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Go Do Some Great Thing recounts the history of B.C. from the Black pioneering perspective, beginning with the gold rush era, when many Blacks began to arrive from the United States, not necessarily to seek gold, but to escape the racism and ­slavery in America, writes Anny Scoones. HARBOUR PUBLISHING I once took a course in British Columbia ­history at the University of Victoria, and to tell you the truth, I do not remember one single thing, except for a very sad little ­sentence or two, which, oddly, floats around in my thoughts very frequently. It was a quote from a settler’s diary. He had been venturing deep into the ­forest of central B.C. and was reflecting on the traumatic experience of being lost and ­disoriented and preparing to meet his maker in the wilderness all alone (no doubt quite unprepared) when he came upon two elderly Indigenous trappers.

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