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is for Amelia

Heidi Greco’s tiny chapbook A: The “The most difficult Amelia Poems (Abbotsford: Lipstick Press $8) is dainty but ambitious. It attempts thing is the decision to nothing less than to retell the life story of the missing aviatrix Amelia Earhart, act, the rest is merely who disappeared in 1937 while crossing the Pacific. Through furtive, fictionalized notes tenacity. The fears are and poems, Greco incorporates speculation that Earhart was captured by the Japanese paper tigers. You can and likely imprisoned as a spy on Saipan— but not executed. “Building on these do anything you decide P.O.W. theories,” she writes, “some have suggested that the U.S. may have come to to do. You can act to an agreement with Japan that secured Earhart’s release.” But Greco then deviates change and control from the theory that Earhart was placed in protective custody and granted a false iden- your life; and the tity which allowed her to live out her days in obscurity. A: The Amelia Poems imag- procedure, the process ines, “that when eventually returned to the U.S., she was forced to spend the rest of is its own reward.” her life in an asylum in New Jersey.” 978-0-9781204-2-9 — AMELIA EARHART is for Boschman

An English and women’s studies teacher at Northwest Community College, Leanne Boschman of Prince Rupert has offered a poetic exploration of the port city’s rich environmental and social history in A Rain Journal (Leaf Press $15.95). 978-0-97838799-9-0 is for Crozier

Lorna Crozier of University of Victo- ria’s writing department has been inducted into the Royal Society of Canada, one of the country’s highest academic honours. It’s not exactly an everyday occurrence for a poet The real Amelia Earhart, from Swift Current who had to overcome pictured here, is portrayed by family poverty and alcoholism. Crozier’s Hilary Swank in the new film Amelia. newest release of narratives and prose poems, Earhart has previously been Small Beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir portrayed in films by Katharine (Greystone $28.95), looks unflinchingly at Hepburn and Diane Keaton. her upbringing. 978-1-55365-343-1

is for Elza is for Gardner

Born in Bulgaria and raised in Nigeria, Capilano University philosophy prof UBC doctoral student Daniela Susan T. Gardner has gone to the Bouneva Elza, according to reviewer dogs. Illustrated by Dirk van Stralen, Arthur Joyce, has naturally “remade her guide to critical thinking for college stu- PHOTO

language in her own images” with her con- dents, Thinking Your Way to Freedom: A tributions to 4 Poets (Mother Tongue Guide to Owning Your Own Practical BRETT James Hoffman

Lorna Crozier $18.95), a volume conceived to showcase Reasoning (Temple $44.95 U.S.) utilizes BRIAN the work of four emerging writers. the author’s dogs, Diva and Ben, in 66 978-1-896949-02-1 comic strips, to illustrate philosophical concepts. Students are taught how to think im- partially and how to neutralize invisible is for Hoffman is for Drabek biases that limit their freedom of thought is for Frobb and action. With Thompson Rivers University theatre pro- A book about the Vancouver Olympics, in the help of Diva fessor James Hoffman has co-edited Czech, by Jan Drabek, has been pub- A Pain Management physician with a spe- and Ben, readers The Last Best West (New Star $24) an lished in the Czech Republic. Besides pro- cial focus on Orthopedic Medicine Reha- learn to evaluate exploration of myth and identity pertain- viding a list of venues and schedules for the bilitation and spinal care problems, Dr. the strengths of ar- ing to Western Canada. It arose from the games, I Love You British Columbia— Mark Frobb has prepared hundreds of guments and to Last Best West Conference in September Winter Games in Vancouver (Oftis 2009) medical legal opinions on behalf of patients recognize fallacies, of 2007, organized by the Centre for the includes essays, both humorous and pen- involved in litigation with insurance com- all the while Study of Canada at Thompson Rivers Uni- sive and photos. Drabek is a columnist for panies. He shares his expertise and advice avoiding the versity. Edited with Anne Gagnon the Xantypa magazine, a Czech equivalent in Surviving Whiplash: Saving Your Neck paralyzing effects and Will Garrett-Petts. of Vanity Fair. He writes in both English Without Losing Your Mind of relativism. 978-1-55420-044-3 Susan T. Gardner and Czech. (OrthoWellness $19.95). 978-1-4392-0897-2 978-1-59213-867-8 continued on next page

3 BC BOOKWORLD WINTER 2009-2010 Archaeology, goats and dogs, honor, ethics, lies and betrayals are what can happen when two cultures abrade. BRITISHCOLUMBIA From HOPEACE PRESS Janey Bennett’s WHO’SWHO Award-winning novel is for Inuksuk is for Manolis Manolis An inuksuk is being used as the official sym- Aligizakis uses bol of the 2010 Winter Games, so Toron- only his first name to’s Mary Wallace has written a Manolis on his picture book, I is for Inuksuk (Owlkids titles from his lit- Books $19.95), as a tie-in to the Olympics erary imprint, for children. Each letter of the word Libros Libertad, “inuksuk” is represented in an acrostic poem including his 2008 by another Inuktitut word, which, with novel Petros Spathis, Wallace’s paintings, creates an overview of and his newly re- Manolis life in the Arctic. Wallace’s three previous leased sixth vol- titles are Inuksuk Journey, Make Your Own ume of poetry, Impulses (Libros $14.95), Inuksuk, and The Inuksuk Book. 1897349572 a collection that “ransacks his classical Greek roots.” It’s his eighth release in five years. 9780981073569 is for Jancis is for N’lakap’mux We’ll have a review by Cherie Thiessen of Jancis Andrews’ second short story collection Walking on N’lakap’mux First Water (Cormorant $21) in the spring is- Nation playwright sue of BC BookWorld. Plus we’ll have a re- Kevin Loring view by Joan Givner of Vanessa is the author of Winn’s historical novel The Chief Fac- Where the Blood tor’s Daughter (Touchwood $19.95). Our Mixes autumn fiction issue featured reviews of 28 (Talonbooks new fiction titles from British Columbia. $16.95), nomi- So many books, so little time. Kevin Loring nated for five Andrews 9781897151174;Winn 9781894898935 Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards. It examines the after-ef- $21.95 at your bookseller now fects of residential school when a daughter comes home after two decades to confront ISBN: 978-0-9734007-2-4 is for Kernaghan her father about the past. Loring’s play has Distribution by Steller Press also been nominated for this year’s Gover- Having been shortlisted for the 2009 Sun- nor-General’s Award. As an actor Loring has burst Award for Canadian Speculative Fic- performed in plays across Canada includ- tion with her supernatural novel Wild Talent, ing Marie Clements’ Burning Vision Eileen Kernaghan has published and Copper Thunderbird, and George Tales from the Holograph Woods: Specu- Ryga’s The Ecstasy of Rita Joe. lative Poems (Wattle & Daub, $9.95), a 978-0-88922-608-1 thirty-five-year retrospective of her published work. 978-0-9810658-2-3 is for Oberheide

is for Lambert Retired psychologist Dr. Robert Oberheide, Ph.D., who has lived in Published for Powell River’s centenary, B.C. since 1980, has self-published Unlock- Barbara Ann Lambert’s Powell ing the Subconscious: The Key to Self- River, 100 Years (Trafford $25) is a collec- Esteem (100 Mile House: Surefoot tion of oral histories of the Upper Sunshine Publishing) to uncover mysteries of the sub- Coast, focussing on the Italian community. conscious. He explains how the subcon- Lambert interviewed old timers, some of scious harms and helps us, and how to whom have since passed away, and she has capitalize on its positive features in order gathered remarkable historic photographs to diminish stress and elevate self-esteem. from family albums. 978-1-4269-0547-6 He addresses “the myth of bio-chemical causation” as well as issues such as our inability to fulfill our potential, the basis of self-sabotage, the inability to sustain positive moods and the causes of depression, anxiety and low self-esteem. 978-1-4269-1196-5 is for Pullinger

Born in Cranbrook, Kate Pullinger attended high school on Vancouver Island and worked in a Yukon copper mine before taking up residence in England, in 1982. Having co-written Jane Campion’s novelized version of her film The Piano, Pullinger also has written five other novels, the latest being The Mistress of Nothing (McArthur & Co. $24.95), shortlisted for the Giller Prize and a Governor-General’s Award. The Mistress of Nothing is about an English maidservant who experienced unimagined freedom while escorting the tuburcular Lady Duff Gordon to Egypt in the 1860s. 978-1-55278-798-4

Kate Pullinger

4 BC BOOKWORLD WINTER 2009-2010 is for Quan is for Vogler

Biographer of Sam Steele (after whom Stephen Vogler has lived in Whis- Fort Steele near Cranbrook is named), tler since 1976. His memoir Only in Whis- Holly Quan has re-released Native tler: Tales of a Mountain Town (Harbour Chiefs and Famous Métis: Leadership $24.95) begins in an era when the winter and Bravery in the Canadian West (Her- Olympics city was just a resort with only itage $9.95). Part of the Amazing Stories 500 year-round residents and weekend visi- series and first published in 2003, it recounts tors were disdained as “gorbies.” the lives of Big Bear, Poundmaker, Accompanied by the work of photog- Crowfoot, Peter Erasmus and raphers Toshi Kawano and Bonny Jerry Potts. 978-1-894974-74-5 Makarewicz, Vogler’s Top of the Pass (Harbour $34.95) is an overview of the physical, cultural and recreational charac- teristics of Whistler and its neighbors. is for Radford Whistler: 978-1-55017-504-2; Pass: 978-1-55017-430-4

Currently editor of Where Vancouver and Where Whistler, Shari Radford has released her third “Penelope” title, Penelope is for Wigmore and the Preposterous Birthday Party (Lobster Press $19.95). 978-1-897550-00-7 Vanderhoof-born Gillian Wigmore’s second poetry collection, soft geography (Caitlin $15.95), which she describes as “kind of a love song for north central B.C.,” is for Steil was shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Po- etry Prize in 2008 and has now won the 8th Co-authored with Aileen Stalker, ReLit Award for poetry. The ReLit Awards, John Steil’s Public Art in Vancouver: founded in 2000, are short for Regarding Angels Among Lions (Touchwood Literature, Reinventing Literature, Relight- $19.95) cites 500 examples of public art. ing Literature, and emphasize the importance Easy-to-follow maps take readers to com- of ideas over big-money prizes.978-1-894759-23-6 munities and destinations such as False Creek, Chinatown, the West End, Down- town, East Vancouver, Van Dusen Botani- cal Garden, Stanley Park and U.B.C. Steil is for Xmas # # # is a visual artist and community planning consultant who moved to Vancouver in Yup, you can give the gift of BookWorld. A !"!#$ 1992. Stalker has also co-authored a $25 supporter subscription for a friend or kayaker’s guide. 978-1894898799 loved one means they will receive up-to- date news throughout 2010 of B.C. books and authors . Go to www.bcbookworld and use PayPal, or send payment and your mail- is for Trio—of Ts ing address to us at 3516 W. 13th, Van- couver, B.C. V6R 2S3. Here are three new environment titles: Evo- lution’s Edge: The Coming Collapse and Transformation of our World (New So- ciety $24.95) by Graeme Taylor won is for Young gold in the 2009 Independent Publisher’s (IPPY) Outstanding Book of the Year Beryl Young’s father never told his Award’s category of “Most Likely to Save daughter about being a ‘Home Child,’ one the Planet.” • An environmental columnist of nearly 100,000 children sent to Canada for the Vancouver Sun and a professor at as indentured labourers between 1870 and the School of Environmental Studies at 1938, until she discovered the story during UVic, Hans Tammemagi explores a visit to England. Now she has written a the problems affecting our atmosphere, in- tribute to his life, Charlie: A Home Child’s cluding smog, acid rain, ozone depletion Life in Canada (Key Porter $19.95). Her and climate change, in Air: Our Planet’s father Charlie was one of seven children Ailing Atmosphere (Oxford $27.95). • whose English shopkeeper father died of Margaret Thompson’s essay collec- pneumonia in 1910. First sent to live at one tion Adrift on the Ark: Our Connection of the homes founded by Dr. Thomas to the Natural World (Brindle $19.95) in- Barnardo as a safe haven for destitute cludes anecdotes and personal memories of children, he was then sent to Canada to her encounters with birds and other animals work on an Ontario farm in 1911 at age beyond the two-legged variety. Adrift: 978-1- twelve. In World War I he fought for Canada 897142-41-7; Evolution: 9780865716087; Air: 978-0-19543007-3 and was wounded, became an RCMP of- ficer and escorted Queen Elizabeth on her first visit to Canada. 978-1-55470-200-8 is for Uhlin

In Lawrence Uhlin’s first suspense is for Zieroth novel, Machiavelli’s Desert (Libros Libertad), the prime minister of Canada is David Zieroth of North Vancouver is offered a technological discovery that could one of two B.C. poets nominated for this be the country’s salvation or its embarrass- year’s Governor-General’s Award. In addi- ment. The Sidney author takes the reader tion to shortlisting Zieroth’s The Fly in to Washington, Houston, Grand Cayman Autumn (Harbour $18.95), judges selected Islands, the British Virgin Islands and to Little Hunger (Nightwood $16.95) by the island of Arnivan where a meltdown of Philip Kevin Paul of Brentwood Bay. a Canadian CANDU Reactor is imminent. Zieroth 978-1-5507-468-7; Paul 0-88971-220-4

OTHER G.G. SHORTLISTED B.C. AUTHORS: Annabel Lyon (New Westminster), The Golden Mean; Deborah Willis (Victoria), Vanishing and Other Stories; Joan MacLeod (Victoria), An- other Home Invasion; Shelley Hrdlitschka (North Vancouver), Sister Wife; Robin Stevenson (Victoria), A Thousand Shades of Blue; Rachel Berman (Victoria), Bradley McGogg, the Very Fine Frog. Talonbooks and D&M also had titles nominated for translations.

