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"Harrington hopes her new book will act as an antidote to today’s cynicism and remind readers, through conservation success stories, that positive change can happen," writes Dana Gee in The Vancouver Sun. (Link in bio)

A TMR EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW 🎤
✏️Always Pack a Pen: An Interview with Marion McKinnon Crook by Cathalynn Labonté-Smith

📚Always Pack a Candle: A Nurse in the Cariboo-Chilcotin and Always On Call: Adventures in Nursing, Ranching, and Rural Life by Marion McKinnon Crook are published by Heritage House.

🎤 “I will never stop writing,” says Marion McKinnon Crook, award-winning and best-selling author of Always Pack a Candle: A Nurse in the Cariboo-Chilcotin and her latest book Always On Call: Adventures in Nursing, Ranching, and Rural Life, a series of memoirs of her career as a community nurse in the Cariboo-Chilcotin starting in the 50s to the mid-70s.

Cathalynn’s interview exclusive continues ⬇️
https://miramichireader.ca/2024/07/always-pack-a-pen-an-interview-with-marion-mckinnon-crook/

New Book - Voices for the Islands: Thirty Years of Nature Conservation on the Salish Sea Voices for the Islands: Thirty Years of Nature Conservation on the Salish Sea brings together the stories and experiences of those who rose to protect areas at risk within their island communities

Grab a book (or 2, or 3) and head outdoors! 🌳 Happy ! ☀️

Parks Canada | BC Parks | Glenbow Ranch Park Foundation | Alberta Parks | Clayoquot Biosphere Trust | Strathcona Provincial Park

Book Review: Always On Call by Marion Cook (Heritage House)

Reviewed by Janet Nicol

https://tinyurl.com/24y3p9bp

Mark Bradley vouches that gardeners of any age will enjoy the remarkable true story of Jennie Butchart and the creation of her world-renowned garden. And he would know—as the Producer/Editor of 291 Film Company’s documentary series’ VisionaryGardeners and Ageless Gardens he knows what gardeners like. 🌱 🌸 🌹
Jennie Butchart: Gardener of Dreams is available in store and online.

Happy publication day to Voices for the Islands! Read about vital local nature conservancies and the dedicated people behind them, protecting habitats on seventeen islands on the Salish Sea since the 1990s.

Find your copy in stores and online.

100 years ago on June 16, 1924, 116 Russian refugees arrived in Canada to start a new life. Among them was Michael Andruff's father. Recently, a group of descendants gathered and donated a plaque to the Rimbey Museum in gratitude and honour of these brave people and of the late Michael Andruff, whose dream it was to celebrate them and those who welcomed them (as shared in his book, The Russian Refugees: A Family's First Century in Canada.)

Great news! Kimiko Murakami: A Japanese Canadian Pioneer is shortlisted for the Chocolate Lily Book Awards 2024/25! 🎉 Congrats to Haley Healey & Kimiko Fraser.

Call the nurse! When mono hit the local Williams Lake Stampeders hockey team back in the 70s, Marion was first line of medical defence. 🏒 Read this excerpt from Always On Call in The Tyee

Link in bio or copy & paste without spaces: thetyee . ca /Culture/2024/06/26/Always-On-Call-Excerpt/

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“How did Prince Rupert get to where it is today?” This is the question .mirau hoped to answer in writing The City of Rainbows, a book which took him three years to write. Listen to him talk more about it here: https://youtu.be/e2xsw54ZLaI 🌈

The City of Rainbows - Book Trailer Born-and-raised Rupertite, former Prince Rupert city councillor, and author Blair Mirau introduces his book The City of Rainbows: A Colourful History of Prin...

Elizabeth’s cultural contributions receive “due recognition in this reverent and inspiring story,” giving readers a “glimpse into the life of an amazing Indigenous woman, wife, and mother.” 🧡 High praise from Christy Jordan-Fenton and Winadzi James for Elizabeth Quocksister: Keeper of History!

