Sylvia Olsen wins book award

UVic PhD student (history) Sylvia Olsen is the winner of the Lieutenant-Governor's Medal for historical writing for Working with Wool: A Coast Salish Legacy and the Cowichan Sweater (Sono Nis Press), which is an elaboration on her UVic thesis on Coast Salish knitters. It is awarded each year for the previous year’s best book about an aspect of British Columbia history. Olsen is also in the running for a Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize for the same publication. More info: http://sylviaolsen.ca/