Catherine Marie Gilbert – Fireside Books

Author Book Signing: Catherine Marie Gilbert – Walrus, The Remarkable Life of Eco-Warrior David Garrick.

Catherine Marie Gilbert is an award-winning author, photographer and historian 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. Catherine works at the Alert Bay Library & Museum and keeps an office in Campbell River.