Liz Bryan and her husband, photographer Jack Bryan, were the founding publisher and editor of Western Living magazine, which they started in 1971. Liz Bryan wrote Country Roads of B.C. and Southwestern Alberta (Sunflower Publications, 1991), plus a perennial bestseller, Backroads of British Columbia, both accompanied by Jack Bryan's photos.

After Jack Bryan died, Liz Bryan took the photographs for her books including Pioneer Churches of Vancouver Island (Heritage House, 2020), Pioneer Churches Along the Cariboo Trail (Heritage House, 2022) and Adventure Roads of BC's Northwest Heartland (Heritage House, 2022).

Her other books are British Columbia: This Favoured Land (Douglas & McIntyre, 1982), Buffalo People: Pre-contact Archaeology on the Canadian Plains (Heritage, 2005), which looks at the prehistoric Native peoples of the prairies, Stone by Stone: Exploring Ancient Sites on the Canadian Plains (Heritage 2005, 2015), Country Roads of Alberta (Heritage, 2007), and Country Roads of Western BC (Heritage, 2011). In 2008, Country Roads of British Columbia (Heritage) was re-released, focusing on 18 picturesque journeys.

Born and educated in England, Liz Bryan has lived in Rock Creek for thirty years.

Review of the author's work by BC Studies:
Country Roads of British Columbia: Exploring the Interior

BOOKS:

Adventure Roads of BC's Northwest Heartland (Heritage House, 2022)

Pioneer Churches Along the Cariboo Trail ( Heritage House, 2022)

Pioneer Churches of Vancouver Island (Heritage House, 2020)

River of Dreams: Meandering in Milk River Country. Victoria, BC: Heritage House, 2019. 160 pages. 9781772032413 (pbk) $19.95

Country Roads of Western BC: From the Fraser Valley to the Islands (Heritage, 2011)

Country Roads of Alberta (Heritage, 2007)

Stone by Stone: Exploring Ancient Sites on the Canadian Plains (Heritage: 2005, 2015)

Buffalo People: Pre-contact Archaeology on the Canadian Plains (Heritage, 2005)

Country Roads of B.C. and Southwestern Alberta (Sunflower Publications, 1991)

British Columbia: This Favoured Land (Douglas & McIntyre, 1982)

Backroads of British Columbia (Evergreen Press, 1975) 9780888940902

[BCBW 2022] "Outdoors" "Archaeology"