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ITH THE NEXT B.C. ELECTION about eighteen months away, former Okanagan WMLA Judi Tyabji will follow her book on former Premier Glen Clark with the first biography Still together: of British Columbia’s 35th premier, Peter Haase and Christina Joan (Christy) Clark. Mona Fertig met Due to be released in May of 2016, in the 1970s and Tyabji’s portrait of the province’s first gave rise to the elected female premier will remind the Literary Storefront. electorate that as an education min- ister for Premier Gordon Campbell, Christy Clark “introduced changes to the K–12 system in 2001 that continue to reverberate fifteen years on.” Tyabji will recall that Clark, as GloryGlory daysdays inin GastownGastown Campbell’s deputy premier, was im- plicated in the scandal arising from the sale of BC Rail in 2003. She then ay back when, Milton Acorn orchestrated readings at the legendary Advance Mattress on Alma street in Vancouver. Renee Rodin’s reading series at her R2B2 Bookstore in Twelfth night Kitsilano continued for about a dozen years. W THE TWELFTH ANNUAL $5,000 CITY OF VICTORIA Janice Douglas managed readings for decades at Vancouver Butler Book Prize has been won by Ju- Public Library. Michael Turner spearheaded Burnaby readings at lie Paul’s collection of twelve stories in the Malcolm Lowry Room. The Pull of the Moon (Brindle & Glass By comparison, Mona Fertig’s Literary Storefront in Gastown $19.95). was a relative comet. But Trevor Carolan has proven Fertig’s “I’m so grateful, I’m pinching myself,” instinct for publishing a book about her literary community centre she said, after receiving the prize from was a good one. Judi Tyabji City of Victoria acting mayor Chris Cole- As outlined in The Literary Storefront, The Glory Years: Van- man and sponsor Brian Butler at the opted not to run in the 2005 election. couver’s Literary Centre 1978-1985 (Mother Tongue $29.95), Union Club. After Clark’s three-year stint as a Mona’s venue sparked the rise of the ever-struggling but vital Fed- More than half of Paul’s stories delve talk-show host at CKNW in Vancou- eration of B.C. Writers. ver, Clark became leader of the B.C. into dark territory, but she read one story Carolan, a University of the Fraser Valley professor, has placed Liberal Party in 2011 and scored a with a happy ending at the gala. the Literary Storefront within the social context of its times. Well- remarkable election upset over the “That can be considered verboten in much-favoured but ultimately feckless illustrated and rife with details about countless personalities, The CanLit,” she said, “So I gave a spoiler alert NDP in 2013. Glory Years documents the rise of a new, non-elitist literary culture to the audience. Judi Tyabji herself had a meteoric in B.C. beyond academe. 9781896949529 “But I neglected to mention that my rise to political prominence. Born in Calcutta, India, she immigrated to characters end up in an art gallery, looking Canada with her family as a young at a penis sculpture sporting a handlebar child. In 1991, at the age of twenty-six, moustache.” she became the youngest B.C. MLA on On the same night, having won the in- record (at the time) and the first to give augural Bolen Books Children’s Book Prize birth while serving as an MLA. at the Union Club in 2008, Chris Tougas took home the prize for the second time in seven years for Dojo Daycare (Owlkids $16.95), presented to him by Samantha Holmes of Bolen Books. Moon 9781927366325 Daycare 978-1-77147-057-5 Jillian Deri CompersionCompersion If you want to really upset most people, try defending is not just fooling around polyamorists. They are the razor thin segment of society that practice consensual non- monogamy. In the Sixties and Seventies, the term for it was usually an ‘open marriage’ and such experiments rarely endured. Times have changed. There are growing numbers of people seeking ways to manage jealousy, inside and outside of formal marriage. Some strive to take pleasure in a lover’s other sexual encounters. Jillian Deri has interviewed lesbian and bisexual polyamorous women for Love’s Refraction: Jealousy and Compersion in Queer Women’s Polyam- orous Relationships (UTP $21.95). She focusses on the concept of “comper- sion”—taking pleasure in a lover’s other romantic relations—while exploring Julie Paul at the City of why “polyamory” challenges social norms. Victoria Butler Book Prizes Jillian Deri received her Ph.D in sociology from SFU. 9781442628694

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In 1993, Caroline Woodward, with her partner Jeff George, reno- vated a circa-1900 building on the main street of New Den- ver, B.C., population 700, and opened the Motherlode Bookstore.

Also an author of three books, Woodward later worked as a publishers’ sales repre- sentative for Kate Walker & Company, based in Comox, starting in 2001. But the literary life can be a hard slog. At the outset of her new book, Light Years: Memoir of a Modern Lighthouse Keeper, she describes how a pivotal meeting with a middle-aged man on the Alert Bay ferry changed her life. He was on his way to a new job as a relief lightkeeper, enabling him to escape from a dull civil The lighthouse on Lennard Island service career in B.C.’s interior. is four miles Woodward was struck by south of Tofino. “how his face lit up when he said how he felt truly, deeply HUMPBACK sel spills, babying seedlings alive upon arriving in Port Har- shared with other keepers dy… And wasn’t that exactly and pruning a beloved David how I missed feeling? Austin tea rose. In spite of the complica- tions of shipping food to such LULLABIES remote locations, celebra- tions of good eating are epic & DAUNTING ISOLATION (if Woodward ever invites you to dinner, accept!). Best of all, Welcome to the wet, wild, cold and she slips her sense of wonder into every chapter. Photos are literary world of Caroline Woodward by Jeff George. And, yes, some of the romanticism most of us Light Years: Memoir of a hood on her parent’s home- caught out by wind and waves. automatically associate with Modern Lighthouse Keeper stead in remote Cecil Lake, Excerpts from keepers’ letters lighthouses is in evidence. by Caroline Woodward (Harbour Publishing $29.95) B.C. in the North Peace River reveal some of the challenges “I slept and slept on Egg region to her teenage days they faced as tsunamis de- Island,” she writes, describ- writing for Ma Murray’s Alas- stroyed their homes or supply ing one of her numerous relief BY SHEILA PETERS ka Highway News to planting ships couldn’t get to increas- stints at other lighthouses, tea in Sri Lanka and running ingly hungry families. “with only the sounds of the IKE ANY GOOD STO- a bookstore (to mention only a And if you’ve ever wondered wind in the evergreens, the ryteller, Caroline few). As well as providing fod- exactly how visibility, the cries of the sea birds and the Caroline Woodward has written Woodward runs der for her writing, she says, height of the waves, or the comforting push and pull of a follow-up to Donald Graham’s two classics, Keepers of the Light many threads these varied experiences made wind speed are determined, the ocean swells. (1985) and Lights of the Inside through her rich her a good fit for the varied Woodward reveals the tricks “One night humpback Passage (1986). Lstorybook quilt of history and tasks of a relief lighthouse used to compile the weather whales circled the island, sing- “And wasn’t that even more memoir. keeper. reports keepers file daily, ing their eerie whale songs, the case for my husband, who On the personal side, she Although she does admit beginning at 4:40 a.m. and some basso profundo, others had dutifully worked at all takes us back to her childhood the lawnmower once backed finishing at 10:30 p.m. The swooping up into the helden- kinds of low-paying, part-time on a farm in B.C.’s northeast her into the blackberry thorns, lighthouse keeper’s life can be tenor range. I had to pinch jobs with awful hours for years and her breakthrough writ- the sixty-something, five- a hard slog… myself. Imagine falling asleep on end? ing year at David Thompson foot-two Woodward stands Along the way, Woodward to whales singing deep sea “Here we were, in our late University where she met her tall for female equality. “… rarely misses an opportunity lullabies.” middle-aged phase of life when husband, Jeff George. when anyone has the colos- to throw in arcane facts. It was Woodward’s need for soli- most people are at the pinnacle On the historical side, we sal nerve, as one lightkeeper’s Robert Louis Stevenson’s tude combined with her pow- of their chosen careers. We, on travel back to the early days of prissy wife did, to tell me that engineering father who in- erful sense of connection to the other hand, were feeling lighthouse keeping in B.C. and lightkeeping is really Man’s vented the Stevenson screen, people and place has stood trapped and powerless.” forward to the heated battle Work—well, I’ve been far too a slatted box still used to her well in her work on the After Jeff George first gave to keep at least some of those polite to such presumptuous, house maximum/minimum lights and as a writer. Light lighthouse keeping a try, and lighthouses staffed. sexist individuals to date. thermometers. Years is a passionate and liked it, Caroline Woodward As these storylines are con- But I will state here that I “The Stevensons and their generous celebration of both packed in her job as a publish- nected, Woodward’s determi- had likely done more hours crews of skilled tradesmen,” endeavours and the people ers’ sales rep and joined her nation to reclaim her and her of hard labour by the time I writes Woodward, “achieved who do them. partner on hard-to-approach partner’s creative life amounts reached fourteen years of age feats of engineering in North And any writer looking for Lennard Island, offshore from to a powerful story. than most contemporary adult Sea conditions that would be ways to re-start a stalled ca- Tofino, where she subsequently “The lightkeeping life was Canadian males have done in utterly forbidding, even today, reer would do well to consider gained her credentials as a going to be our next Great Ad- their lives.” using no cordless DEWALT her example: Light Years is keeper of the light. venture,” she writes. “…It was Woodward sticks up for power tools whatsoever.” Caroline Woodward’s third Here Sheila Peters outlines time for me to climb the rope B.C.’s always-endangered As exuberant as any wild book since moving to keeping how Woodward’s irrepress- ladder, get on the ship and lighthouses just as strongly coastal landscape, Light Years the lights in 2008. ible curiosity and enthusiasm head out to the lighthouse.” as she sticks up for herself. has sections on gardening 978-1-55017-727-5 turned a chance encounter on a Woodward’s narrative men- Light Years is full of stories of that include how-to cope with B.C. Ferry into a life line. tions the dozens of jobs she lives saved, disasters averted extreme coastal climates or Sheila Peters writes and had previously, from her child- and comfort brought to people soil contaminated with die- publishes from Smithers.

