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
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 wayBy ERIC NICOL’S6 min
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 returnBy Macdonald Reynolds24 min
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 PacificBy Bruce Hutchison23 min
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 phenomenonBy BLAIR FRASER18 min
Legends are among B.C.’s famous exports. Red Wind and Running Hawk doubted this one until Captain Bromfield-Coogan’s trap revealedBy VERNON HOCKLEY17 min
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