Gloria Allan began writing as a cub reporter in Toronto. Gloria married, raised five children and indulged her love of bridge, golf and travel. Never forgetting her love of writing, over the past several years she has written a novel and several short stories. While browsing in an antiquarian bookstore in London, England, she discovered a small book about Sisi, the beautiful and tragic Empress Elisabeth of Austria and Hungary. She immersed herself in Sisi’s story, researching and gathering material for her second novel, A Walk on Broken Glass. She lived in Montreal and now resides in West Vancouver.
Jan Krijff was born in the Netherlands and emigrated to Canada in 1968. He has a BA in Economics from the University of Calgary, and a master’s degree in history, from Leiden University in the Netherlands. Jan has previously published 100 Years Ago: Dutch Immigration to Manitoba in 1893; Een Aangename Vriendschap (An Amicable Friendship); Dutch Gentlemen Adventurers in Canada (with Herman Ganzevoort), and Greetings from Canada: Postcards from Dutch Immigrants to the Netherlands 1884–1915. The latter received an honourable mention for history in the Indie Fab awards.
Karen Green was born in southern Alberta. She has a BA and an LL.B from the University of Alberta, having practiced law in Edmonton and, more recently, in Vancouver where she worked in human resources and labour relations for various organizations. For twelve years, she also served as a part-time chair of review panels under the B.C. Mental Health Act. She is the co-author of Greetings from Canada and contributed to Dutch Gentlemen Adventurers.
Jim Elliot was born in a coal-mining town. He attended eleven different schools as his family moved from mining camp to mining camp. Following six years at the University of Alberta, Jim graduated and was ordained as a United Church minister. The next forty years were split between Alberta and British Columbia as he worked in rural areas, suburbs, First Nations communities and finally as head of a large inner-city mission in the downtown eastside of Vancouver. On retirement he moved to the Sunshine Coast, spent some time volunteering with the local hospice community and then joined a writing group. He and his wife, Geniene, have five children and eight delightful grandchildren.
Jan Krijff was born in the Netherlands in 1947 and immigrated to Calgary in 1968. After obtaining his B.A. in Economics, he graduated from the University of Leiden with a Masters degree in History. In 1993, Jan published 100 Years Ago, Dutch Immigration to Manitoba in 1893 and in 2003, Een Aengenaeme Vrientschap (An Amicable Friendship). Greetings from Canada: Postcards from Dutch Immigrants to the Netherlands 1884 1915 was published by Granville Island Publishing in the spring of 2013. He currently lives in the Netherlands with his wife, Karen Green.
Herman Ganzevoort is Emeritus Professor of History, University of Calgary. His publications include Letters of Willem de Gelder 1910-13: A Dutch homesteader on the prairies; Dutch Immigration to North America; A Bittersweet Land, The Dutch Experience in Canada, 1890-1980; The Last Illusion, Letters from Dutch immigrants in the Land of opportunity 1924-1930.
Jan Krijff was born in the Netherlands and immigrated to Canada in 1968. He has a BA in Economics and a Master’s degree in History. Jan has previously published 100 Years Ago: Dutch Immigration to Manitoba in 1893, Een Aangename Vriendschap (An Amicable Friendship) and Greetings from Canada: Postcards from Dutch Immigrants to the Netherlands 1884-1915. The latter received an honourable mention for history in the Indie Fab awards.
Bruno Huber was born and raised in Zurich, Switzerland. He immigrated and settled in Canada, first in Nelson, BC and then in 1990 he moved to Granthams Landing, Gibsons, on the Sunshine Coast near Vancouver, BC.
He is the winner of the Hohnharter Prize for Literature with a subsequent book of short stories published by Ullstein GmbH.
He was the owner of Coast Books in Gibsons from 1990 to 1995, and was also the owner of a French Restaurant in Vancouver’s Westend from 2010 to 2012.
He has been a film technician for 25 years.
You can read his blog at: brunospointofview.com
Robert Harvey lives on Denman Island, one of the Gulf Islands on the Pacific Coast. Relying on his own sense of the Sea gained in teenage years on coastal towboats, he wrote this story following retirement after 54 years as a courtroom lawyer. He is an Honorary Member of the CMMC (The Company of Master Mariners of Canada) Vancouver Island Division.
Edward Cepka grew up in Port Alberni when it was a thriving MacMillan and Bloedel company town—prosperous, industrious, and steeped in the belief that good times would last forever. Fascinated by the town’s layered history—the contrasts between working-class grit, lingering colonial wealth, and the shadow of the residential school—he began exploring its stories early on. Summers spent in the mills and forests deepened his understanding of the place. After studying English and Architecture at UBC, Cepka watched from afar as the mills closed and the town faded. What began as a pioneer saga evolved into a darkly comic meditation on colonization, environmental loss, and the ghosts of prosperity past.
Joann Robertson is the granddaughter of a Yukon pioneer and riverboat pilot. Born in Dawson City, she spent the first ten years of her childhood in Bear Creek, the centre of gold production from the early 1900s to later, she lived along the Alaska Highway and in Whitehorse. She has a degree in Sociology from Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, BC, and resides in Vancouver.
Jan Krijff was born in the Netherlands and emigrated to Canada in 1968. He has a BA in Economics from the University of Calgary, and a master’s degree in history, from Leiden University in the Netherlands. Jan has previously published 100 Years Ago: Dutch Immigration to Manitoba in 1893; Een Aangename Vriendschap (An Amicable Friendship); Dutch Gentlemen Adventurers in Canada (with Herman Ganzevoort), and Greetings from Canada: Postcards from Dutch Immigrants to the Netherlands 1884–1915. The latter received an honourable mention for history in the Indie Fab awards.
Karen Green was born in southern Alberta. She has a BA and an LL.B from the University of Alberta, having practiced law in Edmonton and, more recently, in Vancouver where she worked in human resources and labour relations for various organizations. For twelve years, she also served as a part-time chair of review panels under the B.C. Mental Health Act. She is the co-author of Greetings from Canada and contributed to Dutch Gentlemen Adventurers.