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8 BC BOOKWORLD WINTER 2015-2016 cover LIGHTHOUSES To The Lighthouse proach. Visitors to lighthouses Trial Islands at the southeast- •The sea and isolation were by Peter Johnson & John Walls are not necessarily welcomed ern tip of Vancouver Island, not the only hazards. Keep- (Heritage House $19.95) The Estevan by their keepers. the first keeper worked with a ers were obliged to paint their With original photos by pegleg for twenty-five years be- light stations every two years Richard Paddle, combined cause he’d lost it when a cable with lead-based paint until the Controversy GYPTIANS BUILT ONE with anecdotes and condensed he was towing snapped and danger of lead poisoning was at the mouth of histories culled from previous recoiled, shattering his shin. finally acknowledged. t “really, really hard” to reach Estevan Point, the Nile. Romans books, this smartly-written The keeper in 1944 saved Liquid mercury was used to midway up the west had one at Do- compendium might have more the lives of five people whose float the Fresnel-lamp appara- A coast of Vancouver Island, ver. In Genoa, accurately been entitled Lights yacht was smashed to bits. tus that was commonly used light keeper Robert Lally and EChristopher Columbus’ un- of Vancouver Island and the Gulf The keeper in 1997 saved from 1900 to 1980. “During his radio operator reported cle tended one; Robert Louis Islands. two more lives when two kay- those years,” write Johnson being attacked by twenty Stevenson’s grandfather and The attractive directory is akers went into the drink, and Walls, “an untold number shells from a visible warship father managed them in Scot- history as entertainment in the caught in riptides. of keepers may have developed about five kilometres offshore land. format of a guidebook. In June of 2009, the keeper Minamata disease… Ottawa on June 20, 1942. Two nine- As lighthouses evolved with We learn: saved four more kayakers did not encourage light keep- year-olds at Estevan Point cor- technological innovations •After lightkeeper Alexan- from drowning by alerting the ers who were ill to take time roborated this story but their from Swedish mathematician der Dingwall rowed his wife coast guard of their plight. off to seek medical attention. views were soon discounted Jonas Norberg, Swiss-French Eve to their lonely perch on That same year, Ottawa de- Without records or a physi- by officials. chemist Francois Argand, Green Island, circa 1916, she creed Trial Islands Lighthouse cian tracking an illness, the Lally’s logbook in which French aristocrat Antoine frequently tied her young chil- would be de-staffed. government escaped respon- he recorded the incident was

Isolation, keeping the lamps burning, lead poisoning & saving lives... ANNALS OF THE LIGHTKEEPERS PHOTO Perhaps the most difficult lighthouse in B.C. to reach is Quatsino Lighthouse on Kains Island, off the extreme north- MITCHELL western edge of Vancouver Island. MIKE

Lavoisier, French physicist dren to the clothesline to keep •Described as “dead easy” to sibility and ultimately the Augustin-Jean Fresnel and the fierce winds from blowing reach from nearby Victoria, payment of any compensa- the Chance brothers of Bir- them into the sea. Fisgard was Canada’s first light- tion for keepers’ untimely mingham, England, they be- •At the “really, really hard” to house on the West Coast, from deaths.” came more than just practical approach Quatsino lighthouse 1860. Its third keeper, William • Recently, when Ottawa structures to prevent maritime on Kains Island, Catherine Bevis, died on duty. For the planned to de-staff the “hard” tragedy. Sadler give birth to her third next four months, his wife and to access Entrance Island Lighthouses are recognized child at the site because her niece kept the lamp burning ev- station, a four-hectare out- everywhere as poetic symbols light keeper husband was not ery night, all night long, but Ot- cropping one kilometre off of civilization and hope. permitted to leave his post. tawa mandarins found out and Gabriola Island, hundreds Donald Graham ✫ When she learned her younger declared, “It is against the rules of kayakers formed a chain seized and has never resur- CAPE BRETON ISLAND HAD CANADA’S brother died in World War I, of the Dept. to place women in around the island, claiming faced. Ottawa discredited Lally first, pre-Confederation light- she “snapped.” Desperate for charge of lighthouses.” the cost-cutting would only as someone “under stress.” house in 1734. By the 1860s, help, her husband James flew In 1898, light keeper Jo- cost lives. Ottawa reneged. His assistant and the two the B.C. coastline had two of the station’s ensign upside seph Dare drowned while row- It’s still manned. In August of children denied Lally was them—at Fisgard and Race down for eight days before the ing his skiff to work. William 2014, keeper Tony Greenall off his rocker, but nobody Rocks. When government cut- family was rescued. Catherine Cormack, his replacement, saved the lives of nine people listened. backs threatened to eliminate was committed to an insane set the record for the shortest from drowning, rushing to The official government most lighthouses in B.C., his- asylum and never recovered. stint on the job. He resigned their sinking vessel in his own version of this story sent torian and lighthouse activist •At the “hard” to approach after twelve days. boat. 978-1-77203-046-4 shockwaves worldwide: A Donald Graham wrote two clas- Canadian lighthouse had been sic bestsellers in the mid-1980s, attacked by a Japanese sub- Keepers of the Light and Lights THE COVER PHOTO marine. The Canadian gov- ernment could more easily of the Inside Passage. To The Lighthouse was kickstarted by the Sheringham Point Lighthouse justify the incarceration and Now Peter Johnson and Preservation Society, an organization founded in 2003 to restore the lighthouse relocation of 22,000 Japanese John Walls have crafted To and its outbuildings, hoping to give rise to a community park in Shirley, B.C., Canadians en masse, by No- The Lighthouse, an ‘explor- also home to co-author John Walls, a director of the society. Photographer Richard Paddle’s partner is Sharon Kerrigan-Bruton, daughter of James vember of 1942, as well as the er’s guidebook’ to twenty-five Bruton who served for twenty years as the light keeper at Sheringham Point. seizure of their fishing boats lighthouses in southwestern Strictly against regulations, Sharon Kerrigan-Bruton was married atop the and properties. B.C. lighthouse on December 4, 1976. Sixteen family members and a preacher Historian Donald Graham climbed to the lamp room where Bruton had broken another rule by painting Boaters and armchair ad- publicly declared on national venturers will likely benefit the inside of the tower a “matrimonial royal blue” instead of the regulation grey for the nuptials. In classic West Coast do-it-yourself style, they also hooked up television that the alleged most from this well-designed a citizens’ band radio with speakers at ground level so that other members of enemy attack at Estevan Point anthology as many sites are the wedding party could hear the couple say I do. was bogus. Many now agree. remote and dangerous to ap-

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Topaz warden cabin is typical of the backcountry patrol cab- ins now falling into disrepair RANGERRANGER ROBROB in Jasper National Park. Born to the Wild: Journals of mercial and private interests a National Park Warden in the Canadian Rockies by Rob Kaye that contradicts its own poli- (Grey Wolf / Sandhill $21.95) BLOWS THE WHISTLE cies. He gives specifics about the degradation of services. He claims only three part- T’S HARD NOT TO THINK Speaking up for Canadian Parks over commercial interests. time resource management of those goofy Kokan- specialists now cover Jasper’s ee beer commercials 10,860 square kilometres of Iwhen one thinks of “Very few now have the skill and propagation of wood bison area zoned as wilderness that park rangers. set and training to manage the and plains bison. By 2014, comprises 97 percent of the So how does a Dudley Do- park’s expansive backcountry Elk Island had provided 885 park’s total area. The horse Right Parks Canada war- postings,” he writes. “Many wood bison, 1088 plains bison herd has been cut from 65 den—complete with‘80s-style, warden cabins in Jasper and and 4690 elk to conservation to 30, with more downsizing quasi-cop moustache—end up other Canadian Rocky Moun- initiatives in Western Canada, imminent. Backcountry trails with a self-published memoir tain national parks are now in Alaska and the Republic of will soon become impass- on the BC Bestsellers List from a state of disrepair and slowly Sakha in Russia. able without maintenance; August to October? fading into the past, much This is what a park ranger untended warden cabins are Rob Kaye’s Born to the like the traditional role of the can do. aging beyond repair. Wild: Journals of a National backcountry warden.” But in 2012, Canada elimi- “Successive governments— Park Warden in the Canadi- ✫ nated 638 jobs from Parks of which the Harper govern- an Rockies makes it obvious AS A TYKE WHO WAS BORN IN THE Canada and 1,038 seasonal ment has been by far the worst that park wardens are akin to Rockies and grew up in Jas- employees were cut back to offender—have largely ignored another endangered species— per, Rob Kaye knew he had to shorter terms. Kaye claims the value of the environment, lighthouse keepers. become a park ranger when Atypical visitor Marilyn Monroe biologists, historians, social placing national parks in peril. fi lmed River of No Return at After telling his requisite a senior park horseman, who Jasper National Park in 1953. scientists and archaeologists “Prime Minister Harper grizzly stories—and his elk, was wooing his wife-to-be, working out of Parks Canada has declared war on science, bighorn sheep, mountain goat, Rob’s older sister, hitched his make a difference. When Kaye offices were also affected. Hir- particularly studies related avalanche, beaver, glacier, wolf horse to a tree in the yard. transferred to the 194-square- ing freezes prevented mean- to nature and the impacts of and horse stories—Kaye tells “I wanted a horse,” he says, kilometre Elk Island National ingful recruitment. Morale fell. human activities. us that in the late 1960s, eight “just like his.” Park, one hour’s drive east of “Employees, frustrated “In a society structured of the 13 districts of Jasper After his 33 years as a park Edmonton, back in 1989, it with having to squeeze funds around economic growth with National Park were phased out ranger, Kaye retired in 2010 was one of the few protected out of shoestring budgets,” minimal consideration to- “as a result of centralization.” and now lives in Qualicum. areas representing the last he writes, “mourned the loss wards environmental respon- Wardens were no longer as- He worked mostly in Jasper ten percent of Canada’s aspen of their peers. They were sibility,” Kaye writes, “our signed to a specific district but National Park, straddling the parkland ecosystem—a bird left looking over their shoul- governments continue to value instead were required to work B.C./Alberta border, with a watcher’s paradise. ders, wondering who would commercial interests over the throughout the park. one-year sojourn to work in For sixteen years Kaye co- be next.” long-term ecological, social As of 2013, wardens were Australia. ordinated an elk management Kaye believes Parks Can- and economic benefits of pro- no longer assigned to back- In the old days, a dedi- system. There were similar ada desperately needs to re- tecting wilderness.” country postings. cated parks official could programs for the protection evaluate its support of com- 978-0-9940518-0-6 Revelstoke Revisited Call for Submissions BCHF Annual Conference British Columbia Historical Federation May 26-28, 2016 33rd Annual Historical Writing Awards and Lieutenant-Governor’s Award For historical writing of non-fiction books published in 2015 by authors of BC History (reprints not eligible).

