Table of Contents

Introduction Howard White
"Ratz": Francis Mawson Rattenbury, Architect Robin Ward
Opportunities for Youth, 1972, and the West Coast Trail Mark Bostwick
Hannah Maynard: Pioneer British Columbia Photographer Petra Watson
Donkey Boiler Coffee Arthur "Bill" Mayse
The Great Pox Douglas Hamilton
The August Schnarr Family of Bute Inlet Lynn Ove Mortensen
The Rock Bandits Paul Lawson
The Deer??? Dick Hammond
Kalpalin - an Aboriginal Metropolis Howard White
The Story of Ukahl Gilbert Joe
Please Do Not Touch the Gardenias Jack Springs
The Doctor Book Margaret McKirdy

About the Author

Howard White was born in 1945 in Abbotsford, British Columbia. He was raised in a series of camps and settlements on the BC coast and never got over it. He is still to be found stuck barnacle-like to the shore at Pender Harbour, BC. He started Raincoast Chronicles and Harbour Publishing in the early 1970s and his own books include A Hard Man to Beat (bio), The Men There Were Then (poems), Spilsbury's Coast (bio), The Accidental Airline (bio), Patrick and the Backhoe (childrens'), Writing in the Rain (anthology) and The Sunshine Coast (travel). He was awarded the Canadian Historical Association's Career Award for Regional History in 1989. In 2000, he completed a ten-year project, The Encyclopedia of British Columbia. He has been awarded the Order of BC, the Canadian Historical Association's Career Award for Regional History, the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, the Jim Douglas Publisher of the Year Award and a Honorary Doctorate of Laws Degree from the University of Victoria. In 2007, White was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. He has twice been runner-up in the Whisky Slough Putty Man Triathlon.