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Becoming Lin

Becoming Lin

by Tricia Dower
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It's 1965. Twenty-two-year-old Linda Wise despairs of escaping her overprotective parents and her hometown, where far too many know she was sexually assaulted as a teenager. Deliverance arrives in the form of marriage to the charismatic, twenty-six-year-old Ronald Brunson, a newly ordained Methodist minister who ignites her passion for social justi …

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Ground-Truthing

Ground-Truthing

Reimagining the Indigenous Rainforests of BC's North Coast
by Derrick Stacey Denholm
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Derrick Stacey Denholm has spent twenty-five years as a forestry field worker, planting trees, marking cutblock boundaries and timber-cruising. In Ground-Truthing, he combines this experience with his perspective as a poet and artist to guide us through the tangle of social, ecological and economic slash piles that dominate BC’s North Coast. Scie …

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Women of Brave Mettle

Women of Brave Mettle

More Stories of the Cariboo Chilcotin
by Diana French
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In this much-anticipated second volume in the Extraordinary Women Anthology series, Diana French follows up on Gumption and Grit with more stories of the women who have contributed, or who are still contributing, to the vibrant mosaic that is the Cariboo Chilcotin. The area has more than its share of remarkable women, from educators to rodeo stars, …

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Tse-loh-ne (The People at the End of the Rocks)

Tse-loh-ne (The People at the End of the Rocks)

Journey Down the Davie Trail
by Keith Billington
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The Tse-loh-ne from the Sekani First Nation were known as “The People at the End of the Rocks.” This small band of people lived and thrived in one of BC’s most challenging and remote areas, 1600 kilometres north of Prince George in the Rocky Mountain Trench. They were isolated and nomadic, and survived by following the seasons, walking hundre …

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And the River Still Sings

And the River Still Sings

A Wilderness Dweller's Journey
by Chris Czajkowski
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How does one go from English villager to wilderness dweller?

Chris Czajkowski was born and raised at the edge of a large village in England, until she abandoned the company of others to roam the countryside in search of the natural world. As a young adult she studied dairy farming and travelled to Uganda to teach at a farm school. Returning to Engla …

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Gumboot Girls

Gumboot Girls

Adventure, Love & Survival on British Columbia's North Coast
edited by Lou Allison, compiled by Jane Wilde
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Forty years ago, droves of young women migrated away from urban settings and settled in rural areas across North America. Many settled on the north coast of British Columbia, on Haida Gwaii or around Prince Rupert. Gumboot Girls tells the stories of thirty-four women, through their own eyes, as they moved from their comfortable city-dwelling surrou …

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Journeywoman

Journeywoman

Swinging a Hammer in a Man's World
by Kate Braid
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Since women started working in the trades in the 1970s, very little has been published about their experiences. In this provocative and important book, Kate Braid tells the story of how she became a carpenter in the face of skepticism and discouragement.

In 1977 when Braid was broke and out of work, her male friends encouraged her to apply as a labo …

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