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Uncharted Waters: ably the first European to scraps of copper, pieces of were highly valued by the The Explorations of José set eyes upon the site of the iron and barrel hoops.” Not Viceroy for New Spain, based Narváez (1768-1840) by Jim McDowell (Ronsdale $24.95) present day city of Vancouver. to mention having their home in Mexico City, because Spain The description of the first renamed and claimed out from had competitors. contact between the Mus- THE under them, it almost goes Spanish navigators and BY CAROLINE queum and Narváez near without saying. their largely Mexican crews WOODWARD Chitchulayuk aka Punta de The artist aboard, José were conducting explorations Langara—now known as Point Cardero, would make prepa- and making maps of the West OSÉ NARVÁEZ, WAS Grey—is emblematic of our rations for his subsequent Coast as far north as 60 de- born in Cadiz, the colonial history. MAN portrait of Musqueam leader grees 18’ North latitude and great port city of Armed not with bows Qeyupulenuxw. as far east as 152 degrees 39’ Spain, in 1768. and arrows, the Musqueam Captain George Vancou- West longitude, well before Much like Captain brought the pale strangers ver would arrive a full year the British arrived. But we all JJames Cook and explorer/ “several kinds of fish” includ- later and declare himself “mor- know that history is written by mapmaker David Thompson, ing freshly caught salmon, WHO tified” to discover Narváez had the victorious. Narváez was an exceptionally deer and elk meat, edible wild already mapped the region. Fortunately for Jim Mc- intelligent boy and so he was plants, berries and fruits, ✫ Dowell—and now us—his- accepted into the Spanish fresh water and firewood. SKILLED CARTOGRAPHERS AND HARDY tory is also remembered and Royal Naval Academy for Mid- In exchange, they “received navigators/pilots like Narváez documented by the survivors, shipmen at the age of MET including a direct de- fourteen. scendant of Narváez liv- By the ripe old age of ing in California. Luis twenty-three, Narváez Marmolejo-Meillon had served on a battle- gave the author gener- ship during prolonged ous access to Narváez battles with the Eng- family history and lish Navy for control of genealogy, including Gibraltar; spent three QEYUPULENUXW maps and charts, as years based in Ha- Musqueam leader did UBC’s Rare Books vana, serving on sup- Qeyupulenuxw whose and Special Collec- ply vessels bound for people met Narváez at tions, a treasure trove Spanish military out- Punta de Langara, now of early B.C. explora- posts like New Orleans, Point Grey, in 1791 tion history, among Campeche, Mexico and (drawn by José Cardero, many other archives Trujillo, Honduras; and 1792). In 2008, the in Mexico, America and exchanged “a barrel of government of Spain Spain. wine, some chocolate presented the City of In this lively yet and other things to get Vancouver and Mus- painstakingly re- them to tell us more” queam leaders with searched book, McDow- with Russian trad- reproductions of what is ell offers a seemingly ers on Kodiak Island, believed to be the oldest effortless synthesis of Alaska. surviving image of an facts, political context According to biog- indigenous person who and biographical par- rapher Jim McDowell lived in what is now ticulars to present the in Uncharted Waters: Greater Vancouver. The first fully realized biog- The Explorations of name Qeyupulenuxw raphy of the achieve- José Narváez (1768- eventually evolved into ments of José Narváez. 1840), Narváez was the the word Capilano. The generous number first Spaniard to engage Shortly before Narváez of illustrations, includ- in face-to-face contact made first contact at ing hand-drawn maps with the feared, fur- this location, this and early drawings of trading Russians in the famous Musqueam First Nations leaders, Alaskan Northwest. He leader united tribal enhance the narrative was also a crucial con- warriors to defend as do the appendices tributor on a Spanish Musqueam territory, and footnotes, many of team which explored and they repelled a which are fascinating and mapped Clayoquot large Kwakwaka’wakw reading by themselves. Sound, Barkley Sound raiding party from For example, Ap- and the Southern Gulf the north. pendix E is a transla- Islands, all for the first tion by one of three time. Spanish translators Narváez was then McDowell worked directed to venture into with while research- fog-shrouded Juan de ing Narváez. It is the Fuca Strait to map its ‘Manifest of the Santa entirety and, most par- Saturnina,’ showing ticularly, to ascertain the numbers and ranks whether any great river of the people on board, flowing from the east accounting for every into a fabled inland sail, anchor, cannon sea could be claimed and firearm (130 bags by Spain in its quest of grapeshot, fyi), 24 for the Northwest Pas- Vancouver won’t be renamed Narváez barrels of water and sage. So it was that the dimensions of the José Narváez became anytime soon—but it was Spaniard schooner itself. the first European to The only element reconnoitre the inte- missing from this rior of Juan de Fuca José Narváez, the most overlooked ship’s manifest is the Strait in 1789 and, two supply of foodstuffs, years later, he was the signifi cant explorer of the Pacifi c Northwest, which this reviewer first European to sail was keen to learn across the northern who was the fi rst European to set eyes on the about, knowing of the inland gulf of what we Spanish fondness for now know as the Salish site of the city, meeting the Musqueam leader red wine and chocolate. Sea—as well as the first (Had I been disguised to map it. (above) as the single servant In doing so, José Qeyupulenuxw in the process. Narváez was indisput- continued on page 14

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PenderPender GuyGuy BY JIM WONGCHU & McIntyre liked the story so How Jim Wong-Chu became the much that it not only accepted OST OF THE EARLY it, but gave Wayson a contract to develop it into a novel. pioneers of the Moses of Asian Canadian Writing ✫ MAsian Canadi- THE ASIAN CANADIAN LITERARY SCENE an literary canon didn’t CHINESE CANADIANS WEREN’T GRANTED THE FEDERAL founded in B.C. by the Asian Canadian Writers’ began mainly with Chinese vote in Canada until 1947. They first voted Workshop (ACWW). and Japanese writers because start off with aspirations provincially in 1949—the year Jim Wong-Chu AlliterAsian includes interviews with David historically they have been in of writing. They were com- was born in Hong Kong. Suzuki, Tobias Wong, Ruth Ozeki, Evelyn Canada the longest. But times have changed. Other groups munity activists who grew Brought to Canada in 1953, Wong-Chu was Lau, Denise Chong and Madeleine Thien; are emerging with recent im- raised by aunts and uncles as a plus excerpts from works-in- up with racial discrimina- AlliterAsian migration, from places such ‘paper son’. His 62-page China- edited by Jim Wong-Chu, progress by Joy Kogawa, tion and wanted change. as Korea, Laos, Vietnam, the town Ghosts (Pulp Press, 1986) Allan Cho and Julia Lin Yasuko Thanh and SKY Lee; Philippines, etc. We’ve seen They were compelled to (Arsenal Pulp $21.95) was the first solo collection of and poetry from Fred Wah, excellent writing from the likes write. poetry by a Chinese Canadian writer. Rita Wong, Souvanhkahm Thammavongsa of Madeleine Thien, Vincent People like SKY Lee and With Vancouver lawyer Bennett Lee, a and Michael Prior. Other contributors are Lam and Kim Thuy, just to Paul Yee worked full-time jobs, third-generation Chinese Canadian from Victo- Kim Fu, Doretta Lau, Corinna Chong, Terry name a few. but they needed to get their ria, Wong-Chu also co-edited the first collective Watada, Derwin Mak, Eric Choi and C.E. The hyphenation of Asian stories out there. Paul Yee volume of contemporary writing by Chinese Catchalian. AsianLit trailblazers Wayson Canadian is a residue of his- was an archivist who knew Canadians, Many-Mouthed Birds (D&M, 1991). Choy, Paul Yee and Lily Chow are absent torical circumstances. I’ve a lot about Chinatown. But With Allan Cho and Julia Lin, Wong-Chu from this anthology. noticed that not all of them he wasn’t a writer. One day, define themselves as Asian has now co-edited a West Coast-centric an- Here Jim Wong-Chu comments on the early Lorimer Books commissioned Canadian and prefer to drop thology, AlliterAsian, to mark the 20th an- evolution of Asian Canadian writing. Rick Shiomi, a Japanese Ca- the hyphen. And that’s fine. niversary of Ricepaper, a literary publication 978-1-55152-620-1 nadian playwright, to craft a We’re all Canadian writers children’s book with an Asian first and foremost. It’s more Canadian theme. Rick ran out writing program at UBC and Canadian author. After Alvin ogy of Asian Canadian writers. important to continue to find of time and rather than letting tried my hand at poetry. I showed my poems to Yates, he In those days, there weren’t the hidden talents in our com- the project fall through, Paul realized after two years that came to me one day and said, that many, so I scoured the munities, people who aren’t stepped up and tried his hand no one understood my writing “Give me everything you have. UBC Library stacks search- used to having their voices at writing. which mainly revolved around I’m going to be your editor.” ing for anything published heard, rather than become That book, Teach Me to Fly, Chinatown. I eventually real- It turned out that Arsenal by Asian Canadian writers sidetracked by identity. Skyfighter!, in 1983, is semi- ized writers of Asian descent Pulp Press needed one more in literary magazines. That’s nal because it was one of the needed some sort of organiza- book to fulfill its Canada where we found Wayson Choy. Jim Wong-Chu is one of the first to depict life growing up tion that could get together to Council grant and Yates was Although Wayson’s short founders of the Asian Ca- in Chinatown. It was the first workshop and be comfortable asked to search for manu- story called Jade Peony had nadian Writers’ Workshop Canadian book that touched in sharing stories that spoke scripts. With Yates as editor, already been published in Society, of which Allan Cho is on that topic. It was a turning about themselves. Chinatown Ghosts immedi- other anthologies, its inclu- now the president. Wong-Chu point when we realized that Chinatown Ghosts was a ately had legitimacy. It was sion in Many-Mouthed Birds: also spearheaded a Chinese someone outside of the so- culmination of those two years published within five months. Contemporary Writing by Chi- Canadian radio program called called literary establishment of creative writing classes ✫ nese Canadians, brought it Pender Guy and has co-edited could publish, too. at UBC. I never intended to WAYSON CHOY IS A CASE OF HIDDEN into the spotlight as an Asian Swallowing Clouds: An An- ✫ publish it. I hung out at Alvin talent waiting to be discov- Canadian story. There were ac- thology of Chinese-Canadian MY BOOK, CHINATOWN GHOSTS, HAP- Jang’s place one day. He was ered. It only took thirty years. tually three stories by Wayson Poetry (1999) and Strike the pened very much by serendip- a visual artist who happened Scott McIntyre came to me Choy that we shortlisted and Wok: An Anthology of Con- ity. I trained in photography to be close friends with J. and asked if Bennett Lee and Jade Peony wasn’t Wayson’s temporary Chinese Canadian but I entered the creative Michael Yates, a renowned I could put together an anthol- first choice. However, Douglas Fiction (2003).

