About Far West

About the Author

About the Publisher

About the Author

Daniel Francis, editor of the award-winning Encyclopedia of British Columbia, is a historian with an MA in Canadian Studies and the author of six social studies textbooks produced for Ontario, Manitoba and BC. He is also the author of numerous books on Canadian history, including National Dreams: Myth, Memory and Canadian History; The Imaginary Indian: The Image of the Indian in Canadian Culture; Imagining Ourselves: Classics of Canadian Non-fiction; A Road for Canada: The Illustrated Story of the Trans-Canada Highway; Far West: The Story of British Columbia; and LD: Mayor Louis Taylor and the Rise of Vancouver, which won the City of Vancouver Book Award in 2004. He has served on the executive of the Writers' Union of Canada, the BC Federation of Writers, the Vancouver Word on the Street Festival and the West Coast Book Prizes Society. Francis has a wealth of experience creating large reference projects. From 1984 to 1987 he was Editorial Director of the Horizon Canada project, an encyclopedic bilingual history of Canada. He was also a contributor to the Canadian Encyclopedia (1985 and 1988) and Contributing Editor of the Junior Encyclopedia of Canada. He lives in North Vancouver, BC.

Available in hardcover at your favourite bookstore or direct from HarbourPublishing.com

 

Far West: The Story of British Columbia

by Daniel Francis

ISBN 1-55017-410-X • 8.5” x 11” • 175 pages • $36.95

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About the Publisher

Harbour Publishing—A History

Harbour Publishing is an award-winning independent book publisher owned and operated by Howard and Mary White.

The company was established in 1974 and is based on British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast. Harbour is well known for Raincoast Chronicles, a series of anthologies on BC coast history and culture, of which twenty have now been produced. Harbour is also the publisher of over five hundred titles in various genres, including The Encyclopedia of British Columbia; the bestselling Fishing With John by Edith Iglauer; Governor General’s Award-winning The Fly in Autumn by David Zieroth; and many other prize-winning books, including The Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names: A Complete Reference to Coastal British Columbia, Simon Fraser: In Search of Modern British Columbia, A Stain Upon the Sea: West Coast Salmon Farming, Birds of the Raincoast: Habits & Habitat and The Great Bear Rainforest: Canada’s Forgotten Coast.

Other well-known Harbour authors are Patrick Lane, one of Canada’s pre-eminent poets; Arthur Black, beloved humorist and author of Pitch Black, which won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour; Carolyn Herriot, organic gardening guru and author of the national bestseller The Zero-Mile Diet: A Year-Round Guide to Growing Organic Food; Mike McCardell, whose bestselling books have raised over $65,000 for Variety—The Children’s Charity of BC; Anne Cameron, the bestselling novelist; Meg Hickling, children’s book author; the late Al Purdy, recipient of the Governor General’s Award and member of the Order of Canada; and Chris Czajkowski, Canada’s favourite wilderness dweller.

The Canadian Historical Association has cited publisher Howard White as “a tireless promoter and creator of quality British Columbia regional history,” recognizing that Harbour Publishing “has nurtured and brought into being a remarkable range of works that capture the essence of British Columbia.”

White is also an award-winning writer of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, articles and essays. His book Writing in the Rain won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, and he has also been awarded a Canadian Media Club Prize, the Eaton’s BC Book Award, the Canadian Historical Society Career Award and the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize, among others. He is a member of the Order of British Columbia and the Order of Canada, and in 2003 received an honorary Doctorate of Law from the University of Victoria.

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