Gibsons is a coastal community of 4,758 in southwestern British Columbia, Canada on the Sunshine Coast, where the southwest bank of Howe Sound meets the Strait of Georgia.
Pender Island is the collective name for two Southern Gulf Islands located in the Salish Sea, British Columbia, Canada. The Pender Islands, consisting of North Pender Island and South Pender Island, have a combined area of approximately 34 km2 (13 sq mi). The Islands are home to about 2,250 permanent residents, as well as a large seasonal population. Like most of the rest of the Southern Gulf Islands, the Pender Islands enjoy a sub-Mediterranean climate and feature open farmland, rolling forested hills, several lakes and small mountains, as well as many coves and beaches.
British Columbia Highway 101, also known as the Sunshine Coast Highway, is a 156 kilometres (97 mi) long highway that is the main north–south thoroughfare on the Sunshine Coast in British Columbia, Canada.
Alfred Wellington Purdy was a 20th-century Canadian free verse poet. Purdy's writing career spanned fifty-six years. His works include thirty-nine books of poetry; a novel; two volumes of memoirs and four books of correspondence, in addition to his posthumous works. He has been called English Canada's "unofficial poet laureate" and "a national poet in a way that you only find occasionally in the life of a culture."
Franklin Howard White, is a Canadian writer, editor and publisher.
School District 46 Sunshine Coast is a school district in British Columbia, Canada. It covers an area in the Sunshine Coast region northwest of Greater Vancouver, including the communities of Gibsons, and Sechelt.
Tim Bowling is a Guggenheim winning Canadian novelist and poet. He spent his youth in Ladner, British Columbia, and now lives in Edmonton, Alberta. He has published four novels. He was a judge for the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize.
Lund is a small craft harbour and unincorporated village on Tla'amin land in qathet Regional District, British Columbia, Canada. It is along the northern part of the Salish Sea on the mainland BC coast. The main landmark in the village is the Lund Hotel, established in 1905. By boat from Lund, the Copeland Islands and Desolation Sound, are nearby. Lund is home to many shops and services including a general store, a restaurant overlooking the water, kayak and adventure tourism stores, and Nancy's Bakery, a favourite of locals and tourists.
John Pass is a Canadian poet. He has lived in Canada since 1953, and was educated at the University of British Columbia.
Pender Harbour is a harbour on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast, on the east side of Malaspina Strait. The name Pender Harbour also refers collectively to the surrounding unincorporated communities of Madeira Park, Kleindale, Irvines Landing, and Garden Bay, within the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD).
Harbour Publishing is a Canadian independent book publisher.
Gilbert Joseph "Bus" Griffiths was a cartoonist, lumberjack, and fisherman. He was best known for his graphic novel Now You're Logging, published 1978 by Harbour Publishing. Now You're Logging presented, in cartoon form, a complete look at the techniques, tools, and personalities of logging on the West Coast in the 1930s.
Daniel Pender was a Royal Navy Staff Commander, later captain, who surveyed the Coast of British Columbia aboard HMS Plumper, HMS Hecate and Beaver from 1857 to 1870.
Michael "Mike" Poole was a Canadian film maker and author. He began his career as a copy runner for the Vancouver Sun before becoming a reporter. He earned a journalism degree in the U.S. state of Virginia, started in the film business in the 1960s and went on to be a television producer for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for ten years. He then worked as a freelance filmmaker, spending two decades producing documentaries with the well-known Canadian environmentalist, David Suzuki. His books are Romancing Mary Jane: A Year in the Life of a Failed Marijuana Grower, Ragged Islands: A Journey by Canoe Through the Inside Passage and Rain Before Morning, a novel about Canadian draft dodgers during World War I. In his retirement Poole lived full-time on the Sunshine Coast, British Columbia, Canada with his wife Carole and his two beloved Labradors. He won the Edna Staebler Award, a Canadian literary award for creative nonfiction, in 1999 for Romancing Mary Jane: A Year in the Life of a Failed Marijuana Grower. He died of prostate cancer at the age of 74 in 2010.
Patrick White is a prize-winning Canadian journalist and author. White worked in his parents' publishing firm, Harbour Publishing during his high school years in Pender Harbour and attended the University of Victoria, graduating in 2003 with a BA in history followed by a masters in journalism at Columbia University in 2006. He has worked for Newsweek, The New York Post, Toro, The Walrus and currently serves as National Correspondent for The Globe and Mail in Toronto, Ontario. In 2004 he published the book Mountie in Mukluks, an irreverent look at the work of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in the Canadian Arctic during the 1930s., In 2007 he received a National Magazine Awards Gold Medal for his feature "Red Rush," published in The Walrus. In 2009 White served as an embedded journalist with the Canadian Armed Forces in Kandahar, Afghanistan. In April 2012 he won the 2011 National Newspaper Award for best Long Feature for an anniversary piece on the founding of Nunavut., followed in 2015 by another NNA award for his expose of Canada's overuse of solitary confinement, "Who Killed Eddie Snowshoe?" In 2016 he won his third NNA in the category of Beat Reporting. His brother Silas White is the publisher of Nightwood Editions and mayor of the town of Gibsons, British Columbia.
Robert "Lucky" Budd is a Canadian author, oral historian, and radio host. He is known for his books based upon the stories of British Columbia pioneers, as well as his book collaborations with artist Roy Henry Vickers.
Kim LaFave is a Canadian children's book illustrator and artist. LaFave started his illustration career in media before his first children's drawings appeared in the 1981 book The Mare's Egg. From the 1980s to 2000s, his drawings appeared in over 40 children's books. As an artist, LaFave painted landscapes, boats and snow from the 2000s to 2020s. He also was a member of Eleven Equal Artists during the 2010s.
Cape Sutil is the headland at the northernmost point of Vancouver Island, in the Canadian Province of British Columbia.
The shíshálh Nation is a First Nation located on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, Canada. Their swiya comprises 515,000 hectares that stretches from xwesam in the southeast, to x̱enichen in the north, to kwekwenis in the southwest.
Randene Neill is a Canadian politician who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in the 2024 general election. She represents the electoral district of Powell River-Sunshine Coast as a member of the British Columbia New Democratic Party.
