatly Around the Exaggerated World on The Myth of the Minimum Wage Death of Newspapers Marc Edge Andrew Struthers Marc Edge dives deep into the history and An exciting and hilarious travel adventure finances of North American newspapers that reveals a larger purpose, as the and comes up with a surprising conclusion: Victoria-based author explores darkest the newspaper business is far more healthy Scotland, equatorial Africa, remote Tibet, and profitable than believed. Greatly and rainsoaked Tofino — as well as the Exaggerated is both a remedy to the panic tensions between Eastern and Western of recent years, and a scathing indictment of philosophy, and the seemingly irreconcileable the “financialization” of newspapers. contradictions of inner Struthers. New Star Books New Star Books newstarbooks.com | [email protected] newstarbooks.com | [email protected] Whose Culture Is It, Anyway? Loitersack Community Engagement in Small Cities Donato Mancini Edited by W. F. Garrett-Petts, James Hoffman, & Ginny Ratsoy Donato Mancini extends his inquiry of This is a major contribution to the growing Canadian poetry and poetics in the form of body of literature on the special character a book that contains poetry, poetics, theory and value of small cities, especially aspects and theory theatre. Like all Mancini’s of their unique culture. By focusing on work, Loitersack is wired for explosive community–engagement in the arts in small laughter; and as in all his previous work, cities, Whose Culture Is It, Anyway? Mancini sets out to write a book unlike offers particular and theoretical perspectives anything else he — or anyone else, for that on small cities in Canada and beyond. matter — has ever read. New Star Books New Star Books newstarbooks.com | [email protected] newstarbooks.com | [email protected]

“Nancy Turner’s books are vital repositories of botanical and cultural lore, but more essentially they are road maps to wonder. Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge is clearly her opus, the culmination of more than five decades of research and insight. It is a book that will live on to fire the hearts of generations of scholars and explorers.” Wade Davis, author of Light at the Edge of the World: A Journey Through the Realm ofVanishing Cultures

“… a metaphorical betrothal that begins to unveil the wonder and mysteries of Indigenous knowledge and wisdom such that, if embraced by the wonders and mysteries of Western knowledge and wisdom, it may launch humanity into a future characterized both by oneness and infinite diversity…” E. Richard Atleo, author of Principles of Tsawalk:An Indigenous Approach to Global Crisis

“This magisterial work – exploring the deep, abiding, and Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge ever-evolving relationships between plants and indigenous peoples – is monumental in its scope and depth. It is authorita- Ethnobotany and EcologicalWisdom of Indigenous Peoples tive, accessible, full of wonderful anecdotes and stories, and of Northwestern North America will interest scholars of North American anthropology, NANCY J. TURNER geography, botany, and ecology, as well as general readers.” 2 Volumes Thomas F. Thornton, University of Oxford

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Never one to shy away from the genius that infested all the arts in truth in his fiction, Grant Buday Vancouver in those years. recalls Josef Stalin’s systematic The title of the novel is a little starving of two million people in odd, since Cyril has few illusions, the Ukraine in the 1930s—known never mind delusions. As an art- as the Holodomor—in his novel, ist, he never pretends to be more The Delusionist, set in Vancou- than just “a guy who draws.” An ver in 1962. attempt to visit Connie in Los Angeles goes sadly wrong, as do most of their attempts at reunion in one way or another, yet Cyril never stops loving her. If Cyril has a delusion, it’s his stubborn patience, the sheer dog- gedness with which he pursues both his art and his first love over most of a lifetime. Even when PHOTO