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8 BC BOOKWORLD WINTER 2009-2010 people ENDURANCE HERO How a C-student learned to win the world’s toughest athletic event

Y ALL ACCOUNTS IT WAS A Fortune again smiled. Whitfield sur- bright but cool Septem- vived the crash and finished the cycling ber morning. While the portion of the race at number seven- first crush of Olympic teen. Buoyed with “reservoirs of en- athletes crowded into an ergy,” Whitfield began to push Bold yellow school bus, a surprisingly through the runners. Running was his jitter-free Simon Whitfield held strength, the ability he developed back. He’d had a great night’s sleep. He through years of soccer and track in was loose, confident, and blessedly un- high school and, as others fell back, burdened by fame or expectation. he just seemed to “flow forward.” Spying a second transport vehicle, he With the finish line in sight, boarded the “luxurious” cruiser bus with Whitfield began to sprint, gaining only a few other triathloners on his only opponent, the and rode to the ferry terminal powerful Vuckovic—his in relaxing comfort. Once shelter partner from the there, while most competitors ferry dock—and, with stood shivering on the ferry less than a hundred dock, Whitfield and Germa- metres to go, he flew ny’s Stephan Vuckovic past the spent Ger- spied a shelter building with LOUISE DONNELLY man runner, breasted two chairs. the tape and earned With little more than Waltzing his Olympic glory. Matilda running through Whitfield’s ✍ head, they waited out the ferry’s arrival As a kid Whitfield had in warmth and pleasant isolation. grown up in Kingston, In the fifty-man starting line-up, 25- Ontario, obsessed over year-old Whitfield maintained his sense Dungeons & Dragons of ease and light-heartedness. Fifteen until he became a hundred metres of swimming, forty kilo- straight-C student. metres of bike riding and ten kilometres He became equally of running – the three taskmasters of the obsessed in the late triathlon loomed ahead. ’80s with the new Never mind that it was his first Ol- sport of triathlon. ympics and the first time his sport would This kid, who took be part of the Olympics. Whitfield joked himself to Sydney, to the guy next to him that he hoped Australia, his dad’s old when they jumped into the Sydney har- hometown, to finish bour, the sharks didn’t get them. Top- high school with the ranked New Zealander Hamish vague hope that some Simon Carter, already crowned by the New of Australia’s famed Whitfield Zealand media and under daunting athletic prowess would pressure, threw Whitfield a startled, dis- rub off on him, some- facing believing get-away-from-me look. how eventually won adversity in Whitfield emerged from that first gold in the shadow of Athens swimming event shark-bite free and rela- the Sydney Opera tively pleased with his twenty-seventh po- House at the 2000 Sum- sition. The height of his fledgling career mer Olympics. was a bronze medal the year before in the In the new young 1999 Pan American Games. It was noth- adult biography ing anybody was writing home about, cer- Simon Says tainly not the international press. Gold: Simon The little-known Canadian, carrying Whitfield’s Pur- nothing more than a private “deep and suit of Athletic burning ambition,” found himself at the Excellence back of the lead pack of the cyclists, only (Orca $14) to skid moments later into a tangle of Whitfield and his downed cyclists. continued on page 10

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continued from page 9 rediscover the joy of the sport. co-author Cleve Dheensaw, a vet- It didn’t happen overnight, but eran sportswriter with the Victoria Times things began to move in the right direc- Colonist, also recount Whitfield’s heart- tion. He and Jennie had a daughter. breaking eleventh-place finish in Ath- Home life became a priority. Race re- ens in 2004, then his triumphant climb sults improved and he was ranked to silver at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. number two overall in the world by ✍ 2007. Looking back to his Kingston up- Whitfield weathered the controversy bringing, after five years of racing on the of using a team approach in individual Ontario Kids of Steel circuit, Whitfield racing sports. Colin Jenkins, fast in had placed sixteenth overall at the 1992 swimming and cycling, would pace Canadian Junior Triathlon Champion- Whitfield, keeping him “in touch with ships and had the sudden thought, I can the lead groups” in the race’s first two do this. sections. So although Jenkins was not the Unfortunately he didn’t perform as third-ranked triathlete in Canada, well scholastically. School wasn’t the Triathlon Canada added him to the Ol- highest priority. Then, through a con- ympic team heading for Beijing in 2008. nection of his father’s, Whitfield was ac- The pair took along their own cook, too. cepted to Knox Grammar School in the On race day, only a last-minute kick northern suburbs of Sydney. In the in the final fifty metres by Germany’s headmaster’s mahogany-and-dark- Simon Whitfield and his wife Jennie in Athens in 2004. They first met at the Jan Frodeno turned the possibility leather office, Whitfield learned he University of Victoria Triathlon Club in 2002. of a vindicating gold to a still-respect- would be expected to become city run- able and hard-earned silver. ning champ by graduation. hadn’t run a step in years, that day his ing his supremacy and disputing the In June of this year Whitfield turned Aghast, he called his father and re- Nana did “three laps of the cribbage ta- whispers of “One-Hit Wonder.” He be- the tables on Frodeno and picked up the ported he was also required to break all ble and a cartwheel on the shuffleboard came the “guy with the target on his $200,000 win at the ITU Elite Cup in the school’s middle distance records in track.” back.” Des Moines, Iowa. While the prize the next two years. His father tersely re- ✍ Leading up to the 2004 Summer money in the richest annual triathlon plied, “Well, then break them.” In 1996, after a sprint-finish win at Olympics, everything went wrong. had everyone buzzing, Whitfield, ever This was Whitfield’s introduction to the Canadian Duathlon Championships Whitfield chose to train in Penticton, the competitor, says besting Frodeno in the Aussie “take no prisoners” approach against Peter Reid, who’d later win where the dry terrain mimicked the con- yet another sprint finish was the best prize to sports. three Ironman Hawaii world titles at ditions around Athens. But he’d never of all. Whitfield’s mother could be tough, Kona, Whitfield moved to Victoria on trained away from a home base before. Whitfield continues to train for the too. At one race, before he left for Aus- Reid’s recommendation. “We got away from our core principles. 2012 Olympics. He has some surpris- tralia, an aunt retrieved a forgotten bike In 2002, at the local triathlon club, We over-analyzed everything… we knew ingly simple advice for young athletes. helmet for him but his mother was less Whitfield met his future wife, Jennie. it all. We insulated ourselves from eve- Swim. Cycle. Run. Don’t overcomplicate indulgent. She let her son discover for That same year he crashed at the World ryone.” things. Don’t get sidetracked with sports- himself that the chain had come off his Cup race at Geelong, Australia, and He did poorly in the swim portion of science. Don’t get caught up with train- bike. broke his collarbone and both wrists. He the race, lacking the strength to keep up ing gadgets and gimmicks. “I chose to stand back, actually behind recovered in time to win gold at the the pace. He got trapped between two Whitfield’s philosophy boils down to a tree, to watch how Simon was going to Manchester Commonwealth Games and packs in the bike race, a rookie mistake. three words: Speed, Speed, Speed. “Go deal with the situation,” she recalls. Simon then fell to a stunning forty-ninth finish When the running became painful, he to a park,” he says. “Kick a soccer ball got the chain back on and, with greasy three months later at the World Cham- “gave up” and pretty much strolled and chase it as fast as you can. Make a hands, got right back into the race. pionships in Cancun. across the finish line for eleventh place. game of it. Have fun. Speed comes.” Nobody sets out to raise an Olym- Whitfield was also devastated by the “Everyone,” Whitfield says, “became ✍ pian, Whitfield says, but it doesn’t hurt news that his friend and fellow triathlete an instant expert. Axes came out. Lines Cleve Dheensaw, a Victoria native, to have support at home. “I had that in Kelly Guest had a positive drug test. blurred between friends. has covered six Commonwealth and spades from both my mom and dad.” Guest was later diagnosed with a rare “Were they helping with one hand Olympic Games. He is also the author Whitfield also credits his “relentless condition that triggered the positive test while holding the axes behind their of The Commonwealth Games: The First drive” to his maternal grandmother who, and had nothing to do with taking a backs with the other?” 60 Years, 1930-1990 and, with Deanna at ninety-six, and living just across the banned substance. In retrospect, Whitfield says Athens Binder, Celebrate the Spirit: The Olym- harbour at a nursing home, watched his Whitfield’s Olympic gold medal was was the best thing that could have hap- pic Games. 978-1-55469-141-8 Sydney victory on TV. beginning to “weigh me down.” He felt pened to him professionally. The crush- Whitfield jokes that although she burdened with the pressures of defend- ing defeat forced him to step back and Louise Donnelly writes from Vernon.

10 BC BOOKWORLD WINTER 2009-2010 Tibetans in Exile The Dalai Lama & the Woodcocks Alan Twigg

George and Ingeborg Woodcock met the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India, in 1961, and founded a humanitarian aid society that is still going strong, after more than 300 projects in the Himalayas and southern India. Alan Twigg reveals the hitherto unknown private lives of this extraordinary couple, interviews their friends and recounts ongoing efforts to assist Tibetans in Canada and Asia.

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Women on Ice From a Speaking Place The Early Years of Women’s Hockey Writings from the First Fifty Years in Western Canada of Canadian Literature Wayne Norton ed. W.H. New et al The fascinating but largely forgotten story of women’s A celebration volume for the journal Canadian Literature, ice hockey in western Canada during the early years offering essays and interviews by well-known Canadian of the 20th century. Includes rare photos of teams such authors, such as Margaret Atwood and Thomas King, as the Amazons, Rustlers and Monarchs. who have helped define our understanding of Canada. 978-1-55380-073-6 166 pp 36 b&w photos $21.95 978-1-55380-064-4 450 pp $24.95 In the Wake of Loss The Dead Can’t Dance Sheila James Pam Calabrese MacLean A collection of stories focusing on the conflicts These unforgettable poems of grief and tenderness, and challenges experienced by diasporic South with a touch of wicked wit, offer the reader new Asian women and men. Unusually bold and graphic insights into desire, with its conjoining of love and explorations of sexual desire, violence and grief, death. ultimately evoking resilience and hope. 978-1-55380-069-9 132 pp $15.95 978-1-55380-075-0 212 pp $18.95

I Have My Mother’s Eyes Les sables mouvants / A Holocaust Memoir across Generations Shifting Sands Barbara Ruth Bluman Hubert Aquin — Translated by Joseph Jones An account of a Holocaust escape from Poland to This bilingual edition, which is the first English trans- Lithuania across the USSR to Japan and then Canada, lation of Aquin’s ground-breaking novella, documents written by the survivor’s daughter while she was the narrator’s psychological journey from anticipation facing her own struggle for survival. and impatience to personal apocalypse. 978-1-55380-070-5 126 pp 32 b&w photos $21.95 978-1-55380-078-1 112 pp $19.95

River of Gold Susan Dobbie In this fascinating sequel to her best-selling novel When Eagles Call, Dobbie tells how Kimo joins the Young Cariboo gold rush with a fellow Hawaiian, a black man from the Carolinas and a native woman. Adult 978-1-55380-071-2 202 pp $19.95 Books

Journey to Atlantis Chasing a Star Philip Roy Tragic Links In this sequel to the best-selling novel Norma Charles Submarine Outlaw, Alfred undertakes a Cathy Beveridge When Sophie LaGrange decides that she new voyage in his homemade submarine, In the fourth novel in her best-selling must meet Barbara Ann Scott, Canada’s from his native Newfoundland into the series of Canadian disasters, Beveridge skating icon of the 1950s, little does she Mediterranean in search of fabled Atlantis. takes Jolene back in time to two know that she will have to deal with Along the way there are daring rescues at Quebec disasters: the Quebec Bridge Satan’s Rebels, a dangerous motorcycle sea, a chase of illegal Spanish trawlers, a collapse of 1907 and the Laurier Palace gang that is attempting to recruit her pirate attack and a camel journey into Theatre fire of 1927. brother and kidnap Barbara Ann. the desert. 978-1-555380-066-8 184 pp $10.95 978-1-55380-077-4 182 pp $10.95 978-1-55380-076-7 224 pp $10.95

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Mountain Timber Counting on Hope The Comox Logging Company in the Vancouver Island Mountains Sylvia Olsen Richard Somerset Mackie Set against the backdrop of the English colonization of British In this sequel to his best- Columbia, and an 1863 naval selling Island Timber, Richard assault on a Lamalcha camp on BC Bestseller Somerset Mackie follows the Kuper Island, Counting on Hope Comox Logging Company from tells the story of two girls whose 1926 to 1946 as it moves from lives are profoundly changed the logged-over Comox Valley when their two cultures collide. to the challenging terrain of the Vancouver Island Mountains. A stunning visual feast, this ISBN 1-55039-173-9 • 6 x 9 is social history and logging 304 pages • paper • $14.95 history at its best.

