• From Fjord to Floathouse: one family's journey from the farmlands of Norway to the coast of British Columbia -

  (Book - Amazon.ca) : From Fjord to Floathouse is the saga of hardy pioneers living in snug floating homes and sustained by surrounding sea and forest. Their chosen life meant communication and transportation by water only, with semi-weekly shipments of mail and staple supplies (anything they could not shoot, catch, or pick). In short time segments complete with quotes, photographs, maps, recipes and family charts, readers are drawn into a rural lifestyle that only few have experienced, or even been aware existed. This book may also be available from Amazon.com (United States) and Amazon.co.uk (United Kingdom). Click on links for details.

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• Lilies and Fireweed : Frontier Women of British Columbia -

  (Book - Amazon.ca) : Lilies and Fireweed is packed with unforgettable stories of women surviving in the unforgiving, sometimes hostile environment of pioneer and aboriginal British Columbia. Based on award-winning journalist Stephen Hume's popular series "Frontier Women of BC" that appeared in the Vancouver Sun in 2002, this collection of essays contains stories, photographs and other materials that have never before been published. This book may also be available from Amazon.com (United States) and Amazon.co.uk (United Kingdom). Click on links for details.

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• The Encyclopedia of British Columbia -

  (Book - Amazon.ca) : The Encyclopedia of British Columbia is the definitive reference work on BC. With more than 4,000 entries and hundreds of photos, maps, tables and charts, the EBC is the source of readable and authoritative information on all the significant BC people, places and things that you would currently have to search a vast library to find. What makes the EBC even better is the wealth of special local information and BC lore - all those details that make BC the weird and wonderful place it is. This book is also available at Amazon.com (United States) and Amazon.co.uk (United Kingdom). Click on links for details.

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• The West beyond the West: A History of British Columbia -

  (Book - Amazon.ca) : Jean Barman's "The West beyond the West" presents the history of BC in all its diversity and apparent contradictions. Barman's critically acclaimed work is the premiere BC history book, with a narrative beginning at the point of contact between Native peoples and Europeans and continuing into the twenty-first century. This book may also be available from Amazon.com (United States) and Amazon.co.uk (United Kingdom). Click on links to check for availability.

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• Westcoasters: Boats That Built British Columbia -

  (Book - Amazon.ca) : Grand, harrowing, touching, and downright wacky, the story of the boats and ships of the British Columbia coast is intregal to the history of the coast itself. In these stories of fourteen boats that plied BC waters, Westcoasters presents coastal history at its best - informative, well researched, packed with wonderful old photographs, and lots of fun to read. This book is also available from Amazon.com (United States) and Amazon.co.uk (United Kingdom). Click on links for details.

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