Disaster on Mount Slesse
The Story of Western Canada's Worst Air Crash

Betty O'Keefe & Ian Macdonald

Mount Slesse, a jagged 2,500-metre peak near Chilliwack BC known locally as "The Fang," lived up to its evil reputation on December 9, 1956, when Trans Canada Airlines Flight 810 slammed into it, killing all 62 aboard. For five months nobody knew what happened. Flight 810 had just disappeared into the night. Adding to the sensation was the fact that the flight carried five professional football players fresh from the CFL All Star game in Vancouver and a mystery man by the name of Kwan Song who was rumoured to be carrying a sizeable fortune in cash. Finally on May 10, 1957, a diminutive female mountaineer named Elfrida Pigou discovered the gruesome crash site, setting off a stampede of macabre treasure hunters. To mark the fiftieth anniversary of this historic tragedy, Betty O'Keefe and Ian Macdonald have written a gripping, blow-by-blow account of western Canada’s worst aviation disaster, carefully examining its context, causes and aftermath.

978-1-894759-21-2
1-894759-21-4
paper, 6 x 9, 176 pages

$21.95

Everest Canada

Peter Austen

"The Canadian Rett Syndrome Association looked for a significant event that would capture the excitement of not only Canadians, but of people around the world. This event was the ascent of Mount Everest. Never before has the highest mountain in the world been climbed for charity."

- Chairman, Canadian Rett Syndrome Association

0-920576-33-8
paper, maps, photos, index
adventure

$10.95

Finding Ft. George

Rob Budde

Finding Ft. George is the poetic record of Rob Budde's growing love of Prince George and the Cariboo north-central region of BC. The poems are an act of discovery and they describe the various social, political, historical and environmental systems that Budde encounters with the eye of a patient, astute observer. Engaging in the language of location, each poem explores a place, a time and the process of building a relationship between the two. Sometimes gritty, sometimes ironic, sometimes barely able to see the place at all, the poems are all love poems to a new home—gifts of arrival.

978-1-894759-27-4
1-894759-27-3
5.5 x 8, paper, 128 pages
poetry

$15.95

Flylines and Fishtales

John Grain

In 1981, John Grain's passion for the outdoors led him to create a consortium that purchased Glimpse Lake Lodge, a neglected fishing camp near Merritt, BC. The discovery of a tattered diary inspired him to write Flylines & Fishtales before time and age erased the events completely or exaggerated them beyond belief. It combines a brief history of the homestead that became Glimpse Lake Lodge, with the hilarious, tender and sometimes heartbreaking events that marked the group's years of ownership from 1981 to 1987. Each day was a new adventure marked by unexpected encounters with wildlife, intriguing people and even ghosts. Flylines & Fishtales weaves a stirring and remarkable journey of a young family who abandoned the urban frenzy and embraced the tranquility and serenity of a rural lifestyle. In so doing, they learned those family values and precious life lessons that will be passed on for generations.

978-1-894759-26-7
1-894759-26-5
5.5 x 8.5, paper, 160 pages

$17.95

From California to North 52°

Todd and Eldon Lee

In the tradition of a good fireside story. California to North 52° recounts a childhood growing up on a remote swamp ranch, before television and public schooling, in the fabled Cariboo.

0-920576-54-0
paper, photos, index
biography

$12.95