Beyond Bethlehem

Description (CBC Enterprises, 1989). With Peter Horsfield. Margaret Horsfield came home to Nanaimo for Christmas. She looked at the greeting cards on her parents’ mantle and wondered aloud about the origins of the Three Wise Men. Over Christmas dinner with her father, retired Anglican priest Peter Horsfield, she began discussions ...

Description (Brechin Books, 1993). With Peter Horsfield

Description In this witty look at our obsession with cleaning, Horsfield confronts her own dirt demons & scours the social, historical, literary, & psychological nooks & crannies of the world of household chores. Through historical research, countless interviews & an analysis of characters from novels & advertising, she presents such ...

Description In 1915, at age 26, Ada Annie Rae-Arthur settled with her first husband at the head of Hesquiat Harbour, near Estevan Point north of Tofino. Cougars prowled nearby and she shot dozens of them. She became known along the coast as ‘Cougar Annie’. She bore eight children at her ...

Description Clayoquot Sound, on the West Coast of Vancouver Island is not only a place of extraordinary raw beauty, but also a region with a rich heritage and fascinating past. Tofino and Clayoquot Sound delves into all facets of the region’s history, bringing to life the chronicle that started with ...

Description Filled with personal stories and a vivid sense of time and place, Voices from the Sound brings alive the history of the west coast of Vancouver Island. Nominated for the Roderick Haig Brown Book Prize in 2009, this book relates the early 20th century history of this coast through ...