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18 BC BOOKWORLD WINTER 2015-2016 review FICTION The Hunter and the Wild Girl A lonely taxidermist and “I start writing and do my by Pauline Holdstock research on an ad hoc basis (Goose Lane $29.95) as the need arises. Making a feral girl meet at a remote hunting discoveries keeps it exciting BY CHERIE THEISSEN for me and that interest and lodge in 19th century France. excitement hopefully perme- ates the text and is passed on AULINE HOLDSTOCK’S to the reader.” seventh novel, as a taxidermist, Rouff has context of all known feral Chasse et de La Nature in While the plot mainly ex- The Hunter and created a veritable forest of children (and perhaps those Paris and began to work on plores what it means to be hu- the Wild Girl is Eden with a myriad of life-like still to appear). an entirely different novel, one P man, Holdstock also touches set in a remote, birds and stuffed creatures in “What is more interesting about a reclusive and dam- upon political ambition, the lofty estate near the town of the orangerie (outbuildings to me is the continuing readi- aged hunter. attitudes of 19th century Pa- Gougeac in France, during the on the grounds of wealthy ness of society as a whole to “The girl has a very special risians toward the rest of the 19th century. estates). embrace the concept of a truly place in it,” Holdstock says, country, the different ways in For thirteen years, Peyre Alongside his own dead and wild child. “but it’s not her story. It’s re- which guilt can be packaged Rouff has been the reclusive unpopulated world, he has “What does that readiness ally his.” and unwrapped, the germi- steward of Chateau d’Aveyrac, created a glade and brought mean? A longing for lost in- Because this novel was not nation of love in youth, the a crumbling old the dead into it, nocence?” based on any historical figures ways in which a marriage and hunting lodge be- giving them a life ✫ and because it was set in a family can unravel and the longing to the de he does not have HOLDSTOCK TOLD ME SHE HAD BEEN Languedoc, where the author ways in which life can spring Villiers family. and placing them making notes for some time now spends about half of her anew. Tormented by in a beautiful world about known cases of feral time, Holdstock says the novel “I can only look at such an unspeakable of his own creation, children with a view to a pos- was relatively quick to write. complex questions through tragedy—a hunt- perhaps the closest sible novel. By ‘relatively quick’ she means the medium of fiction,” says ing accident that CHERIE he feels he can get The idea only took fire af- just under five years from the Holdstock. “For me it’s the cost him his fam- to heaven. ter she had visited first notes she made. THEISSEN right tool to approach intan- ily—Rouff, also a ✫ the Musee de La “I work in a chaotic gibles. What does it mean talented taxidermist, lives I CONTACTED THE AUTHOR AND and ill-advised man- to be human? To be able to alone with his trusty old dog. asked if the feral girl was ner, beginning connect with one another? Into this isolation creeps a based upon the story of Vic- with an image To empathize? To love? And hungry, wild child; a feral girl. tor of Aveyron (1788- or a flavour,” is there a cost? What is it we Her innocence is anything but 1828), a French feral she says. might lose?” angelic and pretty. child who was found In Pauline Holdstock’s un- Naked, filthy, spitting, def- around age nine. wavering grip, The Hunter ecating, snarling and lapping He kept running and the Wild Girl is extremely water on all fours, this crea- away until a readable, thought provoking ture is no romantic symbol young physi- and engaging. It’s for each and yet she lifts her arms to cian worked individual reader to decide the light; she knows joy. with him for why the story resonates as Questions immediately five years. unforgettable fiction. arise for the reader. “The ✫ Will he domesticate her? true story PAULINE HOLDSTOCK’S FIRST NOVEL, Will she heal him? of Victor The Blackbird’s Song, was Is love going to germinate of Aveyron set in the Chinese province out of need? certainly of Honan during the Boxer If the novel were only about contains ele- Rebellion. Her second novel, Rouff and his taming of the ments a fiction The Burial Ground, explored wild girl, it would still be writer can use the collision of cultures when fascinating, but Holdstock to great effect,” smallpox was decimating the isn’t interested in making a says Holdstock. First Nations on the West new, coarser version of My “His adoption and Coast of B.C. In 2005, Beyond Fair Lady. subsequent aban- Measure won the Ethel Wilson ✫ donment by the Fiction Prize for exploring the THE COUNTRYSIDE IN THE HUNTER scientific com- twin themes of beauty and and the Wild Girl is still full munity is one. cruelty in 16th century Italy. of impenetrable forests and “I like to think inhospitable wilderness, a the wild girl is all 9780864928627 place where wild creatures are my own, but the Cherie Thiessen has plentiful. fact is you can never reviewed fiction on a regu- The steward is anchored in truly create something lar basis for BC BookWorld his hideaway by three things: from nothing. Every- for the past ten years. the nearby grave he attends, thing is absorbed. She his ageing canine companion exists in the and his passion for taxidermy. With his sought-after skills

“I can only look at complex questions through LIFE BEYOND the medium of fiction.” CIVILIZATIONCIVILIZATIONLIFE BEYOND Pauline Holdstock

19 BC BOOKWORLD WINTER 2015-2016 20 BC BOOKWORLD WINTER 2015-2016 LOOK OUT56 A quarterly forum for and about writers; as well as a series about the origins of B.C. publishing houses.

Lori Shenher was assigned to investigate the disappear- ance of women from the BotchedDowntown Eastside in 1998. John Moore reviews a harrowing memoir of trying to catch a serial killer.

That Lonely Section of Hell: The Botched to make a statement about the series of backfield victims might have been spared had the original inves- Investigation of a Serial Killer Who Almost Got Away fumbles that almost let a killer get away. tigation been taken seriously and given the resources by Lori Shenher (Greystone Books $32.95) Shenher’s That Lonely Section of Hell is her har- it deserved... And to face their families, the survivors rowing record of how she got to the lowest point in who, like her, would have to shoulder a crippling her life and career. weight of guilt and failure for the rest of their lives. HOSE TASKED WITH INVESTIGAT- That Lori Shenher seriously considered summarily Throughout the book, Shenher repeatedly refuses ing serial killers are al- executing a cranky piece of office equipment—instead to equate her own suffering with that of the families ways at risk of becoming of some of the colleagues she had to work with dur- who experienced this tragedy through the loss of loved ‘collateral victims’ of the ing the early years of Project Amelia, as the case was ones. The PTSD that blighted her professional life and perpetrators they try to originally tagged—argues for her essential sanity. personal relationships for years was ultimately just apprehend. These crimes That she didn’t shoot the two self-interested Detec- part of the job. Police officers, fire-fighters, EMTs, are usually so heinous tive Bozos, (who remain pseudonymous), her original doctors and nurses and social workers all deal with that the notion of ‘getting investigation was saddled with—a pair of washouts traumatic events that cause 80% of them to suffer justice’ for the victims is other sections of the VPD could spare—is just shy of Critical Incident Stress within 24 hours of an inci- absurd and challenges miraculous, especially after it was revealed that they dent, putting them at risk for long term PTSD. They’re the investigator’s own concept of rationality. How do withheld the fact that Robert ‘Willy’ Pickton had trained to respond systematically, to treat every case Tyou get ‘justice’ for human beings who have been kid- been identified by Downtown Eastside sex workers according to the same established processes. This is napped, terrorized, raped, sexually abused, murdered in Project Amelia’s very first sweep. both democratic and therapeutic. By insulating them and then made non-existent by being butchered and With equal justification, she might have targeted from having to respond emotionally to the horrors rendered down like slaughtered pigs? some representative of the culture of senior VPD ranks they deal with, trained systematic procedure makes it Police officers are trained to put such unquan- who weren’t willing to even acknowledge possible for them to get on with jobs no one tifiable ethical questions aside, to suppress their the existence of a permanent resident cul- could do if they were emotionally engaged. personal emotions and proceed on the assumption ture of ‘low track’ high-risk sex workers in Unfortunately, by reducing individual hu- that identifying, arresting and assembling evidence Vancouver and persistently viewed them man tragedies to ‘cases’ or ‘incidents’ to to convict the perpetrator does make a difference. as transient camp-followers who crossed be ‘managed’ by bureaucratic methods, As ex-Vancouver Police detective Lori Shenher the country with major cultural or sport- procedure can also lead to systemic failure discovers and outlines in her memoir, That Lonely ing events or on whims and thus did not in the first-responder cultures it is meant Section of Hell, neither training nor immersion in qualify as ‘missing persons’ even when JOHN to serve. a law enforcement culture confident in its own as- their families insisted they were. That Lonely Section of Hell reminds us sumptions can make you invulnerable to Post Trau- Stuffed in a closet with negligible re- MOORE that no system, no procedure, no going by matic Stress Disorder, that terrible Pandora’s Box sources, inadequate staff and hobbled by jurisdic- any ‘book’, can fully substitute for, or override, our of memories, nightmares, sleep deprivation, chronic tional issues—since the Pickton farm was in RCMP capacity for emotional empathy or our higher sense depression, guilt and suppressed rage that afflicts turf—Shenher soldiered on, maintaining contact of justice as human beings. To paraphrase John human beings whose job it is to confront monstrous with the families of the missing women, which only Donne’s famous poem; ‘No one is an island. Every behaviour in their own kind. deepened her personal despair. person’s death diminishes me because I am involved In 1998, Lori Shenher’s maiden assignment as an By the time public pressure finally forced the RCMP with humankind. Therefore, send not to ask for whom enthusiastic young VPD detective was to investigate and VPD to launch a joint investigation that ought the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.’ a spike in disappearances of ‘low track’ female sex to have been named Operation Bandwagon, since Through the sirens, the adrenaline rush, the workers from the Downtown Eastside, an investiga- everyone suddenly wanted to get in on a possible gabble of coded communications and tendentious tion that would ultimately become internationally career-making case, Shenher was already burned double-talk, Lori Shenher heard the bell. infamous as The Pig Farm Case or The Pickton Case. out, suffering from PTSD. She contributed her files Asking for whom it tolled was her job. Discovering A few years later, she found herself standing in but declined invitations to visit The Pig Farm. that it also tolled for her was her own tragedy. the hallway of Vancouver Police HQ, hand on her Tormented by guilt that she’d had Pickton in her 978-1771640930 duty pistol, about to put a round into a recalcitrant sights almost from the outset, she had to rally every photocopier. ounce of strength she had left to testify in the subse- John Moore regularly reviews At the time, it seemed like an appropriate way quent public inquiry and to contemplate how many from Garibaldi Highlands

