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THE CANADIAN PACIFIC’SESQUIMALT & NANAIMO RAILWAY

The CPR Steam Years, 1905–1949

Robert D. Turner & Donald F. MacLachlan

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The Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway had a special character and charm like few others. Skirting the eastern coastline of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, it was separated from the rest of the national and continental rail network by the Georgia and Juan de Fuca Straits. During the days of steam power on the railway, it was a distant and often rus-tic outpost of the Canadian Pacific Railway’s vast system, but it was a profitable one. It hauled logs and coal, fish and paper, strawberries and raspber-ries, beer and wine, automobiles and oil, and tons and tons of wood. The E&N carried soldiers off to two world wars, toured royalty on Vancouver Island and carried hundreds of passengers in stately parlour cars or rickety day coaches. The mail was sorted on the trains and could be delivered “Up Island” in a matter of hours. The E&N’s well-maintained steam locomotives were the pride of the railway.

Engineers, conductors and other crewmen were known up and down Vancouver Island. The railway was like a family to many who worked on it; many stayed with it for their entire careers. It did much to shape the character of Vancouver Island and pro-vided the key links between people, places and the goods and services they needed and produced. It was essential and irreplaceable.

Carefully researched, sensitively written and beautifully illustrated, this book captures the E&N in its many moods. Hundreds of never-before-published rare photos, including some exceptional colour images from the 1940s, and an extensive and insightful text document the railway, the people who worked on it and all those whose lives it shaped.

Robert Turner is a highly respected transporta-tion historian and photographer. This book is the 16th he has authored or co-authored on transpor-tation history, chronicling western railways and steamships, and he has written hundreds of articles. His photographs are widely published in books and magazines and displayed in exhibits. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian Railroad Historical Association, and the American Association for State and Local History’s Award of Merit for excellence for his books. A heritage consul-tant and Curator Emeritus at the Royal BC Museum in Victoria, Bob has travelled widely around the world photographing the last steam locomotives and early industries, documenting the people, places and stories of this disappearing history.

Donald F. MacLachlan (Please see bio on page 2)

RAILWAY / HISTORY • 288 pp • 11 x 9 • 475+ photos, incl. 8 pgs of colour, with maps, timetables ISBN 978-1-55039-204-3 • softcover • $39.95ISBN 978-1-55039-206-7 • hardcover • $49.95July 2012

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THE ESQUIMALT & NANAIMO RAILWAYThe Dunsmuir Years: 1884–1905

Donald F. MacLachlan

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Don MacLachlan had a lifelong fascination with the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway. He started out on the E&N as a roundhouse wiper and retired as its senior locomotive engineer. He ran the railway’s Dayliner for Canadian Pacific and VIA for many years and was respected and admired by fellow workers and travellers from around the world. Don came from a railway family with both his father A.L. Monk MacLachlan and brother Al MacLachlan also being E&N engineers. His fascination with the rail-way led him to collect early photos and documents of the railway’s history, and to write The Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway in 1986. He was made an honor-ary citizen of the City of Victoria in 1983, and passed away in 2011. 

Distributed for the BCRHARAILWAY / HISTORY • 168 pp • 8.5 x 11 • 150+ photos, with maps, timetables, etc. ISBN 13: 978-0-9692511-0-1; 0-9692511-0-6softcover • $29.95 • July 2012

Robert and James Dunsmuir and their Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway shaped the future of Vancouver Island in the late 1800s. A continental railway was Canada’s promise to British Columbia for join-ing Confederation. Initially it was to terminate at Esquimalt, but later Vancouver was chosen. As a compromise the E&N Railway was established on Vancouver Island following much political turmoil. Island coal mining baron Robert Dunsmuir and his partners, with the aid of a subsidy and large land grant, built and operated this railway. After Robert’s death in 1889, his son James continued to operate the railway until 1905 when he sold it with the remaining portion of the land grant to Canadian Pacific. These were dramatic and formative years for Vancouver Island and British Columbia.

This 168-page book, first published in 1986, is now back in print in a limited edition, produced by the British Columbia Railway Historical Association. Author Don MacLachlan was a veteran E&N engi-neer who worked for over 40 years on the railway and knew its history well. This book, often requested, has been out of print for over a decade. Included are many rare and unusual photographs.

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SEBASTIAN SASQUATCHSylvia Olsen Illustrated by Kasia Charko

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PICTURE BOOK • Ages 3–8 • 32 pp • 7 x 8.5 full colour • ISBN 978-1-55039-197-8 • paper • $9.95June 2012

Only very special human children want to play with sasquatches…

Sebastian Sasquatch loves his home in Puddle Valley. It has everything a young sasquatch needs: trees to swing from, a creek to fish in, meadows for running and jump-ing. Well, almost everything. In all of Puddle Valley, there isn’t another sasquatch child for Sebastian to play with.

