Join us in a moving tribute to Canadian courage and sacrifice on Saturday, May 31, 2025, from 1 PM to 3 PM at Indigo – Granville, Vancouver. We are honoured to welcome the family of the late Lt. Cdr. Joseph Marston, a proud Vancouver resident, Royal Canadian Navy officer, and true national hero. His remarkable story—surviving a German torpedo [...]
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Book Reviews
Interview with Novelist Dinaw Mengestu
on March 3rd, 2025
Dinaw Mengestu, The African Millennium Award winning author of two novels, The beautiful Things That Heaven Bears and How to Read the Air. A Graduate from Georgetown University and Columbia University’s MFA Program in Fiction and the recipient of a 5 under 35 Award from the National Book Foundation and a 20 Under 40 Award [...]
Journey Through Faith and Service
on January 6th, 2025
“Alvin Witten’s Search for Churches: A Modern Pilgrimage” According to Wikipedia, the word ‘history’ is described as inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation, the systematic study and documentation of the human past and investigate their patterns of cause and effect. For Alvin and Jean Witten, it was not only the case of investigating past undocumented history [...]
Book Synopsis of the Early Seafaring Years of Joe Marston, Sr.
on November 26th, 2023
Living in Interesting Times: The Early Seafaring Years of Lt. Cdr. J.C. Marston, RCN, CD, DSC (Retired) 1930-1945 My father first went to sea in the early 1930’s as a 15-year old bridge messenger aboard the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company’s ocean liner Empress of Canada. until the end of WW2 in 1945. He spent almost 2 years [...]
J.C.Marston of Canadian Naval History Invitation to Discover
on March 13th, 2023
Dear Reader: We invite you to enjoy pages from a life lived on the sea, out of Canada’s Pacific coast by a young man coming of age at the start of the Great Depression to the end of the Second World War in 1945. It was the start of adventure and skill-building at sea, evading [...]
A New Book Release: Cocktails, Cappuccino and Courage: Because It Takes A Lot!
on January 14th, 2023
Author: Joy Walcott-Francis, PhD : In this intriguing story, the author brings readers on her journey of being uprooted from all that she had come to know and love, forced to acclimatize to a new and different life in the country, she yearned to return to the city – to make something of herself – [...]
A Life at Sea Captured in Lt. Cdr. Joseph C. Marston’s Memoir
on June 28th, 2022
You are going to read about the story of one man, yet also the story of so many who were called to sail the seas in wartime and who continued in peacetime. The memoirs of Lt. Cdr. Joseph C. Marston, RCN, CD, DSC, edited by his son J.C. Marston, Jr., will appeal to veterans and [...]
Book Review : Inside Intercultural Canada
on January 24th, 2022
In February every year, Canadians are reminded about the contributions of black people in Canada. Some non-profit organizations hold workshops, exhibitions, or presentations in schools and communities to call attention to the presence of the most visible among visible minority category of Canadians. It is a once-a-year occasion when the history and presence of black [...]
Book Review: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
on October 12th, 2021
Russian philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev once observed that ‘The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia’s existence.’ Berdyaev was referring to 19th century Russian literature when he said this, however, the ideals of which he spoke on carried on to [...]
A Father’s Significance on D-Day
The birth of light that shines through you as the Sun rises with ultimate life responsibility the root of a family tree in the cosmos of a humanbeing. Being a man comes with enormous responsibility. To be a father is a divine blessing, a loving father is a gift no matter how the challenges are. [...]