his brother tries to screw him out of an inheritance by having him

SNELGOVE declared ‘delusional’ with the Grant Buday reminds us that a connivance of Cyril’s old high million deaths is not merely a Grant Buday’s number; it’s a million individual school best friend, Cyril refuses human tragedies. darkly comic novel to be ground down or get bitter and twisted. He just keeps on The Delusionist by Grant Buday The Delusionist (Anvil Press $20) drawing, keeps on loving Connie is a potent reminder until he starts to sell a few pieces. ROWING UP IN VANCOUVER The reader has to wait and see in the 1950s, I never of why few people whether Connie will ever deign Gfound it odd that a city can escape to return or not. with such a brief history itself When, in a moment of despair should be so haunted by the tragic from history. over her own patchy career, Con- ghosts of world history. Most of nie says, “it’s just that you wonder the people you met seemed to what you’ve achieved,” Cyril come from somewhere far away immediately replies, “I’ll tell and have families whose lives had PORTRAIT OF A you what you’ve achieved; you been terribly blighted by fascism haven’t spent thirty years wishing or Stalinism. you’d done something else.” For In the opening chapters of any artist, that’s probably as good Grant Buday’s novel, The De- VANCOUVER ARTIST an epitaph as it gets. lusionist, the Andrachuk family, Joseph Stalin, whose ghost survivors of Stalin’s genocide in haunts the shadows of this story the Ukraine, “avoided the prairies IN STALIN’S SHADOW like the smell from a bad drain, where so many Eastern European once infamously observed, “One congregated and come all the way death is a tragedy. A million out to Vancouver to escape be- ing in the small house older brother suffered jobs and odd romances, doggedly deaths is a statistic.” Good nov- ing caught up in an enclave that symbolically located due to starvation as pushing his pencil on the fringes els that bring to life characters might have kept those wounds across the street from a child. of Vancouver’s parochial art which are not necessarily rich, open.” a large cemetery that After his father’s scene in the 60s. famous or powerful, are what cut Buday captures the ambiance makes this story ring so early death in 1955, Even when the winds of social the ground from under Stalin’s of 1962 Vancouver like an archae- true. Cyril, the young- Cyril maintains a change begin blowing through cynicism. ologist opening a time capsule; est Canadian-born son, kind of emotional Vancouver, he doesn’t become Writers like Grant Buday the old Aristocratic Café, trying may have no memory JohnMoorelink by executing deluded by the idea of himself as remind us that a million deaths is to sneak into Restricted movies of the Holodomor in ever more polished some kind of great artistic talent. not merely a number; it’s a million on Granville Street’s glittering the Ukraine, but he lives in its pencil sketches of his father’s old In one of Cyril’s girlfriends, who individual human tragedies. Theatre Row, ambivalent ado- shadow, surrounded by whispered tools. When his first love, Connie mistakenly thinks she’s a brilliant 978-1927380932 lescent friendship and awkward fears of the “dreaded Koba,” Chow, deserts him to pursue her jazz singer, Buday paints a some- adolescent love, but it’s the por- always reminded by the brittle dreams of stardom in Hollywood, what snide portrait of the kind John Moore reviews fiction trait of the immigrant family liv- bones and stunted stature his Cyril stays behind, working at odd of coffee-house self-proclaimed from the Garibaldi Highlands.