There is the Puddle Valley Campground and Adventure Park, though. It’s full of children. They come with their families, and spend the summer running, jumping, swim-ming and swinging. But not one of them even notices Sebastian, much less wants to play with him. Why?

Bringing Sylvia Olsen’s characteristic direct, engaging language together once again with Kasia Charko’s warm, lively art, this is a lighthearted tale about the simple yet mysterious qualities it takes to be a friend.

Sylvia Olsen is a storyteller. Since childhood she has loved to tell and listen to stories. But stories in books didn’t fascinate her as much as stories told in person, so it wasn’t until Sylvia was over 40 years old that she thought about writing. Now she writes every day and has published more than 13 books. She has written two other picture books, Yetsa’s Sweater and Which Way Should I Go? Sylvia lives north of Victoria, B.C., in North Saanich—just up the road from her six grandchildren.

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RIBBON’S WAYSarah E. Turner

PICTURE BOOK • Ages 4–8 • 40 pp • 9 x 7.5 colour photos ISBN 978-1-55039-200-5 • paper • $9.95 • June 2012

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When baby Ribbon arrives, the visitors at Japan’s Awaji Island Monkey Center wonder how she is going to manage with no hands and with small, twisted feet. How will she hold on to her mother? How will she walk? How will she climb in the trees? How will she interact with the other monkeys? And how will she someday look after her own baby?

But everyone is in for a surprise. This monkey is determined to do things her own way…Ribbon’s way.

This is a story not just about disabilities, and the inspiring ways individuals meet those challenges. It is also, fundamentally, a story about being different and about rising above the limitations of others’ expecta-tions.

As with her first book, The Littlest Monkey (p.14), primatologist Sarah Turner’s heartwarming story is abundantly illustrated with her superb photographs. The back of the book also features facts about Japanese macaques (snow monkeys), and about Ribbon and the disabilities present in this unique primate population. A delightful addition is a “find the critter” collage with animals and insects from Ribbon’s forest world.

Sarah Turner grew up in Victoria, B.C., where she developed a curiosity about and respect for wild creatures and places, and a love of stories and photography. Sarah first visited the Awaji Island Monkey Center in Japan as an undergraduate student in 1999, and has returned many times to conduct behavioural field research on Japanese macaques. After completing her BA in women’s studies at Simon Fraser University, she went on to do an MSc at the University of Victoria and a PhD at the University of Calgary, both in primatology. Currently, Sarah lives with her family in Montreal, where she combines writing, research, photography and motherhood.

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UNDER THE WIREJulie White

Julie White has spent a lifetime riding and work-ing with horses. She and her husband, a former jockey, live on a horse farm in Armstrong, B.C., where they raise and train thoroughbreds for racing and jumping. An avid reader, Julie works part-time in a tiny library in the country that some of her cus-tomers travel to on horseback.

“They’re our horses and I should be on them!”

When Reid Widmark’s jockey mother takes a fall, their barn and the horses they train become 16-year-old Reid’s responsibility. He’s fine with it: he was practically born on a horse, and he’s always been his mother’s right-hand man. He’ll hold the fort until she comes back, and then he’ll be back on track toward his own future as a jockey.

Or so he thinks. Bit by bit, his life starts changing. People he thought were friends start taking over. His leg-up on Carmina, the best horse in his mother’s barn and his chance at the big stakes, is taken away. And when his mother comes back, she drops a bomb: she’s getting out of the jockey business and wants Reid to get out, too.

Reid’s steaming mad and ready to take off when his new friend Ella steps in. She helps him see reason—then spots a big chance that may give Reid everything he’s dreamed of. Can he prove to everyone—his mother, their friends, and this unknown horse and her owners—that Reid Widmark’s got what it takes to get in first under the wire?

As in her other three books for young readers (see pp. 6 and 18), Julie White’s intimate familiarity with the world of horses shines through, bringing a vivid realism to her engaging, exciting stories.

“When it comes to writing about horses—and horse rac-ing—Julie White is the real deal. I couldn’t put Under the Wire down. Full of accurate details about life at the track, this is a compelling coming-of-age story with a deli-cious equine focus. Fabulous!”

— Nikki Tate, author of the StableMates novels and many other books about horses

JUVENILE FICTION • Ages 10–13 • 184 pp • 5.25 x 7.75 ISBN 978-1-55039-198-5 • paper • $9.95 • June 2012Also available as an ebook

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As they stared, the smoke clouds began to glow, ruby and vermilion tongues of flame flickering in their bellies.

