Raincoast chronicles, first five

White, Howardm (editor.). Hunter, Robert, 1941-2005 (author of the introduction.).

Summary: "A book that has become a west coast institution - articles, stories, poems, drawings covering every imaginable aspect of northwest history and folklore. The first five issues of Raincoast Chronicles, dating back to 1972."--

Record details

ISBN: 092008012X
ISBN: 9780920080122 (paperback) :
ISBN: 0920080049
ISBN: 9780920080047
Physical Description: 270 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm.
Edition: Collector's edition.
Publisher: Madeira Park, British Columbia : Harbour Publishing, 1976.
Copyright: ©1976.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Reprints of the first five issues of the periodical Raincoast chronicles.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographies.
Formatted Contents Note:	Foreword / Bob Hunter -- Introduction / Howard White -- Number 1: Rum Running / Ed Starkins -- B.C. Whaling: The Indians / Jon Van Arsdell -- Noticias de Nutka / Scott Lawrance -- Pender Harbour: A Steamer Ship / Jackie Holecka -- George Bowerings "Captain Vancouver" / Scott Lawrance -- Petroglyphs / Scott Lawrance -- The Haida Potato / Scott Lawrance -- A B.C. Leper Colony / Ed Starkins -- They Don't Make 'Em Anymore Department - Martha Warnock / Jackie Holecka. Number 2: Pioneer Steamers of Vancouver Harbour / Scotty McIntyre -- Lighthouses of the B.C. Coast / Howard White, Scotty McIntyre -- Buddhist Columbia / Scott Lawrance -- Towboating / Peggy McCaffrey -- Tsimsyan Myths / Scott Lawrence -- The Cargo-Hulks / Peter Trower -- The Wanderings of an Artist: Paul Kane at the Pacific / Scott Lawrance -- Notes & Queries -- Raincoast Place Names: The Nawhitti Country / Lester R. Peterson -- B.C. Whaling: The White Men / Peter Trower -- They Don't Make 'Em Anymore Department: Basil Joe / D.G. Poole. Number 3: From the Hill to the Spill: ( A breathless history of B.C. logging) / Peter Trower -- Railways in the Wood / Scott Lawrence -- Marry'n and Barry'n Logger Style / Canon Alan Greene -- Book Review: Chiefly Indian / Scott Lawrance -- How it Was With Trucks / Frank and Howard White -- Poems by Peter Trower, Logger / Peter Trower -- A Fir Tree of the Mind / Todd Carney -- Sojourn at Junkie Log / Peter Trower -- Notes & Queries -- They Don't Make 'Em Anymore Department: Baker / John Kelly. Number 4: British Columbia's depopulated Coast / Lester R. Peterson -- Sointula, Saltfish and Spuds Utopia / Scott Lawrance -- Growing Up in Bella Coola / Leslie Kopas -- Bringing the Indians to their Knees: The coast's first Christian mission / Howard White -- Ghostcamps of Howe Sound / Peter Trower -- Notes & Queries -- The Great Pacific Sealhunt / Patrick Lane -- Non-European Iron Among the Haida: New Evidence / David Ellis -- The Tale of the Snot Boy / Charles F. Lillard -- They Don't Make 'Em Anymore Department: Captain Herbert Clifton / Donald Peck -- Book Review: Mist on the River / Scott Lawrance. Number 5: Skiffs, Gillnets and Poverty-Stocks / Peter Trower -- Sunrise at the Fraser's Mouth / Al Purdy -- The Welcome Guests / Scott Lawrance -- Day of the Hand Troller / Hubert Evans -- Eulachon, Salvation / Scott Lawrance -- Fishing Rivers Inlet by Sail and Oar / Lester R. Peterson -- Garden Variety / Scott Lawrance -- Tides / Howard White and Margaret McCaffrey -- The Bank Trollers / Bertrand W. Sinclair -- Book Reviews / Peter Trower, Howard White -- Unloading a Dragger at Campbell Avenue & Stiking / Allan Safarik -- They Don't Make 'Em Anymore: Peck Easthope / Howard White -- Pioneers in Paradise: Roy Padgett / Robert Wishlaw and Howard White.