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Hi Everybody. Wow, a lot has changed in the months since I took my unexpected wikibreak. (My job has been rather time consuming, but I hope to settle back in to a routine again soon). I live in Prince George and was born in Creston. About eight years ago I became fascinated with the history of our local sternwheelers and the era of Grand Trunk Pacific Railway construction. So fascinated that I wrote, and am still working on, a lengthy historical romance novel series set in Prince George, Prince Rupert and Hazelton through 1909 to 1918. In the course of writing them, I've bought and studied many local history books, and have sets of old newspaper articles relating to that period. I have a passion for the pictures of that era too and have several albums of them that I collect. The real history of these towns is far more interesting than anything I could make up and it makes a wonderful background for a long story. The sternwheelers and the big hotels, the railroad, land speculating, the brothels, the honor, the corruption...ect...ect...

My research for these books often led me here to wikipedia, and still does. I'm only now beginning to realize the scope and importance of what wikipedia does and I am enjoying myself here. More writing for free, I guess can't get enough of it.[1] I'm also studying the Great War, and have researched BC's role in it for about three years now. I've read a little of the propaganda/books/poetry that was written in Germany and England before and during that war. HG Wells said that it was a war started by writers, and that seems true enough.

Sandbox

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My Sandbox

Commons

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My page on Wikimedia Commons is here.

Some of my favorite fiction: kind of in order

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I read fiction for joy and entertainment and to get lost in the world that the author created, so the bigger the better. But I also like to finish the book and be left with a feeling that all is right with the world, so I don't like anything too deep or gloomy. We can go to non-fiction if we want that and find plenty to choose from. So here's my list:

  1. JRR Tolkien Only me and a billion other people
  2. John Jakes
  3. Larry McMurty
  4. Jeffrey Deaver
  5. HG Wells
  6. Robert McCammon
  7. William Stuart Long
  8. Anton Myrer
  9. Ray Bradbury
  10. Stephen King
  11. Dean Koontz
  12. Greg Matthews
  13. Rudyard Kipling

Some of my favorite non-fiction

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Canadian and world history:

  1. Pierre Berton
  2. Barbara Tuchman
  3. Eva Maclean
  4. Russell Walker
  5. Art Downs, Willis West, Norman Hacking and Wiggs O'Neill
  6. Jack Boudreau

And lots and lots more, I'll read anything once.

Did you know?

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Some funny things I've seen on Wikipedia lately

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Editing milestones

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Articles I started and are ongoing

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Chilco 1910

My first article

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Which led to writing these

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Which led to writing this

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Inlander 1909

Which means I have wrote (should write) these

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And couldn't (shouldn't) leave out these

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Moyie and Kuskanook racing on Kootenay Lake (1908)

And then I wrote about these BC people

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William Moore's Western Slope at Yale

All below need notes reformatted, some need notes and expansion

Along with these BC places

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All need notes reformatted, some need notes and expansion and the settlement infobox

Omineca River

And also these BC events

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All need notes reformatted, some need notes and expansion

Bedaux Expedition in the Peace River Country
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All need notes reformatted, some need notes and expansion

Colonial Hotel at Soda Creek
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Harry Colebourn and Winnie

Main "to do" list

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What I'd like to get to Aug-Sept

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Make these ship articles:

Go over early sternwheeler articles and improve them as much as possible. Done

Go over biography articles and improve them as much as possible.

Expand and add pictures to:

and create:

Help with clean-up of:

What I've been procrastinating over and must get to

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BC articles that need creation (people)

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BC articles that need creation (towns)

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BC articles that need creation (gold rush)

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Existing BC articles to be expanded (people)

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Robert Cunningham Needs pic too

Existing BC articles to be expanded (towns and places)

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Existing BC articles to be expanded (gold rush)

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  • Vessels of the Lakes Route
  • Chilcotin War Although not any time soon. I find the the topic a bit overwhelming and difficult to find sources for and am more comfortable working on its associated articles.

Misc stuff to do

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Awards

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A Barnstar!
The 2nd ever Mr. PG Award!!!

For your research into Prince George, British Columbia and for caring.

Presented by maclean 08:28, 9 July 2007 (UTC)