Okanagan Trips & Trails

A Guide to British Columbia’s Okanagan-Similkameen Region, New Edition

Author Murphy Shewchuk & Judie Steeves
ISBN 9781554554607
Binding Trade Paper
Publisher Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Publication Date December 09, 2019
Size 152 x 229 mm

British Columbia is the custodian of some of the most spectacular wilderness remaining in the world, including the unique ecosystems of the Okanagan basin.

Judie Steeves and Murphy Shewchuk have fully updated their definitive guide to the region. There is a wide variety of backcountry adventures and outdoor experiences available in the province’s Okanagan region, from Manning Park to Three Valley Gap, and from Rock Creek to Armstrong. With more than 40 maps, and over 100 photographs, the book describes the many routes in kilometre by kilometre detail — the Centennial and Trans Canada Trails, along with the many other lesser-known hiking paths found in the Okanagan Similkameen.

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Kootenay Trips and Trails

A Guide to Southeastern British Columbia’s Kootenay-Columbia Region

Author Murphy Shewchuk
ISBN 9781554551002
Binding Trade Paper
Publisher Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Publication Date October 12, 2018
Size 152 x 229 mm

From backcountry exploring to lounging in hot springs, southern British Columbia’s Kootenay-Columbia region has it all:

• A rich and colourful mining history that rivals the famous Cariboo;
• the province’s highest peaks;
• the best alpine heli-skiing;
• the most historic rail-trails;
• the biggest lakes;
• orchards, wineries and breweries.

This is a land that can keep you enthralled for years.

Kootenay Trips & Trails will help you explore the region from the US Boundary north to Valemount, and from the height of the Rockies west to the Okanagan — all done with personal insights, detailed descriptions, and full-colour maps and photographs.

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Cariboo Trips & Trails

A guide to British Columbia’s Cariboo Gold Rush Country

Author Murphy Shewchuk
ISBN 9781554550319
Binding Trade Paper
Publisher Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Publication Date October 07, 2008
Size 152 x 229 mm

Western Canada’s colourful history manifests itself in many places, but few are more intriguing than the Cariboo-Chilcotin region of the British Columbia “Interior”.

Archaeological digs indicate that the First Nations People have lived here for as much as 9,000 years. Alexander Mackenzie was the first European explorer to visit what is now called the Cariboo. In 1793, he and his crew followed the rivers and Grease Trails west to the Pacific Ocean at Bella Coola. For the next half-century the Cariboo remained the domain of the Natives and the fur traders. Then, with the discovery of gold and the subsequent 1858 Fraser River and 1860s Cariboo gold rushes, the lure of gold attracted tens of thousands of miners-and “service-providers” determined to part the miners from their millions in gold.

In preparing Cariboo Trips & Trails, Murphy Shewchuk has revisited numerous highways, backroads and trails in the Cariboo and Chilcotin and assembled a broad-base of up-to-date information.