Although he travelled throughout the world, home was always the West Coast. Lawrence Foort was born on Quadra Island and grew up to make a living from the ocean, first as a mariner working for various employers, then as a tug boat owner and partner of a fish processing company. Foort retired to Campbell River. He wrote many short stories and then in 2010, he published his first full length book, a biography, Child of the Storm: The Adventures of a West Coast Kid (Trafford, 2010).

BOOKS:

Child of the Storm: The Adventures of a West Coast Kid (Trafford, 2010) 9781426915550

[BCBW 2016]