Summer issue celebrates B.C. at 150
It is a very special issue our readers will be picking up in the next couple of weeks. Our Summer 2008 edition marks the 150th year since British Columbia was founded as a Crown colony in 1858.
As I write this, the printers are wrapping this striking celebratory cover around our 100-page summer issue—our largest issue since the magazine was launched in 1959!
A special tip of my editor’s hat goes to all of the editorial staff for their work on this issue, particularly on the remarkable “Our history in pictures” photo essay, which takes readers on a visual journey over the past 150 years. Hundreds of hours of research went into the selection of photos and the accompanying text in this one-of-a-kind 18-page photo essay.
Other articles in the issue include:
* “Fast boat to Hell”: In which award-winning Vancouver writer Daniel Wood plunges into history on the Fraser River, daring to run Hells Gate exactly 200 years after explorer Simon Fraser wisely dodged these deadly rapids. Features a beautiful double-page Fraser River map.
* “Opening doors”: A profile of the exceptional new Haida Heritage Centre in Kaay Llnagaay, near Skidegate in the Queen Charlotte Islands, which is playing a key role in the spiritual, cultural, and economic revitalization of the First Nations of Haida Gwaii.
* “The enchanted Incomappleux forest”: Explore a Tolkienesque Interior rainforest in the Kootenays, complete with a waterfall-powered eco-hostel, gargantuan old-growth trees, secrets springs, and goblin’s gold.
* And much, much more!
Check back soon to our magazine’s website to view the new Photo Gallery, where we’ll be posting more than a dozen wonderful historical photographs from times gone by in British Columbia.