Publications by
Tom W Parkin
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Read MoreSix Mountains | July 2025
‘Oldest Bridge in BC’ Stands Rusting and Neglected Over Cowichan River
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Full Publication AvailableRead MoreBC Chronicles | April 2025
Ghost Town
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Full Publication AvailableRead MoreBC Chronicles | February 2025
Exploring a Railway Legacy
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Full Publication AvailableRead MoreBranchline | January 2025
My Two Worst Days with the CPR
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Full Publication AvailableRead MoreBranchline | November 2024
History as a Watercourse
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Full Publication AvailableRead MoreBranchline | July 2024
Black Track
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Full Publication AvailableRead MoreFfestingiog: Railway Magazine | July 2024
Ghosts on the Grade
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Read MoreCanadian Rail | May 2024
Is It Art if There’s No Train?
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Full Publication AvailableRead MoreBranchline | March 2024
CPR’s Branchline Below Water
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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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Award WinningFull Publication AvailableRead 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 BC’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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Full Publication AvailableRead 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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Full Publication AvailableRead MoreBranchline | September 2022
I Love the Smell of Fuel Oil in the Morning
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Read MoreThe Sandhouse | May 2022
Revelstoke Station Memories Live On
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Full Publication AvailableRead MoreBranchline | May 2022
How the CPR Saved My Family
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Award WinningFull Publication AvailableRead 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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Full Publication AvailableRead MoreBranchline | January 2022
Building a Barrel Culvert
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Full Publication AvailableRead MoreCP Tracks | September 2021
Sleuthing on the Trail of Stone, Part 1 of 3
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Full Publication AvailableRead MoreCanadian Rail | May 2021
One More River to Cross
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Award WinningFull Publication AvailableRead MoreBranchline | November 2020
Tales Told by Old Rails
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Award WinningWatch 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, BC
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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 | 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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