21 BC BOOKWORLD WINTER 2015-2016 LITERARY LANDMARKS NEW from the Royal BC Museum St. Mary’s bell Aliens Among Us Invasive Animals and Plants in British Columbia

Written by Alex Van Tol The bell tower in Mission is one of 150 province-wide locations to be pin- Illustrated by Mike Deas pointed by the forthcoming Literary Map of B.C., due in the spring. The map For children aged 8 – 12 will provide in-depth, illustrated entries for 150 B.C. authors—who live from What would you do if you came face to Atlin to Abbotsford—such as this excerpt from the Terry Glavin entry. face with a Large Yellow Waxwing, Wild Turkey or Weather Loach? Who would DIRECTIONS: Drive east from Vancouver for about an hour-and-a- you call if Common Wall Lizards or Giant half to get to the town of Mission… ascend Stave Lake Street, turn Hogweed crept into your backyard? right onto 5th Avenue… and soon you’ll find a bell tower, built in 2000, Alex Van Tol can help. In Aliens to house the original bell from St. Mary’s Residential School. Among Us, she identifies more than The fanatical insomniac Father Fouquet 50 species of alien animals and plants that have established themselves in ORN IN THE UNITED KINGDOM TO IRISH PARENTS IN British Columbia. With the help of 1955, Terry Glavin immigrated in 1957 to erry Glavin’s Amongst God’s Own: colour photographs and Mike Deas’ BCanada where he was raised in Burnaby. Along with Stephen Hume, Terry Glavin has illuminating illustrations, Van Tol The Enduring Legacy of St. Mary’s exposes the invaders, then explains been at the forefront of journalistic exploration paperback, $19.95 how they got here and what they’re of British Columbia as a psychological, physical 978-0-7726-6853-0 Mission (Longhouse, 2002) documents doing to the local environment. and political environment. 7.5 x 9, 128 pages and examines the bleak history of the A former Vancouver Sun journalist, Glavin be- Colour photographs For this readable and alarmingly gan his writing career with the Georgia Straight and illustrations informative book, Van Tol has harvested school that was opened by the Mission- and later returned to that publication as a bi- the knowledge of museum biologists weekly columnist about B.C. culture at large. As to arm young people with the tools a freelance writer, Glavin lived on Mayne Island they need to stop the spread of these ary Oblates of Mary Immaculate in 1863. before moving to Victoria in 2007. T unwanted aliens. Glavin has received numerous awards, in- Originally located near the Fraser River, was created in 1986 after local resident cluding the Lieutenant Governor’s Award for 675 Belleville Street, Order from Heritage Group Distribution the first St. Mary’s School was intended Norma Kenney lobbied relentlessly for six Literary Excellence in 2009. He has also edited Victoria BC, V8W 9W2 hgdistribution.com | 1-800-665-3302 for boys only, housing 42 students in its years to preserve the site. the Transmontanus series for New Star Books and was a founding member of the Pacific first year. The Sisters of Saint Ann opened Founded in 1816, the Oblates of Mary To learn more about Royal BC Museum publications, Fisheries Resource Conservation Council. He a second school for girls in 1868. These Immaculate were a Catholic order of mis- go to royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/publications schools were soon relocated up the hill due sionaries sworn to convert the poor and increasingly veered towards covering foreign affairs in his late 50s. to railway expansion. dispossessed of the Earth. Led by Father As an author, Terry Glavin has primarily The town of Mission now manages the Fouquet, a fanatical insomniac, the Ob- LOCATION: Bell tower, Fraser Valley Heritage Park, Mission. been an advocate for indigenous peoples and 50-acre grounds containing graves for Ob- lates set up schools and churches in the This bell was donated by the Stó:lô First Nation to Fraser Valley Heritage Park in 1999. the protection of the environment. “Personally,” late priests, nuns and students. The park hopes of teaching ‘civilization’ to the Stó:lô Cast in West Troy, New York, it was used at Mission for almost a century, until 1965. Glavin has cryptically remarked, “I am not a big of the Fraser Valley. fan of apartheid.” Initially the Stó:lô accepted this offer of Glavin’s A Death Feast in Dimlahamid, writ- seemingly good intentions and were in awe ten in support of native land claims, takes its name from a 22,000-sq.-mile city-state that of these prophets who carried cures in a Gitksan and Wet’suwet’en tribes maintain was bottle. They even accepted the placement situated near the confluence of the Bulkley of their children in residential schools. But, and Skeena Rivers. The book was shortlisted according to Terry Glavin in his Amongst for the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize. It was God’s Own, the schools became “little bet- followed by Nemiah: The Unconquered Country, ter than vectors of disease and pedophilia.” co-authored with the people of Nemiah Valley; Not advertised by park signage are the with photographs by Gary Fiegehen, Rick gloomy stone walls and a descending stair- Blacklaws and Vance Hanna. case for the boys’ dormitory on the site, dating from 1884. A small plaque in the BOOKS BY TERRY GLAVIN earth does not provide any context. Most A Death Feast in Dimlahamid visitors prefer to visit the first Marian site (New Star 1990, 1998) (for the Blessed Virgin Mary) erected in B.C. Nemiah: The Unconquered Country in 1892, now towering above the grounds (New Star, 1992), with the people of Nemiah as the refurbished Grotto of Our Lady of Valley; photographs by Gary Fiegehen, Rick Blacklaws and Vance Hanna Lourdes—a six-sided cupola shrine with A Ghost in the Water Cedar, Salmon and Weed Longshoring on the Fraser stained glass skylights. (Transmontanus 1, New Star, 1994) A novel Stories and History of Amongst God’s Own was an initiative Dead Reckoning: Confronting the Louis Druehl ILWU Local 502 of Bill Williams and the Mission Indian Crisis in Pacific Fisheries (D&M, 1996) ,ŽŵĞŽĨƚŚĞĂŵĮĞůĚDĂƌŝŶĞ Pensioners were interviewed to This Ragged Place: Travels Across the Healing Foundation, funded through the ^ƚĂƟŽŶ͕ŶĂƟǀĞƐ͕ďŝŽůŽŐŝƐƚƐ͕ ŐĞƚƚŚĞŝƌƐƚŽƌŝĞƐďLJĂĐĂĚĞŵŝĐƐ Landscape (New Star 1996, 1998) ĮƐŚĞƌŵĞŶ͕ŚŝƉƉŝĞƐĂŶĚĞŶĚͲŽĨͲƚŚĞͲ ǁŚŽĐŽŵďĞĚEĞǁtĞƐƚŵŝŶƐƚĞƌ Aboriginal Healing Foundation. In it, Glavin A Voice Great Within Us (Transmontanus 7, roaders in the 1970’s. A rich array ĂŶĚŽƚŚĞƌĂƌĐŚŝǀĞƐĨŽƌƉŚŽƚŽƐ For the Literary Map of B.C., presents the testimonies of 45 Stó:lô sur- New Star, 1998), with Charles Lillard. The Last Great Sea: A Voyage through the ŽĨĐŚĂƌĂĐƚĞƌƐƐŝŵŝůĂƌƚŽ^ƚĞŝŶďĞĐŬ͛Ɛ ĂŶĚĚĂƚĂƚŽĮŶĚƚŚĞƌĞĂƐŽŶƐ BCBW’s Alan Twigg visited vivors who tell of their past experiences, Cannery Row why this small union thrived and Human and Natural History of the North ĞdžƉĞƌŝĞŶĐĞƐLJŽƵŶŐ good and bad, in St. Mary’s Mission, where the descending staircase Pacific Ocean (Greystone, 2000) ůŽǀĞ͕ƉŝƌĂĐLJ͕ƐƵƌǀŝǀĂůĂŶĚŵƵƌĚĞƌ͘ ƐƵƌǀŝǀĞĚĐŽŶƚĂŝŶĞƌŝnjĂƟŽŶ͘ passion plays were enacted into the 20th Among God’s Own: The Enduring Legacy of and foundations that mark ΨϮϮ͘ϵϱͬƉĂƉĞƌďĂĐŬ ΨϮϮ͘ϵϱͬƉĂƉĞƌďĂĐŬ century. These first-hand accounts docu- St. Mary’s Mission (Longhouse, 2002), with the gloomy site of the boys’ ϵϳϴͲϭͲϵϮϲϵϵϭͲϲϭͲϬ ϵϳϴͲϭͲϵϮϲϵϵϭͲϲϵͲϲ ment the lives of Stó:lô children who were former students of dormitory from the 1880s. St. Mary’s. ϱ͘ϱdžϳ͘ϳϱŝŶ͘ʹϯϱϮƉĂŐĞƐ ϲdžϵŝŶ͘ʹϯϮϬƉĂŐĞƐ forbidden to speak their own language and Waiting for the Macaws: ĞͲŬ ϵϳϴͲϭͲϵϮϲϵϵϭͲϲϮͲϳ ĞͲŬϵϳϴͲϭͲϵϮϲϵϵϭͲϳϬͲϮ often beaten as punishment. And Other Stories from www.cedarsalmonandweed.com www.ilwu502.ca With federal funding, the original St. the Age of Extinctions Mary’s school was adopted as a model for (Penguin, 2006). KƌĚĞƌĨƌŽŵLJŽƵƌůŽĐĂůŬƐƚŽƌĞŽƌŽŶůŝŶĞ Come from the Shadows more Oblate-run schools in Cranbrook, www.granvilleislandpublishing.com (D&M, 2011) Williams Lake and Kamloops. In the early Sturgeon Reach: New Authors are always welcome! days, mail arriving to the school and its Shifting Currents at the Oblate teachers was addressed to “The Heart of the Fraser [email protected] (New Star, 2012), with Mission.” This is how the town of Mission Tel: 604-688-0320 Toll Free: 1-877-688-0320 Follow @GIPLbooks Terry Glavin Ben Parfitt. got its name.

