• Age: 16 to 18
• Grade: 11 to 12

"Reading Harold Macy's book San Josef was a remarkable education for me. His book places the reader into life as it must have been lived in that remote area in 1898. With the use of resilient and colourful characters plus a compelling descriptive text, Macy's novel takes the reader into a completely different world. The book holds your attention from the beginning — as every good story should.
"From the opening paragraph, the author grabs the reader's interest by resolutely placing you in the location with his words "the conflict (between) the might of the Pacific against the sodden runoff from the forested hills and swamps of this north end of Vancouver Island"."
— The Ormsby Review

Harold Macy is the author of The Four Storey Forest (Poplar Publishing, 2011) and San Josef (Tidewater Books, 2020), and has been published in various literary journals. He has worked for the BC Forest Service Research Branch, been a silviculture contractor for a local forestry company, fought wildfires, had rain in his lunch pail heli-logging up in the mid-coast inlets, and for many years was the forester at the UBC Oyster River Research Farm, where he wrote and delivered online and weekend courses in small-scale forestry and agroforestry. He studied writing with the UBC Mentorship Program, Victoria (BC) School of Writing, Sage Hills (SK), and North Island College.

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"Reading Harold Macy's book San Josef was a remarkable education for me. His book places the reader into life as it must have been lived in that remote area in 1898. With the use of resilient and colourful characters plus a compelling descriptive text, Macy's novel takes the reader into a completely different world. The book holds your attention from the beginning — as every good story should.
"From the opening paragraph, the author grabs the reader's interest by resolutely placing you in the location with his words "the conflict (between) the might of the Pacific against the sodden runoff from the forested hills and swamps of this north end of Vancouver Island"."
— The Ormsby Review