3 Books Signed ACCIDENTAL AIRLINE JIM SPILSBURY QUEEN CHARLOTTE BRITISH COLUMBIA
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SPILSBURY’S ALBUM : PHOTOGRAPHS AND REMINISCENCES OF THE BRITISH COLUMBIA COAST
SIGNED by JIM SPILSBURY
by Howard White & JimSpilsbury
Published by HarbourPublishing, Madeira Park , BC
1990 FIRSTEDITION
This book is a large HARDCOVER in fine condition with 176pages, index, Map endpages and with over 200 vintage black and white photographs& illustrations.
The dust jacket is in near fine condition.
SIGNED BY AUTHOR
CONTENTS
Introduction
1. Savary Island
2. Radio Days
3. Running An Airline
4. Back to the Coast
Index
FROM THE COVER == SPILSBURY\'S ALBUM
Readers of Jim Spilsbury\'sfirst two bestselling books, Spilsbury\'s Coast and The Accidental Airlinewanted more pictures. Now they have them, in this collection of over 200photographs from Jim\'s own archive.
Spilsbury\'s Album is auniquely personal record of life on the BC coast from World War One to thepresent. Most of the photographs have not been seen before. They include scenesof Savary Islandin the early days, a wonderful selection of photographs of the \"QueerCollection of Aircraft\" that Jim transformed into the third largest airlinein Canada,and dozens of pictures of the logging camps, Indian villages, canneries,steamboats and floating villages that made the coast such a special place.
Complementing the picturesare more of the lively reminiscences that made Jim\'s earlier books so popular.
What critics said about JimSpilsbury\'s earlier books, Spilsbury\'s Coast and The Accidental Airline:
\"It\'s history, it\'s comedy, it\'s a whole new look at
the rags-to-riches story. Andit\'s essential reading for those who would try and fathom what makes lotus landtick.\" == Vancouver Province
\"Like Spilsbury\'s Coast, TheAccidental Airline is written in a salty, swinging style which makes for goodreading.\" == Arthur Mayse,Victoria Times-Colonist
\"Spilsbury has a raconteur\'s eyefor an anecdote, a keen sense of history, an earthy sense of humour, and, likeCaptain Walbran, a genuine interest in the people who lived and worked on thecoast.\" == Richard Mackie,BC Studies
\" Spilsbury\'s Coast offersfascinating glimpses of some of the pioneering men and women who scratched aliving working in the floating camps and isolated settlements along BC\'s Inside Passage.\" == VancouverSun
\"The stuff of which folklore iswritten.\" == Tony Eberts
THE ACCIDENTAL AIRLINE: SPILSBURY’S QCA : TheStory of British Columbia\'s Queen Charlotte Airlines
SIGNED & DATED BY AUTHOR JIM SPILSBURY
by Howard White & Jim Spilsbury
Published by Harbour Publishing , Madeira Park ,
1988 , First Edition
This book is a Blue HARDCOVER in fine condition with a pictorial dust jacket in near fine condition.
This book has 238 pages, index, Map end pages and with vintage black and white photographs & illustrations.
INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR JIM SPILSBURY to a Long Time Friend and Vancouver Ship Captain
FROM THE COVER === Written with the warmth, humour, and keen eye for west coast character that made a nonstop bestseller of Spilsbury\'s Coast, this book tells the incredible story of how an itinerant radio repairman accidentally started Queen Charlotte Airlines, Canada\'s largest bush flying outfit.
Affectionately know as \"Queer Collection of Aircraft,\" by the stakey loggers, pregnant homesteaders and touring 1950s movie stars who rode its ungainly \"Flying Boxcars\" through the rain and fog, QCA beat out the competition to reign for one glorious decade as the queen of the booming post-war coast.
\"We had everything happen to us,\" QCA founder Jim Spilsbury says of that remarkable era, \"Everything.\"
Gruesome accidents, hairsbreadth escapes, high-stakes air wars, bed-hopping pilots and mercy flights beyond counting --
there\'s never been an airline quite like QCA and there\'s never been a flying story quite like The Accidental Airline.
Comments on Spilsbury\'s Coast, by Howard White and Jim Spilsbury:
\"Here is storytelling at its very best.\" == Dan Dunaway, Coast Mountain Courier
\"It\'s history, it\'s comedy, it\'s a whole new look at the rags-to-riches story. And it\'s essential reading for those who would fathom what makes lotus land tick.\" == Tony Eberts, Vancouver Province
CONTENTS INCLUDE
1 The Non-Flyer
2 The Radio Business
3 The Waco
4 One Damn Thing After Another
5 The Whistling Shithouse
6 Mercy Flights
7 Bushplanes with Barnacles
8 Flying Elephants
9 Queer Collection of Aircraft
10 Into Wider Skies
11 The Alcan Project
12 Mount Benson
13 Aftermath
14 Shovelling Smoke
15 Free Enterprise
16 The Tight Little Airline
SPILSBURY’S COAST: PIONEER YEARS IN THE WET WEST
SIGNED by JIM SPILSBURY
by Howard White & Jim Spilsbury
Published by Harbour Publishing, Madeira Park ,
1988 second printing
This book is a HARDCOVER in near fine condition with a pictorial dust jacket in near fine condition.
This book has 195 pages, index, Map endpages and with vintage black and white photographs & illustrations.
INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR \" To Howie with best wishes - Jim Spilsbury\"
FROM THE COVER === This book is the story of a fabulous place — the British Columbia coast — and a man whose remarkable life it shaped—Jim Spilsbury.
