In 2009, Victoria's CHEK-TV became the first employee-owned television station in North America after corporate owner CanWest Global threatened to shut it down. The David-and-Goliath story made national headlines and reawakened a belief...
British Columbia--Vancouver Island
- Auteur:Dakers, Diane, Finckenstein, Konrad Von VonSommaire:
- Auteur:Lycopolus, Emily, Acken, DLSommaire:
Homegrown, modern recipes that feature the most treasured local ingredients from Vancouver Island's forests, fields, farms and sea. Off the shore of Canada's west coast lies a food lover's island paradise. Vancouver Island's temperate...
- Auteur:Hodgins, JackSommaire:
In Jack Hodgins’ new novel, Cadillac Cathedral, he is at his humorous best in describing the eccentric but lovable characters in the little town of Portuguese Creek on Vancouver Island. Arvo is the main figure, a Finn who has worked in...
- Auteur:Hodgins, JackSommaire:
In 1922, as returned soldiers clear the land they were given on Vancouver Island, the spectre of the First World War lingers in everyone's mind. Johanna Seyerstead waits for her missing-in-action husband to return; Wyatt Taylor has...
- Auteur:Allin, LouSommaire:
In this new series by the acclaimed author of the Belle Palmer mysteries, RCMP Corporal Holly Martin takes charge of her first post, a detachment in tiny Fossil Bay on the wild south coast of Vancouver Island. Drunk drivers, speeders...
- Auteur:Ozeki, RuthSommaire:
In Tokyo, 16-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her great grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived...