While I have stated that Bill Barlee and Garnet Basque have greatly inspired my quest and resolve, I need to add Thomas Paterson to my list of respected BC historians and authors. The man has written a considerable amount of historical items with great accuracy. I inspect his work whenever I’m looking for suitable material and appreciate the work he’s done. Only recently I found a copy of his “Encyclopedia of Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of British Columbia” from 1981. Volume Two of a three-volume set the work is very informative. The works of these three writer greatly assists anyone interested in BC’s historic past.