Sadhu Binning examines the private lives in B.C.’s Sikh community BENEATH THE EYES OF GOD against a backdrop of racial animosity and economic insecurity.

he title story of Sadhu Binning’s Fauji Banta Fauji Banta Singh and other stories by Sadhu Binning (TSAR $20.95) Born in Chiheru, Punjab, India in 1947, Sadhu Binning im- Singh and other stories, recalls a lonely old-timer migrated to Canada in 1967. A founding member of Vancou- named Fauji Banta Singh who served in the Brit- ver Sath, a theatre collective, and Ankur Magazine, Binning is ish Indian Army for sixteen years, including 1919 “These are stories that I originally wrote in Punjabi,” Bin- a central figure in the Punjabi arts community. He sat on the when the British massacred Punjabis in Amritsar. ning says, “and then sort of recreated them in English making BC Arts Board from 1993 to 1995. He has been on several TA very religious Sikh who lived near the Ross Street necessary changes to make them sound more suitable to advisory boards including Rangh Magazine. His writing has gurdwara, Banta Singh longs to return to his birthplace. To English readers. English is my second language and I have been included in close to thirty anthologies both in Punjabi cheer him up, the narrator of the story jokingly suggests find- had a love and hate relationship with it since my and English. He has written several plays, fifteen ing him a white woman for a good time. The old man says, high school when I was regularly beaten by my books in Punjabi, four books of Punjabi poetry, “Sometimes I do feel the desire to experience the touch of English teacher for making simple mistakes. I can two fiction collections in Punjabi, and one novel. white skin at least once in my lifetime. You know, this country still feel the sting of his stick on my cold hands Also a translator, he is a founding member of is really awful that way—it is so hard for a person to remain early winter mornings.” Punjabi Language Education Association and has pious. Nobody hides anything… It is hard not to have sinful In this collection, Binning concentrates on actively promoted the Punjabi language in B.C. thoughts, even while one is reciting the sacred text—forgive reflecting everyday lives to encompass “the schools. He edited the literary monthly Watno me, my dear God.” successes and failures, the growing and painful Dur from 1977 to 1982 and he currently co-edits Then Fauji Banta Singh looks up to the sky, as he always irrelevance of the old, changing values and the Watan, a Punjabi quarterly. He began teaching did when addressing God. In old age, he recited the holy book conditions of the women, the place of religion and Punjabi at UBC in 1988, eventually becoming a countless times and prayed for the well-being of his children tradition, and the ever-present echoes of distant professor of Punjabi language in the Department Sadhu Binning and grandchildren.” Indian politics and national extremism.” of Asian Studies. 978-1-927494-25-7

