Book Notes: Patricia Roy on John Hart

I sometimes forget to go back to The British Columbia Review (see the link at right), but when I return, it does not just feed my westcoast roots but reminds me of what an impressive survey of all that gets published in the Pacific province the BC Review provides.

Lately, the floods of fiction, poetry, and memoir the west coast produces almost overwhelm my searches for the B C history books I am principally looking for.  Such as this one, an evidently very substantial biography of a long-ago and little-known premier of British Columbia, John Hart, by a historian with a long and extraordinary track record in the history of her province, Patricia Roy.   Hart was premier for seven years, but wrote 21 provincial budgets -- a tough score to match. 

Here is Ron Verzuh's review of Patricia Roy's biography of Hart: John Hart: A Businessman in British Columbia Politics.