A Spring Bonanza
I have compiled a series of short snappers to showcase the bonanza of books that have come across my desk in recent months. From a couple of big, beautiful coffee table books, to a memoir of a lumberman and the chronicles of a union local, to a clutch of books about institutional birthdays, quinquagenaries centennials, and sesquicentennials, one book exploring Canada’s slow-growing excitement as it warmed up to its own 100th birthday party in 1967, these books draw from the vibrant work of BC authors and publishers.
K. Jane Watt
It Can Be Done: An Ordinary Man’s Extraordinary Success. By Chick Stewart with Michele Carter (Madeira Park: Harbour, 2017) $32.95
This memoir carries the bold voice of its subject as he traverses his memories, from his early days in Fort Rouge, Manitoba, in the 1930s, to his family’s move out west in 1942. “Call me Chick,” he writes, I’ve been called Chick since I was six years old. If you call me Donald, I’ll know you don’t know me. In this story, I’ll tell you how my life unfolded over the last eight decades—how I got that nickname, how I met and married the most beautiful girl in the world, and how I came to own and operate S & R Sawmills in Surrey, British Columbia. By the end of this book, I’m pretty sure you’ll know me well enough to call me Chick.
Always a part of the BC’s lumber industry, Stewart
