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Working with Wool: A Coast Salish Legacy and the Cowichan Sweater

View Book Launch Photos from Sunday December 5, 2010 at the Victoria Art Gallery
Award-winning author, knitter, and Cowichan-sweater expert Sylvia Olsen recounts one of Vancouver Island’s most compelling stories in Working With Wool, a stunning, fully illustrated account of innovation, hard work and cultural strength.
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Awards and Recognition

Working with Wool: A Coast Salish Legacy and the Cowichan Sweater
2011 – Winner of the Lieutenant Governors Medal for Historical Writing – BC Historical Federation



A Different Game
2011 – Honour Book Award Winner, Silver Birch Express Award
Ontario Library Association



Counting on Hope
2010 – Winner of the City of Victoria Bolen Children’s Literature Prize
City of Victoria



Which Way Should I Go?
2009 – Winner of the Ontario First Nations Communities Read Award
Ontario First Nations Public Library