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A Boy in War The Garden That You Are Jan de Groot Katherine Gordon As the years of German Photography by Rod Currie occupation of the Netherlands and Quinton Gordon grind on, normal life becomes The Garden That You Are more and more harrowing for explores the lives and seven-year-old Jan and keeping BC Bestseller stories of eight creative secrets becomes a matter of life and culturally diverse and death. gardeners who live in Author Jan de Groot spins B.C.’s Slocan Valley. This his personal experiences into an beautiful full-colour exciting, touching and thought- book is peppered with provoking memoir. anecdotes, history, recipes, gardening ideas and ISBN 1-55039-167-4 • 6” x 9” ISBN 1-55039-160-7 • 8” x 9” 176 pages helpful advice. 200 pages • b&w pictures • full colour hardcover • $28.95 paper • $13.95

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Dal Richards This issue presents a lively range RED NEST, will carry Olympic of British Columbians who have RED ZONE. torch in 2010 made a difference to our society URBAN DISMAY x 2 THE DOWNTOWN EAST SIDE IS KNOWN FOR —people worth knowing; people its arrests and its arresting books. Hav- ing co-edited Hope and Shadows: Stories worth reading about. and Photographs of Vancouver’s Down- town Eastside (Arsenal), winner of the 2008 City of Vancouver Book Award, Gillian DEATH & DEADLINES Jerome has produced a fol-

PHOTOS IN THE AFTERMATH OF HIS OWN INVESTI- low-up collec- gation of Triad gangster Steven

TWIGG tion of urban Wong, during which he entered the ‘eclogues’—a RCMP’s witness protection program, fancy word for THUMBS UP FOR DAL Terry Gould has traveled to Colom- poetry—enti- bia, the Philippines, Bangladesh, Russia BRITISH COLUMBIA’S BEST-LOVED MUSICAL tled Red Nest personality is not Bryan Adams or and Iraq for Murder Without Borders (Nightwood (Random House $34.95), his celebra- Gillian Jerome: that smokey-voiced Nanaimo gal who connectivity, no cant $17.95). plays the piano. It’s gotta be 92-years- tory investigation of journalists who have Jerome of- knowingly risked their lives to conduct young Dal Richards, whose band Ross Rebagliati fers a surreal adventure of inter- had 154 gigs in 2008. Certainly more their work for the public good. Gould connectivity. “When you’ve been am- British Columbians have danced to the converses with stubbornly heroic jour- bushed by gods and stars,” we’re told, live music of Dal Richards than any nalists and their families to understand “you're catapulted back into a wild other musician. the complex reasons for their conspicu- NO LOSS FOR ROSS sprawling city filled with cordless phones, ous bravery, citing Czech politician and Back in 1940, Dal Richards replaced ROSS REBAGLIATI OF KELOWNA WON THE coyotes and the hairdos of dandelions.” Mart Kenney and his Western Gen- playwright Vaclav Havel who first gold medal for snowboarding dur- ✍ wrote, “I am not inter- tlemen in the Hotel Vancouver’s new ing the 1998 Winter Olympics in HAVING SPENT THREE YEARS PHOTOGRAPH- Panorama Roof Ballroom with his own ested in why man com- Nagano, Japan, but had the medal re- ing and writing about Nanaimo's back 11-piece orchestra and an unknown 13- mits evil; I want to know voked after admitting to smoking mari- alleys, graffiti, underpasses and other year-old singer named Juliette—who why he does good.” Most juana. The controversy that ensued homeless en- later became a Canadian TV star. of the 700 journalists resulted in its return to him. He later be- campments, Richards’ six-week contract was ex- known to have came director of snowboarding and ski- Kim Gold- tended for twenty-five years. been killed in ing for Kelowna Mountain and berg has self- Born in Vancouver in 1918, the leg- the line of founder of the Rebagliati Alpine published endary band leader, saxophonist and duty around Snowboard Training Academy Red Zone (Pig clarinetist sold out The Orpheum at age the world (RASTA). Due in November, Squash Press 90. These days he’s so fit that he’ll be car- since 1992 Rebagliati’s Off the Chain: A Ren- $18.95), to rying the Olympic torch in February in- have egade History of Snowboarding draw attention stead of his saxophone. sought to (Greystone $27.95) examines the Kim Goldberg: to the city's ap- The remarkable career of Dr. Swing unveil lo- rise of snowboarding from its hip- a three year journey proximately has been outlined in One More Time: cal corrup- pie beginnings to a $150-billion glo- 300 homeless citizens who are barred The Dal Richards Story (Harbour tion and bal industry. Off the Chain is boarder from sleeping in a 40-block area of the violence. Terry $32.95), co-written with Jim Taylor. slang for extreme, wild or radical. city known as the Red Zone. Red Zone 978-0- Gould 978-1-55017-492-2 978-0-679-31470-7 978-1-55365-487-2 9783223-7-3; www.pigsquashpress.com; Red Nest 0-88971-241-7

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he first women’s hockey SKIRTSSKIRTS && SWASTIKASSWASTIKAS team in Vancouver was Before Zambonies, we had Amazons Tformed to take advantage of the ice provided by the new arena on Denman Street. The Vancouver Ladies’ Hockey II Team, near the outset of World War One, soon claimed to be provincial champions.

But if you can’t beat ’em in the alley, you can’t beat ’em on the ice. Within a few years, they were dis- mayed and defeated by the aggressive and “unladylike” style of play introduced to the women’s game by a group of West End schoolgirls who called themselves the Amazons. The long heavy skirts required by the WHYTE MUSEUM OF THE CANADIAN ROCKIES, V683/IB56 pre-war decade were soon abandoned, Fernie Swastikas became the second female team from British Columbia to our guard of police from the train sta- initially in favour of culottes, which, in capture the Banff championship when they won the Alpine Cup in 1923. tion to city hall where local dignitaries turn, gave way to the same style of made speeches of congratulations. hockey shorts worn by male players. But tika became associated with the Nazi symbolic of women’s hockey supremacy. All this is documented—and much some goalies were reluctant to surren- Party, the gals from Fernie proved to be The people of Fernie gave their win- more—by Wayne Norton in the der the obvious defensive advantage pro- the surprise of the Banff women’s hockey ning team a welcome home that is still mostly forgotten story about the rise of vided by the long skirt. tournament in 1923. unparalleled in the history of women’s women’s hockey in Western Canada in In their impressive red and white By defeating the Vancouver Ama- hockey in Canada. Businesses closed, the the first half of the 20th century, Women outfits, the Fernie Swastikas always gave zons and holding off the mighty Calgary pipe band was assembled, and school on Ice (Ronsdale $21.95), including 36 110 per cent—as hockey players are Regents in three successive games, the children were granted their freedom to archival photos. prone to say. Long before the word swas- Swastikas captured the Alpine Cup— participate in a parade led by an hon- 978-1-55380-073-6 “ Great Fall Fiction & Poetry from Oolichan

ISBN 978-088982-261-0 ISBN 978-088982-260-3 ISBN 978-088982-257-3 ISBN 978-088982-259-7 ISBN 978-088982-258-0 Words is theA story Novel of a child who can’t read. WithShort the Stories help of a friendly teacher-librarian,Three Children’s the childFables discovers the delightsPoetry of being able to read and write,Poetry so that “the words dancedby as Betty they Jane were Hegerat written, and there wasby Leslie music Vryenhoek in the words, and people readby them P. K. and Page listened in wonder.” by Miranda Pearson by Steve Noyes Ill. by Kristi Bridgeman In lyricalLynn prose,Howard’s rich 20-year-old in imagery, Words“In revels stories in that the variously discovery explore of written language. Ruth Campbell’s luminous illustrations“These clear-sighted evoke a child’s poems view of the“Steve world, Noyes’ filled collection with of sensory lyr- delightdaughter, and wonder.is pregnant, and has the isolating loneliness of be- This trilogy of enchanting seize on experience and ics and form poems displays 0-88982-227-1 decided to give up the baby for ing human, Leslie Vryenhoek’s fables begins with the search render it in language that is his astonishing facility with spare, elegant prose entertains, 40 pp HC $19.95 adoption. Three weeks after the for a husband for the Prin- taut and engaging. Honest the timbres and textures of baby is born, stunned and furi- shocks and surprises.” and thoughtful, Pearson’s ap- language.” —Joan Clark cess of Ure. Three men vie ous to find her heart at war with proach to the personal makes —Catherine Owens for her hand, and undergo her head, she insists that Lynn the reader not just a witness “These poems are agile, wide- deliver the baby to her adoptive Stories about the longing that great trials to prove them- but a participant.” ranging, funny, absurd, com- parents before her own resolve gnaws at our most ordinary selves worthy of her. Her —John Steffler plex, tender, joyful, tough, weakens. days, and those rare moments of true love, Galaad, wins. Af- heartbreaking and wise. Quite Lynn can no more make certainty on which whole lives ter many adventures involv- These poems look at ways simply, poetry at its very best.” that delivery than she could can pivot and change course. ing a wicked Wizard, flying people construct territory in give away her own first child, —Patricia Young goats, and other dazzling any available space, illumi- so she stows the baby in the delights, the story ends with nating the human drive to back of her car and drives the King and Queen’s ascent west out of Calgary. nest, seek refuge, a harbour. to Heaven. 144 pp • TP • 5.5” x 8.5” 192 pp • TP • 5.5” x 8.5” 112 pp • HC • 9” x 12” 144 pp • TP • 5.5” x 8.5” 312 pp • TP • 5.5” x 8.5” $17.95 $18.95 $19.95 $19.95 $17.95

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IN 1907, CHARLES BARNES, AN AMERICAN LAND AS A TWICE-DIVORCED, SIXTY-SOMETHING AUTHOR OF surveyor in Ashcroft, B.C., envisioned a settlement 45 published romance novels, and as someone who for orchards to be grown along the Thompson River frequently asks her grandkids for advice, Bobby between Kamloops and Cache Creek. By 1910, a Hutchinson has humourously chronicled her posh hotel was built and more than 2,000 tons of experiences running a bed-and-breakfast in potatoes were shipped to market. By the summer of Sparwood, B.C., despite having never stayed in one 1911, some 500 acres of fruit trees had been planted before she opened it, in her memoir Blue Collar by the predominantly upper-class British immigrants to B&B (Langdon $15.95 U.S.). 978-1-934938-69-0 whom Barnes had mar- keted the development. By 1912, the new com- “I was far munity of Walhachin had too old for 180 permanent residents. prostitution,” They paid for a hugely ex- quips Bobby pensive, 20-mile-long Hutchinson, wooden flume to bring water “and it was the for irrigation because most of the orchards were too high above only other job I the Thompson River for pumping could think of which technology. But when World War One might net enough to broke out, most of the orchardists, who pay the mortgage.” Theresa Kishkan were staunchly loyal to England, chose Bobby Hutchinson to enlist, and by 1922 the promising paradise of Walhachin was empty. The heroine of Theresa Kishkan’s novel, The Age of Water Lilies (Brindle & Glass $19.95) remains at Walhachin during World War One, pregnant and unmarried, having fallen for a charismatic labourer who leaves COVERING DISCOVERY her for the imagined glories of combat in France. As Walhachin becomes less ONCE UPON MUCH LIVELIER TIMES, THE SPARSELY POPULATED DISCOVERY viable, Flora Oakden moves to Victoria and receives shelter from suffragist Ann Islands (Read, Cortes, Sonora, Maurelle, Hardwicke, Stuart, Redonda Ogilvie in a house overlooking the Ross Bay Cemetery. and Thurlow) were rife with oddballs, as Jeanette Taylor makes Decades later, an unlikely but delightful friendship emerges between clear in Tidal Passages: A History of the Discovery Islands (Harbour seventy-year-old Flora and her seven-year-old neighbour Tessa, against the $36.95). Among the rogues and mavericks she introduces are old George backdrop of the pacifist movement of the 1960s. 978-1-897142-42-4 McGee, born around 1850, who survived several slave-taking raids as a child and managed to live through the 1862-64 smallpox epidemic that killed many of his relatives on Cortes; Bonnie (Whittington) KNIT HAPPENS Brown, a Read Island cougar hunter who had ten kills to her credit FORGET ABOUT TAKING HOURS TO ERECT THOSE BALANCING ROCK TOWERS. OR SPRAY when she was still just a girl; Dan McDonald, who painting subway cars in New York City. The hip thing to do is yarn bombing. was rumoured to have been part of Stitch together a sweater for a parking meter. Knit a scarf for a tree trunk. the infamous Jesse James Gang Add woollen bolo balls to a statue. Mandy Moore and Leanne before he relocated to Twin Prain’s Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet and Knit Graf- Island, then called Ulloa, in fiti (Arsenal $19.95) includes “20 kick-ass patterns” for 1889; and Mike knit and crochet installations, aka works of yarn that Manson, the resilient can be, ahem, donated to public spaces. Taking their pioneer and business- cue from graffiti artists, a new generation of mostly man who helped shape urban knitters, with ninja-like stealth—almost present-day Cortes Is- entirely women (tattoos are optional)—are re- land. Now Jeanette claiming the ancient craft of knitting in the Taylor has given much name of feminism, pranksterism and art. the same treatment to the Soon no fire hydrant will be nude. Leanne largest of the Discovery Is- Prain co-founded a ‘stitch and bitch’ called lands for The Quadra Knitting and Beer. Mandy Moore edits Story: A History of Quadra an on-line knitting site. 978-15515-22555 Island (Harbour $32.95). Quadra 978-1-55017-488-5; Tidal 978-1-55017-435-9

