British Columbia History magazine’s Aimee Greenaway interviewed Dr. Barry Gough, award-winning author of Possessing Meares Island: A Historian’s Journey Through the Past of Clayoquot Sound in June 2022. The recording is available on BCHF’s YouTube Channel.

How did the book come to be and who are some of the significant people in Clayoquot Sound’s history? Possessing Meares Island was the winner of the 2022 Lieutenant Governor’s Medal for Historical Writing. The book was published by Harbour Publishing and can be purchased from the publisher, or where books are sold.