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D.O.A.

  • Corporate body
  • 1978-

D.O.A. is a political punk band from Vancouver, B.C., and an influential part of the hardcore punk movement that developed in the late seventies and early eighties. They released their first full length album in 1980, followed by sixteen other releases, most recently, 2015's Hard Rain Falling. Joe "Shithead" Keithley is the band's one remaining founding member. Past members include Chuck Biscuits, Randy Rampage, Dave Gregg, Dimwit, and Wimpy. Their slogan is "Talk minus Action equals Zero."

Wershler-Henry, Darren S. (Darren Sean)

  • Person
  • 1966-

Darren Wershler-Henry is a non-fiction writer, cultural critic and recovering poet. He has written widely on the shared concerns of literary theory and cultural politics, and his books include FREE as in speech and beer (2002) and The Iron Whim: A Fragmented History of Typewriting (2005). He is the co-author of the renowned Apostrophe Engine poetry programme (with Bill Kennedy) and holds the Concordia University Research Chair in Media and Contemporary Literature in Montreal. His books of poetry include NICHOLODEON: a book of lowerglyphs, and the tapeworm foundry, shortlisted for the Trillium Prize in 2000. He was senior editor of Coach House Books from 1997 to 2002.

New Star Books

  • Corporate body
  • 1971-

An informal writing collective was formed in Vancouver in 1969 and eventually grew into the “York Street commune”. They published books first as the Georgia Straight Writing Series and then as the Vancouver Community Press, before political and social trends shifted their editorial focus from literary works more towards titles relating to contemporary affairs and political non-fiction. This new direction was marked with a further name change to New Star Books in 1974.
From 1978 until 1990, publisher Lanny Beckman focused on titles left of the mainstream, serving and marketing mostly to independent or niche bookstores and organizations. The subjects of these titles ranged from criticisms of British Columbia’s Social Credit administration to works on the Nicaraguan and Cuban revolutions, feminism, gay rights, communism, and the immigrant experiences of Chinese Canadians and Eastern Europeans. This radical and activist publishing trend continued through the mid-1980’s, at which point the company began to identify a downturn in public interest in such works and saw sales begin to suffer.
Rolf Maurer assumed control of New Star Books in 1990, at which point the focus of titles began to shift once more. The company continues to publish on political and social issues, but has also reincorporated poetry and prose fiction into its repertoire. Some of the authors published by New Star include Stan Persky, Margaret Randall, Anthony Chan, Joel Lexchin, Helen Potrebenko, Rolf Knight, Jack Scott and Chuck Davis.

Artichoke: Writings About the Visual Arts

  • Corporate body
  • 1989-2005

Artichoke magazine was founded in 1989 by Paula Gustafson, Mary-Beth Laviolette and David Garneau. It featured outstanding writing about Canadian visual art and artists, and filled a valuable niche in the Canadian cultural landscape for its sixteen years of active publication.

Birnie, Lisa Hobbs

  • Person
  • 1928-

Lisa (Hobbs) Birnie’s career as a journalist and author has spanned six decades and three continents. She is the author of nine books of nonfiction, including The Death and Life of Sue Rodriguez, and I Saw Red China, which hit the New York Times best-seller list. She has interviewed Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong, Woody Allen, Clare Boothe Luce, William Shatner, Joan Crawford, Burt Lancaster and Timothy Leary. In Mania’s Memory, the interwoven stories of two women, one a Jewish child in Auschwitz, the other a female Nazi guard, whose lives miraculously reconnect years later, was published in 2010.

Edgewise Electrolit Centre

  • Corporate body
  • 1994-2002

The Edgewise ElectroLit Centre, started by Heather Haley in 1994, was a non-profit organization with the mandate of increasing the accessibility of poetry and new media. The Edgewise ElectroLit Centre operated as a research site to explore interactive media and technology. Its members organized the Vancouver Videopoem Festival, hosted a videoconferenced poetry reading series, a web magazine, a virtual café and weekly virtual writing workshop.

Armstrong, John

  • Person
  • 1956-

John Armstrong (Buck Cherry) was born in 1956. He started playing music in 1975 when he quit high school. Armstrong, a singer-guitarist, established the Modernettes, a punk band, in 1980 with bassist, Mary Jo Kopechne and drummer, John McAdams (Jughead) in Vancouver. The first EP is Strictly Confidential. The second EP, Teen City, was a huge success. The final EP is View From the Bottom. The Modernettes completed one album, Get It Straight. The Modernettes was disbanded in 1982. John Armstrong worked for The Vancouver Sun as a reporter and is the author of two memoirs: Guilty of Everything (2001) and Wages (2007).

Driver, Ann

  • Person

Ann Driver (Blakemore) was a BBC broadcaster and the wife of poet and lawyer Trevor Blakemore. She presented BBC's Music and Movement program from 1934-1948.

Scott McIntyre

  • Person

Scott McIntyre was publisher of Douglas & McIntyre for over forty years.

B.C. Social Credit Party

  • Corporate body
  • 1952-1991

The B.C. Social Credit Party was the governing political party of British Columbia, Canada, for more than 30 years between the 1952 provincial election and the 1991 election. For four decades, the party dominated the British Columbian political scene, with the only break occurring between the 1972 and 1975 elections when the New Democratic Party of British Columbia was in power. The party collapsed after its defeat in 1991. Notable leaders were W.A.C. Bennett, Bill Bennett, and Bill Vander Zalm.

Tremblay, Rose Marie

  • Person

Rose Marie Tremblay was a photographer at the 1979 Writing in Our Time reading series, organized by the Vancouver Poetry Centre.

Kansky, Marilyn

  • Person

Marilyn Kansky is an environmental lawyer with a practice based in Richmond, B.C.

Dewinetz, Jason

  • Person
  • 1970-

Jason Dewinetz is a writer, editor, typographer, printer, publisher, and educator living in the Okanagan Valley. He is the founder of Greenboathouse Books and Greenboathouse Press.

Purdy, Al

  • Person
  • 1918-2000

Al 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.

Vancouver Mayworks Festival of Working People and the Arts

  • Corporate body
  • 1987-[200?]

Vancouver's Mayworks was started in 1987 in order to organize a week-long cultural festival in Vancouver, B.C. in May. The festival was intended to celebrate worker's contributions through artistic expression, to educate about the role of workers in society, to foster a culture which values workers, to promote working people's cultural expression, and to build ties between the labour movement and cultural workers.

Compton, Wayde

  • Person
  • 1972-

Wayde Compton is a writer of fiction, poetry, and essays born in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1972. In 2002, he co-founded the Hogan's Alley Memorial project to promote the history of Vancouver's black community. In 2006, he co-founded Commodore Books, the first black literary press in western Canada.

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