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THE GREEK BY BCBW STAFF & 34 years ago, Dufour remembers his two SAGE BIRCHWATER companions who died. Martin von Riedemann was HE SAGA OF ALKALI LAKE IS A a respected thirty-nine-year-old cattle- classic B.C. story. For decades man and a founding director of the T the gigantic Alkali Lake Ranch Cariboo Regional District. He took con- in the Cariboo was separated from the DRAMA trol of the ranch operation in 1963 af- Secwepemc village of Esket (Alkali Lake) BC ter his father, an Austrian, had purchased by a narrow, gravel road. On one side of BOOKWORLD it in 1939. Dog Creek Road was poverty; on the OF DOG CREEK STAFF PICK Largely for the benefit of his neigh- other was opulence. bours, Riedemann had bought seven The famous ranch owned by the Jacob Roper (left), a member of the Esketemc people (formerly hundred dollars worth of fireworks Riedemann family fifty miles south of known as the Alkali Lake Band), saved the life of Lorne Dufour which he planned to set off on Williams Lake, was founded in 1861 by Hallowe’en night from his small boat (right) in 1975, when Dufour was an elementary schoolteacher at German-born Herman Otto anchored in the middle of Alkali Lake. Bowe. It long provided local employ- Alkali Lake. Dufour’s new memoir Jacob’s Prayer: Loss and Everything went according to plan, un- ment, but Dog Creek Road marked the Resilience at Alkali Lake (Caitlin $18.95) recalls Jacob’s til a strong gale-force wind blew up the boundary for two solitudes, Cariboo- inspirational rescue as well as the tragedy that took the lives of valley from the Fraser River. style. two prominent local men on the same unforgettable night. In John Rathjen, at twenty-nine, was the With the advent of social assistance much-loved principal of the three-class- 1985, Lorne Dufour played an alcoholic priest in the film called in 1956, alcohol abuse spread like a room elementary school in Esket village. plague within Esket. By 1970, accord- The Honor of All that re-enacts the story of the Alkali Lake Reserve’s Rathjen had accepted the challenge of ing to elder Andy Chelsea, “It was battle with the severe spread of alcoholism. Lorne Dufour is now reopening the Esket Elementary School, so bad people used to call it Alcohol a handlogger and poet who lives off the grid in McLeese Lake, which had been closed for eight years. Lake.” B.C., with his wife Diana. Jacob Roper still lives at Alkali Lake. Lorne Dufour was one of three teachers Then Andy Chelsea’s seven-year-old hired to work in the school with Rathjen daughter Ivy changed everything in to develop individual learning programs 1972 when she told her mother Phyllis lives—and Lorne Dufour’s life was Marie, then the charges were raised to for each student. Lots of the students in she was refusing to come home if her saved thanks to the quick actions of non-capital murder. On September 11, grades four and five had never been mother kept drinking. Phyllis Chel- Jacob Roper. 1967, a jury of eight men and four taught to read or write. sea was the first person in the commu- ✍ women in Quesnel decided that two of ✍ nity to swear off booze. Her husband Jacob Roper was no stranger to trag- the young men were only guilty of com- In the foreword, retired Cariboo Sen- Andy followed suit three weeks later. In edy. As described by Cariboo reporter mon assault, and they were fined two tinel reporter Sage Birchwater has re- the fall of 1972, Andy Chelsea, sober, Sage Birchwater, Jacob’s nineteen- hundred dollars. Charges against the corded how Jacob Roper instinctively was elected chief. year-old daughter, Rose Marie, was third man were dropped. Jacob Roper pulled Lorne Dufour’s nearly lifeless Gradually, more adults in Esket re- found dead beside a gravel road adjacent and the entire First Nations community body from the waters of Alkali Lake to jected alcohol. The elementary school to a garbage dump on April 8, 1967. were aghast. So were a growing number his pickup truck, and drove him to the was re-opened. By the time Lorne “Rose Marie died on the way to a of whites, who felt that the justice sys- teacherage next to the school in Esket Dufour arrived in 1974 to teach the dance at Lac La Hache, forty-five min- tem had failed by not placing sufficient village: Grade four and five classes, about 40 per utes south of Williams Lake. Her naked value on the life of an aboriginal woman. Jacob knew what to do to treat severe cent of the adults had kicked the alco- body was found the next morning, face A week after the trial, Jacob and a group hypothermia. He stripped off Lorne’s hol habit and the village was regaining down in the snow on a gravel road be- of First Nations chiefs met with attorney clothes and put him into a bathtub of its future, its self-esteem. side the highway. Her neck was broken general Robert Bonner, claiming warm water. “He kept pouring bucket Then came a terrible boating acci- and her clothes were heaped in a pile that the verdict was an extreme miscar- after bucket of warm water down my dent… In 1975, on a blustery nearby. The coroner declared she had riage of justice. However, the court de- backbone until I revived,” Lorne recalls. Hallowe’en night, school principal likely died of hypothermia. Initially, cision prevailed.” ✍ Jacob says he learned how to treat hy- John Rathjen and rancher Mar- three young white men were charged pothermia from his grandfather and “all tin von Riedemann lost their with manslaughter for the death of Rose In recording how Roper saved his life continued on page 20

19 BC BOOKWORLD WINTER 2009-2010 RECENT TITLES FROM people Canada’s truly independent publisher continued from page 19 Riedemann died that night from hy- the old Indians. Water draws out the pothermia as the cold penetrated his Common Ken Kirkby: cold,” he explains. body and stopped his heart. Threads A Painter’s Jacob got practical experience treat- After his warm water treatment in the fictional Quest for ing hypothermia when he worked at St. bathtub, Lorne recovered from his or- biography by Canada Joseph’s Mission. “At the Mission, the boys deal with no ill effects. “Lorne got up Doris Ray biography by would go skating when the temperature and went back down to the lake to look 212 pages Goody Niosi was way below zero. They only had thin for his partner,” Jacob says. “But there $22.95 288 pages socks to wear. Sometimes they’d get really was nothing he could do.” ISBN 9780981073583 $24.95 ISBN 9780981073576 cold. We’d take off their skates and put Sadly, John Rathjen never made it to their feet in warm water. Blood-heat tem- shore. His body was recovered the next perature. Too hot is no good.” day from the lake, close to the spot where Jacob says he could have saved Mar- Lorne had seen him disappear beneath Path of Satin Shoes tin’s life too, but he never had the chance. the waves. Descent and for children by ✍ Devotion Martin was still alive when he was res- Loreena M. Lee cued from the cold water of the lake and “In a way I am Jacob’s prayer,” Lorne poetry by 106 pages whisked up to the ranch house by his fam- Dufour says. “I survived, bought a team Ilya Tourtidis $14.95 ISBN 9780981073545 ily. Still wearing his wet clothes, he was of horses and had a family. 96 pages wrapped in a blanket and placed in front “By his actions, he got beyond for- $14.95 ISBN 9780981073552 of a roaring fireplace, and the doctor was giveness. He got in touch with creation. called from Williams Lake. He did it automatically. He did what Jacob says a lot of people make that had to be done. He knew when he was mistake. “The heat from the fire drives called to do something he could do it. Impulses Fury of the cold into the body. Water can draw “In many ways, Jacob was his own poetry by the Wind it out, and you wouldn’t get sick.” prayer.” 978-1-894759-35-9 Manolis fiction by 106 pages Doris Riedweg $14.95 206 pages ISBN 9780981073569 $19.95 ISBN 9780981073538

Celebrating our 3rd Anniversary www.libroslibertad.ca PHOTO Lorne Dufour with Leonard BEAUVALLET and Dora YVES Two Solitudes, Cariboo style Veteran Cariboo writer Sage Birchwater has outlined the social background for Lorne Dufour’s memoir:

lkali Lake Ranch is the oldest continually-operating cattle ranch in British Columbia. It was established in 1861 by Herman Otto Bowe as a A stopping house along the Fraser River Trail, the main route to the gold- fields of Barkerville until the Cariboo Wagon Road was completed in 1863. Bowe took up the verdant land in the valley previously occupied by the Esketemc people. There was push and shove between the settler armed with deeds from the newly- minted colonial government and the Esketemc people, who persisted in occupying their ancestral homesites. After Bowe staked his homestead, Esketemc families continued to camp on his pre-emption whenever he was away. “Old Mr. Bowe would chase the Indians away,” recalls Phyllis Chelsea, “and we’d keep coming back.” Finally a standoff occurred. An Esketemc woman, hiding her walking stick under her multiple layers of skirts, pretended it was a shotgun. She told Bowe she would shoot him if he didn’t back off. “That’s why our village of Esket is established where it is,” Phyllis says. Over the years, ownership of Alkali Lake Ranch changed hands several times. In 1910 the historic ranch passed out of the Bowe family when it was purchased by Charles Wynn-Johnson, a British subject who came to British Columbia during the gold rush. Under Wynn-Johnson’s tenure the ranch expanded in size, incor- porating nearby ranches, until it became one of the largest cattle operations in the province. In 1912 it covered 25,000 acres and ran 1,500 head of cattle. In 1939 the ranch was sold to Mario von Riedemann, who had fled to Canada from Aus- tria with his wife and four children to avoid the Nazi menace. Mario’s son, Martin, took over operation of the ranch in 1963. For over a hundred years there existed an uneasy truce between the villagers of Esket and the owners of Alkali Lake Ranch. It was a bittersweet relationship. Over the decades the ranch grew in size to over 37,000 deeded acres, and provided employment for many Esketemc men and women. During this period, it provided ideal jobs such as cowboying, building fences, haying, irrigating and working the fields for wages. Nonetheless, a persistent struggle for control over resources like water rights and land between the Esketemc and the ranch owners remained. The struggle was framed by the obvious class disparity between the nobility of the ranch owners in their fourteen-bedroom mansion, and the people of Esket living in crowded impoverishment next door.

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recently downloaded, at home, Canada’s Parliament passed an amend- ment to the Copyright Act in 1997 out- twenty-one copies of Margaret lining distribution rights. Section 27.1 (1) Atwood’s best-selling novel Alias states, “it is an infringement of copyright in a book for any person to import the book Grace from a B.C. library. I did it by where (a) copies of the book were made with accident,I but if I was able to stagger the the consent of the owner of the copyright in the book in the country where the copies sign-out dates, and renew each of these were made, but were imported without the digital copies, Alias Grace could remain consent of the owner of the copyright in the book in Canada . . .” in my possession for a long time. The RosettaBooks.com website comes up blank if you search for Alias Grace, or An Adobe programme I freely for Margaret Atwood, which suggests that downloaded from my library’s website the US edition may be out of print. Has enables me to distribute these copies to Atwood given her permission for this use “up to six computers or supported mo- of the US edition of her book? Has bile devices (such as a Sony® Reader).” Rosettabooks LLC been legally assigned The Adobe website tells me “if you reach the e-rights that they’ve passed along to the limit, contact Customer Service to Overdrive, the US ‘aggregator’ that’s do- increase your allowable activations.” ing the digitising? Victoria-born Julie Lawson, Meanwhile it appears that almost who has written more than twenty none of the BC taxpayers’ money invested books for young people, had no idea that in this project has thus far gone to BC one of her books for children, Cougar publishers, and very, very little of it—if Cove, first published in 1994, is also STEALING any at all—has apparently gone to BC available, free, via digital download, from authors. most libraries in the province. ✍ Atwood and Lawson’s books are The Association of BC Book Publish- available through the BC government’s ers (ABPBC) has been trying to help its Libraries Without Walls programme, members to digitise and sell their backlists launched in 2004 with an initial $12 to BC’s libraries through the Best of BC million grant. The project involved the Books Online project. The asking price expansion of broadband across the prov- for the backlists is $2 million, which ince, and set out to improve access to would give BC’s libraries a “multi-user books and journals. It has grown into a perpetual licence.” But the BC govern- big initiative to increase the number of ATWOOD ment—approached directly by the eBooks, audio books and periodicals in Free downloads have crippled the ABPBC—has not yet agreed to fund this BC’s libraries—downloadable right to aspect of the overall programme, and the your home. music industry. Michael Elcock wonders if libraries may not be able to afford it by To develop Libraries Without Walls, themselves. The money spent so far seems extensive consultations were held with our libraries are facilitating the same fate to have gone on purchasing from the sixty-six libraries, several BC government American digitisers—and very few of the ministries, unions, schools, municipal for Canadian writing and publishing. books involved are by BC writers. representatives and the BC Chamber of Andreas Schroeder, who was Commerce. Unfortunately, the folks instrumental in getting Canada’s Parlia- who in Canada own the legal copyright to the primary is converted into electronic data anything can then be done ment to establish the Public Lending Right programme assets (the books)—the writers—were not invited. with it. The resulting work must still conform to the in the 1980s, shakes his head at this. “I’m not surprised ✍ exigencies of the Copyright Act.” by this at all,” he says. “It’s because the libraries are buy- Dave Godfrey, a pioneer in electronic media and Nevertheless, the digitisation of copyrighted material ing their eBooks from two or three major jobbers, and a former publisher, sees what the libraries are doing as an goes on. Paul Whitney, city librarian at the Vancou- they’re American.” astonishing breach of copyright law. “Fundamentally,” ver Public Library, fully expects authors to be compen- The ABPBC is now proposing that a limited sampler he says, “libraries have no right to digitise the books they sated according to their contracts with publishers. “The of 600 backlist titles by BC publishers be made available have in their stacks. In Canada, residual copyright rests libraries have to assume that the publishers have their con- to some of BC’s libraries for a period of one year. The with the author.” tractual house in order,” he says. publishers, who have signed agreements with the ABPBC Patrick Trelawny, a Victoria lawyer knowl- But who, in BC’s libraries, is taking responsibility for confirming that they have the legal right to digitise their edgeable in the laws of copyright, confirms: “Libraries ensuring that authors’ copyrights are being protected? Who authors’ works, will presumably have examined their con- have not traditionally been granted any special rights by is ensuring that authors are paid fairly for this use of their tracts to make sure they have the rights to give these works publishers or authors. Libraries purchase books just like work? And what about the libraries’ legal right to repro- away on such a scale as this, even if only for a limited any other consumer, and the transaction is simply cov- duce their holdings at all? Is everyone just turning a blind period of time. ered by an invoice.” eye to Canada’s Copyright Act? ✍ Sections 29 and 30 of Canada’s Copyright Act define Alias Grace was originally published in Canada by Electronic rights have only been factored into pub- the circumstances under which libraries are able to repro- McClelland and Stewart. The e-Book version of Atwood’s lisher–author contracts relatively recently. The great ma- duce in whole the works they hold. No reproduction is Alias Grace in my B.C. library is an American edition, jority of books written in the 20th century are under allowed “where an appropriate copy [i.e. a book] is com- published by Rosettabooks LLC of New York, and im- copyright protection, and cannot legally be digitised with- mercially available . . .” The Copyright Act also specifies ported into Canada by a Cleveland, Ohio-based com- out the consent of the author or the author’s heirs. But that libraries are NOT allowed to reproduce “a work of pany called Overdrive. So our libraries are not necessarily too many writers, and their representative associations, fiction or poetry or a dramatic or musical work.” providing digital versions of the Canadian edition of Ca- have been asleep at the switch while these huge digitisation “Libraries,” Trelawny continues, “have the right to lend nadian writers’ works. initiatives have been going on. Most writers who have books out to their members, but not to reproduce them— signed away their digital rights to publishers have had lit- unless they have specifically been granted tle appreciation of the implications, and the right to reproduce. Digitisation is several to whom I spoke were as surprised classed as reproduction.” as Julie Lawson to find that their books Canada’s Supreme Court stated in its are available on-line, for free, from BC’s December 2006 ruling in the $11 mil- libraries. lion class action suit won by writer Canada’s writers’ organizations need to Heather Robertson versus ask: if our members’ books can be Thomson Corp, “. . . the Copyright Act downloaded into any living room in the should continue to apply in different me- province, why would anyone bother to dia, but it does not mean that once a work buy them? Margaret Atwood Heather Robertson Paul Whitney Andreas Schroeder continued on next page

21 BOOKWORLD • LOOKOUT • WINTER • 2009-2010 LOOKOUT continued from previous page THE INVENTION OF READING IN BED. PLR implications Under Canada’s Public Lending Right legislation, writers receive some compensation for the loss of rev- enues from book sales when they make their works available for free public use through libraries. Electronic books may fall into a PLR grey area. Michelle Legault, executive secretary of the PLR Commission in Ottawa says the commission is taking a wait-and-see attitude. Andreas Schroeder believes that all books are a part of a library’s holdings, whether they’re in the stacks or on com- puter; that if they’re listed in the library’s catalogue, then they should count. But Benoît Rollin of the PLR Commission says, “We only pay for paper books that are at least forty-eight pages long.” Dave Godfrey doesn’t believe eBooks are adequately covered under the existing legislation. “If they wanted to avoid PLR payments,” he says, “the libraries could just take the hard copy books off their shelves and the writers wouldn’t get anything.” The 144-year-old Cushing Academy in Ashburnham, near Boston, Massachusetts has done exactly what Godfrey has envisioned. Cushing has dumped its whole library of 20,000 books in favour of digitisation, and spent thousands of dollars on large flat-screen TVs “that will project data from the Internet,” and on electronic readers—produced by Amazon and Sony—for the use of their students. The future has arrived. UBC is already downsizing its TION hard copy library holdings in keeping with many other academic libraries here, in the US, and the United King- IS ILLUSTRA dom.

