Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
The third volume in a series of guidebooks designed for kids and families looking for museum adventures throughout British Columbia.Go on...be a time traveller, an anthropologist, an archeologist, an artist, or an explorer Be everything at once When you visit a museum, you enter an amazing world where you are limited only by your imagination. The books in the Time to Wonder series give adventurous families a backstage pass to explore behind the scenes in regional museums throughout British Columbia.
Locations included are:
- Mainland/Southwest
- Museum of Vancouver
- Museum of Anthropology at University of British Columbia
- Historic Joy Kogawa House
- Science World
- Mission Museum
- Britannia Shipyards National Historical Site
- Museum of Surrey
- Fraser River Discovery Centre
- Sunshine Coast Museum and Archives
- qathet Museum and Archives Society
- Squamish Lil'wat Cultural Centre
- Bulkley Valley Museum
- Ksan Historic Village and Museum
- Kitimat Museum and Archives
- Nisg̱a'a Museum
For the third time in this highly original series of books, all will be revealed with the help of dozens of colour photographs, regional maps, lists of activities, historical information, and interviews with a team of amazing experts who specialize in a variety of locations along the coast of British Columbia. Whether families are experienced museum-goers or just curious about something new, this is a book they will read over and over.
Kids and families looking for a complete British Columbia museum journey should also check out Time to Wonder - Volume 1: A Kid's Guide to BC's Regional Museums: Thompson-Okanagan, Kootenay, Cariboo-Chilcotin and Time to Wonder - Volume 2: A Kid's Guide to BC's Regional Museums: Vancouver Island, Salt Spring, Alert Bay, and Haida Gwaii.
Synopsis
This is a book for anyone, of any age, who cares about rivers.
This story of the Columbia River is unique. Told from the river's perspective, it is an immersive, empathetic portrait of a once-wild river and of the Sinixt, a First People who lived on the mainstem of this great western river for thousands of years and continue to do so even though Canada declared them "extinct" in 1956.
The book's re-release comes at a critical time for natural systems and for reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples across North America. The Colville Confederated Tribes, representing over 3,000 Sinixt People, recently won a precedent-setting case in the Supreme Court of Canada affirming that Aboriginal Rights do not stop at the border. The important story of the Sinixt weaves together with the ongoing ecological impact of hydropower development on the Columbia and its tributaries.
Central to the story is the joyous spirit of salmon, once a free swimmer in the Columbia's currents north of the border but now blocked from ancestral spawning grounds by Grand Coulee and other dams. Restoring migratory fish indigenous to the Upper Columbia will require transboundary cooperation. With Indigenous Nations on both sides of the US-Canada border now leading the way, many are hopeful that the fish will return.
Lavishly illustrated by Nelson, BC, designer Nichola Lytle, this portrait of a globally significant river will inspire anyone who reads it to care about the future of the salmon, a fish that unites all of us in its quest for freedom and possibility.