Raincoast chronicles, first five

White, Howard, 1945- (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 092008012X
ISBN: 9780920080122
Physical Description: print
270 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm
Edition: Collector's ed.
Publisher: Madeira Park, B.C. : Harbour Pub., ©1976.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

Number 1 -- Rum running / Ed Starkins -- B.C. Whaling: the Indians -- B.C. whaling: the Indians / JOn Van Arsdell -- Toticias de Nutka / Scott Lawrance -- Pender Harbour: a steamer stop / Jackie Holecka -- George Bowerings "Captain Vancouver" / Scott Lawrence -- Petroglyphs / Scott Lawrence -- The Haida Potato / Scott Lawrence -- A B.C. leper colony / Ed Starkins -- They don't make 'em anymore dept. : Martha Warnock / Jackie Holecka -- Number 2 -- Pioneer steamers of Vancouver Harbour / Scotty McIntyre -- Lighthouses on the B.C. coast / Howard White, Scotty McIntyre -- Buddhist Columbia / Scott Lawrence -- Towboating / Peggy McCaffrey -- Tsimsyan myths / Scott Lawrence -- The cargo-hulks / Peter Trower -- The wanderings of an artist: Paul Kane at the Pacific / Scott Lawrence -- Notes & queries -- Raincoast place names: the Nawhitti Country / Lester R. Peterson -- B.C. whaling: the white men / Peter Trower -- They don't make 'em anymore department: Basil Joe / D.G. Poole -- Number 3 -- From the hill to the spill: (a breathless history of B.C. logging) / Peter Trower -- Railways in the woods / Scott Lawrence -- Marry'n and Barry'n logger style / Canon Alan Greene -- Book review: Chiefly Indian / Scott Lawrence -- How it was with trucks / Frank and Howard White -- Poems by Peter Trower, logger / Peter Trower -- A fir tree of the mind / Todd Carney -- Sojourn at Junkie Log / Peter Trower -- Notes & queries -- They don't make 'em anymore department: Baker / John Kelly -- Number 4: British Columbia's depopulated Coast / Lester R. Peterson -- Sointula: Saltfish and spuds Utopia / Scott Lawrance -- Growing up in Bella Coola / Leslie Kopas -- Bringing the Indians to their knees: the coast's first Christian mission / Howard White -- Ghostcamps of Howe Sound / Peter Trower -- Notes & Queries -- The great pacific sealhunt / Patrick Lane -- Non-European iron among teh Haida: new evidence / David Ellis -- The tale fo the snot boy / Charles E. Lillard -- They don't make 'em anymore department: Captain Herbert Clinton / Donald Peck -- Book Review: mist on the river / Scott Lawrence -- Number 5 -- Skiffs, gillnets and poverty-stocks / Peter Trower -- Sunrise at the Fraser's mouth / Al Purdy -- The welcome quests / Scott Lawance -- Day of the hand troller / Hubert Evans -- Eulachon. Salvation / Scott Lawrance -- Fishing rivers inlet by sail and oar / Lester R. Peterson -- Garden variety / Scott Lawrance -- Halibut: scenting woman / Scott Lawrance -- Tides / Howard White and Margaret McCaffrey -- The bank trollers / Bertrand W. Sinclair -- Book reviews / Peter Trower, Howard White -- Unloading a dragger at Campbell Avenue & Stikine / Allan Safarik -- They don't make 'em anymore: Peck Easthope / Howard White -- Pioneers in paradise: Roy Padgett / Robert Wishlaw and Howard White.