Cariboo Chilcotin Coast Bc

This backroad mapbook is a complete road and recreation atlas for the Cariboo/Chilcotin/Coast area of British Columbia, an area of the province with extensive wilderness for outdoor recreation. The book includes over 50-colour recreational GPS-compatible relief maps and information on hiking and mountain biking trails, canoeing and kayaking routes, freshwater and saltwater fishing areas, hot springs, petroglyphs, pictographs, parks, wildlife viewing areas, backroads, wilderness camping sites, gold panning streams, parks, cross-country and backcountry skiing, dog sledding, and snowshoeing and snowmobiling areas. It also includes detailed maps of cities and parks.

This backroad mapbook is a comprehensive outdoor recreation guidebook/atlas of the Cariboo/Chilcotin/Coast area of British Columbia, an area of the province with extensive wilderness for outdoor recreation. The book includes detailed maps of cities and parks and 50-colour recreational GPS-compatible topographical relief maps with backroads, logging roads, trails, parks, and the locations of campsites and outdoor recreational opportunities. It also includes information on backroads; hiking, biking, ATVing, and horseback riding trails; lake, river, and ocean paddling; skiing; snowshoeing; snowmobiling; lake, river, stream, and ocean fishing; camping areas; hot springs; and wildlife viewing of bears, beavers, deer, moose, mountain goats, bighorn sheep, caribou, wild horses, wolverines, bald eagles, swans, great horned owls, sea otters, northern sea lions, harbour seals, orca, and dolphins.

The true story of an adventurous young nurse who provided much-needed health care to the rural communities of the Cariboo-Chilcotin in the 1960s. In 1963, newly minted public health nurse Marion McKinnon arrived in the small community of Williams Lake in BC's Cariboo region. Armed with more confidence than experience, she got into her government-issued Chevy—packed with immunization supplies, baby scales, and emergency drugs—and headed out into her 9,300-square-kilometre territory, inhabited by ranchers; mill workers; and many vulnerable men, women, and children who were at risk of falling through the cracks of Canada's social welfare system. At twenty-two, a naïve yet enthusiastic Marion relied entirely on her academic knowledge and her common sense. She doled out birth control and parenting advice to women who had far more life experience than she. She routinely dealt with condescending doctors and dismissive or openly belligerent patients. She immunized school children en masse and made home visits to impoverished communities. She drove out into the vast countryside in freezing temperatures, with only a candle, antifreeze, chains, and chocolate bars as emergency equipment. In one year, Marion received a rigorous education in the field. She helped countless people, made many mistakes, learned to recognize systemic injustice, and even managed to get into a couple of romantic entanglements. Always Pack a Candle is an unforgettable and eye-opening memoir of one frontline worker's courage, humility, and compassion.

Along the coast between Vancouver Island and Alaska lies 250 miles of forested island and inlets. Ian and Karen McAllister spent seven years photographing and mapping this forgotten wild ecosystem. Their informative text and remarkable photographs (including some of the most extraordinary images of wild bears ever published) present a complete picture of this unique area. 150 color photos.

This backroad mapbook is a comprehensive outdoor recreation guidebook/atlas of the Cariboo/Chilcotin/Coast area of British Columbia, an area of the province with extensive wilderness for outdoor recreation. The book includes detailed maps of cities and parks and 50-colour recreational GPS-compatible topographical relief maps with backroads, logging roads, trails, parks, and the locations of campsites and outdoor recreational opportunities. It also includes information on backroads; hiking, biking, ATVing, and horseback riding trails; lake, river, and ocean paddling; skiing; snowshoeing; snowmobiling; lake, river, stream, and ocean fishing; camping areas; hot springs; and wildlife viewing of bears, beavers, deer, moose, mountain goats, bighorn sheep, caribou, wild horses, wolverines, bald eagles, swans, great horned owls, sea otters, northern sea lions, harbour seals, orca, and dolphins.

A collection of historical stories about the early indigenous people, settlers, trappers, and adventurers of BC's Cariboo Chilcotin.A compilation of stories that meld both culture and bloodlines, CHILCOTIN CHRONICLES by Sage Birchwater is set in the wild and untamed country of central British Columbia's Chilcotin Plateau. West of the Fraser River, this high country is contained by an arc of impenetrable mountain ranges that separates it from the Pacific Coast. The first inhabitants of this region were fiercely independent, molded by the land itself. Those who came later were drawn to this landscape with its mysterious aura of freedom, where time stood still and where a person could find solace in the wilderness and never be found.Birchwater reaches back to first European contact in British Columbia when the indigenous population spoke forty of Canada's fifty-four languages and seventy of Canada's one hundred dialects. The land known today as the Cariboo Chilcotin Coast was already an entity when Alexander Mackenzie arrived in 1793. Bonds of friendship, mutual support and family ties had long been established between the Dakelh, Tsilhqot'in and Nuxalk, giving cohesiveness to the region.CHILCOTIN CHRONICLES is about the men and women caught in the interface of cultures and the changing landscape. Indigenous inhabitants and white newcomers brought together by the fur brigades, then later by the gold rush, forged a path together, uncharted and unpredictable. Birchwater discovers that their stories, seemingly disconnected, are intrinsically linked together to create a human eco-system with very deep roots. The lives of these early inhabitants give substance to the landscape. They give meaning to the people who live there today.

This gripping wilderness survival tale grabs young readers at the first sputtering of the small plane engine and does not let go. Fifteen year-old Ben Paul’s dream trip to the wilderness with his Tlingit grandfather quickly turns into a nightmare when their plane makes a forced landing on a lake hundreds of miles from anywhere and right in the heart of an angry grizzly’s territory. They survive the landing but that is the end of their good luck. For fans of Gary Paulsen’s Hatchet, this book delivers the same powerful, page-turning, scalp-tingling adventure.