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A HIKING WE WILL GO A great guidebook often goes unheralded. wrote 109 Walks in B.C.’s Lower Mainland (D&M 1980). In 1972, there was a predecessor to the Macaree’s book, Mountain Trail Guide for the South West Mainland AY BACK WHEN, Area of B.C., published by Mary Mathe Federation of Mountain caree and Clubs of B.C. A version of the David MaMacaree’s book, titled 103 caree coHikes in Southwestern B.C.: wrote 103 Hikes in SouthRevised and Updated by Jack western B.C. (Mountaineers Bryceland, listing Mary and Books/B.C. MountaineerDavid Macaree as co-authors, ing Club), a classic regional appeared on the BC Top Ten title that has reputedly sold Bestseller list in 2008. more than 120,000 I n 2 0 1 4 , copies since 1973. Greystone Books The couple’s ofpublished 109 ten whimsical and Walks in British beguiling text acColumbia’s Lower counted for much Mainland, credited of the book’s apto the Macarees peal. As members with Alice Purdey. of the British CoNow S t e p h e n lumbia MountainHui has carried on eering Club since the Macaree’s legMary Macaree 1964, they also acy in 105 Hikes
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105 Hikes in and Around Southwestern British Columbia by Stephen Hui; foreword by T’uy’t’tanat Cease Wyss (Greystone $24.95)
Stephen Hui on Cheam Peak, east of Chilliwack, from 105 Hikes Around Southwestern B.C.
In and Around Southwestern British Columbia, an expanded follow-up version with an additional selection of trails on the islands and in Washington’s North Cascades. 105 Hikes covers a wider area and wider range of abilities than its predecessor.
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LEST WE FORGET: DAVID MACAREE
was an English professor at UBC and Mary Macaree was a librarian at UBC. Both were born in Scotland, in 1919 and 1922 respectively. During the
Second World War he served with the Royal Marines from 1940 to 1946, first in the Mediterranean Sea, then the Indian Ocean and later with the Commandos in continental Europe. David married Mary Watson in 1949, and in 1955 they immigrated to Prince George, first teaching in northern British Columbia before moving to Vancouver. Mary went back to school, graduated from UBC and became head librarian at the MacMillan Library at UBC.
David joined the UBC Department of English as a lecturer, earned his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1965, and taught as an associate professor of English at UBC from 1970 to 1985. He died on Dec 9, 1998. In 2003, the David Macaree Award for Improved Dementia Care, worth $500, from the Alzheimer’s Society, was created by Mary in honour of David, who had dementia. Mary died on July 31, 2008 due to complications from a stroke. 9781771642866
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