Catherine Marie Gilbert
Catherine Marie Gilbert is an award-winning Vancouver Island author, photographer, historian and lecturer with a passionate interest in life on the British Columbia coast. She has written two books of BC history: Yorke Island and the Uncertain War, Defending Canada's Western Coast during WWII (2012) and A Journey Back to Nature, a History of Strathcona Provincial Park (2021), which was a BC Bestseller and won the Lieutenant Governor's Finalist Award for Historical Writing. Catherine has a Master's degree in public history from the University of Victoria and has taught Canadian history at North Island College in the Comox Valley. She frequently lectures on British Columbia coastal history even taking her stories on the road and out to sea, escorting tour groups to Strathcona Park and Nootka Sound. Catherine works at the Alert Bay Library & Museum and keeps an office in Campbell River. www.catherinegilbert.ca
Ronsdale books by Catherine Marie Gilbert