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/By Richard Cole and K. Jane Watt
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Places of Her Heart
The Art and Life
of Barbara Boldt
Containing over 200 of Boldt's paintings as well as archival photos and sketches, this lavish memoir speaks of the challenges and joys of establishing a career as a woman painter in Canada.
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A Vancouver dancer in New York making a life on the stage after World War II. A Saskatchewan schoolteacher in the Dirty Thirties, later Fraser Valley tire salesman, raconteur. A Vancouver businessman with roots in the hardscrabble mill town that is now Vancouver’s tony Yaletown. These are some of the stories we have brought to print.
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BC Book Prizes Finalist
March 14, 2018
A Good Day We are delighted and humbled that Surrey: A City of Stories has been named as a finalist in the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional prize category, part of BC Book Prizes 2018. Place is built as much on layers of stories as it is on landscape or building fabric, and we worked hard to… Read more »
We Are Kwantlen Exhibit
March 8, 2017
The We Are Kwantlen exhibit we developed in partnership with Skipp Design for the Seyem’ Qwantlen Business Group and Kwantlen Nation has closed at the Langley Centennial Museum. But you will be able to see this work and the stunning landscape photographs and portraiture by Gary Fiegehen when the exhibit opens in the Big House at… Read more »
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Surrey: A City of Stories
November 6, 2017
Surrey: A City of Stories is the legacy project proposed by the Surrey Heritage Advisory Commission in celebration of Canada 150. The Commission’s aspirations were high: they hoped to create a book that would be an experience — both a richly illustrated visual chronicle and a beautifully written tribute to Surrey and its citizens over… Read more »
The Girl Who Writes
June 14, 2017
In this engaging story of hope and perseverance, a young girl dreams of being a writer. The girl is shaped by her passion for reading and her exuberant imagination. Although her eyes are open to the world around her and to the wealth of stories she was born into, her journey of becoming a writer… Read more »