Tricia Cook was born in Hull, Yorkshire, before World War II, studied nursing, married, and immigrated to Canada with her husband and three children.
Writing poetry helped her survive the rigours of life in northern British Columbia, before she moved to Metro Vancouver. There she worked, got further healthcare training, divorced and eventually remarried. Forced to retire because of a disability, she went on to take courses and to volunteer in hospice and arthritis care for thirty years, often acting as a counsellor. When she found out her younger sister had also been abused, she knew she had to tell others to speak up.
After moving to Vancouver Island, she started typing this revealing memoir.
Newly retired baby boomers, Irene Butler and her husband, Rick, chose to escape routine and trek the globe for a year. Disciplined adventurers, they experienced all the joys and challenges of travel and yet still managed to stay within their planned budget.
Their goal: to travel to twelve countries over twelve months for the same cost as living at home. Irene recounts their adventures with an ironic sense of humour, all the while immersing her readers in culture and allowing them to share in their memorable experiences.
In addition to being a first-time author, Pauline Daniel is the owner of Coaching Connections, a life-coaching practice serving women. She calls herself the How to Follow Your Heart Coach, which is the way she lives her life.
Pauline and her husband Jim live in a small mountain town in southeast British Columbia. Jack and his family live nearby.
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Jan Krijff was born in the Netherlands and emigrated to Canada in 1968. He has a BA in Economics from the University of Calgary, and a master’s degree in history, from Leiden University in the Netherlands. Jan has previously published 100 Years Ago: Dutch Immigration to Manitoba in 1893; Een Aangename Vriendschap (An Amicable Friendship); Dutch Gentlemen Adventurers in Canada (with Herman Ganzevoort), and Greetings from Canada: Postcards from Dutch Immigrants to the Netherlands 1884–1915. The latter received an honourable mention for history in the Indie Fab awards.
Karen Green was born in southern Alberta. She has a BA and an LL.B from the University of Alberta, having practiced law in Edmonton and, more recently, in Vancouver where she worked in human resources and labour relations for various organizations. For twelve years, she also served as a part-time chair of review panels under the B.C. Mental Health Act. She is the co-author of Greetings from Canada and contributed to Dutch Gentlemen Adventurers.
Mike Chadwick is a lifelong Vancouverite. An accomplished graphic designer and photographer with interests in architecture and music, Chadwick is employed as a forest ranger. Vancouver in Focus is his first book.
Tom Johnston, author of Sports Car Road Racing in Western Canada, is a Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame inductee. After a 35-year career at Keen Engineering Co. Ltd., one of Canada’s largest mechanical engineering consulting firms, he became president and CEO of the company. In 2000, he suffered a serious stroke but overcame its debilitating effects to research and write four motor-racing books. He lives in West Vancouver with his wife, Sharon.
Jacqui Stanley has moved back to Houston Texas. Before she left Washington she received the award as the outstanding student for Secondary Education for 2005 by the faculty at Woodring College of Education at Western Washington University.
A passionate diver, underwater photographer, writer, illustrator, speaker, and supporter of several marine societies, Jacqui gives frequent presentations and seminars at conferences and schools throughout Canada and the USA. She has a BA from the University of Western Australia and an MLA from the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas. Jacqui is working on a degree in Early Childhood Education.
Published by Vancouver’s internationally respected Marion Scott Gallery in conjunction with its 2002 exhibition of Baker Lake wall hangings.
