Research Catalog

Title

Raincoast chronicles eleven up : stories & history of the British Columbia coast from Raincoast chronicles, issues 11-15 / edited by Howard White.

Publication

Madeira Park, B.C. : Harbour Pub., c1994.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

White, Howard, 1945-

Description

408 p. : ill.; 29 cm.

Series Statement

Raincoast chronicles ; 11

Uniform Title

Raincoast chronicles ; 11.

Subject

• Frontier and pioneer life > British Columbia
• Vie des pionniers > Colombie-Britannique
• British Columbia > History
• Colombie-Britannique > Histoire

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Includes indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Number 11. Stories from the Horseshoe Valley / Lillian Lamont Bateman -- The Fabulous Wet Coast / Al Bloom -- Some Childhood Memories of Clo'oose / Angela Newitt -- Lund: The Beginning of the Road / Shirley Corbett -- Lost Villages of Vancouver Island / Jean Wallbank -- Two Poems / Anne Cameron -- Minstrel Island / Howard White -- Hospital Life in Bella Bella / Flora C. Moffat -- 84 Years in Bella Coola: A Conversation with George Draney / Barry Brower -- Whaling Stations of the Queen Charlottes ; Dance of the Whales / William Hagelund -- They Don't Make "Em Anymore Department: Frank Osborne / Jim Spilsbury -- Turning Our Backs on the Sea / Howard White -- I Knew a Logger / Bill Moore.
• Number 12. Logging on Savary Island / A.J. Spilsbury -- The Gentle Giants of Sproat Lake / A.M. Feast -- Bella Coola / Edith Iglauer -- Mexican Standoff / Peter Trower -- The Worst Storm in Sunshine Coast History / Helen Dawe -- Fire Up Above, Fire Down Below / Lillian Lamont Bateman -- Twenty Miles to Paradise: Gower Point, 1917-1925 / John Watson -- Keep On Fishing / Alan Haig-Brown -- My Experience With Greatness / Howard White -- They Don't Make 'Em Anymore / Gordon Ballentine with Paul Stoddart -- Skookumchuck Solstice / Peter Trower -- The First Sikhs in the Sawmills / Sarjeet Singh Jagpal -- Leo Retires / Sid Anderson.
• Number 13. The Sinking of the Arlene P / Julia Moe -- How I Got the Dump Job / Howard White -- Jokerville / N.W. Emmott -- Waddington and the Chilcotin War / Scotty McIntyre -- The Only Jew in Gibsons Landing / Dan Propp -- Ghostwood / John Livingstone -- The Fable of the Flood / Richard Atleo -- Cortes Island Back Then / Gertie Lambert -- Basketmaking on the Sunshine Coast -- Troller / Kevin Roberts -- Flying Poem / Dennis Currie -- the Sacramental Dance of the Two Old Loggers / John Shreiber -- Fire in a Finnish Colony: Sointula 1903 / Paula Wild -- Flying for the Sake of Flying / Maurice McGregor with Paul Stoddart -- How Raven Captured the Day / Richard Atleo -- This Beautiful Country: Sechelt 1904-1908 / Joe Gregson with Helen Dawe -- The Wreck of the CP Yorke / Scotty McIntyre -- A Matter of Time / B.G. Coulson -- Silence / Dick Hammond -- Edible Mushrooms of the Raincoast / Howard White.
• Number 14. Florence Tickner: Fish Hooks & Caulk Boots. Foreword: Howard White. Dad -- The Handlogger -- "Uncle" Owen and Other Old-Timers -- Deadheads -- Uncle Ben -- Time and Tide -- Oh, Florence, How Could You? -- The Broken Foot -- The Union Steamship Company -- Minstrel Island -- Oh, the Fishing! -- Schools -- Cooks -- Picnics -- John Minoff, Bullcook -- Candy, Anyone? -- Christmas -- Deep Sea Bluff -- Bedfellows -- The Big Skate -- Moonshine and Home-Brew -- Fraser Creek -- Neighbours, Good and Bad -- Draft Dodgers -- Port Elizabeth -- Pit Lamping -- The Mumps and Other Assorted Illnesses -- Indians -- Picking Berries -- One Shell, One Shot -- Nightshirts in the Wind -- Mother's Big Fish -- Whales and Other Big Stories -- Mrs. Barberie and the Bear -- Ed McLean -- Hide the Ducks! -- The Old John -- Albert Bay -- The Big Move.
• Number 15. Grizzlies & Sasquatches / Clayton Mack -- Visitors / Rick Hammond -- Saturna / Barry Brower -- Voice From the Inlet / Don Benson -- Summer Intern at Bella Bella, 1947 / Adam C. Waldie -- Paul Bunyan: The Greatest Logger Who Ever Fed a Salesman to a Dog / Tom Henry -- Twenty-Four Colonels on the West Arm Road: Shawnigan Lake in the 1920s / Joan Mason Hurley -- The By-Pass Valve / Alan Haig-Brown -- The By-Gone Days of Dollarton / Sheryl Salloum -- One-Arm Willy, the Tattooed Lady and the Strongman / George M. Campbell.

ISBN

1550171054 :

LCCN

cn^94910484^

OCLC

30664446

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library