One writer pays homage to a key figure in Lions Gate Bridge’s history. Vancouver-based writer Cynthia Heinrichs researched and wrote...
British Columbia’s first bicycle. It was rudimentary, clunky, and not for the faint of heart—or the tender of hindquarters. The...
Highlights from Tales from the Back Bumper. Christopher Garrish has a driving passion for British Columbia’s licence plates that began in childhood....
It took many hours, many hands, hundreds of metres of thread, and thousands of buttons to make the World’s Biggest...
While doing research for the Winter 2013 article “Truly Cowichan,” on the Cowichan sweater, a beloved B.C. icon, Frances Backhouse...
New pole raised in Gwaii Haanas. It took 6,000 hours of labour over a year by four Haida carvers, a...
What will become of the stars of the Royal London Wax Museum? It may be the only time the Iron...
This historic artifact, shown in detail, is held by the Royal BC Museum in Victoria. Is it: A) The “Mermaid...
We profiled British Columbia Magazine contributor wildlife photographer and biologist Jared Hobbs for our Spring 2013 issue. Read about him below. Jared...
Have you ever heard of the Lulu Island Canning Company? The Fraser River salmon cannery was just one of up...
In the Spring 2013 issue of British Columbia Magazine, Susan Rybar wrote about the hundreds of British children from poor, urban...
The Winter 2012 edition of British Columbia Magazine features an article about Garbage Gobblers, the quirky roadside receptacles that were part of...