Research Catalog
The survival guide to British Columbia
- Title
- The survival guide to British Columbia / Ian Ferguson.
- Author
- Ferguson, Ian (Author of How to be a Canadian)
- Publication
- Victoria ; Vancouver ; Calgary : Heritage House Publishing Company Ltd., [2019]
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 20-2276 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 211 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "So you've arrived in British Columbia. Perhaps you're just passing through; perhaps you want to stay a while. You may even be contemplating making British Columbia your home. What you need is a well-researched, clearly written, and comprehensive guide to living and even prospering in Canada's westernmost province. This isn't it. However, the information contained in this book will allow you to experience British Columbia with minimal damage to your health and well being. Having lived in nearly every province in the country before settling in BC, Ian Ferguson can say with great authority that things work differently here. So differently, in fact, that visitors and newcomers from other parts of Canada may put themselves in physical (or social) peril if they try to dress, act, drive, work, vote, or socialize in the same ways as they would in Ontario, New Brunswick, or (god forbid) Alberta. With practical advice, little-known facts, and personal anecdotes, Ferguson tackles everything from how to recognize a local (and differentiate the various types of facial hair that delineate the male British Columbian) to how to survive both natural and unnatural disasters (whether it's a light dusting of snow on the southern tip of Vancouver Island or a full-blown hockey riot) to how BC has been governed through the ages (like the time a bootlegger was put in charge of prohibition). Illuminating, hilarious, and only mildly offensive (if you have no sense of humour), The Survival Guide to British Columbia will make you question why you ever came here in the first place."--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Humor.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Call Number
- JFD 20-2276
- ISBN
- 9781772032840
- 1772032840
- OCLC
- 1103979956
- Author
- Ferguson, Ian (Author of How to be a Canadian), author.
- Title
- The survival guide to British Columbia / Ian Ferguson.
- Publisher
- Victoria ; Vancouver ; Calgary : Heritage House Publishing Company Ltd., [2019]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Additional Formats
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Ferguson, Ian, 1959- Survival guide to British Columbia. Victoria ; Vancouver ; Calgary : Heritage House Publishing Company Ltd., [2019] 1772032859 9781772032857 (OCoLC)1110579688
- Research Call Number
- JFD 20-2276