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Winners and Losers Marcus Youssef & James Long Two buddies, theatre artists and long-time friends Marcus and James, sit at a table and pass the time together playing a made- up game in which they name people, places, or things – Pamela Anderson, microwave ovens, their fathers, Goldman Sachs – and debate whether they are successful or not; in other words, whether they are winners or losers. Each friend seeks to defeat the other, and because one of these men grew up economically privileged, and the other did not, the competition very quickly adds up. Cast of 2 men.

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Jabber Moss Park and Tough! Sila Marcus Youssef The Bobby and Tina Plays Chantal Bilodeau When anti-Muslim graffiti George F. Walker Sila is part of The Arctic Cycle appears on the walls of her Moss Park: It’s been twenty years – eight plays that examine school, Fatima, an Egyptian- since the debut of Tough!, but the impact of climate change born girl who wears a hijab, only two years have passed in the on the eight countries of transfers to a new school. lives of Tina and Bobby, the main the Arctic. Sila received the There, she starts an unlikely characters. Tough!: With its sharply Woodward International friendship with a boy who has drawn young characters, Tough! Playwriting Prize, as well as a reputation for anger issues. has been a nearly continuous prize in the Uprising National ISBN 978-0-88922-950-1 success in Canada since its Playwriting Competition. Drama / $16.95 / 96 pp premiere in 1993. ISBN 978-0-88922-956-3 ISBN 978-0-88922-954-9 Drama / $17.95 / 112 pp Drama / $19.95 / 192 pp The World Afloat Studies in Description Peacock Blue Miniatures Reading Gertrude Stein’s The Collected Poems M.A.C. Farrant Tender Buttons Phyllis Webb Farrant has given us a gorgeous Carl Peters Phyllis Webb published seven gift book that contains short, In Carl Peters’s sustained annotative poetry collections between sharp shots of an existential reading of Gertrude Stein’s Tender 1954 and 1990. Compiled for elixir that improves the mood Buttons, he demonstrates the ways the first time in one volume, and leaves one better prepared in which Stein’s thought questions Webb’s poems are infused with to face the surreal day. Give everything, underlining reasons an interest in public life and the the gift of irony, and holdthe that her work has long served as common good, concerns which antidepressants. the wellspring for generations of underpinned her decades-long career as a radio broadcast journalist. ISBN 978-0-88922-838-2 experimental writers. Fiction / $12.95 / 112 pp ISBN 978-0-88922-895-5 ISBN 978-0-88922-914-3 Non fiction / $18.95 / 160 pp Poetry / $29.95 / 512 pp / Softcover Rom Com Scree Writing the Okanagan Dina Del Bucchia & The Collected Earlier Poems, George Bowering Daniel Zomparelli 1962–1991 Writing the Okanagan draws From It Happened One Night Fred Wah on forty books Bowering has (1934) to Harold and Maude Fred Wah’s career has spanned published since 1960 – poetry, (1971) to Love, Actually six decades and a range of formal fiction, history, and some forms (2003) the poems’ narrators styles and preoccupations. Most he may have invented. With examine the highs and lows of Wah’s early work is out of print. the addition of some previously of romantic relationships and This collection allows readers to (re) unpublished works, the reader will the expectations and realities discover his groundbreaking work. find the wonder of the Okanagan of love. The volume contains 13 titles. here, in both prose and poetry. ISBN 978-0-88922-960-0 ISBN 978-0-88922-947-1 ISBN 978-0-88922-941-9 Poetry / $19.95 / 128 pp Poetry / $45.00 / 646 pp / Cloth Poetry / $24.95 / 320 pp

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Originally from Toronto and Sas- katchewan, Penny Draper lived in Switzerland, New Zealand and Prince George prior to moving to Victoria in 1989. Her sixth novel for teens about Canadian disas- ters, Day of the Cyclone (Coteau $8.95), has won the University of Regina Faculty of Education and Campion College Award for Publishing in Education at the Saskatchewan Book Awards. 978-1-55050-481-1 Kid kindness

Annette LeBox’s Peace is an Offering (Penguin Random House $16.95) is an illustrated poem about a group of neighbourhood children dealing with the ups and downs of childhood. Whether it’s Karen Autio launched patience, kindness or consider- The Adventurous Kah-Lan: ation, the poem shows various Sea Otter during Sea Otter Awareness Week at the ways that the friends use to Vancouver Aquarium. help each other. Ultimately, the children create a community where they care for one another in a world where selfishness and conflict dominates. Illustrations by Stephanie Graegin. Annette LeBox lives in Maple Ridge and has a cabin in the Cariboo. COMEBACKCOMEBACK 978-0-8037-4091-4 Camp investigator

For her latest novel, Siege (Orca Kah-Lan the Adventurous $9.95) Jacqueline Pearce Sea Otter by Karen Autio (Sono Nis $9.95) learned how to fire an 1812 mus- Karen Autio’s ket and found out the speed of the current over Niagara Falls if you fell in near historic Old Fort Erie. OU KNOW YOU’RE Finnish roots Her protagonist, Jason doesn’t stuck on a story share her interest in history. When when it stays in he agrees to go to camp with his KIDS HAVING GROWN UP IN THE your head for cousin, Sean, he doesn’t realize Y Finnish section of Fort Wil- it’s a War of 1812 re-enactment three decades liam (now part of Thunder camp — no cell phones or electric- and it won’t let go. Such was ity. It’s not all bad. Firing the mus- Karen Autio Bay), Karen Autio received the case for and After they were hunted nearly to ex- kets and sneaking out at night, her fourth book for children, a silver spoon from her getting into trouble is fun, but Kah-Lan the Adventurous tinction, sea otter populations along grandmother that made her Jason and his friends keep running Sea Otter into the same camp counselor, . curious about her grand- After moving to Vancouver the west coast of North America are and he is clearly up to no good. mother’s Finnish friends to attend Regent College in When they start to investigate what he’s doing, they find they 1984, Autio and her husband regaining their numbers. and their links to Canada’s may have taken on more than Will worst maritime disaster soon bought aquarium they can handle. 9781459807518 passes. For hours at a time, ka must contend At the end of the in peacetime—the sinking she would park her lawn chair with human en- book, readers will of the Empress of Island. outside the sea otter enclo- croachment, hide find several pag- Her first juvenile novel sure, observing, wondering, from orcas, dive es of information Second Watch (Sono Nis, and developing a story about for ever-scarcer about sea otters, two, almost-mature, wild sea food in their home including their role 2005) placed an eleven- otters getting swept away by a kelp bed and avoid ALEX in keeping our kelp year-old heroine, Saara, powerful ocean current. periodic grouchy forests healthy so on the doomed vessel as The story persisted in her cuffings from the VAN TOL that they, in turn, it departs in May of 1914, mind as she shifted her focus can support a di- Grand Otters liv- just one day prior to the to raising her children and ing in their raft. versity of sea life. loss of 1,012 passengers writing three historical novels. The young otters describe Engaging text, quick pacing Over the years Autio kept fine- humans and human-made and illustrations by Sheena and crew from among tuning the balance of her otter objects in zoomorphic terms Lott put the reader at eye level the 1,477 people aboard. story between natural history such as sea-trees, furless ones with the demands of life in our Fewer paid passengers Sean Kelly: the entertaining dentist and a quest story. “I was not and—my personal favourite— shallow coastal waters, while died when the Titanic sank. only smitten with sea otters,” not-rock (kelp forests, humans present-tense narration lends In Autio’s second novel, Autio says, “I was also fasci- and an old glass bottle, re- a sense of urgency to the ot- Cat brush Saara’s Passage (Sono nated by their survival skills spectively). ters’ experiences. Lots of medical doctors have writ- in the Pacific Ocean.” Reminiscent of the invented Targeted mainly for readers Nis, 2008), Saara, as one of ten books; not so many dentists. Richard Adams Wa- While Autio’s admiration words in ’ ages seven to twelve, Kah-Lan the 465 survivors, returned From his dental practice, Dr. Sean for otters shaped the plot, tership Down, the language in is a story with cross-genera- to northwestern Ontario Kelly realized many parents have Kah-Lan the manuscript was passed is nonetheless easy tional appeal because it will only to learn her beloved similar questions about the care of through a string of biologists for young readers to discern lead to conversations about their kids’ teeth, and at the same Aunt Marja must move to a to ensure naturalistic accu- without a glossary—although the health of our oceans, the time it would be helpful to families sanatorium in Toronto for if there was an entertaining way racy. Dripping with ecological there is one provided. necessity of maintaining bio- to introduce children to dental facts yet without a whiff of diversity of the maritime envi- treatment of tuberculosis. “I played with language care before they need to visit the Kah-Lan the Ad- didacticism, to express Kah-Lan’s per- ronment and the importance Autio’s Finnish Canadian dentist. So he’s written Cuddles venturous Sea Otter weaves spective,” says Autio, “and of keystone species—such as trilogy was completed with the Cat Goes to the Dentist the natural environment into to immerse the reader in the sea otter. 978-1-55039-244-9 Sabotage (Sono Nis, 2013) (Promontory $9.95) about a cat the myriad challenges that ot- his watery world. Kalan is a who brushes twice-a-day and vis- based on an attempt to ters contend with—from orcas zoological term for sea otter Alex Van Tol’s new book its the dentist. His best friend Bob, however, often forgets to brush and riptides to food scarcity and the spelling Kah-Lan is Aliens Among Us: Inva- blow up a Nipigon River rail- and his teeth are turning brown. and fishing net entanglement. way bridge near Port Arthur helps readers know how to sive Animals and Plants in 978-1-987857-02-3 Kah-Lan and his pal Yam- pronounce it.” B.C. (Royal B.C. Museum). during the First World War.