Spilsbury\'s coast is that part of the Inside Passage between the Fraser River and the top end of Vancouver Island, one of the biggest, most intricate inland seas on the globe. It is a place of small boats and countless islands and whole towns on floats at the edge of the world.
The son of a rebellious, trouser-wearing suffragette and a Cambridge-educated gentleman, Jim Spilsbury spent ten of his early years living in a tent on the beach at Savary Island, a hundred miles of wilderness from Vancouver.
The island\'s one-room school only went to fourth reader but Spilsbury learned enough on his own to become one of the west coast\'s early wizards of radio. Starting out in business as a radio repairman calling on upcoast logging camps in a leaky cod boat, he went on to become Canada\'s largest exporter of radio-telephone equipment and almost accidentally started what has since grown into Canada\'s largest domestic airline.
But the way Spilsbury tells his story, these achievements were just minor diversions on his unending voyage of discovery up and down the BC coast, which he carries on in his eighties with undiminished fascination. It\'s the years between the wars he likes to remember, the years when he lived and travelled among a community of \"loggers, fishermen, stump ranchers, hermits, remittance men, Greek scholars, ex-prostitutes, former stagecoach robbers, and outright lunatics,\" which he says \"surely must have been unique in the history of the world.\"
Starting his coastal odyssey in 1914, he saw that community come and go, leaving only memories behind.
But such memories!
CONTENTS
1. Red\'s Sea Diner
2. The Governor
3. Savary Island
4. Wild Animals and Wilder People
5. Swallow Hard If You Feel Something Hairy
6. Engineer from Fourth Reader
7. Voice from the Sky
8. A Radio Expert is Born
9. Five Hundred a Month
10. I Take to the Water
11. The Radio Boat
12. The Cannon that Flew over Lund
13. A Stormy Honeymoon
14. Living Aboard
15. Spilsbury & Hepburn Ltd.
16. Pearl Harbour Panic
17. War Work
18. Robert B. Gayer
19. I Discover the West Coast
20.We Take to the Air
CANADIANA
MORE ABOUT THE AUTHORS = A.J. (JIM) SPILSBURY was born in Findern, Derbyshire in 1905 but came to the BC coast in his infancy and remained there all his life. He graduated from Savary Island School in 1918 and earned his L.D.E. at Theodosia in 1922. He began manufacturing small radios in the early 1920\'s and in 1941 founded Spilsbury and Hepburn Ltd., later Spilsbury and Tindall Ltd., which became one of Canada\'s best known radio-telephone manufacturers. In 1943 Mr. Spilsbury founded Queen Charlotte Airlines, which was already Canada\'s third largest air carrier when it was merged with Pacific Western Airlines in 1955. Mr. Spilsbury is also an artist whose pastels are renowned for their interpretation of coastal landscape.
The Queen Charlotte Airlines was a Canadian airline founded by Jim Spilsbury that operated on the West Coast of Canada from 1943 to 1955, when it was sold to Pacific Western Airlines. Though the airline began as bush flying operation, it grew to become the third largest airline in Canada at the time of its sale.
The book The Accidental Airline, by Jim Spilsbury and Howard White, tells the story of the QCA.
Aircraft ==The following aircraft were operated by the QCA (this list is possibly incomplete):
Waco floatplane
Noorduyn Norseman
Supermarine Stranraer
PBY Canso
Avro Anson
Douglas DC-3
MORE ABOUT THE AUTHORS = Franklin Howard White CM OBC LLD (Hon) (born 1945 in Abbotsford, British Columbia) is an award-winning Canadian writer, editor and publisher. In the early 1970s, he founded the Raincoast Chronicles and Harbour Publishing was born in Abbotsford, BC in 1945 and spent much of his childhood living in the kind of coastal logging camps Jim Spilsbury visited with his radio boats.
Following studies at the University of British Columbia he worked as a heavy equipment operator around BC and Alberta. He began his writing career with a weekly newspaper, The Peninsula Voice, in 1970. He started the regional journal Raincoast Chronicles in 1972 and founded Harbour Publishing in 1974. He. has had four previous books published, Raincoast Chronicles First Five, Raincoast Chronicles Six Ten (both as editor), A Hard Man To Beat (with Bill White), and The Men there Were Then (poems). Mr. White lives in Pender Harbour with his wife and two sons.
Published works
Raincoast Chronicles (1972, editor)
A Hard Man to Beat (1983, with Bill White)
The Men There Were Then (1983, poems)
Spilsbury\'s Coast (1987, with Jim Spilsbury)
The Accidental Airline (1988, with Jim Splisbury)
Patrick and the Backhoe (children\'s), with Bus Griffiths
Writing in the Rain (1990, recycled works)
Ghost in the Gears (1993, poems)
The Sunshine Coast (1996, travel)
The Encyclopedia of British Columbia (2000, publisher, contributor)
The Airplane Ride (2006, children\'s)
In 2000, he published the Encyclopedia of British Columbia, a 10-year project.
Awards
Canadian Historical Association\'s Career Award for Regional History in 1989.
Order of BC
Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour
James Douglas BC Publisher of the Year Award
Queen Elizabeth 50th Jubilee Medal
Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree from the University of Victoria.
Two-time runner-up in the Whiskey Slough Putty Man Triathlon
Order of Canada
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3 Books Signed ACCIDENTAL AIRLINE JIM SPILSBURY QUEEN CHARLOTTE BRITISH COLUMBIA:
$44.00