Content and security BC’s libraries are not restricted to digitising books they JOSEPH FARR already own. “Some libraries are buying digitised titles that are not in their stacks,” Paul Whitney admits. “They’re “Eventually we may only need one library, not tens of buying them from what we call ‘aggregators’—content distribution enterprises.” thousands of them. And that one library will probably One of the ‘aggregators’ they’re buying from is Bir- be the ‘benign’ giant Google Inc., except that its mingham, Alabama-based EBSCO, which claims its databases are more widely used by libraries than those of contents won’t be available for free.”—MICHAEL ELCOCK any other ‘aggregator.’ EBSCO sells books and periodicals in batches of several thousand, and BC’s libraries are unless individuals legally object by sending Google an opt- Andrew Carnegie will be spinning in his grave. among its customers. Most of the content sold by these out letter—we would have to be naïve to assume Ameri- Canada’s present government seems to be trying hard to aggregators is American. Mark Bingham, at the Vic- can aggregators will be bending over backwards to ensure bring this about through Bill C-61, which will change toria Public Library, told me that Victoria’s part in the a fair deal for Canadian writers. the laws, and the concepts, of intellectual rights. Cana- digitisation project is being handled by a Cleveland Ohio- While researching this article, I couldn’t find anyone da’s writers, publishers and librarians still have the ability based company called Overdrive. who was prepared to step up and take responsibility for to shape the present, inequitable situation into something So does the Victoria Public Library have cast-iron ensuring that an author’s copyright was being protected that works for all of them into the future, but only if guarantees that the aggregator they’ve hired won’t be add- through this process of acquiring digital books from US they work together to do it, and only if they embrace the ing the Victoria Library’s inventory to its own bank of ‘aggregators’; that authors were being notified that it was basic principles of fairness and balance. digital assets, and selling them on to, say, a library in happening, or to confirm that authors would be paid for The Status of the Artist Act, passed by Canada’s par- Auckland, or Miami? Where and how have these the use of their work. liament in 1992, includes among its basic principles, “the aggregators acquired the eBooks and periodicals they’re importance to artists that they be compensated for the use selling? And when these collections are sold to BC’s li- Conclusion of their works, including the public lending of them.” That’s braries, does the money get back to the original publish- There can be little question that the digitisation of all very well, but I prefer the protection offered by the ers and authors? books by libraries and their surrogates will have a signifi- Curse Against Book Stealers that you’ll find in the Mon- Is ANYBODY monitoring these transactions? cant impact on a writers’ ability to make a living—to the astery of San Pedro in Barcelona. It may be a bit extreme Retired Victoria librarian Barbara Chouinard extent that some writers may wish to have library use by today’s standards, but it’s worth remembering: recalls an American company called Blackstone which specifically excluded in future contractual agreements with placed no limits on the number of copies of its products their publishers. that were able to be downloaded by library members. As for the publishers who are willingly allowing their “For him that stealeth a Book from She says some aggregators even sold digitised product into backlists to be digitised by the libraries, or by Google, the libraries that could be downloaded onto CD burning well, their future may be under threat, too. If you’re a this Library, let it change into a ser- programmes. “Language learning and self-help books,” ‘good’ publisher, then make sure that your inventory has pent in his hand and rend him. Let says Chouinard, “were the ones I was mostly aware of in not been digitised by a library or anyone else without this respect. But some of them even allowed library mem- your permission. Make sure your authors have granted him be struck with Palsy, and all his bers to download novels which you could burn onto a you their electronic rights before you authorise anyone— Members blasted. Let him languish CD; novels that were still under copyright protection. even, and especially, libraries—to digitise those works. Some of my colleagues were stunned that you could do And if you are a librarian, you should remember that in Pain crying aloud for Mercy and this. It was like allowing people to photocopy books— you hold the works of writers in trust, and that trust rests let there be no surcease to his Agony except that it was really easy, and dirt cheap.” entirely upon concepts of fairness and balance to the writers The use of Digital Rights Management technology as well as to the library’s members. PLR exists to provide till he sink in Dissolution. Let Book- supposedly prevents library users from copying the books some of that balance, but if the trust is abused then the worms gnaw his Entrails in token of they download, and passing them along to others. But libraries may have to consider one potential end game— DRM technology has serious drawbacks. Dave Godfrey, which is that the lending library as we know it may well the Worm that dieth not, and when wearing his software developer hat, is dismissive. “These disappear. at last he goeth to his final Punish- encryptions are pretty easy to break,” he says. Bill Libraries are only taking up valuable real estate after Thompson, a regular commentator on the BBC all. Who will need downtown libraries when the world’s ment, let the flames of Hell consume World Service programme Go Digital agrees. “…the intellectual works are available electronically in everyone’s him for ever and aye.” encryption mechanisms which underpin rights manage- home? ment systems can never be made effective or acceptable Eventually we may only need one library, not tens of … The more technologically competent are perfectly able thousands of them. And that one library will probably be Michael Elcock of Sooke is the non-fiction author of A Per- to strip off these protections.” the ‘benign’ giant Google Inc., except that its contents fectly Beautiful Place and Writing on Stone. He has Twenty-one copies of Alias Grace are on my compu- won’t be available for free. Google may be many things, written numerous articles for newspapers and periodicals in ter. How much will Margaret Atwood be paid? Given but philanthropic is not one of them. Users will have to Europe and North America. A lengthier version of this ar- the current efforts of Google Inc. to grab the rights to pay to read books. And Google could decide what you ticle can be found under Michael Elcock at reproduce all literary works by North American authors— can read and what you can’t. www.abcbookworld.com

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ORMER VANCOUVER SUN WRITER ginning with Sir James Douglas Ian Gill knows that talk is and the Hudson’s Bay Company, there not cheap. As he points out in was no real distinction between the goals All That We Say is Ours: of government and those of business. GuujaawF and the Reawakening of the Successive B.C. governments went out Haida Nation (D&M $34.95) it is of their way to avoid settling the land talk—oral history and storytelling—that question, or even acknowledging there has served the Haida Nation as the basis was a “question” at all. Native people were for reviving its culture. herded onto reserves and left to their And it was a fervent conversation misery. between two men after a chance meet- By the 1960s, Masset served as part ing in the middle of the night that revo- of the Canadian Forces supplementary lutionized the political landscape of radio system. Tension between the young Haida Gwaii. soldiers and the young Haida men was In All That We Say is Ours, Gill has growing. On June 3, 1978, Giindajin refracted the history of the Haida and a small gaggle of protesters came to through the prism of one man, Gary protest the presence of the military base. Edenshaw, first known as This happened twelve years before the Giindajin, a name that means “full of Oka crisis. Reaction from members of questions,” who the community was mixed but it was was born in 1953 clear that Giindajin and the concerns he into a family of represented were not going away. nine children at During a potlatch in 1981 to cel- the town of ebrate the completion of a longhouse, Masset on Haida Giindajin was given another name— Gwaii. He did Guujaaw (meaning “drum”). The name GRANT SHILLING not go to residen- Guujaaw, president of the Haida Nation, inferred he was authorized to articulate tial school. As a participated in the Skidegate ceremony to a Haida worldview through his oratory. young tough working at the Dragon establish the waters of Bowie Seamount, located His talk. There were very few Haida in 180 kilometres west of Haida Gwaii, as Canada’s Bowling Alley, rowing, singing and the early 1980s who were taking a seventh Marine Protected Area, April 19, 2008. drumming, he gradually evolved into a prominent role in the South Moresby man with answers, to be known instead conservation campaign, or the other as Guujaaw. environmental campaigns on the island. It was “the narrowest of threads”— As the issue of logging grew, it be- dancing at the feet of his great-grand- came imperative to “restore what had mother and demonstrating a keenness become an environmental issue into a for listening to the stories of his elders— REVOLUTIONARIES Haida issue.” As a result only Haida that connected Guujaaw to the Haida’s would man the blockades—an environ- vast culture. Guujaaw’s mother died mental issue, but a Haida responsibility. when he was fifteen. He learned carpen- The first blockades opened a significant try as a trade, leaving the island for a few THAT WENT BUMP new chapter in Haida mythology, and years before returning to his hometown gave rise to a song that today is a kind of in the early ’70s, when Haida Gwaii had national anthem for the Haida Gwaii. begun to attract some counter-culture IN THE NIGHT On July 7, 1987, a deal was struck to types. Jenny Nelson, a flower child establish Gwaii Haanas National Park. from Ontario, would become his wife An elder was overheard at the signing and mother of his children. Ian Gill documents the fall and rise ceremony saying it was “far more signifi- In 1974, Thom ‘Huck’ of Guujaaw’s people cant than the signing of the South Henley, an American setting up in Morseby agreement. It marks the re- Haida Gwaii, arrived at Masset. During birth of a nation.” It was also a milestone his stay at a cabin, Henley literally nial contact, the population was roughly over the next century—enough wood to in the ascendancy of Guujaaw. bumped into Guujaaw in the middle of 10,000 to 60,000. Ninety percent of the circle the earth with a six-foot diameter In 1997, the Supreme Court of the night. They struck up a conversation population died during the 1800s from log worth about 20 billion dollars. Canada had found in Delgamuukw, that and sat down and drew a line on a map smallpox; other diseases arrived as well, Whole hillsides were laid bare as the in- aboriginal title had not been extin- of South Morseby that Gill describes as including typhoid, measles, and syphilis, creasing mechanization of forestry al- guished in Canada despite Canada’s and “the most incredible act of kitchen table affecting many more inhabitants. By lowed loggers to travel further and take British Columbia’s claims to the contrary. cartography.” The line wasn’t arrived at 1900, only 350 people remained. more. Ian Gill has provided a thorough through any science or protocol, “It was Industrial logging arrived in the early From an aboriginal perspective, own- analysis of the forces that contributed to just a couple of guys in the middle of 1900s. The Gowgaia Institute has esti- ership of the land was never in question the fall and rise of the Haida people. the night with the hare-brained notion mated that 70,000 hectares were logged until someone arrived to contest it. Be- With All That We Say is Ours, he has that everything below that line” should given voice to the struggles of the Haida be spared from industrial logging. people and their fight for self-determi- Today that line is the northern THOM HENLEYfirst visited the Skeena nation while at the same time raising boundary of Gwaii Haanas, now a River region in 1971. Today he is working to es- troubling questions about Canadian world-protected area. tablish an International Rediscovery Centre on political values. Haida Gwaii (“Island of the People”) All We Say is Ours offers a social his- the banks of the Skeena River "as a living according to Haida legend emerged tory of the transformation of a people legacy for youth from all over the world," as well from a cockle shell at Rose Spit over and its relation to the logging industry 10,000 years ago, off the coast of Brit- as writing, and contributing photos for, River in cahoots with the provincial govern- ish Columbia. A land of great abundance of Mist, Journey of Dreams (Rediscovery ment. While a more complete history of and beauty it was inhabited by tens of International $34.95), with a foreword by the Haida might be found elsewhere, thousands of Haida for over six thou- Roy Henry Vickers. This book project what Gill contributes is a rethinking of sand years. On a clear day Alaska to the was encouraged by Linda Lafleur, pub- the facts especially as personified by north is visible but mainland Canada is lisher of The Daily News in Prince Rupert, Guujaaw and his truly revolutionary never in its sights. and received financial support from the ardor. In 1787, the islands were surveyed by Kispiox Band Council, Gitanmaax Band Captain George Dixon and named Grant Shilling is the author of The Cedar by Captain Dixon after one of his ships, Council and Kitselas Band Council. Surf: An Informal History of Surfing in the Queen Charlotte. At the time of colo- British Columbia (www.cedarsurf.com).