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Katarina Jovanovic on language & courage

The Blue Vase well like many people from by Katarina Jovanovic Europe who went through uni- (Tradewind $12.95) versity studies and travelled. My English was good enough ATARINA JOVA- to work, to read, to teach, to novic’s second integrate and to make friends. book in Eng- But not sufficient to be the lish, The Blue writer I used to be. KVase is a so- “Language is not only about phisticated story for middle grammar and morphology, it grade readers about bullying is also about the mind and and entrapment. the feelings. It took me years After Sonia accidentally of silence, years of seeing my- breaks a precious self as a dimin- vase belonging ished poet, before to her next-door I started sensing neighbour, Mrs. the English words Kaminski, her the way I had felt playmate Marta, the words in my who is Mrs. Ka- first language. It minski’s grand- took me years of daughter, prom- not writing for the ises to keep the simple reason that BLENDED TEENS incident secret I couldn’t decide in in exchange for Katarina Jovanovic what language to money and gifts. write. Discovering not just bullying, harassment and assault, As Marta’s power over Sonia “It took me years before increases, and her blackmail my deepest reflections and but also the lovely examples of the good in people. demands escalate, Marta thoughts touched the words spreads lies about Sonia at and I started writing literature We Are All Made of Molecules astation and the “black hole of sadness” that school. Ultimately Sonia must in English. Still, it takes cour- by Susin Nielsen (Tundra $10.99) accompanies the loss of a loved one through find the strength to confront age to talk about that.” Stewart’s struggles to deal with his mother’s bullying and allow honesty 978-1-896580-91-3 death. He has a therapist on speed-dial and the to prevail. It’s illustrated by BY DENISE REID companionship of his beloved cat Schrödinger. Montreal’s Josée Bisaillon. A WINDFALL IS A HE NEWLY “BLENDED” FAMILY AT THE Stewart is initially enthusiastic about gain- ✫ DOWNFALL, ANOTHER heart of Susin Nielsen’s We Are ing a sister, but when Ashley’s nastiness sur- HERE ARE SOME OF THE REMARKS BULLYING TALE All Made of Molecules might faces he realizes his vision of the new family made by the Serbia-born better be described as “coarsely doesn’t match the reality. Ashley resents having teacher and journalist Ka- Bad Business T by Diane Daker (Orca $9.95) chopped” rather than blended. new people (and new belongings) in her home. tarina Jovanovic when she Stewart and Ashley are two completely dif- Things get worse when Stewart decides to accepted the Christie Harris Il- ferent teenagers, with different outlooks, forced go to Ashley’s high school where his high IQ lustrated Children’s Literature N DIANE DAKER’S ORCA CUR- to share the same roof by their freshly united bumps him up into her grade. Ashley is dev- Prize in 2009 for The King Has rents mini-novel for ages parents. astated, certain that “nerd-bot” Stewart will Goat Ears (Tradewind, 2008), I Bad Business 10-14, , the Stewart Inkster is a gifted, kind, but socially threaten her social status. Philippe Béha illustrated by . protagonist Lindy knows she inept 13-year-old. He and his dad Leonard have It isn’t until popular new student Jared en- “There is an anonymous should not keep the $200 that struggled with grief since Stewart’s mom died ters the picture that Ashley and Stewart start quote on children’s literature: was given to her by mistake, of cancer. Brainy Stewart, who measures his having to rely on each other. Jared has his “Good children’s literature ap- as an overpayment for chores, days and moods in mathematical terms, de- bully-scope targeted on Stewart, and only Stew- peals not only to the child in from a confused old lady. scribes his former family unit as an “equilateral art’s connection to Ashley keeps Jared at bay. the adult, but to the adult in But Lindy hesitates and triangle” that collapsed when his mom died. Ashley has a crush on Jared, and Stewart is the child. makes the added mistake of Stewart’s dad Leonard has recently found useful first as a go-between for their messages, “My idea of writing for telling a scheming and nasty love with his longtime friend and colleague then as a decoy for Jared’s after-school visits. children is that the content schoolmate Shanna—who Caroline Anderson, mom to 14-year-old Ash- As Stewart and Ashley find out more about of books for young readers proceeds to make her pay ley, a selfish queen bee who treats others who Jared really is, there are ugly examples of can be as complex and seri- for her deceit in a completely badly and constantly misuses words. While bullying, harassment and assault. But there ous as any other literature unexpected way. not book smart, she is a genius when it comes are also lovely examples of the good in people. because children deserve to First Lindy has to confess to her high school’s social ladder. Ashley sits Ashley discovers that the quality of a person be given the opportunity to to her teacher, possibly dis- at the top rung and will do whatever it takes goes far deeper than their appearance. Stewart reflect on life just like adults. qualifying her from a much- to remain there. finds that taking risks, while scary, can be life- The difference is in the way of anticipated field trip; then it’s Leonard and Caroline have decided to live changing. The two also learn about bravery, expressing it... her parents. But when she together, so Stewart and his father make the compromise and standing up for others. “I am a person of finally has to confess to move from their North Vancouver home to We Are All Made of Molecules is convincingly words and language dear old Mrs. Naulty about Caroline’s place in East Vancouver. Complicat- told from the alternating perspectives of Stew- had been my major the money that was inside ing matters is the fact Ashley’s dad (and Caro- art and Ashley, with equal skill. While Nielsen’s channel to life since I the envelope, her belated line’s ex-husband) Phil lives in the property’s book is geared for the young adult market, was a child. Fifteen years honesty pays off in a way laneway home. Despite a seemingly happy there is plenty to keep adult readers engaged. ago, I lived the words: I was she could not possibly marriage, Caroline and Phil divorced when Phil It’s a story told with humour, intelligence and a writer and a journalist have imagined. acknowledged that he was gay. sensitivity, based on characters that could eas- with a solid career in 978-1459809697 Ashley hasn’t forgiven her father for break- ily be the teens next door. radio broadcasting. I ing their family apart and she questions Ashley and Stewart’s struggles and achieve- saw poetry in every whether or not he ever really loved her or her ments remind us that no matter how different segment of the day. Diane Daker mom. She can’t fully accept her dad’s homo- we may seem, at the core we are all intercon- But it was all in an- has authored sexuality and, worried her friends won’t be nected. Because after all, we are all made of other country and in books on Calvin Klein, accepting either, hides the real reason for her molecules. 978-1-77049-781-8 another language. The Beatles, parents’ divorce. “When I came to Can- Elie Wiesel and CHEK-TV. Nielsen simultaneously depicts the dev- Denise Reid is a graduate of Douglas College. ada I spoke English very

31 BC BOOKWORLD WINTER 2015-2016 A is for Ambassador Born in Ghana, Andrew Benedict Acheampong, Ph.D is a Catholic “seeker of spiritual knowledge, mys- tic philosopher, and scientist.” With many years in the U.S. pharmaceuti- cal industry, he has published over 50 scientific articles. His interests in Who’sWho’s WhoWho body chemistry, drug safety, spiritual practices, religious faiths, science of BRITISH COLUMBIA personality and astrology have led him to write Created for Wholeness: The science, religion, and astrology of self-knowledge and harmony (Prom- ontory $15.95). 978-1-927559-48-2

B is for Backhouse

Once upon a time there were probably 60 million beavers in North America. But the arrival of European fur trad- ers almost wiped out the chubby, in- Frances Backhouse dustrious rodent. Frances Backhouse shares both quirky facts and deeper truths about the reviving species in Once They Were Hats: In Search of the Mighty Beaver (ECW $18.95). After the state of Oregon officially adopted the beaver as its mascot, Canada passed Bill C-373 in 1975 “to provide for the recognition of the Beaver (Castor canadensis) as a symbol of the sovereignty of Canada.” 978-1-77041-207-1 C is for Cope

Wayne Cope spent many childhood hours watching cowboys and crimi- nals on TV, favour- ing Richard Boone in Have Gun Will Travel, before he eventually decided Wayne Cope to become a police Joseph Dandurand officer. Recalling his diverse career with the Vancouver City Police Department with his son Jace for more than 30 years in Vancouver Blue: A Life Against Crime (Harbour and memoirs create on Main Street. Julie F. Gilmour ex- $22.95), Cope sheds light on cases the framework for amines the riot’s impact on Canadian such as Vancouver’s so-called Centre- is for Emerson E Seeking our Eden: immigration policy, international rela- fold Murders and “the infamous killing the Dreams and tions and Canada’s political develop- of the Stanley Park flamingoes.” Following the bombing of the Kunduz Migrations of Sar- ment during WWI in Trouble on Main 978-1-55017-699-5 hospital in Afghanistan by American ah Jameson Craig Street: Mackenzie King, Reason, forces in October of 2015, Mayne Is- (McGill-Queen’s Race, and the 1907 Vancouver Riots land’s Julie Emerson published Twen- $34.95). Craig lived (Penguin/Allen Lane $34). 9780670065127 D is for Dandurand ty-Seven Stings (New Star $18). The Joanne Findon in New Brunswick, suite of seventeen New Jersey, Sas- Joseph Dandurand, a member of poems illuminate katchewan and finally British Co- H is for Hughes the Kwantlen First Nation (near Fort various aspects of lumbia. She became an advocate of Langley), recounts his struggles to warfare, including women’s rights and a staunch dress- To mark his forti- overcome physical, emotional and sex- the rules of warfare; reformer, believing the restrictive eth birthday, Trevor ual abuse in his first book of poetry, the roles of women fashions of the day were a barrier to Marc Hughes, a for- I Want (Leaf Press $20). Dandurand as pawns or inspira- equality of the sexes. She also explored mer CBC Radio re- expresses his love of the land, his tions; battles, and alternative medical treatments (water porter, made a solo connections to his ancestors, his en- the use of poisons Julie Emerson cures) and was drawn to the concept exploration of north- durance and his deep desire to foster and bees as weap- of utopian colonies. 9780773544802 western B.C. on his his children so they grow up without ons. Emerson examines military strate- Kawasaki KLR mo- abuse. “I am here / this pen to paper gies that have generated wars from the torcycle. His visits to Trevor Marc Hughes / proves it yet again.” sixth-century BCE China to Alexander G is for Gilmour such places as Having graduated in performing arts the Great to American drone warfare. Stewart, B.C., Hyder, Alaska, from Algonquin College, Dandurand Twenty-Seven Stings is illustrated by By the summer of 1907, White Brit- the village of Gitanyow and has had his plays produced at the Red Vancouver artist Roxanna Bikadoroff. ish Columbians had become increas- the Stikine River are re- Path Theater in Chicago, the Algonquin 9781554201075 ingly fearful of Asian immigration, corded in his self-published Theater in Connecticut, the Debajeme- and rumours circulated about the memoir, Nearly 40 on the jig Theater in Ontario and the Autry impact of immigration on massive 37: Triumph and Trepida- Theater in Los Angeles. is for Findon F labour contracts for the Grand tion along Stewart-Cassiar Dandurand was Playwright-in-Res- Trunk Pacific Railway. The Highway (Last Autograph idence for the Museum of Civilization Joanne Findon, formerly of Coquitlam, Asiatic Exclusion League of Press $18.95) with an in Hull in 1995 and for the National has examined the 19th century life Vancouver organized a parade endorsement from an- Arts Centre in Ottawa in 1998. In 2004 and times of Sarah Jameson Craig that resulted in a violent riot thropologist Wade Davis. he published a play, Please Do Not who was educated at home by her 978-0-9918590-0-9 Touch the Indians (Renegade Planets parents when few working-class girls Julie F. Gilmour Publishing). 978-1-926655-79-6 in Canada were literate. Her journals continued on page 34

