Sunshine Coast ElderCollege’s free annual Clifford Smith Memorial Talk will be with Howard White. “A Thousand Books in Fifty Years: Reflections of a Raincoast Chronicler,” is Saturday, Nov. 2, 2 to 4 p.m. at Raven’s Cry Theatre in Sechelt.
Sponsored by the Sunshine Coast Credit Union, this is an opportunity to spend an afternoon with Howie (Howard) White, fearless chronicler of Sunshine Coast tales, historical heroes and rapscallion poets for 50 years at the helm of Harbour Publishing in Madeira Park. White has shown us the face of the West Coast in a thousand stories and as many pictures. From cookbooks to kids’ literature with an encyclopaedia in the middle for good measure, White and Harbour Publishing have given us the fabric, the flora and fauna of our place on the Coast through time, preserving and recording the Coast’s social history.
As 2024 is Harbour Publishing’s 50th anniversary, they now have more than a thousand books in print, please join us to honour White’s immense contribution to our cultural literacy.
Howie White was raised in a series of logging camps and fishing settlements on the Sunshine Coast. As a regional publisher, White started Raincoast Chronicles and Harbour Publishing in the early 1970s. White has been awarded the Order of BC, the Canadian Historical Association’s Career Award for Regional History, the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, the Jim Douglas Publisher of the Year Award and an Honorary Doctorate of Laws Degree from the University of Victoria. In 2007, White was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
You must register on SC ElderCollege’s web page: sunshinecoasteldercollege.ca.
