B.C. journalist Stephen Hume has said that fur trader and explorer Simon Fraser should be celebrated as the founder of British Columbia. Certainly, the achievements of the Scottish-descended United Empire Loyalist adventurer were impressive. During three extraordinary years, 1805-1808, Fraser undertook the third major expedition (after Alexander Mackenzie s and Lewis and Clark s) across North America, culminating in his famous journey down the river in British Columbia that now bears his name.
Employed by the Montreal-based North West Company, Fraser was responsible for building...
B.C. journalist Stephen Hume has said that fur trader and explorer Simon Fraser should be celebrated as the founder of British Columbia. Certainly,...
Half-Mohawk, half-English author Pauline Johnson astounded Canada with her unique poetry, prose, and presentations.
Pauline Johnson was an unusual and unique presence on the literary scene during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Part Mohawk and part European, she was a compelling female voice in the midst of an almost entirely male writing community. Having discovered her talent for public recitation of poetry, Johnson relied on her ancestry and gender to establish an international reputation for her stage performances, during which she appeared in European and native...
Half-Mohawk, half-English author Pauline Johnson astounded Canada with her unique poetry, prose, and presentations.
A new edition of Philip Child's great Canadian novel of the First World War.
A horrifying description of war, God's Sparrows is a novel rich in compassion and firm in its faith in the human spirit. Philip Child created a Canadian family saga that is still raw a lifetime later.
As his characters struggle to maintain their humanity under agonizing circumstances, Child's book, first published in 1937, offers profound insight into the experience of the Great War, as not just a global catastrophe, but also as a crucible in which the whole of his nation found...
A new edition of Philip Child's great Canadian novel of the First World War.
A horrifying description of war, God's Sparrows i...
