Publications by
Tom W. Parkin
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And that wide river is Jordan
One more river
There’s one more river to cross.”
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Read MoreMountain Vision | January 2024
The Spiral Tunnels and the Big Hill
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Read MoreNovember 2023
So You Always Wanted to Know About Railway Stonemasonry
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Read MoreBranchline | November 2023
Climate, Change, and Melting Ice
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Read MoreBranchline | July 2023
Ghosts of the Grade
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Read MoreThe Sandhouse | May 2023
Walking B.C.’s Dying Railway
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Read MoreCP Tracks | March 2023
Sleuthing on the Trail of Stone, Part 3 of 3
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Read MoreBranchline | March 2023
Safety First and Other Stories
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Read MoreThe Sandhouse | February 2023
Assignment: Dead Men
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Read MoreMountain Vision | December 2022
Gravity, Steam and Steel
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Read MoreThe Sandhouse | November 2022
Insulbrick
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Read MoreBC Magazine | September 2022
Peeping Tom
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Read MoreBranchline | September 2022
I Love the Smell of Fuel Oil in the Morning
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Read MoreThe Sandhouse | August 2022
My Two Worst Days with the CPR
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Read MoreBranchline | May 2022
How the CPR Saved My Family
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Read MoreThe Sandhouse | May 2022
Revelstoke Station Memories Live On
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Read MoreCP Tracks | March 2022
Sleuthing on the Trail of Stone, Part 2 of 3
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Read MoreThe Sandhouse | February 2022
CPR’s Glacier Fanhouse
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Read MoreBranchline | January 2022
Building a Barrel Culvert
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Read MoreCP Tracks | September 2021
Sleuthing on the Trail of Stone, Part 1 of 3
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Read MoreCanadian Rail | May 2021
One More River to Cross
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Read MoreBranchline | November 2020
Tales Told by Old Rails
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Read MoreNorthword | April 2019
Three Men in a Boat
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Watch VideoApril 2018
Sons of the CPR
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Read MoreArchivos | April 2018
Fifty Switzerlands in One
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Read MoreArchivos | April 2016
The Ghost Town of Donald, B.C.
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Read MoreSelf-Published | January 2011
Land of Our Own
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Read MoreHeritage House | May 2000
Haida Gwaii: The Queen Charlotte Islands
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Read MoreBC Historical News | September 1995
James H. Parkin: Portable Sawmill Pioneer
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Read MoreBC Historical News | December 1994
Road to the Pacific Rim
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Read MoreD&M | January 1992
Green Giants
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Read MoreOrca | August 1989
WetCoast Words
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Read MoreOrca | July 1989
Islands for Discovery
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Read MoreBC Outdoors | May 1983
Stikine Solo
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I offer a storytelling approach to historical writing, and a particular interest in narration and content development for exhibitions, documentaries, and regional histories.