Volume 1 provides Comox Valley history to 1997<br/>114 page book highlighting history. Includes maps, b&w historic and colour photos, index and bibliography.<br/><br/>After the author’s completion of a business degree in Heidelberg, Germany, home of Gutenberg’s printing press, the family returned to the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island.<br/><br/>The Life and the Times of the Comox Valley explains why. In the pages of the book are found the attributes the author and his artist wife, Anna, were attracted to – forests, waterways and mountains.<br/><br/>The First Nations’ legend of Queenesh explains the allure. As the story goes, during the great flood the first people tied themselves to the great white whale - Queenesh, the valley’s glacier, preventing them from drifting away. This book updates the current nature of the bond and needs appealed to.<br/><br/>Volume 2 of The Life and the Times of the Comox Valley was published in 2021 and covers the history since the first book was published.