25 BC BOOKWORLD WINTER 2009-2010 26 BC BOOKWORLD WINTER 2009-2010 people HOCKEYHOCKEY NIGHTNIGHT ININ NEW DENVER INTERNED IN NEW DENVER IN 1942, HENRY SHIMIZU AND HIS TEENAGE FRIENDS spent their winter nights around illegal radios listening to the raspy voice of Foster Hewitt. Most of the Japanese Canadians cheered for the Leafs, but one of his friends sported a Montreal jersey during the play-by-play broad- casts of Hockey Night in Canada. “The pond above Harris Ranch was our natural hockey rink,” he recalls, “the scene of many pick-up scrums and organized games.... It is amazing that humble beginnings such as these would culminate in Japanese Canadians participating as members of the Canadian Olympic hockey teams at Salt Lake in 2002. In those games both men’s (Paul Kariya) and women’s (Vicky Sunohara) hockey teams won Olympic Gold.” At age 13, Henry Shimizu went with his family to live in the New Denver internment camp from 1942 to 1946. More than fifty years later he recalled his experiences as one of 22,000 deportees sent inland from the coast with Images of Internment: A Bitter-Sweet Memoir in Words and Images (Ti- Jean Press $22.95). He recalls: “In 1999, 12 friends met for dinner at my sister Grace Sakamoto’s home in Toronto. After dinner we had a frank discussion about our experiences in the New Denver Internment Camp, during 1942-1946.The consensus was a bitter-sweet episode in our lives, but with a major influence on our futures. Following this meeting, I painted 27 oil paintings about my im- pressions of the lifestyle of teenagers in the Internment Camp in New Denver, 1942-1946. The paintings were completed in 2002.” An opening exhibit of the paintings with explanatory panels was held at the Edmonton Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre on March 23, 2002—exactly 60 years from the day Shimizu left Prince Rupert to begin his internment— and later it was remounted at Nikkei Place in 2006. The book appeared in the summer of 2008, with stories, a prologue and an epilogue. “One would have thought that this experience would have embittered this group and led to widespread despair and depression,” he writes. “Instead we came away from this experience more determined to be successful Canadians, contrary to the intention of those who promoted and carried out this injustice Painter Henry Shimizu and of internment and exile.” the boys of winter Raised in Prince Rupert prior to the internment of Japanese Canadians, Dr. Henry Shimizu of Victoria is a retired plastic surgeon who was an associate clinical professor of plastic surgery at the University of Alberta. In 2004, he was awarded the Order of Canada and, in 2005, the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Alberta. One of the first Japanese Canadians to receive an MD and practice medicine in Canada after World War II, he co- founded western Canada’s first burn treatment centre and served as chair of the Japanese Canadian Redress Foundation from 1989-2001. 978-1-896627-16-8 FROM FIRST SON TO NINTH DAUGHTER CORNER HISTOREIAN BEHIND EVERY BOOK THERE IS AN AUTHOR S JOURNEY TAKE FOR AFTER TAKING HER FIRST WRITING COURSE AT AGE 70, AT THE COMOX BRANCH OF NORTH , ’ . , Island College, Lily Hoy Price, eight years later, has published her memoir instance, the remarkable path to publication of Kileasa Wong. Full Moon: Stories of a Ninth Daughter (Brindle & Glass $19.95). It all began Born as Wu Chewan in Hong Kong, she changed her name when she married when she was encouraged by writers Lynne Van Luven and Sheila Munro Maurice Wong and immigrated to Canada in 1974. Since then she has co-managed to publish her reminiscence of a pair of shoes in Ricepaper maga- a corner store in Victoria, zine . Having published her story Almost Cinderella, Price interviewed raised four sons, received a her sisters and friends, and consulted books about the Cariboo, Master’s in Education from including Faith Moosang’s book about her father, First Son: Por- UVic and taught at the Chi- traits by C.D. Hoy. nese Public School on Fisgard C.D. Hoy was an accomplished commercial photographer who Street—where she became the left a legacy of more than 1,500 photos of the Cariboo. He had school’s principal. taught himself photography in Barkerville in 1909 and opened his Kileasa Wong has trans- family-run general store in 1913. Lily Hoy Price has inherited her lated Robert Amos’ text father’s desk from that general store dat- for a fully bi-lingual tribute to ing from the early 1900s. Canada’s oldest Chinatown, “The desk is now part of my bed- Inside Chinatown: Ancient room furniture,” she writes. “It is the first Culture in a New World thing I see in the morning and the last (Touchwood $44.95), with thing at night.” drawings and illustrations by Born in Quesnel in 1930, Lily Hoy Price Amos. has also lived in England, Nigeria Wong also serves as secre- and Uganda. Whereas her father tary of the Chinese Consoli- gave his children English dated Benevolent Association names; her mother gave them and edits its bi-monthly news- Chinese names. She was letter which she founded in named Lily by her father, but 1993 and which has used Lily Hoy Price Principal Wong co-manages her Chinese name means Full was raised in a corner store in Victoria. Robert Amos’ drawings on al- the Cariboo. Moon. 978-1-897142-38-7 most every cover. 978-1-894898-91-1

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Pain Is Temporary. Quitting Lasts Forever. This slogan—from Lance Armstrong’s book, It’s Not About the Bike— Kids will have a blast reading about all kinds of explosions was handprinted across the stern of the rowboat that was used by Vancouver- from the Big Bang to the “pop” of a seedpod. Bursting with based Tori Holmes and Paul Gleeson to complete their 85-day journey information, fun facts and dramatic images, this book is sure across the Atlantic Ocean in February 2006, having departed from the Canary to engage and surprise young readers. Ages 9+ Islands. Check out the sample chapter on www.annickpress.com. The inspirational Armstrong quote remained in their sights with every stroke

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RICHARD SOMERSET MACKIE became an historian at age eleven when he started digging up old bottles from an Edward- FORGOTTEN FIRS ian-era dump near his parents’ North Saanich home in 1969. His Richard Somerset Mackie recalls how the Comox Logging Company tool kit consisted of a trowel, produced more than six billion board feet of lumber. hoe, short-handled shovel and a bucket. by God to be praised, they were put could bend six-inch spikes into horse- ber really help make this book. Many are there to be cut down.” shoes), teachers and wives. on loan from family albums, and they “Once this dump was exhausted,” he ✍ With a workforce made up prima- display skills, machinery and monster says, “I moved to other parts of Tsehum Whereas Island Timber was set on the rily of Swedes, Finns, Scots and English, Douglas fir trees long forgotten. Accord- Harbour and eventually to the shoreline low-lying coastal flats adjacent to the Comox Valley Logging was also one of ing to one retired forester, some of the and old farms of North Saanich.” While Strait of Georgia, Mountain Timber cov- the first B.C. companies to hire locally; stumps, “took three strides to get across.” digging at Judge Matthew Baillie ers the company’s later and higher for- chief engineer Robert Filberg en- There are steam locomotives galore, Begbie’s former summer house at Elk tunes in the densely-forested valleys and couraged employees to buy land in the men on logging shows sporting straw Lake, he found exquisite Scotch whisky lakes of Vancouver Island, mainly be- Comox Valley, put down roots and start hats (hard hats didn’t arrive until the bottles as well as Chinese pottery to aug- tween 1925 and 1945. farming. 1950s), and crude logging camps that ment his collection of First Nations ba- As the company depleted its The company sold land to Arthur Mayse once described as salt arrowheads. supply of coastal Douglas fir in one entrepreneur who built “long, narrow and severely plain.” His parents, who were academics at the 1920s, it moved inland to Fishermen’s Lodge on the Oys- High riggers balance atop head spars the University of Victoria, encouraged log the Bevan sidehill, the shores ter River. His grandson re- 140 feet above the ground (these were him to take an extended sabbatical in of Comox Lake, and the valleys marks, “Before that, the men huge trees stripped into poles for Britain and Europe in 1974-75, during and tributaries of the Puntledge at Camp 2 would go to Van- pulling logs off hillsides). One of them, which he explored Corfu on a moped, and Cruickshank Rivers. Moun- MARK FORSYTHE couver and get pissed up.... it Herman Anderson, great-grand- hitchhiked through Provence, walked tain Timber also revisits Comox [the hotel] was a way of keep- father of actress Pamela the length of Hadrian’s Wall (it rained Logging’s railway logging Camps 1, 2, ing local employees.” Anderson, was considered one of the the whole way), explored the Thames at and 3, around Oyster River and Black Interviewee Doris Walker recalls, best men at his job in B.C. before he low tide and climbed Traitor’s Gate into Creek. “Filberg did something for logging: he was killed when a guy-rope jarred loose the Tower of London. Overall the company logged what instilled in his workers how nice it would and hit him. After studying mediaeval history at seemed like an endless supply of timber be to have a little ranch or chicken farm, Mountain Timber features baseball the University of St. Andrews, and later in the Comox Valley, producing more because they were shut down in the win- teams, dance halls and female world archaeology, history, and historical ge- than six billion board feet of lumber. ter for the snow, in the summer for fires, bucking champions. “I could see why ography in Canada, Mackie obtained his Mackie estimates that’s enough timber and sometimes in between for strikes. No Jack Hodgins, whose father and Ph.D from UBC in 1993. Three books to “build at least a million homes— money was coming at these times. So uncles worked for Comox Logging, has and four years later, Mackie won the BC enough to house everyone in British Co- they listened to Filberg and bought prop- written so prodigiously about the Comox Historical Federation’s top book award lumbia.” erty, and did what he suggested.” Valley,” writes Mackie. “Like the paint- for Trading Beyond the Mountains (UBC Mostly the Comox Company har- Comox Logging had the financial ings of E.J. Hughes, the history of Press, 1997), a study of the fur trade. vested Douglas fir. With growth rings muscle to harvest, cut, ship and distrib- Vancouver Island combines equal By digging deeper into his own of 50 or 60 per inch, the remarkable ute lumber as a subsidiary of Canadian strands of industry, agriculture, forested backyard, Mackie won that same prize Douglas fir was in high demand for Western Lumber Company. It was an landscape, and working people, and a again, this time for volume one of his house construction back in 1912, and “integrated” company long before we large canvas to portray it all.” social history of the Comox Logging when these homes are demolished today, labelled them as such. Mackie builds commendably on the Company, Island Timber (Sono Nis, the wood is sometimes shipped to the “In 1911 Comox Logging became work of local historians and newspaper 2000). U.S. to be “re-sawn and re-sold.” the first Canadian company to introduce accounts, but it’s the voices of employ- Mackie is back with its sequel, Moun- Mountain Timber is also the story of highlead logging, then known as aerial ees and descendants that give this ac- tain Timber (Sono Nis $42.95), open- the men who worked for Comox Log- logging,” writes Mackie, “in the form count its lifeblood, detailing a way of life ing with a quote from former Socred ging, some sticking with the company of state-of-the-art, track-mounted that sustained communities and families cabinet minister and Bible-thumper for their entire working lives; people that Lidgerwood steam skidders. Steam tugs for decades—until the timber ran out. Phil Gaglardi, logging poet and engineer Robert towed booms of logs to Fraser Mills (the Only 2% of that Douglas fir forest “Those trees weren’t Swanson once called the name of a Canadian Western subsidiary remains, and today many Vancouver Is- put on that mountain “Homeguards.” as well as the associated company town, land communities are facing the harsh Mackie con- now part of Port Coquitlam). There it reality of mill closures and drastically ducted interviews was sawn for export and for shipment reduced timber supply. 1-55039-171-2 with employees and by rail to the Prairies, where Canadian their descendants—skid greasers, Western’s lumberyards numbered Mark Forsythe ably hosts CBC Almanac scalers, cooks, fallers, bookkeepers, saw around 200 in 1912.” when he’s not taking photographs, touring filers, logger sports champions (one who The photographs in Mountain Tim- B.C. and writing books.

Former backyard archaeologist Richard Somerset Mackie explores Tree Island in Comox Bay

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But evidently transportation and even evangelists. precious few Canadians—less than FOR A GREEN FUTURE What kind of car would Jesus drive? 15%—agree with California Governor This question, believe it or not, is being Arnold Schwarzenegger who seriously raised by Born-Agains. And said, “I say the debate is over. We know They do the math; they show the “I wager that most will respond with you probably did not know there are the science, we see the threat, the time path. pessimism, suggesting that we will be 80,000 apartments in Stockholm being for action is now.” ✍ extinct if not by the former, then cer- heated with biogas from the city’s sew- We know the science, we see the According to Dauncey’s 101 Solu- tainly by the latter date. Yet a million age works. The cars and buses in threat, and we keep driving our tions to Global Warming (New Society years is only a tiny 0.028% additional Kristianstad, Sweden, have been running minivans. $24.95), the human species began about fragment of the time since life began.” on sewage biogas, mixed with organic So somebody has to speak for the five million years ago and the adventure Dauncey proceeds to argue that the wastes, for $1 per gallon (in 2002). planet. That’s why environmental we call modern science only began 500 single most important factor that will Sewage, according to one expert, lynchpins like David Suzuki or Guy years ago—one ten-thousandth of that determine whether we navigate the rap- contains ten times the energy needed to Dauncey, president of the BC Sus- time. We retain stone age brains in the ids of global warming successfully will treat it. Closer to home, engineer tainable Energy Association, are essen- space age. be whether we view the future as an in- Stephen Salter has calculated Vic- tial in the fight to confront global “We are inside a bubble of time, so it evitable disaster—as retribution for hu- toria’s sewage contains enough energy to warming. They can place our collective is difficult to ponder the existence of human greed and ignorance—or as an provide pure biodiesel for 200 buses predicament in clear and palatable sci- mans 500 years in the future, let alone a exciting invitation “to embark on a new and 5,000 cars, heat 3,500 homes, or entific terms. And at the same time they million years, but ask your friends what adventure into a climate-friendly, eco- generate electricity for 2,500 homes. are able to act as cheerleaders for change. they think will be the condition of hu- logically harmonious world.” Kelowna already uses heat pumps to ex- manity in 500 years, and then in a mil- It sounds like it could be a new Star tract heat from its wastewater treatment lion years. Trek series—with Spock at the controls plant, a technology that has been intro- instead of Kirk—a fight to the death to duced to Whistler. save the world, the ultimate pitched bat- There is no shortage of inspiring individuals like 15-year-old Malkom Boothroyd who completed three years of schooling in two years, subse- quently persuading his parents to accompany him on a 10,000-mile bicycle ride EcoNews from the Yukon to Florida to publicize publisher the need for bird conservation. Guy Dauncey Arrested 15 times for non-violent civil turned 60 disobedience to promote climate con- years young cerns, Ted Glick fasted for 107 days, at Point No surviving on liquids only, as part of a Point, near campaign to get environmental legisla- Sooke. tion passed. Felix Kramer founded non- profit CalCars in 2002 and then worked with a team to convert a Toyota Prius into a Plug-In Hybrid that gets more than 100 mpg, provoking major change in the world’s motor industry. Now even some of the big corpora- tions are playing catch-up to these heroes of personal initiative. Nike has found a way to eliminate AF6, a greenhouse gas, from the process they use to create air pockets in running shoes. A software company called Hyperion pays a $5,000 per year bonus to employees whose vehicles average 45 mpg or better. Thanks largely to the spearheading “I’d put my money of Chris and Judith Plant, who on the sun and solar founded the company that has published Dauncey’s book, most Canadian energy. What a source of publishers—including big guys like Ran- power! I hope we don’t have dom House which will allegedly increase its use of recycled paper from 3% to 30% to wait ‘til oil and coal run in 2010—are inspired and intimidated out before we tackle that.” by New Society’s formerly radical deci- • sion to switch entirely to post-consumer THOMAS EDISON recycled paper. (1847–1931) “As a species, we may be stubborn, PHOTO stupid and proud,” Dauncey says, “but we are also intelligent, creative and cou- HERRIOT rageous, and we love a challenge.”

