VANCOUVER IN FOCUS
The City's Built Form
Mike Chadwick
Foreword by James K M Cheng
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It is not easy to capture on film the spirit of a modern metropolis like Vancouver. Compared to an historic city, the scale can be daunting, the spaces between the buildings often have less coherent form and the simple lines of contemporary architecture offer less detail for the camera. Yet Mike Chadwick has found a way, and the results are remarkable. He zeroes in on the rhythms, the textures, the intricacies. He discovers the best moments of our watery light and deep shadows. He shoots the arresting angle. And he finds the interfaces that matter: old and new, building and landscape; water and land; sky and skyline. The result is an intelligent story about several generations of city planning and urban design, and a delicious feast for the eye.
ARCHITECTURE / VANCOUVER / PHOTOGRAPHY
Hardcover / 150 b/w Photos / 240 pages / 8.5" x 11"
ISBN: 1-894694-44-9 $39.95




SAMMY SQUIRREL AND RODNEY RACCOON
A Stanley Park Tale
Duane Lawrence
Illustrations by Gordon Clover
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When best friends Sammy Squirrel and Rodney Raccoon decide to explore the world beyond Vancouver’s Stanley Park, they are carried on a fantastic adventure. Swept out to sea in a little boat, the woodland creatures journey across the Pacific Ocean all the way to Japan. While their courage and ingenuity are tested at every turn, Sammy and Rodney are met by good fortune and are helped by new friends Salty Seagull, Winifred Whale and a deer called Shika. The wide-eyed travellers help resolve a crisis with the deer in Nara, Japan and by the time they return safely home, have broadened their world and gained a deeper understanding of animal and human interactions.
The story of Sammy Squirrel and Rodney Raccoon, though a fictional animal adventure, addresses real-life issues about relationships between animals and people. An illustrated chapter book, and first in the Stanley Park Tales series, it promotes awareness and sensitivity to the needs of others.
Stanley Park is a hugely popular locale, famous for its natural beauty and urban proximity. Rowing across oceans is a topical theme, resulting in the connecting of cultures, Duane Lawrence’s writing highlights the interconnectedness of life, the sensitivity of living creatures and the value of kindness.
CHILDREN’S FICTION / STANLEY PARK / JAPAN
Trade Paperback / 6" x 9" / 112 pages
Age Level: 6 and over / B+W Illustrations throughout
Granville Island Publishing
ISBN 978-1-894694-54-4 / $12.95 CDN




UBCM: The First Century
Union of British Columbia Municipalities
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No organization in British Columbia has persevered more diligently for the public good with less fanfare than the UBCM. Anyone interested in the governance of British Columbia should read this book. Its combination of text, biographies, contemporary documents and images is impressive and rewarding.
— Jean Barman, Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia, Author of The West Beyond the West: A History of British Columbia
This is an extremely well-crafted history not only of the Union of British Columbia Municipalities but of the province itself. It will command the attention of not only those with some involvement with the activities of the UBCM but everyone interested in the social and political history of British Columbia.
— Norman J. Ruff, Associate Professor Emeritus, University of Victoria
BRITISH COLUMBIA / POLITICS / HISTORY
Hard Cover / 11"x 8.5" / Profusely illustrated
Granville Island Publishing
Book and Jacket Design: Gary Wilcox
ISBN 1-894694-39-2 / $49.95 CDN




HOMEFRONT & BATTLEFRONT
 Nelson BC in World War II
Sylvia Crooks
This is the Canadian experience of the Second World War as seen through the eyes of one British Columbia community. It is a stirring, poignant and important piece of Canadian history. Homefront & Battlefront is the result of two years extensive research by a librarian/educator who was born and raised in Nelson, where she experienced the war years as a young child.
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WORLD WAR II / CANADIAN HISTORY
Trade Paperback / 6" x 9" / 240 pages
Granville Island Publishing
ISBN 1-894694-38-4 / $19.95 US / $24.95 CDN




THE KNIGHTS OF WINTER
Hockey in British Columbia: 1895–1911
Craig H Bowlsby
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Before the NHL, before the Pacific Coast League, British Columbia was vibrant with ice hockey. Everything would stop when a big game was played. Who were the players, the fans, and what did it all mean to them? How did rules evolve in those formative years, and how did events then influence the hockey we know today? This exhaustively researched book includes the names of over 3,000 early participants and details the amazing careers of the Patrick brothers in Nelson before they left for the coast to start the PCL in 1911.
SPORTS / BRITISH COLUMBIA HISTORY
Hardcover in slipcase / B&W photos / 412 pages / 7.25" x 10.25"
Limited edition of 500 signed copies
Dust Jacket Design: Gary Wilcox
ISBN: 0-9691705-4-8 $85 US/CDN




WESTWOOD
Everyone's Favourite Racing Circuit
Tom Johnston
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The story of Coquitlam’s famous track, those who built it, ran it and raced there for 32 seasons by the author of Sports Car Road Racing in Western Canada, who took part in 300 races himself.
Westwood was legendary . . . and Tom is the perfect person to write about it.
— Jacques Villeneuve
Indy 500 and Formula One Champion
SPORTS / CAR RACING / VANCOUVER
Hardcover / Colour / 128 pages / 11" x 8.5"
Granville Island Publishing
Book and Cover Design: Tom Johnston with Gary Wilcox
Deluxe Leather-bound Limited Edition
with slipcase ISBN: 1-894694-50-3 $300
sc ISBN: 1-894694-49-x $54.95





UPCOMING TITLE
FINDING A GOOD FIT
The Life and Work of BC Architect Rand Iredale
Kathryn Iredale with Sheila Martineau
During his 40-year career, architect Rand Iredale (1929–2000) initiated a compelling vision for the redevelopment of downtown Vancouver, was a mentor to some of BC’s most accomplished architects practising today, and became one of the pioneers of heritage preservation in British Columbia. Throughout the book a chronology of selected projects is interwoven with guest essays and interviews, writings by Rand and Kathryn Iredale, and touching family anecdotes.
A man of immense curiosity and generosity, Rand enjoyed both a mathematical mind and a philosophical soul. He was a great master planner and design collaborator on projects that included the Science Complex at Simon Fraser University, the Sedgewick Undergraduate Library at the University of British Columbia, the Westcoast Transmission Building in downtown Vancouver, and Place des Arts at Maillardville Heritage Square in Coquitlam.
Finding a Good Fit is ultimately about relationships: between land and building, engineer and architect, apprentice and mentor, husband and wife, father and child. And it is about partnerships: with family, friends, colleagues, clients, and communities.
ARCHITECTURE / MEMOIR / BC HISTORY
Paperback / 7.5” x 10.25” / 376 pages
Colour and b&w photos, maps and plans throughout
September 2007
ISBN 978-1-894694-53-7 $49.95 Cdn/US