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  • Following the Curve of Time

    The Legendary M. Wylie Blanchet

    by Cathy Converse ...
    Who was this skipper, this mother, this writer? These questions motivated Cathy Converse to re-trace the route of famous pacific seafarer M. Wylie Capi Blanchet, and write a biography in the process. Widowed in 1926, Blanchet cruised the coast with her five children and their dog in a 25-foot boat that had been rescued from the seafloor. The Curve of Time, Blanchet's resulting book, remains a ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD

  • Frances Barkley

    Eighteenth-century Seafarer

    by Cathy Converse ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    A rivetingly imagined re-telling of the voyages of Frances Barkley (1769–1845), who as a young woman travelled the world on a trading mission with her sea captain husband.Over two hundred years ago, Frances Barkley, a seventeen-year-old girl fresh out of a convent school in France, met twenty-six-year-old sea captain, fell deeply in love, and married him after a six-week courtship. Five weeks ... Read more

    $6.29 CAD

  • The Remarkable World of Frances Barkley

    1769-1845

    by Beth Hill, Cathy Converse ...
    Frances Barkley was just eighteen when she became the first European woman to set foot on the west coast of North America. After a sheltered upbringing in England, Frances found herself boarding the Imperial Eagle in 1786 to set sail on an adventurous, round-the-world voyage with her husband, Captain Charles William Barkley.With great wisdom and wit, Frances recounted her eight years at sea in her ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Against the Current

    The Remarkable Life of Agnes Deans Cameron

    by Cathy Converse ...
    Received an Honourable Mention for the 2018 Lieutenant Governor's Medal for Historical WritingThe first book on Agnes Deans Cameron, BC’s first female principal, itinerant traveller, and journalist.Agnes Deans Cameron was an extraordinary woman who was ahead by a century. Born in Victoria in 1863, she was the first female school principal in the province, but she worked tirelessly to achieve work ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • Auntie Vie

    A Life of Pickles and Pearls

    by Cathy Converse ...
    Brought into the media spotlight by her great-niece Pamela Anderson, Auntie Vie burst onto the scene as Pamela’s biggest supporter on “Dancing with the Stars.” Unexpectedly, Auntie Vie’s distinctive balance of earned wisdom and chic glamour quickly charmed the media and viewers of all ages. Her door suddenly stormed by cameras and reporters, Auntie Vie never missed a beat. Having harnessed the ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • The Curve Of Time

    by M. Wylie Blanchet ...
    "Time did not exist; or if it did it did not mater. Our world then was both wide and narrow—wide in the immensity of the sea and mountain; narrow in that the boat was very small, and we lived and camped, explored and swam in a little realm of our own making…"This is the fascinating true adventure story of a woman who packed her five children onto a twenty-five-foot boat and explored the coastal ... Read more

    $6.98 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • To the Lighthouse

    An Explorer's Guide to the Island Lighthouses of Southwestern BC

    by Peter Johnson, John Walls ...
    Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands are home to over two dozen active lighthouses. For over a century, these coastal beacons have guided ships through the fog and represented hope for countless mariners. Today, the lighthouses on BC’s southern islands are ideal destinations for day trippers and coastal explorers of all ages who are looking for historical sites in spectacular maritime settings.To ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Rupert's Land

    by Meredith Quartermain ...
    At the height of the Great Depression, two Prairie children struggle with poverty and uncertainty. Surrounded by religion, law, and her authoritarian father, Cora Wagoner daydreams about what it would be like to abandon society altogether and join one of the Indian tribes she’s read so much about.Saddened by struggles with Indian Agent restrictions, Hunter George wonders why his father doesn’t ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Rosina, the Midwife

    by Jessica Kluthe ...
    Between 1870 and 1970, 26 million Italians left their homeland and travelled to places like Canada, Australia and the United States, in search of work. Many of them never returned to Italy. Against this historic backdrop comes the story of Rosina, a Calabrian matriarch, who worked as a midwife in an area where only one doctor served three villages. She was also the only member of the Russo family ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Adventures in Solitude

    What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound, Abridged

    by Grant Lawrence ...
    From Captain George Vancouver to Muriel Curve of Time” Blanchet to Jim Spilsbury’s Coast” Spilsbury, visitors to Desolation Sound have left behind a trail of books endowing the area with a romantic aura that helps to make it British Columbia’s most popular marine park. In this hilarious and captivating book, CBC personality Grant Lawrence adds a whole new chapter to the saga of this storied piece ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unsettling Canada

    A National Wake-Up Call

    by Arthur Manuel, Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson ...
    Unsettling Canada, a Canadian bestseller, is built on a unique collaboration between two First Nations leaders, Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief Ron Derrickson.Both men have served as chiefs of their bands in the B.C. interior and both have gone on to establish important national and international reputations. But the differences between them are in many ways even more interesting. Arthur Manuel is ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Murder in the Chilcotin

    by Roy Innes ...
    Series Book 3 - Inspector Coswell of the RCMP
    The third book in Roy Innes' mystery series sends RCMP Inspector Coswell and the newly promoted Sergeant Blakemore to the rugged district of West Cariboo in British Columbia, where a young Mountie constable has been found dead in his burnt-out cruiser at the bottom of a ravine. But what looks like an accident quickly reveals itself as a poorly disguised murder. With a young and ambitious Tribal ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD