TWUC member Brendan Coyle 's project on the WWII Japanese occupation of Alaska's Kiska Island has been awarded a grant from the Alaska Humanities Forum. The author spent two months on the remote island recording signs of the Japanese occupation of June 7, 1942 to July 28, 1943.
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Katherine Gordon
Photo: Gary McKinstry 2010
Katherine Gordon has been writing for publications in Canada and New Zealand since 1995. Born Katherine Palmer in England in 1963, her much-travelled family eventually settled in New Zealand. She now resides on Gabriola Island, British Columbia, where she writes about the contemporary issues that face society, both serious and light-hearted. She has covered some of the most beautiful regions of the planet; the people who live around us and what they do; and environmental, cultural, and business-related issues. With twenty years experience working with First Nations on land claims and inter-governmental relations, Katherine also writes about the complex and human side of treaty negotiations, reconciliation, and the path to justice for First Nations.
E-mail: katherinegordon@shaw.ca
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Publications
A Curious Life: The Biography of Princess Peggy Abkhazi. Victoria, BC: Sono Nis Press, 2002.
The Slocan: Portrait of a Valley. Winlaw, BC: Sono Nis Press, 2004.
Made To Measure: A history of land surveying in British Columbia. Sono Nis Press, 2006
Nobody's Mother: Life Without Kids. anthology, Ed. Lynne van Luven, Touchwood, 2006
The Garden That You Are. Sono Nis Press, 2007
Imagining BC: Land, Memory and Place, Ed. Daniel Francis (anthology). Anvil Press, 2008
Maps, Mountains & Mosquitoes: The McElhanney Story 1910-2010. The McElhanney Group Ltd., 2010
Awards
Finalist, Hubert Evans Prize for Non-Fiction, BC Book Prizes for The Slocan: Portrait of a Valley, 2005
Winner, Roderick Haig-Brown Prize, BC Book Prizes for Made to Measure: A History of Land Surveying in B.C., 2007
Axiom Business Books Awards: Corporate History Silver Medal for Maps, Mountains & Mosquitoes: The McElhanney Story 1910-2010, 2011
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