May 10, 1958

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A NATIVE'S RETURN TO B.C.

In a centennial year, an expatriate British Columbian looks affectionately (and sometimes critically) at his former home: "the go-the-limit province, the boom-or-bust province ...that part of Canada where nothing is done by halves" By Pierre Berton45 min

Sweet & sour

Short history of B.C.

From colony to Centennial and back again, with irreverent asides on Captain Vancouver, why the War of 1812 went east and how Victoria got that way By ERIC NICOL’S6 min

The vanishing giant that built a province

The Douglas Fir survived the Ice Age, saw Drake and Cook and gave birth to B.C.’s greatest industry. Now ravaged by loggers, made old-fashioned by science, it’s past the point of no return By Macdonald Reynolds24 min

THE STREETS OF CANADA: Government

It walks from Victoria's seafront like a dowager, turns seductress and merchant, and dies like a tramp. In its two-mile odyssey it is haunted by gold seekers, a genius, eccentrics, and the visionaries who wed Canada to the Pacific By Bruce Hutchison23 min

The rise and fall of Social Credit

Surging “On to Ottawa” just a year ago, the west’s wonder party now seems headed for destruction. Maclean’s Ottawa editor reports on the oddly assorted men and mixed ideas that created, briefly, a unique political phenomenon By BLAIR FRASER18 min

The Salty Princesses of the Pacific Coast

B.C. wouldn’t be the same without the Princess boats. They've ferried sourdoughs, fought steamboat wars, set speed records. Now they’re as much a part of the seascape as the gulls By Bay Gardner15 min

Maclean's Movies

BEST BET CRY TERROR!: Rod Steiger (left) as a master-criminal, Inger Stevens and James Mason as his terrorized hostages, and Jack Kingman as an assistant badman are prominent in this crisp, tightly plotted suspense thriller. It was written, directed and co-produced by the versatile Andrew L. Stone, who knows how to combine tension and plausibility. By CLYDE GILMOUR3 min