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A blog to help you explore Shuswap geography by Jim Cooperman, author of Everything Shuswap, including his newspaper columns with more images and information that did not appear in print, as well as other commentaries and memoirs.

Another winter of discontent

January 13, 2011 Does anyone remember the predictions that this winter was slated to be colder than normal? Instead it looks like we are experiencing […]

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Exploring the virtual Shuswap

December 23, 2011 Even for those of us who love outdoor winter sports, we cannot help but spend more time indoors during the winter because

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Occupy the Shuswap

The Shuswap Economy

December 16, 2011 It is likely that only a minority of Shuswap residents empathizes or even fully understands the Occupy Wall Street movement, and this

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Too pre-occupied to occupy

The Shuswap Economy / Leave a Comment

[Published in the January, 2012 Watershed Sentinel] As British Columbians we should all be proud that the Occupy Wall Street protests originated from the Vancouver

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SHUSWAP SALMON HEROES

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To read this column, see www.shuswapwatershed.ca

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Latest Videos

Fun, insightful, inspiring and intriguing videos of music, backcountry ski-touring, environmental events, hiking, and biking.

Roots & Blues Retro – a retrospective tour of festivals since 2011

.A brief tour of the 2018 Adams River sockeye salmon run. The soundtrack is a song by Anie Hepher.

Most of the images from the book, Everything Shuswap with an original soundtrack by Sylvain Valle

The Shuswap Country

by Erskine Burnett

Treasures come in assorted shapes and sizes. They might be a grandmother’s beaded purse, or an old apple basket like one resting atop my bookshelf that transports me to the family farm, with voices shouting from treetops as we pluck Macs and Golden Delicious. A personal scrapbook can also be an unexpected treasure, and The Shuswap Country by Erskine Burnett is just that.

Everything Shuswap

by Jim Cooperman

“Everything Shuswap explores the region’s rich eco-types and its interwoven historical record. It’s a textbook for understanding one of the most beautiful and least understood landscapes and it should be mandatory reading for anyone who lives in or visits the Shuswap.” – Mark Hume, author of Adam’s River and other books

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