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“We live such flammable lives,” writes Miranda Pearson in the title poem for V is for Valley her fourth collection, The Fire Extin- guisher (Oolichan $17.95). Again Pear- Originally from son evokes the struggle to live outside France, Nicole and beyond vulgarity and catastrophe, Dargère has crafted bravely beholden to glimpses of grace. a fanciful, lyrical, There are some particularly sublime sasquatch story and subtle poems about human frailty set near Harrison when a body has been invaded by the Hotsprings in the C-word. Pearson will be one of the 150 late 19th century. authors featured in the forthcoming Nicole Dargère In Mystery Valley Literary Map of B.C. 978-0-88982-308-2 (Ekstasis $25.95), an elder of the Chehalis nation finds an abandoned sasquatch infant and raises Q is for Quantum it until it is welcomed by her communi- ty. With the intrusion of European tro- As Nina Woolliams, Nina Shoroplova phy hunters, the Chehalis people unite wrote an important book on ranching to protect the sasquatch population in B.C., Cattle Ranch: The Story of the who live in a place called Mystery Val- Douglas Lake Cattle Company (D&M, ley. This novel was originally published 1979). With an endorsement by B.C.’s in Paris as Mystery Valley ou Le secret Lieutenant Governor Judith Guichon, du peuple de la rivière (L’Harmattan, Shoroplova has now hybrid-published Miranda Pearson will 2012). Nicole Dargère was raised in the her advice about spirituality as Trust be one of 150 authors small village of La Tour de Salvagny, the Mystery: Questions, Quotes, and with a site on the near the city of Lyon. She immigrated Quantum Wisdom (Influence $21.95). Literary Map of B.C. to Toronto at age 24, eventually moving Born in Cardiff, Wales in 1947, she to Langley. 978-1-77171-028-2

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39 BC BOOKWORLD WINTER 2015-2016 OBITS & LETTERS Pickup artist B.C.’s oldest I must tell you that my husband has often said that I travel on the Nanaimo ferry just to pick up author kicks a copy of BC BookWorld. I read it cover to cover, and often note books of particular interest to buy. the bucket I am working on a “Galiano Family Tree” which started with my interest in wanting to know the history behind the pioneers Frank White who are buried in our cemetery, 1914-2015 particularly those with WWI con- nections. It is a fascinating project. Helen Russell RANK WHITE, PIONEER, RACON- Galiano Island teur and author of bestsell- ing books, has died at his home in Garden Bay, B.C. Right on off the grid on the Sunshine Coast. As one of the editors of Cooking FWhite could claim to be the province’s And Community on Lasqueti Is- oldest active author when he published land, I just want to thank you for his memoir That Went by Fast at the your kind review. I especially liked age of 100 in 2014, a follow-up to his “Off the grid but on the mark.” 2013 bestseller Milk Spills and One-Log Loads. Our book has been selling well A workingman and small business- throughout the summer. Thank man who didn’t retire until age 80, you also for your great support of White wrote about his long life in a our wonderful B.C. writers. colloquial, unvarnished style that got Annie Carrithers his books onto the B.C. Bestseller Lists. Lasqueti Island They are still popular on the BC Ferries newsstands. White’s trademark was his Squinters unite self-deprecating humour. “I’d got used to thinking my life I enjoy reading your newspaper but hadn’t amounted to much,” he wrote, wish that the typestyle was just a “and it seemed most people agreed with Frank White: “By hanging around so long it seems I have become little bigger. If it was the same type me on that. Now it’s, ‘Oh, you rode in an object of historical interest.” Portrait by Stephen Osborne. size as the body copy in most of a horse and buggy? You worked on a the books you advertise, it would steam donkey show? Your girlfriend White was bemused by his longev- former radio and television manager be much easier to read. was a flapper?...You should write a ity and the celebrity that came with it. within CBC, Skene published a critical Bill Stockmann “When I was fifty and still had most book!’ By hanging around so long it assessment of the CBC’s future in Fade Kelowna of my marbles,” he wrote, “all people seems I have become an object of his- to Black: A Requiem for the CBC and an [We completely agree! You can zoom torical interest.” wanted me to tell them was why their examination of the results of airline in on the text of each issue of BCBW His was a typical life for a British car stalled at the intersection. Now deregulation since 1988 entitled Tur- via our two public service sites at Columbian of his time, comprised that everything is starting to get hazy, bulence: How Deregulation Destroyed ABCBookWorld.com and BCBook- mostly of endless hard work, although they’re not satisfied unless I can tell Canada’s Airline. Look.com]. on the evidence of his stories it was them the meaning of life.” Based in White Rock, Skene sub- seldom dull. He grew up in Abbotsford On that score he wasn’t venturing sequently co-wrote Premier Mike the son of the town butcher and at age any great pronouncements. “Life is life. Harcourt’s memoirs entitled Mike Buzz words eight began serving customers in his It’s not under our control and it doesn’t Harcourt: A Measure of Defiance and father’s shop by standing on a butter follow any script. It just is.” He might he examined Ontario Hydro, Hydro- I just saw the fall issue of BC Book box so he could see over the counter. have added, life goes a lot easier if you Quebec, BC Hydro and other electric- World and want to say thank you His father bought the first Model- have a good sense of humour. ity companies in Delusions of Power: so very much. What a lovely review T delivery truck in Abbotsford but ✫ Vanity, Folly and the Uncertain Future of my book from Alex Van Tol and couldn’t get the hang of the horseless FRANKLIN WETMORE WHITE WAS BORN MAY of Canada’s Hydro Giants. what great photos Laura Sawchuk carriage so young Frankie taught him- 9, 1914 in Sumas, Washington. He took! And the COVER—wow. I so self to operate it, lying about his age to leaves behind his wife Edith Iglauer, a appreciate the support. get his driver’s licence at age 13. “By the daughter Marilyn, two sons Howard Bill Titheridge Robin Stevenson age of 13 I already had two professions: and Donald, six grandchildren and Victoria butcher and truck driver,” he wrote. eight great-grandchildren. He died on 1929-2015 He built on his early start to follow October 18, 2015. the trucking boom that hit B.C. in the Both of Frank White’s books were LONGTIME B.C. BOOKSELLER WILLIAM (BILL) 1930s and 1940s, pioneering highway edited with the assistance of Howard John Titheridge, born in Winnipeg freighting then truck logging. In the White, his son and publisher, who on February 26, 1929, died on August 1950s he became a small-scale “gyppo” performed a similar role for the three 27, 2015 just shy of his 60th wed- logger before moving to the coastal fish- bestselling classics of B.C. literature ding anniversary. With his wife and ing village of Pender Harbour, where he by inventor, entrepreneur, artist and their three children, Titheridge moved operated an excavating business, a gas airline owner Jim Spilsbury. to Penticton in 1962 and opened station and a municipal water system. Penticton Stationery, soon to become Along the way Frank White endured Okanagan Books. Most importantly shipwrecks, topped 200-foot spartrees, Wayne Skene he co-founded the B.C. Booksellers fought forest fires, got physical with Association and served as president of log rustlers, built houses, built boats, 1941-2015 the Canadian Booksellers Association. raised a family, dabbled in politics, “He gave unstintingly of his time and built early computers, buried a beloved BORN ON FEBRUARY 5, 1941, DENNIS WAYNE advice to both organizations,” recalls wife and daughter, travelled the world Skene died in Surrey after a lengthy book industry veteran Mark Stanton. and wrote books. illness on July 5, 2015. “Wayne’s fate,” A quintessential family man and At age 92 he married the former New says editor and friend Brian Scriven- community builder, Titheridge was Yorker writer Edith Iglauer, 89, and er, “was the curse of long active in the Downtown Business they continued to live in their small Cassandra, in Greek Association of Penticton, the Penticton waterfront cottage in Pender Harbour myth—an analogy Regional Hospital Board and Kiwanis. until the end. He died peacefully with that he himself made “Bill was a long-time friend and men- Send letters or emails to: his family and caregivers around him more than once— tor,” says Nancy Wise of Sandhill Book BC BookWorld, 3516 W. 13th Ave., and his sense of humour intact. In his gifted with proph- Marketing in Kelowna. “He taught me Vancouver, BC V6R 2S3 final hours when a nurse asked him ecy, yet never hav- much about bookselling when I was [email protected] how he was, he whispered between ing those prophecies just starting out. His warmth and sense Letters may be edited for clarity & length. Wayne Skene gasps, “Hundred per cent!” fully appreciated.” A of humour are fondly remembered.”

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