Free Spirit
Stories of You, Me and BC
- Publisher
- Royal BC Museum
- Initial publish date
- May 2008
- Category
- General, Western Provinces, Popular Culture
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Unknown
- ISBN
- 9780772658708
- Publish Date
- May 2008
- List Price
- $29.95
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Description
Highlighted by brilliant photographs, the colourful stories of British Columbia's history leap off the pages of this beautiful book. BC became a colony in 1858, and this book celebrates its 150 years with a selection of vignettes about objects from our collective past and the people intimately involved with them. This entertaining book captures the essence of British Columbia and the diversity of its people and landscapes. Among the stories are a dozen selections from the Peoples History Project: personal stories and short family histories from around the province. This book also includes Evergreen Playland, a DVD of BC tourism travelogues from the 1950s and 1960s.
About the author
Gerald Truscott was born and raised in British Columbia and spent most of his professional life publishing books, editing and writing for the Royal BC Museum. He also writes fiction and non-fiction, has published several short stories and articles and was the author of Free Spirit: Stories of You, Me and BC (RBCM 2008).