Kirjahaku

The old buildings and historic places of British Columbia form a kind of "roadside memory," a tangible link with stories of settlement, change, and abandonment that reflect the great themes of our history. With small towns declining and old rural properties changing, so little of the history of these places has been recorded in museums or archives, and so much of it may disappear as families disperse and memories dim.More than a decade ago, Michael Kluckner began painting these dots on his personal map of the province in a watercolour sketchbook. In 1999, after he put a few of the sketches on his website, a network of correspondents emerged that eventually led him to the family letters, photo albums, and memories – all from a disappearing era of the province.Vanishing British Columbia is a record of these places and the stories they tell. It combines engaging and insightful historical commentary with over 160 of the author's original paintings. It has an exceptional assortment of historic imagery, including old postcards, architectural plans, and photographs.The study of roadside memory demonstrates the visceral connection that people, especially those who are part of the rural-to-urban diaspora of modern times, have for the sites of their family memories. On a grander scale this approach leads to a broader understanding of more abstract historical themes and of the province's history and culture. It also presents a compelling argument for stewardship of regional history in the face of urbanization and globalization.

The old buildings and historic places of British Columbia form a kind of "roadside memory," a tangible link with stories of settlement, change, and abandonment that reflect the great themes of our history. With small towns declining and old rural properties changing, so little of the history of these places has been recorded in museums or archives, and so much of it may disappear as families disperse and memories dim.More than a decade ago, Michael Kluckner began painting these dots on his personal map of the province in a watercolour sketchbook. In 1999, after he put a few of the sketches on his website, a network of correspondents emerged that eventually led him to the family letters, photo albums, and memories – all from a disappearing era of the province.Vanishing British Columbia is a record of these places and the stories they tell. It combines engaging and insightful historical commentary with over 160 of the author's original paintings. It has an exceptional assortment of historic imagery, including old postcards, architectural plans, and photographs.The study of roadside memory demonstrates the visceral connection that people, especially those who are part of the rural-to-urban diaspora of modern times, have for the sites of their family memories. On a grander scale this approach leads to a broader understanding of more abstract historical themes and of the province's history and culture. It also presents a compelling argument for stewardship of regional history in the face of urbanization and globalization.

Twenty years after the Patriotic War, Detective Sara Fidelia is summoned to investigate a mutilated Mort left at South Gate, just outside the walled city. All the clues point to a Perp from the rebel town of Excursion, miles away on the other side of the river. She sets off across the ruined city, and through encounters with mysterious strangers slowly realizes she's a pawn in a much larger game. A benevolent dictatorship controls the world, enforcing the teachings of the charismatic Sensei. Determined to heal the environmental damage of the past century, it keeps the impoverished citizens pacified with an addictive drink called Pleasant Planet. 2050 is a murder mystery set in a post-apocalyptic landscape - recognizably the Vancouver area - reduced by climate change, war and pandemic to a fraction of its former size.

A novelist, journalist, socialite, botanist, explorer, and World War I ambulance driver, Julia Henshaw was a unique and colourful personality. This graphic biography follows her eventful life from Montreal to Vancouver, from Banff to London, and from the mining towns of BC's Kootenays to the battlefields of France and Belgium. Her strongly expressed views of women's roles and voting rights, of racial and class issues, and of Canada's relationship to Great Britain and the US are an illuminating contrast with the values of her contemporaries, and with society today.

Wartime, 1944, in the British Columbia Interior - a farm boy becomes curious about the predicament of two Japanese-Canadian teenagers marooned on a nearby farm with their families, unable to live in their former homes on the coast. His friendship with the girl, Toshiko, blossoms into romance and becomes a scandal following a fight at a school dance. Thrown out of his house by his racist father, he sets off with her on a freight train bound for Vancouver.

Michael Kluckner had accumulated sketches of relics and houses of old Vancouver and rural British Columbia over a period of nine years. It was time to publish these creation like like those in his award-winning, best-selling books from the 1990s and 2000s in the frist section of the book called "Here." Accompanying them are images of people and places that capture his trademark kind of "Vancouver poetry." In the second section of the book, "Gone", Kluckner present us with artwork from his travel sketchbooks of journeys around the world that includes rural BC, Australia, Asia and Europe.

This book asks and answers two questions. What's survived in Vancouver? And how do you survive in Vancouver? From historic neighbourhoods under threat from land speculation to the debates about densifying and making room, Michael Kluckner explores the contested space of Metro Vancouver, using his classic watercolour images from the past 25 years. Forty years after his Vancouver The Way It Was book, Surviving Vancouver concludes his study of the city.

In this era of overcrowded airplanes, huge cruise ships and post-Covid "revenge travel," is it still possible to take a holiday without making reservations and planning every minute of it? Michael Kluckner's entertaining stories from 50 years of travel demonstrate that you can still "wing it," even in the 2020s. Reflecting on travellers' tales from centuries ago, this book demonstrates both how much and how little has changed when you go on the road.