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Frank Molnar HOW WAR PHOTOGRAPHY WAS BORN IN CANADA Louis Riel historian Michael Barnholden exposes the first battlefield photos ever taken.

ANADIANS INVENTED LA- crosse, basketball, in- C sulin, pablum, five-pin bowling, Wonderbra, the zipper, UNHERALDEDUNHERALDED the telephone, the Blackberry, the snow blower and the skidoo. ARTISTSARTISTS n her latest incarnation as a literary And you might also want to know the Florence Nightingale, Mona first battlefield photos ever taken under Fertig has set about rescuing the fire are, believe it or not, Canadian. I reputations of little-known B.C. artists— While suppressing the so-called such as her father, George Fertig, Northwest Rebellion in 1885, and dou- who died unheralded in 1983—and bling as a correspondent for the Quebec sculptor David Marshall. C-00345053 Morning Chronicle, Captain James Her next three candidates for revival Peters of the Royal Canadian Artil- are Frank Molnar, Jack Hardman CANADA lery’s ‘A’ Battery took more than 70 pho- and LeRoy Jensen. As Molnar is the tos of the Saskatchewan battles at Fish only one of the trio ARCHIVES still living, his self-

Creek, Duck Lake and Batoche (on the AND banks of the South Saskatchewan River), portrait graces the including a rare image of the Métis LIBRARY cover of Fertig’s leader Louis Riel as a prisoner. Bearded Métis hero-martyr leader Louis Riel (above)—as photographed by second volume in Captain James Peters—surrendered in Saskatchewan and was later found Michael Barnholden has her Unheralded guilty of treason and executed in Regina in 1885. showcased these eerie images for the first Artists of B.C. se- time in their entirety in Circumstances ries, The Life & Art of Frank Alter Photographs: Captain James Pe- Following a rebel victory master- lection until its discovery by Barnholden Jack Hardman Molnar, Jack ters’ Reports from the War of 1885 minded by Gabriel Dumont at Fish in 1971. Hardman & LeRoy Jensen (Mother (Talon $35). Lake, some 300 Métis and Indians led “To find Dumont’s account was like Tongue $34.95) with texts by Eve According to Barnholden, these pho- by Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont held striking gold,” says Barnholden. “There Lazarus, Claudia Cornwall and tos, neglected for more than 120 years, off a force of 800 men commanded by are many accounts that exist but they’re Wendy Newbold Patterson re- Major-General between document “the moment when the 18- Middleton mostly from the victor’s side or from spectively. year-old country of Canada turned away May 9 and 12, 1885. Riel was captured Riel’s perspective.” Frank Molnar from becoming a Métis Nation by de- and hanged later that same year, but For many years Barnholden wasn’t (1936–) fled from claring war on its own people.” Dumont escaped via Cypress Hills to sure how to present Dumont’s recollec- Budapest during To record Riel’s defeat as well as the Montana where he surrendered to the tions, but working as an editor on Write the Hungarian subsequent campaign to subjugate U.S. Calvary. It On Your Heart, a First Nations collec- Revolution of Métis and First Nations forces under Released as a political prisoner, tion by Similkameen storyteller Harry 1956. In 1962 he Big Bear, Poundmaker and Dumont joined Buffalo Bill’s Wild Robinson, convinced Barnholden to arrived in Vancou- Miserable Man, Captain Peters was West show as a celebrity and marksman. “let the oral historian speak.” His fasci- ver and met LeRoy Jenson taking advantage of new technology. In Historians have suggested Riel might nation with Dumont led him to ‘expose’ artists David 1883, “naturalist” or “detective” cameras have been victorious if he had given per- Peters’ photographs. Marshall, Peter Aspell, Jack came on the market that enabled the mission to Dumont to enact his plans for Peters 978-0-88922-621-0; Dumont 978-0-88922-625-8 Akroyd, Georg Schmerholz and likes of Peters to carry a camera over his guerrilla tactics, such as de- Elek Imredy. In 1969 he became one shoulder. stroying railway tracks. "Growing up in Moose of the first art teachers at Capilano Col- Hand-held photography became vi- ✍ lege where he taught life drawing and Jaw, how could I not artistic anatomy for almost 30 years. His able with faster shutter speeds. As well, Michael Barnholden, a be interested in the Peters’ camera used coated plates that Vancouverite who was be interested in the students included Charles Van did not require preparation and could born in Moose Jaw, has Battle of Batoche?” Sandwyk, Cori Creed and Will Rafuse. He continues to paint. be stored for later development. produced a new edition of — MICHAEL BARNHOLDEN Sculptor Jack Hardman (1923–1996) “For the live rebels,” he wrote, “I Gabriel Dumont Speaks was born in New Westminster and stud- generally, for fear of fogging, took them (Talon $16.95) featuring ied art at Western Washington Univer- from a distance, as far and as quickly as his new translation of mem- sity and at UBC. He married B.C. poet possible. All these little contrivances, and oirs that Dumont dictated Marya Fiamengo in the 1950s. to his friends in 1903, as many more are necessary when one is LeRoy Jensen (1927–2005) of well as a new introduction, trying to take a portrait of an ungrate- Saltspring Island was friends with ful enemy. new images and a Métis

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“Numbers of my plates are under- Historical Timeline. and Peter Aspell. He was a founding timed; but I am not particular. Those The manuscript lan- member of Greenpeace and a member guished unseen and un- taken when the enemy had surrendered, LONGENECKER of the Victoria-based Limner group. and were unarmed, made better published in the Manitoba Mona Fertig’s long-in-the-works negatives, but ‘circumstances alter pho- Provincial Archives as part MARLENE study of her father and his art will be tographs.’” of L’Union nationale Hippie historian Michael Barnholden researching published next year. 978-1-896949-02-4 ✍ métisse de Saint-Joseph col- the Riel Rebellion, Saskatchewan, 1971.

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keeps us from connecting with our inner beauty, that sex for LORD ALMIGHTY, procreation connects us to the wheel of life and death, and that when girls are told their sexuality is dirty it affects their relation- SEX IS GOOD ships. Truisms, all. Statements like All you need to know about spiritual sex these could be starting points for discussion rather than the content of the discussion, and ad- The Spirituality of Sex were invented to discourage by Michael Schwartzentruber, dressed with a little more irony youthful masturbation, “on the Lois Huey-Heck, Mary Millerd, and and humour. Charlotte Jackson (Wood Lake $35) theory that bland foods dampen To their credit though, the the sexual appetites.” authors do manage to conjure s spiritual sex an oxymoron? Augmented by lavish and some compelling glimpses into Not according to the four sometimes graphic illustrations, mystical sexuality in the Sufi, Tao- authors of The Spirituality and embellished with poems I ist, and Judaic traditions, the mys- of Sex. Charlotte Jackson, Lois and quotes from sources as di- teries of Tantric Sex, the ancient Huey-Heck, Mary Millerd, and verse as Anais Nin, Matthew Fox, roots of goddess worship, and the Michael Schwartzentruber make Carl Jung and Alice Walker, to Roman cult of the phallus. a convincing and en- name a few, the text is As well, they aren’t afraid to ergetic case for the a series of short takes come down hard on the anti- many ways our spir- in which the authors sexual bias in Christianity, de- ituality is deeply em- take turns musing on scribing how Saint Augustine’s bedded in sex and everything from loathing of his own sexuality has sexuality. Tantric sex to mystical cast such a long shadow over the The tenth in a se- religious traditions, to church, or highlight the frank ries of coffee table the mysteries of male From The Spirituality of Sex: getting all toezy eroticism of the Bible’s Song of books including The SHEILA MUNRO and female sexuality, Songs. Spirituality of Bread, to the experience of nothing salacious; the authors commodification of sex that per- ✫ The Spirituality of Gardening and falling in love, achieving inti- don’t touch on sexual abuse, meates the current cultural mi- While the text is not exactly The Spirituality of Wine, this vol- macy, and preparing for that spe- sexual perversion, on love’s self- lieu. deep, the gems scattered across ume is an unabashed celebra- cial romantic evening with your destructive compulsions. It’s all ✫ these pages offer a tantalizing tion of the communion of Eros lover. about celebrating the “human The quartet of authors come look into the spiritual dimen- and Spirit, a reclaiming of the It’s almost everything you al- and humane” dimensions of across as sincere and well- sions of what is perhaps life’s essential goodness of sex. ways wanted to know about spir- love and Eros, the benefits of intentioned, earnest even, with most mysterious and profound Like most coffee table vol- itual sex in bite-sized pieces of long-term commitment and the a propensity for stating the ob- experience. 978-1-896836-90-9 umes, this is a book to dip into, 1000 words or less. healing powers of touch and vious. We are told sex is better perhaps to stumble upon a ✫ sensuality. with love, that “great lovemak- poem by Rumi, a quote from Don’t expect to find illumi- You’ll find depictions of ing has a lot to do with how we Sheila Munro conducts writing D.H. Lawrence, or the curious nation on the dark side of sex wholesome, healthy, loving feel about ourselves,” that the workshops and writes from fact that Kellogg’s Cornflakes here. There’s nothing kinky, sex—an antidote to the emphasis on external beauty Powell River.

