This site provides extensive reference information for books and authors pertaining to British Columbia,
including an on-line archive of BC BookWorld, Canada's largest-circulation independent publication about books.
In 1990, 70-year-old Sheila T. Paynter of Westbank, born in the Okanagan, published her account of a 24-day walk around Okanagan Lake in the spring of 1988 titled First Time Around.