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This essay explores how Vancouver, British Columbia and other urban landscapes are represented in contemporary Asian Canadian literature. The author discusses how urban literature is being redefined by Asian Canadian authors such as Nancy Lee, Kevin Chong Larissa Lai and Madeleine Thien. The author examines how their work has captured how Asian Canadians have moved beyond traditional representations.

This article presents a critique of the book "Canadian Camp Life," by Frances Herring and how it addresses the relationship of British Columbia to Canada. Being the westernmost province of Canada, British Columbia is involved with the concepts of differences between edge and centre as well as the permeability of borders. In her book, Herring explored the province's complex cross-border relations and the role of gender and race in maintaining those borders.

Presents a speech by Canadian author and poet Robert Bringhurst presented at the First Nations House of Learning, University of British Columbia on February 6, 2004. Pains encountered by artist Bill Reid in his life; Information on the Haida portrait mask made by Reid which is on display at the Museum of Anthropology in Montreal; Background on how Reid learned the language of the Haida art.

A literary criticism of the book “A Tale for the Time Being" by Ruth Ozeki is presented. It outlines the connection Ozeki makes between several political issues and ecological concerns. The novel pays more attention to coastal British Columbia and its literature, while reminding the reader that social and environmental injustice go beyond national borders.