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In this work, the Vernon-based college ad- THE SHINING OF MELANCHOLIA ministrator and jazz vocalist is fascinated with Miranda Pearson knows therapy, failed romance and joinery. “…this mystery / of the slightest, wispiest hope of becoming contented. joining, of intersections, corners, fits, so / damn important Harbour by Miranda Pearson These personal self-revelations work in totally unsafe worksites; in everything we do, each (Oolichan $17.95) from Pearson fascinate for sev- bland puppet bureaucrats small jazz symphony we might eral reasons. For one, we’ve all dream of a condo in Richmond. construct…” lthough it may be criti- been there at some point. It’s a Simplicities of peasant life So it is that Lent ex- cally incorrect, it’s almost relief to find a piece of yourself (washing the pig) are con- plores corners and inter- impossible not to read on a page. The reader closes the trasted by delirious spring festi- sections of things A architectural, linguistic, Miranda Pearson’s poems in book with a sigh, “This is also who vals. Harbour as autobiographical. I am.” Back in Victoria, where spiritual and material, The poet’s brief bio is revealing As well, these poems are so Noyes works in the provincial bu- John Lent: jazz vocalist “cantilevered cathedral of and her earlier work covered well-written. If the writing was reaucracy, he recalls the blos- stars and nebula.” much of the same emotional dismal, the whole would droop. soms of Chang’an and his own Artfully constructed on the territory. To write well about dream of himself VIEWS FROM A page in cantilevered shapes, Pervasively melancholic, this melancholy, the lines there as a successful Lent’s lines, though not cliff- third title of Pearson’s proves must shine, and they scholar. A nightmare MOLECULAR hangers, are not without risks. the writer’s adage, “write what do. “Critical and irri- about the accidental Philosophical but not intellec- you know.” She knows mental tated, you don’t know death of a sewage CATHEDRAL tual, these longish prose poems health (she works in the field why / It’s turned out this worker contrasts with speak of contentment and ap- professionally), therapy (she way.” a quiet poem about Cantilevered Songs by John Lent preciation. Though not mystical, Only the last of an empty temple. (Thistledown $16.95) they are religious in the best throws herself on the couch), MAIN-VAN failed romance (again) and the more than one hun- HANNAH DER KAMP These highly ac- sense of the word; awe, aware- slightest, wispiest hope of be- dred poems has a complished poems, riving the Okanagan in ness and gratitude. coming contented, at last (“the faintly optimistic tone. In “Limi- varied in form and richly tex- first snow, music Lent nods to his (now relin- trick is not to want more”). nal” there will be a new city to tured, include pieces on sheep D(Coltrane, Sonny Rol- quished) Catholic upbringing, The first section called explore, and a new love. The and slugs, basketball, Chaucer lins, Lightfoot), teenage memo- “How to accept this vessel of flesh and ‘Touched’ is set in the historic reader wants to cheer but can’t. (in Chaucer-ese), addictions ries, college level teaching, birds bone, this home… this incarnation past of a Victorian asylum for “lu- In an aircraft looking down on and his teenage gymnast daugh- and birdhouse, neighbours and we are, the word made flesh, a mo- natics.” It then moves in the the “earth a glimpsed atlas,” the ter. mentors, the seasons—the lanky, lecular cathedral straining within same building to the present but relationship ahead may turn out Sometimes inscrutable but easygoing musings in John itself…” 978-1-897235-66-9 with cures that are not more ef- to be an “old song on the new iPod.” always interesting, Noyes cap- Lent’s Cantilevered Songs are fective. The “I” of the poems Pearson’s disappointment tures the quirky grammar of reminiscent of unrushed con- Hannah Main-Van Der Kamp shifts; a patient speaking about engages; this is a strong and hon- transliterations from Mandarin versations with old friends. writes from Victoria. the doctors, doctors’ notes est book about self-confessed into English, “the terrorists in swift- about patients, a caregiver and discontent. 978-0-88982-261-0 est coruscation incensed two erec- the cared for. tions.” The use of historical records DEEPER THAN Any reader, who still holds about the insane and their treat- the notion that it’s a good idea ment makes painful reading as DISNEYFICATION to erase Islam and insert secular prosperity, please in: her illness was caused by over Morbidity and Ornament by Stephen lactation, electric shock treat- Noyes (Oolichan $17.95) read the final poem ‘As ment must be right because the Was.’ A brass beater in Dr says it is. The nurses, drink- hereas Stephen Noyes’ a tiny, dusty town ob- ing, are boisterous/depressed previous collection Ghost serves the foreign after a shift. The patients sit, WCountry (Brick 2006), travelers. He “curled like commas/ serious porce- was set entirely in China, about knows he has lain profiles.” one-third of the new poems in traveled fur- As in her previous book, The Morbidity and Ornament are ther be- Aviary, Pearson recounts the old China-based. His other locales cause he hurts of love gone bad, love as include a Vancouver mosque, a travels in “recycled cruelty.” Here, in the festival on Hainan Island, narratives. second section, the plaintive Esquimalt, the Prairies, the Phil- With- longing for “a man charitable and ippines and North Africa. out com- generous” sometimes seems just A Mandarin scholar and plaints petulant. Her wishes it seems are traveler, Noyes avoids the pitfall about the never granted. of so much contemporary travel: constraints of Attempts at hedonism turn the more we do it, the more his life, he out not to be “the secret solution.” shallow our experiences. So ends with Why, she asks herself, does she how to avoid consuming the praise, not take the flying leap into world like a product, the “At least, at hopefulness? The reader also Disneyfication of cultures? last, the clouds asks, and then remembers, how Now everybody is from and darkening impossible the leap can be. Per- everywhere; hills are sweet in- haps this poet is carrying the they climb in tee shirts, stances of how He, melancholy that many of us can- jeans and sunglasses insinuator, penetrator, not admit in ourselves. from their dusty jeeps, sole divisor, has lent shape When the poet is in England, and troop past from shadow from His gen- she wants to be in Canada, and the rows of concrete shells, erosity, makes stones swim under- vice versa. The man she loved, the junked cars ground and falcons plummet, made she’s glad to be rid of. The po- and satellite dishes to the the shifting gift of water, and ems are set in at least twenty dif- one hotel. against the formless void will have ferent locales (Vegas, Toronto, By staying in one place, by liv- sketched the constellations.” Kent) and they have much the ing in Beijing, Noyes goes 978-0-88982-260-3 same restlessness. Motherhood deeper. Knowing and loving the is a field of conflicts; it’s both language helps, as does his re- expansive and limiting. Some of spect for Buddhism and Islam. the loving is fierce, other times At 120 pages, his Morbidity is it’s passive. a hefty book by current poetry These poems are sad but not publishing standards. Divided vengeful. There is no blaming into eight sections, each pref- but they are also completely de- aced by a short poem in Manda- Miranda Pearson: void of mirth. rin ideograms, the poems are Unmitigated dismal inner– mostly longish. love as recycled scapes, so why read them? Well, Noyes captures the intense cruelty think of the huge popularity of contradictions of China as well the HBO Series In Treatment. as his regard for it. Labourers

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has often represented abused chil- HUNGARIAN dren within the legal system, Scott Hall provides advice in MEMOIR dealing with sexual abuse of children in Unforgivable Sins: Protect- At the end of the summer of 1956, ing Our Children from Predators of Victoria enrolled at Carol Wootton (Manor House Publishing / White the Vienna Akademie. The Hungarian Knight $24.95). 978-1-897453-06-3 Revolution broke out on October 23, ✍ 1956. She attended an unforgettable Deborah Chesher’s unusual concert by pianist Gyorgy Cziffra in coffee table book Everybody I Shot Vienna on November 17, 1956. Is Dead (Chesher Cat Productions “Strangely, I rarely listen to Cziffra’s re- / White Knight $60) contains 416 cordings now,” Wootton writes. “I prefer photos taken in Vancouver and Los to remember the tall, thin figure in the Angeles, between 1974 and 1979, Brahmsaal of the Musikverein who filled of 48 musicians who are now de- me with more fervour for the Hungarian ceased. Chesher also provides because than all the speeches, the press, hind-the-scenes anecdotes and her and even the refugees themselves.” Her own memories of the performers. self-published collection of vignettes, es- 978-0-9796542-0-6 says and biographical appreciations, ✍ Out of Hungary (Towner unpriced) en- Cowboy and outfitter Chris tirely pertains to Hungary and famous Kind of Clinton has fashioned a Hungarians. 978-9783240-1-8 tribute to the horse’s contribution ✍ to the development of British Co- Saskatchewan-born Beth Rowles lumbia and its role in military cam- Scott became the first female princi- paigns with his sixth self-published pal of a secondary school in B.C. At age title, Buckaroos and Broncs ($25 63, having retired, she met the love of plus shipping). “The book is basi- her life and they formed ACCES, a lit- cally a tribute to the horse in gen- eracy program for impoverished Kenyan eral,” says Kind. “It moves through children. ACCES has given more than freighting, pack horse, transporta- 1,100 scholarships to university/college tion (BX.Stage lines) and road students and established ten primary building, as well as the purchase of schools. Her memoir is Pinch Me: A thousands of horses by the British Long Walk from the Prairies (Granville from Canada/USA to fight their Island $19.95). 978-1-894694-74-2 battles in the 1800s and early ✍ Leo Meiorin standing on the stone stairs in Trail that his father built in the 1930s. 1900s. I have also included the actual Asians, in 2009, comprise 45% of schooling of the horse and methods Greater Vancouver’s population. With an needed to make a well disciplined, fin- extensive chapter on Temples of Van- ished horse.” Paintings of battles are fea- couver, Douglas Aitken’s pictorial tured, and early B.C. photos from the guide book, in a coffeetable book format, Clinton Historical Society. 978-0-9734686-6-3 Three Faces of Vancouver: A Guide ✍ to First Nations, European and Asian Coal Harbour, the body of water that Vancouver (Lions Gate Road $29.99) TRAIL MIX divides Stanley Park from the downtown features the city from the perspectives Champion hockey & extraordinary rock walls core of Vancouver, stretching from the of First Nations, European and Asian cul- foot of Granville Street to Brockton tures. A widely travelled watercolourist ARIS HAS ITS EIFFEL TOWER. GRANADA the making, with 450 photos. It received Point, was the commercial hub of Van- and graduate of the UBC School of Ar- Phas its Alhambra. an honourable mention in the 2008 couver and the first location of European chitecture, Aitken is now learning Man- Egypt has the pyramids. China has Lieutenant Governor’s writing compe- habitation in the area. At the suggestion darin in order to complete a follow-up the Great Wall. tition. of Bert Bensen of Benson Brothers volume to be called Temples of Heaven. Trail boasts the 1961 World Cham- A neighbourhood-by-neighbour- Shipyard, Martin J. Wells has pro- 978-0-9811575-0-4 pion Smoke Eaters hockey team and hood inventory outlines ten walking/ duced Coal Harbour Recollections ✍ hundreds of rock walls and stairways that climbing tours between one and two (Cordillera $26.95), an historical overview. 978-1-895590-37-1 Vancouver’s Cambie Street is named for were handcrafted between the 1920s miles in length. In addition to 15 stone- ✍ Bob Ross’ great-grandfather Henry and ’60s by dozens of hitherto masons profiled, Pedersen provides 70 Cambie who surveyed the West Coast unheralded stonemasons. shorter stories about smelter workers, ManWoman is the pen name for inlets in 1874 to select a terminus for It’s not Stonehenge at Glastonbury, relief camp workers, equipment opera- Patrick Charles “Manny” the first railway. Tatlow Park in Vancou- but it is extraordinary. tors and quarry workers. Kemball. Born in the B.C. interior ver is named for Ross’ grandfather As more workers at the Trail smelter It all fits together, like stonework. in 1938, ManWoman lives with his wife Dale and their daughters in Cranbrook. Robert Tatlow, a provincial MLA who began building their homes on steep And the main font used for the text also founded the BC Telephone Com- slopes, the city hired men to make stone is one called Stone. 978-1-55383-195-2X With countless photos and images, The Gentle Swastika: Reclaiming the Inno- pany. His Cornwall relatives retaining walls, often without mortar, ✍ cence (Flyfoot/Sandhill 2003) drew upon homesteaded the Ashcroft Ranch in and they also constructed a network of Swift Winds (Eberhardt Press $10) by popular culture to disprove the notion 1862. As a retired traffic engineer for the intricate stone stairs for access to the com- Ron Sakolsky, is a collection of sub- that the swastika is exclu- City of Vancouver, Ross has fashioned mercial district. versive texts, manifestos, mutinous rants, ideas, uto- sively a symbol of evil. his memories of a Vancouver boyhood Dubbed “a giant game of snakes and pian dreams, impossible The book has been for The Cucumber Tree (Sandhill ladders,” the stairways were covered by red metal roofs to prevent snow from demands and incendiary published in an Italian ver- $18.95). There’s nothing particularly clogging them in winter. broadsides strategically sion, re-titled Hitler special about his childhood, and therein With the backing of the Rock Wall aimed at countering the Did Not Invent The lies the book’s charm. It is an attempt to Project Entusiastico Society, Eileen pathos of miserabilism Swastikaas (Rome: Con- illuminate the typical Kitsilano upbring- Truant Pedersen has fashioned a with the uncontrollable iglio Editore / Rabbit Pub- ing during the 1940s and 1950s, with lavish, full-colour celebration of practi- laughter of the insurgent lishing, 2008). “I’ve always summer camps on Pasley Island, near cal artistry in Set in Stone: A History of imagination. Designed to been in a quandary,” Bowen Island, and driving trips to the Trail’s Rock Walls (Lookout Mountain fit in your back pocket and ManWoman says, “over Cariboo—and lots of tree-climbing in the Productions $75). with artwork by Anais the fact that my favourite days before children weren’t overly cod- This tribute to engineering ingenu- LaRue. spiritual sign and the most dled and paranoically protected. ity and hard labour, designed by ✍ hated sign are one and the 978-0-9812991-0-5 Ron Sakolsky Miriam MacPhail, was six years in As a Victoria lawyer who same.” 0-9688716-0-7

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BookWorld is a magazine like no Burns Lake Library son (Anne DeGrace, Ernest Hekkanen), North Vancouver (Lisa Wolfe, Andrea other in North America; it does tremen- Winterbottom, Jane Flick, Jim Rainer, Joyce dous good and Just the facts, ma’am. Thierry Lellwellyn), Ontario (bill bissett, Ruth is certainly one Bradley-St-Cyr, Roy MacSkimming, Carol of the best n October 6, 2009, phone calls from the director of the Arts & Cul- Williams), Pender Island (Cherie Thiessen), tools we have Penticton (Barbara Lambert), Prince George ture sector of the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and the Arts (Hon. (Rob Ziegler, Peter Ewart), Roberts Creek available for Kevin Krueger) informed B.C. BookWorld [BCBW], the Association (Andreas Schroeder), Salmon Arm (Mary making BC O Nyland, Howard Overend, Don Sawyer), of Book Publishers of B.C. [ABPBC] and the B.C. Association of Magazine Pub- “the most liter- Sidney (Nicola Furlong, M.A.C. Farrant), ate place on lishers [BCAMP] that all provincial support was being removed. You can visit Sooke (Michael Elcock), Surrey (Heidi earth” (sound the ABPBC website (books.bc.ca) or the BCBW website (www.bcbookworld.com) Greco), Thailand (Michael Buckley), Van- couver (Jean Barman, Rowland Lorimer, Lisa familiar?). for details. The motto of the newly formed Coalition for Defence of Writing and Bob Tyrell Hobbs Birnie, Renee Rodin, Jan Drabek, How, on the Publishing in B.C. is Keep BC Reading. There are two key messages. 1. Restore Stephen Bett, Paul Grant, Margery Fee, eve of the Olympics, with arts and cul- support to the three fundamental organizations; 2. Stabilize funding for the BC Sachiko Murakami, James Evrard, Dan Bar- ture as a pillar of the bid that won the el, Maurice Cardinal, Nan Gregory, Nancy Arts Council at the 08/09 level. The B.C. Arts Council has been cut from $8.3M Hundal, Allan Haig-Brown, Trevor Clark, Susan games for this province, can the govern- in 2008/09 to $3.4 in 09/10, with projected budgets down to $1.5M for 10/ Boyd, David Berner, Michael Turner, Wendy ment make such cuts? 11. The Arts Council was propped up this year by $7M supplemental monies Atkinson, Christa Kirste, Jody Aliesan, Car- Bob Tyrrell men Rodriguez, Nancy Richler, Kirsten Ebsen, and funds from gaming. Arts & Culture budgets, from which B.C. BookWorld’s Victoria Sandra Harper, Jean Kindratsky, Dennis ✍ two-person operation has received partnership, have been slashed from $19.5 Bolen, Leah Gordon, Vera Rosenbluth, Irene M in 08/09 to $3.6 in 09/10; and to $2.2 for 10/11. For further information Howard, Sandy Shreve, Sarah Ellis, Ron B.C. BookWorld is, IMO, a model Hatch, Sheryl Salloum), Victoria (Sarah publication for illuminating people on vist the Coalition for the Defense of Writing & Publishing in B.C. on Facebook. 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