The Flying Dutchman Series: Nanaimo’s Last Hanging (Content Warning)
A turkey vulture soars in a thermal updraft at the upper edge of the troposphere in 1913. Below, the temperate rainforest of Vancouver Island appears much as it has for millennia, an upbroken swath of ruffled green clamoring for sunlight.
Perez Park at Number 8 Mine: The Drac Castle Neighbourhood That Never Was
At the turn of the twentieth century, a would-be investor in Victoria, BC sat down with his morning coffee and opened a booklet entitled There’s Money for You in Perez Park.
Book Review: Orphans of Empire
Laced with tenderness and humour, Grant Buday’s Orphans of Empire weaves three mid-nineteenth century frontier stories into a gritty and desolate tale of British Columbia’s lesser-known history.