Books

Books

Author Q&A: “Our Backs Warmed by the Sun: Memories of a Doukhobor Life”

Our blog series “Author Q&A” pulls back the curtain on the historical writing process, introducing local authors and hearing how their stories...

Hastings Mill book launched

This past Saturday, Hastings Mill: The Historic Times of a Vancouver Community by Lisa Anne Smith had...

Author Q&A: “The Kissing Fence” by B.A. Thomas-Peter

Our new blog series "Author Q&A" pulls back the curtain on the historical writing process, introducing local authors and hearing how their...

BCHF conference: Connections 2021 at Surrey

The province’s largest historical organization successfully conducted its first virtual conference in partnership with the Surrey Historical...

Royal BC Museum publications go digital

If efforts to make their books more widely available and accessible, the Royal BC Museum has converted a number of their publications...

Tashme Museum hosting authors

Three authors who have all written about the Japanese Canadian internment will be...

What to read? List of 2019 winners and participants for the BCHF historical writing...

https://youtu.be/ClTiKDxhaN0 Winners Lieutenant Governor’s Medal for Historical Writing Michael Layland, In...

Wagon Road North by Art Downs back in print

Victoria-based book publishing company, Heritage House Publishing, is releasing a newly revised and updated edition of Wagon Road North: The Saga of the...

New Japanese Canadian books honoured

Four Japanese-Canadian books published in 2017 will be celebrated at the Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre on November 25, 2017, during the Centre's...

New book gives tramway builder Byron Riblet his due

He was a brilliant engineer, responsible for the construction of aerial mining trams in the Kootenays and around the world. But you’ve...