In the short time they’d been down in the gully, the fire had staked claim on the mountain.

Faye Marsh is out show-jumping for Lawrence Devries, and 12-year-old Kirsty’s still working for Lucy at the ranch. She doesn’t mind, really—she and her pony Lancelot would be nowhere without Lucy. So when Kirsty’s asked to help with a cattle round-up, she agrees, even though she’s nervous. This kind of riding is completely new. Can Lancelot handle it? Can Kirsty?

It’s just bad luck that her round-up partner is 14-year-old Jesse, who treats her like an idiot. Jesse has had every advantage Kirsty can imagine: a family ranch, riding every summer. Why does he have such an attitude problem? Doesn’t he realize that Lancelot and Kirsty are new at this? Soon she’s steaming mad—and Jesse has disappeared.

When she finds him, it’s too late: a forest fire is bearing down on them. In peril of their lives, Kirsty and Jesse have to cooperate—and trust the horse sense of the amazing Lancelot—to ride through the fire and out to safety.

Riding Through Fire is the third book in the loose series begun with the award-winning, best-selling The Secret Pony and continued with High Fences (see p. 18).

RIDING THROUGH FIREJulie White

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The Garden That You AreKatherine Gordon Photography by Rod Currie & Quinton GordonIf gardening is a cycle of growth, enrichment, decay and rebirth, so is the nature of humanity: in our societies, our cultures and our relationships. For the gardeners among us, it’s more than an analogy. Our gardens and our lives are inextricably intertwined. Who we are, where we were born, our heritage, our family and friends, the events in our lives—all play a role in the daily experiences on the piece of land we call our garden. That piece of land we have chosen (or which, in some cases, has chosen us) will in turn influence who we are, our relationships and the events in our lives. Such is the culture of gardeners.

The Garden That You Are explores that culture through the lives and stories of eight gardeners who all live within a square mile of each other, in British Columbia’s bucolic and culturally diverse Slocan Valley. Some garden for a living, others garden as a passion, but all have fascinating personal histories and garden-ing lives. This beautiful book is illustrated with stunning colour photographs and peppered with anecdotes, history, gardening ideas, helpful advice and even recipes. It is about everyone who is a gardener—whether they know it yet or not.

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Island TimberA Social History of the Comox Logging Company Richard Somerset Mackie“In this fine history of the glory days of logging in an area of Vancouver Island that because of its magnificent stands of timber was sometimes called the loggers’ Eden, Richard Mackie tells us not only how the logging was done, but who the loggers and their families were; not only how they worked but how they lived, established new communities, and sustained and re-shaped older ones. The numerous interviews he has conducted with loggers and their relatives have enabled him to explore many of the human dimen-sions of coastal logging more fully than any previous historian, and he as-sesses fairly the benefits and the costs, both human and environmental, of this logging during its heyday.”—Allan Pritchard

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HISTORY • 248 pp • 8.5 x 11 • 300+ b/w photographs, maps, diagrams ISBN 1-55039-101-1 • paper • $39.95 • June 2012

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Yetsa’s SweaterSylvia Olsen Illustrated by Joan Larson

On a fresh spring day, young Yetsa, her mother and her grand-mother gather to prepare sheep fleece. As they clean, wash and dry the fleece, laughter and hard work connect the three gen-erations. Through Yetsa’s sensuous experience of each task, the reader joins this family in an old but vibrant tradition: the cre-ation of Cowichan sweaters. Each sweater is unique, and its design tells a story. In Yetsa’s Sweater, that story is one of love, welcome and pride in a job well done.P Shining�Willow�Award�(Nominee)P BC�Booksellers’�Choice�Award�(Nominee)P Our�Choice�(Starred�Selection)P Silver�Birch�Express�Award�(Nominee)

PICTURE BOOK • Ages 6–10 • 40 pp • 8 x 10 • full colour ISBN 978-1-55039-202-9 • paper • $9.95ISBN 978-1-55039-155-8 • hardcover • $19.95 • June 2012

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The Nine Lives of a CowboyH. “Dude” LavingtonA cowboy must be blessed (or cursed) with nine lives like the prover-bial cat, or he would never make it to live the allotted three score and ten—or even to maturity.

Relive the wild, wild west, Canadian style. Dude Lavington’s densely packed memoirs are full of humour, aphorisms, cowboy argot and the kind of adventures that make folk heroes. Stettler, Calgary, Quesnel, Barkerville, Stanley … places that come to life in this warm, colloquial history. Twelfth printing.

PIONEER AUTOBIOGRAPHY • 232 pp • 6 x 9 • 42 b/w photos + mapISBN 0-919203-20-5 • paper • $19.95 • June 2012Also available as an ebook

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