RESOURCES - British Columbia: Including the Alaska Highway - page 775

Luxton, Donald. Building the West: The Early Architects of British Columbia. Vancouver:
Talonbooks, 2007. Printed in two-tone, this beautiful reference book delves into the lives
and work of prominent early architects, many of whom are represented by buildings that
still stand today.
Mallory, Enid. Robert Service: Under the Spell of the Yukon. Vancouver: Heritage House,
2006. Follows the life of Robert Service, best known for poems such as “The Cremation
of Sam McGee,” from the time he stepped off a ship in Vancouver to his wildly success-
ful change in careers in Dawson City.
Mather, Ken. Buckaroos And Mud Pups: The Early Days of Ranching in British Columbia.
Victoria: Heritage House, 2010. Tells the story of the earliest days of ranching, beginning
with an 1858 cattle drive through the Cariboo region.
Mather, Ken. Frontier Cowboys and the Great Divide. Victoria: Heritage House, 2013.
Mather's most recent look at the province's cowboy history and how it differed from the
culture in neighboring Alberta.
Murray, Tom. Canadian Pacific Railway. Osceola, Wisconsin: Zenith Press, 2006. Railway
buffs are spoilt for choice when it comes to reading about the history of Canada's
transcontinental railway, but this large format book stands apart for its presentation of
historic images and coverage of the railway industry today.
Nicol, Eric. Vancouver. Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 1970. An often-humorous look at
Vancouver and its colorful past through the eyes of Eric Nicol, one of Vancouver's fa-
vorite columnists of the 1960s. The topic has been reprinted a few times, and although it
has been out of print for many years, Vancouver's secondhand bookstores usually have
multiple copies in stock.
Pepper, Don. Fishing the Coast: A Life on the Water. Madeira Park: Harbour Publishing,
2013. Lifelong commercial fisherman and now industry analyst Pepper explore the his-
tory of one of the world's most dangerous occupations from a British Columbia perspect-
ive.
Thorburn, Mark. British Columbia Place Names. Edmonton: Dragon Hill Publishing, 2010.
From the intriguing to the wacky, the meaning of place names across the province is
presented in a fun, easy-to-read format.