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Derek Hayes Salmon Arm KETTLE VALLEY Fernie IGOROUS, INDEPENDENT, STUBBORN OU KNOW A MOVIE OR BOOK HAS GOT N EXCHANGE FOR THE PROMISE OF A TRANSCONTINENTAL AND sometimes difficult to get you hooked when you start feel- Valong with, 28-year-old Roza- line to the West Coast, British Columbia was Ying relieved when bad things lind of Salmon Arm has Multiple Scle- don’t happen to the characters, when rosis. Through endless appointments, brought into the Canadian Confederation in it’s looking like they will. Bill Sten- she desperately searches for a cure 1871. When the Canadian Pacific Railway ar- son’s fully-realized novel set in Fernie, while trying to make sense of her new Ordinary Strangers (Mother Tongue condition. Out of options, she moves rived in 1886, it bolstered economic develop- $28.95), works that way throughout. home, but her mother is unexpectedly ment in the province, created the city of Vancouver In 2013, Stenson was a finalist for faced with a serious illness of her own. I the 2nd Great BC Novel Contest. Last As Roz becomes more despondent and and spurred others to build competing lines. In his year it was announced he had won the isolated, her faithful dog, Deputy, is 4th Great BC Novel Contest judged her main companion. Her world view prolifically illustrated Iron Road West: An Illustrated by Audrey Thomas. His Ordinary begins to change as Roz builds an inner History of British Columbia’s Railways (Harbour Strangers is about the upbringing of a life with a growing awareness of God. daughter who wonders why there are That’s the gist of Mona Houle’s $44.95) Derek Hayes charts the development of the no baby pictures of her in the family far from dreary fictionalized mem- province through its competitive railway lines and he album. It opens with a couple driving oir, Hope from Stone: A Walk with to Fernie in the early 1960s. Stopping Multiple Sclerosis (Mo’s Art Media explores the emergence of the modern freight railway at Hope, where they lose their dog, they $17.99), written after Houle took in British Columbia, including fully automated and discover instead a crying toddler in the two mentorship programs with Gail woods. Unable to have children of their Anderson-Dargatz. The feisty quality computerized trains. 978-1-550178388 own, they proceed to raise the girl they of the protagonist’s personality keeps name Stacey, giving her a birthdate and the reader engaged as Roz moves from remaining secretive about her lost-‘n’- being a somewhat cynical, fault-finding found origins. It is a sophisticated novel victim to becoming a calm, secure, Smithers about unsophisticated people over two empowered woman of age. MITHERS AROSE FROM A SWAMP BENEATH A decades. There are countless hurdles Clearly based on personal experi- mountain. Initially the non-Indigenous and close calls, two calamities, oddball ence, Hope from Stone is a very worth- Sresidents largely excluded the surrounding neighbours and an adopted dog. Real while book for anyone who wants to Witsuwit’en population. As a third-generation life. Audrey Thomas describes this understand MS. 978-1-77536-80-0 native of Smithers, academic Tyler McCreary story about the road to forgiveness has orchestrated interviews with as funny, horrific and more than fifty Witsuwit’en and sad. “The story,” she non-Indigenous families for Shared says, “will make you Histories: Witsuwit’en—Set- think hard about PHOTO tler Relations in Smithers BC what it means to be 1913—1973 (Creekstone $24.95). a family. HEMMINGS To celebrate this publication, the 978-1896949703 community of Witset (formerly JOHN Moricetown) and the Liksilyu clan Ut’akhgit Henry Alfred organized a 34 km. Walk to Witset and a feast hosting more than 400 guests (over 50% non-Indigenous).