October 18, 2024 The Wild North Land: A winter journey by dogsled across Canada to British Columbia, Oregon, and the Pacific by William Francis Butler Edmonton: M. G. Hurtig Ltd., 1968 (orig. published 1873) * I know what you’re thinking: another historical, ruminating, British colonialist travelogue, espousing the wonders…
September 13, 2023 Down the Road: journeys through small-town British Columbia by Rosemary Neering “Making a living, dealing with isolation: constants of a small-town life.” -Rosemary Neering When I rode my KLR 650 up to Loon Lake in…
June 14, 2023 The Northwood novels The Honourable Schoolboy June 13, 2023 Soon, books began to appear. Published in 1991 by Greey de Pencier Books in Toronto, novels…
August 11, 2022 The Fort-to-Fort Trail August 11, 2022 It may not be along the North Arm of the Fraser, but Fort Langley is a difficult place to omit when…
October 24, 2020 Recollections from the set November 15, 2021 I recently read The Beachcombers at 40: Bruno and the Beach. Written by both the late Marc Strange (a writer and…
September 13, 2019 Learning from Laing: how a 20th Century naturalist has influenced me It has been nearly two years since a project with a different flavour from what I had done previously began. What started off as…
December 14, 2016 A Sense of Place I’m a stay-at-home dad. Does that surprise you? During the winter I’m more likely to be found at the helm of a Subaru Impreza…
