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Raincoast chronicles: eleven up Cover Image Book Book

Raincoast chronicles: eleven up

White, Howard, 1945- (editor.).

Summary: "Ghost towns looming silently out of the fog, villages torn apart by storms, forest fires fought with "flying boats" as big as jetliners, the Chilcotin War, grizzlies and sasquatches, life in a float camp tethered to a rocky shore - this is Raincoast Chronicles Eleven Up. The book comprises numbers 11-15 of the Chronicles, and about 35 pages of new stories., articles, yams and coast lore. Back in 1972, the first issue of Raincoast Chronicles caused a publishing sensation. Here was West Coast history not as a footnote to something bigger-and-better from back east, but as the voice of a distinct and powerful culture. The Chronicles stories of fishermen, lighthouses, gyppo loggers and Native people rang a bell with thousands of coast readers. Raincoast Chronicles First Five was a BC bestseller, and so was Raincoast Chronicles Six-Ten. The perfect gift for lovers of coast lore or anyone who really wants to know what it's like here, Raincoast Chronicles Eleven Up is a large-format hardcover with over 300 black-and-white photographs. As always in the Chronicles, famous writers appear side by side with first-time authors who have a good story to tell. The award-winning writing of Howard White is well represented here, and there are contributions from Edith Iglauer, Jim Spilsbury, Clayton Mack, Anne Cameron, Peter Trower, Alan Haig-Brown, and a host of others who have made and lived BC coast history."--

Record details

  • ISBN: 1550171054
  • ISBN: 9781550171051
  • Physical Description: 408 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
  • Edition: Collector's edition III.
  • Publisher: Madeira Park, British Columbia : Harbour Publishing, 1994.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Reprint of issues eleven to fifteen of the periodical Raincoast chronicles.
Includes indexes (author index: page 405, general index: pages 406-408).
Formatted Contents Note: Introduction / Howard White -- Number Eleven: Stories from the Horseshoe Valley / Lillian Lamont Bateman -- The Fabulous West 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 at Bella Bella / Flora c. Moffat -- 84 Years in Bella Coola: A Conversation with George Draney / barry Brower -- Whaling Stations of the Queen Charlottes / William Hagelund -- 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 Twelve: Logging on Savary Island / A.J. Spilsbury -- The Gentle Giant 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 -- 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 Jagpat -- Leo Retires / Sid Andersen. Number Thirteen: 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 Jews 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 Roverts -- Flying Poems / Dennis Currie -- The Sacramental Dance of the Two Old Loggers / John Shrieber -- Fire in a Finnish Colony: Sointula 1903 / Paula Wild -- Flying for the Sake of Flying / Maurice McGregor with Paul Stoddart -- How Rave 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 Fourteen / Florence Tickner: Fish Hooks & Caulk Boots: Foreword / Howard White -- Preface -- 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 -- Alert Bay -- The Big Move -- Sources and Acknowledgements. Number Fifteen: Grizzlies & Sasquatches / Clayton Mack -- Visitors / Dick 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. Author index. General index.

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