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Out With the Birds – by Hamilton Mack Laing
Published 2025 by the Mack Laing Heritage Society of the Comox Valley, 184 p, Photographs and archival material. Paperback.
From field notes of his years at Oak Lake, Manitoba. Text of 1913 book with original photos, plus educational content and Index. Price $20. Additional cost to mail one book in Canada, $4.50. Add $1.50 postage for each additional book ordered.
Capturing the Summit – by Trevor Marc Hughes
Published 2023, Ronsdale Press, Vancouver. 268p. trade paperback, from journals and archives.
Laing was a member of the first mountaineering team to conquer Mt Logan, Yukon, in 1925. Price $25
Riding the Continent – edited by Trevor Marc Hughes
2019, Ronsdale Press, Vancouver,BC. 227 p. trade paperback, archival photos
Laing’s 1915 trip across the US, from New York to San Francisco, on an early Harley Davidson motorcycle. From his journals. Price $20
Baybrook Life’s Best Adventure – by Hamilton Mack Laing, edited by Barbara Elaine Price
2022, Comox Archives and Museum Society, Comox, BC. 201 p. trade paperback, from ms, archival photos
From his manuscript about building his first home at Baybrook, on the Comox waterfront. Price $20
Allan Brooks – artist naturalist, by Hamilton Mack Laing. 1979BC Museum special publication, Victoria, BC. 249 p. folio paperback, illustrated.
Biography of one of Canada’s greatest ornithologists and artists (1869-1946). A friend of Mack Laing’s, they shared many views.
As available. Rare. Price $40
Hamilton Mack: Laing Hunter Naturalist, by Richard Mackie
1985, Sono Nis Press, Victoria, BC. 234 p hardcover, photos, archival photos and lists.
Mackie was hired by the Town of Comox to inventory the contents of Laing’s Shakesides House, after his death in 1982, and write his biography.
As available. Rare. Price $40.
Four Sets of 6 Bird Drawing prints by Hamilton Mack Laing
Published by the Comox Archives and Museum
Printed on quality cream-coloured , 9″ x 12″ soft card stock. Suitable for framing. Price for complete set: $10
Books donated by other authors
Strangers to the Land, Pebbles in the Stream, Among the Blue Mountains. With bonus Lighthouse Kids. Illustrated and written by Ruth Dickson.
Autobiography of author and her pioneer family from Scotland emigrating to Saskatchewan and Vancouver Island. Bonus book is semi-autobiographical tale of life on the Pine Island Lighthouse, off the northern tip of Vancouver Island. Package Price: $30
Three Friends – written and illustrated by Ruth Dickson
Children explore the Comox area waterfront, including historic Laing properties. Price: $15
Voice of the Salmon River by Ruth Dickson
British Columbia Folklore Society, 1998, 8 x10″, softcover, 57 pages. Free with any purchase
Poetry of the Sayward Valley – 1941-1950. Illustrated by the author.