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That’s the set-up for The World Before Us. Although Aislinn Hunter doesn’t see If you go herself as a mystery writer, there are lots of unanswered questions in her second novel that will keep readers turning the pages be- sides what ever happened to the five-year-old down to Lily Eliot. Where did that mysterious character known as “N” vanish to? and who was she? How will Jane Standen react when, the woods after 19 years, she’s confronted with the father of the child she lost? And, for that matter, who is this voice speaking to us in the first person? This novel of plaintive chimeras that sur- today round and follow the central character of Jane had a ten-year gestation, partially written and

The World Before Us by Aislinn Hunter researched while Hunter was studying for her (Doubleday Canada $29.95) Ph.D in Edinburgh. It twirls between three periods of time: N 1991, WHEN SHE WAS FIFTEEN, JANE 1877—at the Farrington Asylum for IStanden had an horrific experience. She Convalescent Lunatics, (yes, they were momentarily lost sight of the little girl called that). she was minding in the woods near the estate 1991—when Lily goes missing. of Victorian plant hunter, George Farrington. 2010—the present, when thirty-four- Those minutes were all it took for Lily to year-old Jane is working as an archivist disappear completely and forever. A sensi- in a London museum that’s about to close tive, intelligent daughter of intellectual and permanently. gifted parents, Jane, the traumatized and The plot of Aislinn Hunter’s novel is ✫ guilty teenager, would have needed consider- LILY’S FATHER HAD BEEN ON A FIELD TRIP STUDY- able parental devotion and dedication to have Cherie Thiessen ing and photographing the rare plants in the emotionally survived this nightmare. cyclonic, says — events, Farrington Estate grounds when he took his She didn’t get it. Her father was a famous details, memories, experiences twist daughter and Jane with him on that ill-fated violinist, rarely at home; her mother was day in 1991. Now he is coming to the mu- a respected academic with a busy career. together and then fly outward again. seum to read from his book. The research he Fifteen years of therapy followed, without was doing on that day has finally resulted in much apparent success. The Lost Gardens of England, the current

26 BC BOOKWORLD WINTER 2014-2015 review FICTION American Trains in Cuba winner of the museum’s Chester-Wood the unusual plural first person. Their connec- Book Prize. tion with Jane is a place: Whitman Asylum. The Farrington Asylum, long in ruins, is Across a different century these deceased in close proximity to the estate. In 1877, three inmates found her in the surrounding woods patients, two men and a woman, managed to that day in 1991. While an alternating point wander off, winding up at Farrington House. of view from third person to a plural first is Curiously, the woman, noted only in the unusual and somewhat risky, it works here asylum records with the initial “N,”somehow as Hunter uses the voice to create a sense of disappeared. mystery, omnipotence and irony. Two disappearances, 114 years apart Unlike many detective and mystery in the same area, coudn’t possibly be con- authors who don’t tie up all the ends and nected. |But Jane, who did her forget details, Hunter has not dissertation on archival prac- left one idea dangling, one tices in rural nineteenth century knot untied. Everything links asylums, becomes interested in up with the whole. This novel’s the fate of “N,” the woman who plot is cyclonic: events, details, disappeared in the same woods memories, experiences twist where Lily slipped through her together and then fly outward hands. CherieThiessen again, reappearing later to once She tells herself she’s doing again mesh. this research because she has a possible book There’s a huge momentum at work in Adolf Hungrywolf’s stunning in mind. It’s almost as if Jane’s life has never this fiction that remarkably never seems really started; as if she is still stuck in those to let up. Themes of the need for human 320-page full-color book on Cuba’s woods in 1991, but the reader may feel even contact, the energy that collects in spaces more sorry for the invisible spirits—or ghosts we consider empty, the resonance that lies railroads, 1993-2005. Over 1,000 images, or entities—that surround her. in objects. For these aimless spirits, it feels like their Nothing is overlooked, every detail including historic photos. nightmare will never end. Waking after death seems to slot itself in somewhere, like the $60 + $8 S&H (for $70 you also get a 90 min. DVD from an uneasy sleep they find themselves past lives the ghosts are trying to locate and ) in a void without meaning or familiarity, make whole again. The World Before Us is seemingly doomed to try to find parts of what a tsunami of a read, meticulously crafted, Good Medicine Foundation they were before. Yes, somehow Aislinn rich in poetry, insight and heart-breakingly Hunter manages to make this seem, well, real characters. It’s a rare novel that can ask Box 40, Skookumchuck, BC V0B 2E0 half-plausible. more questions than it answers and get away [email protected] Desperately clinging to Jane, they sense with it. 978-0-385-68064-6 www.goodmedicinefoundation.com that she is the only tie to the past they are trying to reassemble. These ghosts have a Cherie Thiessen regularly spokesperson who often speaks to readers in reviews fiction from Pender Island. “SHOCKING, APPALLING —AND TRUE.” —BC BOOKWORLD