Did you know that two species of crows call Western Canada home? Learn about them and 200+ other animals in the book Wildlife of Western Canada. From the largest marine mammals to the tiniest insects, this book will open children’s eyes to the amazing variety of animals living all around them.

Congratulations to David Laurence Jones on his Alberta Literary Award win! New World Dreams was awarded the Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction at the WGA gala.

https://www.heritagehouse.ca/david-laurence-jones-wins-alberta-literary-award-for-new-world-dreams/
Writers' Guild of Alberta

“The many individuals and groups working to preserve these lands helps me feel a little less alone,” declares author Amanda Lewis.

Be inspired this & Canadian by the stories in Voices for the Islands, available July 9.

Full of valuable lessons and powerful illustrations, Mwâkwa Talks to the Loon tells the story of a young Cree man blessed with the skills of a great hunter, who learns not to take his talents for granted.

Mwâkwa Talks to the Loon, is back in stock in both hardcover and paperback!

‘Escape to Clayoquot Sound’: The perfect summer read for aspiring Island adventurers! - West Coast Traveller It seems I can rarely go a week without casually suggesting to my husband that we sell everything, disappear into the mountains and kiss modern life – with all it’s modern problems – goodbye.

Did you know that Queenie Jean Is in Trouble Again was designed with accessibility in mind, using an ADHD– and dyslexia-friendly sans serif typeface?

Keep your eyes peeled these two new books—now available! 🦫 Canadian Wildlife Activity Books brings together the best of Tom Hunter's beloved puzzles, brain teasers, illustrations, and wildlife facts. 🌈 The City of Rainbows is a comprehensive and colourful history of Prince Rupert in northern BC.

Got a towering and don't know where to start? Be like Kimiko Fraser and read them all at once! 😎🌟📚

“If you care about passing nature onward, Voices for the Islands is a must-read,” Ric Careless declares, as Sheila Harrington shows the power of local people and grassroots movements to enact meaningful change.

Available July 2024.

50 Keystone Flora Species is “a valuable addition” and “an indispensable companion” for anyone enthusiastic about the vital ecosystems of the Pacific Northwest. 🌿 Now available!

✨ Happy publication day to the newest books in the Trailblazing Canadians series, Jennie Butchart: Gardener of Dreams and Elizabeth Quocksister: Keeper of History! Readers will be inspired by these two women who highlighted the beauty in the world around them, one through a world-famous garden and the other through her photography.

Look for them in stores and online!
Haley Healey Kimiko Fraser

Have you read Always Pack a Candle? It’s the remarkable true story of a young nurse (Marion Crook Author and Emma Dakin) who provided much-needed health care to rural communities armed with more confidence than experience, a government-issued Chevy, medical supplies, and a candle as emergency equipment.

A bestseller, Always Pack a Candle is an unforgettable and eye-opening memoir of one frontline worker’s courage, humility, and compassion.

Jennie Butchart had a creative vision for an unsightly hole in the ground and used that passion to build a world-renowned public garden. 🌼 Both Rina Singh and Jon-Erik Lappano attest this story is one that will inspire young readers to embrace their own creative ideas! 🌷 Available May 14! 🌸

In the 1940s, Elizabeth Quocksister was gifted a camera at a time when it was rare to own one. With it, she chronicled the daily lives, important events, and changing times of her community,preserving her people’s history and culture for future generations.

Elizabeth Quocksister: Keeper of History is an inspiring picture book and beautiful tribute to a proud Indigenous woman whose name deserves to be well-known throughout her community and beyond.
https://youtu.be/rVV7seZGSaw
Coming May 14, 2024.

Rod Mickleburgh raves about the "adventuresome, topsy-turvy, boom-bust history of Prince Rupert." And The City of Rainbows by Blair Mirau shares it all—"from its rich Indigenous roots to the latest of its many bounce-backs from financial peril." Available May 28.