Forty crimes. Forty crimes of betrayal, greed, and desperation. Forty crimes that shed light on our shared past, and our lives today. Award-winning writer Paul Willcocks takes a sharp, fresh look at legendary crimes and criminals and the way they reflect our history.

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BY GAIL ANDERSON-DARGATZ I see the importance of play at work How Gail got her groove back most keenly with my children. My two N THE LAST FIVE YEARS, youngest love to write. My youngest son I fell out of love with had two novels on the go before the age LATELY SOME HIGH PROFILE FEMALE WRITERS HAVE STARTED WRITING FOR CHILDREN AND RELUC- of twelve. My daughter writes poetry and my writing life. Aside tant readers. Poets Susan Musgrave and Lorna Crozier have written simple picture books for fun. For fun. These kids board books for toddlers. Novelist Caroline Adderson has released a second from having little time aren’t worrying about getting published, or I storybook for children aged 8 to 11. Novelist and January Magazine founder Linda finding an agent, or getting decent reviews. L. Richards has produced a mystery for Orca’s Rapid Reads series (books that can to write, I found myself They are writing for no other purpose other be read in one sitting). In Gail Anderson-Dargatz’s new Rapid Reads thriller, than to play. feeling that I had to write like the Search and Rescue (Orca $9.95), a smalltown journalist solves crimes in rural B.C. My son learns through a distributed person I no longer was, this “Gail For the past decade or so, Anderson-Dargatz has been busy with parenting, step- learning program, at home. He’ll spend the parenting, the death of both parents, divorce, remarriage, a move, another move, and day writing on his own initiative, because Anderson-Dargatz.” My writing teaching writing from her Shuswap home. Having just turned fifty, here she describes how name is not my personal name she recently regained her literary verve by writing for younger and less advanced readers. he loves it, but when he’s given an assign- ment to write by his teacher, his creativity and hasn’t been for a decade. My stalls. He can’t think what to write. When writing life in general? How do we reignite energy to romance it, almost daily. I say he’s writing for a purpose, someone else’s husband calls me by my middle that spark? I think I’m beginning to figure it ‘almost’ because breaks are important. We purpose, his writing stalls. out. I believe the key to keeping any long- need time away from our kids and lovers to name, Kate, and I took his name I remember that feeling of play, the joy term relationship thriving lies in making charge up, to appreciate them. The same is of the white page. The possibilities! I wrote when we married. time for that love, and in bringing back play. true of writing. for that bubbly feeling I now see crossing So there I was in mid-life, another per- Just as we do with our partners, we need to To stay in love with writing, we need my children’s faces as they write their fic- son. More than that, I was no longer sure make the time to be with our writing. to make it a daily habit, one we return to tion, that feeling of wonder that came when what stories I wanted to tell. I was proud We often fall out of love with our because we want to, because we’re driven I engaged my own imagination, when I was of my early work, but I had grown beyond writing simply because we don’t have the to, not because we have to. Here was where there, inside the world of my writing. I wrote that person who had written those books. energy for it. When we’re not at work, I ran into trouble. Between my responsibili- for no purpose other than this. I felt pressure, real or imagined, from the we’re chasing our kids or overloaded by ties as a parent to four kids, as a daughter Then I published, gained some measure publishing industry to continue to write as domestic demands. It’s hard enough to to aging parents, as a teacher, and as a of success. Writing became work and the “Gail Anderson-Dargatz.” find time to romance our partners, much wife, I had very little time left to romance experience changed. I was writing to a I know I’m not alone here. Falling out of less our writing. my writing. purpose, to publish, to win competitions, love with writing is something that happens If that writing life is important to us, I had also lost the ability to view my to garner attention, to get an agent, to get to most writers, and not just in mid-career. however, then we must find that time and writing as play. As pros, we often come an editor, to keep my editor, to win bigger We fall out of love with nearly each project to think of our writing as work, and de- awards, and so on. I had grown up and and, especially when writing a novel. As is fend it as such, as something we must forgotten how to play. the case with any long-term marriage, there do, we should do. There’s nothing like It changed for me—for the better—when are bland days when we wonder why we a “should” to take the joy out of any I took on writing for adults struggling with started this damn thing in the first place. activity. literacy issues; first through the Good Reads Or, even worse, we fight with a story that Writers often ask me how I stay program, then through Orca’s Rapid Reads isn’t working. We think of giving up and disciplined, how I keep writing. series. In the process, I explored commercial leaving the project altogether. I tell them I do my best not to novels, looking for that clear narrative ar- Sometimes, as in a bad marriage, we discipline myself to write. row, the fast-paced plot, the page-turner so should leave it. Some projects are just When I make it work, it necessary in engaging a new reader. practice, where we learn a thing or two, like feels like work. Despite I discovered I really liked writing young the relationships of our twenties, when what I told these writers, adult and children’s fiction. It’s fun! I could we experiment with lovers until we however, writing had quit being so damn earnest, so literary. I find find a good match. Even when we become work for me. myself forgetting about what others might do find that good match — the writ- Writing was how I made think of my fiction, my literary fiction. In ing project that “fits” — there will my living. I wrote for a short, I’m allowing myself to play again, to be days when we want to give purpose now, and not write not for an audience, but for myself. up, when we seem to have for play. And so, I lost I feel a little giddy, as if I am genuinely fallen out of love. energy for it. How do we falling in love again, with the writing pro- heal our re- cess. The days I worry about what my agent/ lationship editor/reviewer/reader will think are the bad with our days, when the writing stalls. The days when I don’t give a shit what anyone will say are the good writing days. So I now stumble some days, and dance others. I suspect it will take me some time to fully rediscover that place my son and daughter intuitively and naturally write within. Like them, and like the writer Lucien in Michael Ondaatje’s novel Divisadero, I’m learning, once again, “to dance with no purpose, with a cat.”

Gail Anderson-Dargatz is currently at work on her fourth novel for adults. An earlier version of this essay appeared in Event.

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BY HENRY RAPPAPORT entire gallery for a week. Then the loose collection of artists that was Intermedia, N THE LATE 1960S AND EARLY poets, film makers like Dave Rim- mer, videographers, musicians like Don 1970s, the Vancouver art, I Druick and Al Neil, sculptors like Glen poetry and publishing scenes Henry, the fifth Toppings, potters and conceptual artists were very different from today. like Glenn Lewis, dancers like Karen Rimmer (Karen Jamieson), sound sculp- Many of them were consciously LITERARY STALWART HENRY RAPPAPORT HAS UN- tors like Dennis Vance, painters like and intensely experimental and Michael Morris, Gary Lee Nova, leashed Loose to the World (Ronsdale $15.95), Gregg Simpson, photographers, and collaborative. Intermedia exem- others were gently herded together with the plified those trends. Established his fifth book, after a 40-year hiatus. Here he re- help of Werner Allen and the Vancouver Art Gallery’s Marguerite Pinney. It with the efforts of well-known- calls the halcyon days of his Intermedia imprint. was an exciting opportunity for many Van- artists like Jack Shadbolt, couver artists to collaborate and showcase Roy Kiyooka and others, their work and for the gallery to host and celebrate with the local art community. of the random nature of our electronic age. them collections bound in unusual ways Intermedia became the locus for With the help of John MacDonald, Intermedia Press began when poets rather than ‘books.’ Openings was collected The Press bought its first offset, a Rotoprint. work by younger visual, language who hung out there began using Interme- in an envelope and Heat in the Heart was That summer we created “Junk Mail,” a dia’s mimeograph machine, the Roneo, to held together in a box donated by Mac- and movement artists. remarkable and enduring collection and produce early books. Millan Bloedel and had a self addressed While many of the poets eschewed the collaboration from a large number of lo- Openings and Heat in stamped envelope for reader feedback. label “concrete poetry,” the preponderance cal artists working in many disciplines. A the Heart were the Artists at Intermedia were also of visual artists at Intermedia influenced collection of individual cards encased in a first two ‘books.’ It intensely interested in the nature a significant number of them. The visual blank Rothman’s box donated by Benson is more accurate, of process. Poets and visual artists work of poets like Gerry Gilbert, Max- & Hedges, “Junk Mail” was sent through however, to call of The Press, as Intermedia Press ine Gadd, and Ed Varney operated Canada Post as an unsolicited art gift. came to be called, were exploring in a transitional medium between purely Over the years, as artists moved on, the medium as they were us- linguistic and visual art and derived creative the Press carried on producing books like ing it. They printed and and communication benefits from both. my A Book of Days, Carole Itter’s The bound their own books Influence between the arts was cross Log’s Log, and works by Jim Carter, as a way of uncovering cultural, hence the name Intermedia. The David West, Gregg Simpson, Nel- meanings and abilities photographer Michael de Courcy, lie McClung, Judith Copithorne embedded in craft. Heat for instance, included a poem as one of the and others. Our last major collaborative in the Heart, for example, faces of his box art which was displayed at project was The Poem Company, a weekly, was run off one page at a time the museum of Modern Art in New York anonymous 8 page arts magazine we car- and each page was taped to a and in Vancouver. ried on for a year, mailed for free and then window at Intermedia’s then Dennis Vance produced collected and bound. It is a collector’s item current location on Fourth Ave sound sculpture exploring the if one can be found. over a period of months. The win- effects of random move- When Intermedia itself was no more, dow filled as the book grew and ment through space tri- The Press began printing catalogues and passersby could participate in angulated by three posters for three of our local art galleries: the process of growing a col- distinct radio sig- the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Burnaby Art lection as new poems were nals. As the sculp- Gallery and the Surrey Art Gallery. They written and printed. It was a ture swung, the lis- were great friends and supporters. The first unique way of visualizing tener, in a capsule full colour work we printed was a poster for the book as it came into like an astronaut, the Vancouver Art Gallery produced on a existence. De Courcy, as picked up dif- vintage single colour Miehle offset press. was his habit, documented ferent messages It was a great press and we did a great job! this and much else that which collaged By this time, Intermedia Press had was Intermedia. themselves into dwindled down to Ed Varney and myself. In its own way, an aural experi- We put ourselves through VVI (Vancouver Heat in the Heart, ence symbolic Vocational Institute) and built The Press conceived of as an into a sophisticated, award-winning printer extended perfor- as our two Benny’s (Printing Industry of mance piece, was America) attest. With the help of CASE an example of Inter- (Counseling Assistance for Small Enter- media artists reaching prises) counsellor, Charlie Young, we out into the community. learned the business of business and won Poetry readings, shows and Canada’s first Small Business Award. performances were given Eventually, we moved to Intermedia throughout the lower mainland Press’s final home in Mount Pleasant and and in Victoria. Regular Thurs- discontinued publishing. When Ed left, day noon lunch/poetry readings Intermedia Press Limited was down to were held at the Vancouver Art one shareholder, and for the next twenty- Gallery, and for a few years odd years developed into a viable printing Intermedia took over the company employing over thirty people. In 2003, the company was sold. During all the years of commerce, I continued to write poetry but after my fourth Henry Rappaport book, Dream Surgeon, did not publish. was one of the Then, post ‘retirement,’ I began a ten-year co-founders of the artist-driven pub- journey to my next book. I worked with po- lishing and printing ets Karen Solie, Robert Hass, Don movement that led McKay and others and began publishing to contemporary individual poems. literary publishing in Canada. In 2014, Loose to the World was pub- lished by Ronsdale Press. Despite a forty Ed Varney as a young Intermedia poet year gap, I find the continuity of concerns remarkable. There is, however, one major difference. Now, the poetry is for itself. 978-1-55380-338-6

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