Join us for an afternoon in Brentwood Bay's Pioneer Park with Sylvia Olsen and Ian Haysom.

SYLVIA OLSEN married into the Tsartlip First Nation near Victoria, BC, and developed relationships with Coast Salish knitters through her family’s sweater shop. Olsen was inspired to explore the juncture of her English/Scottish/European heritage and Coast Salish life experiences, bringing to light deeply personal questions about Canadian knitting traditions. Her new book, Unravelling Canada: A Knitting Odyssey, is her cross-Canada cultural road trip.

IAN HAYSOM is a father of four and grandfather of four. He is a lifelong journalist, who worked as editor-in-chief at the Vancouver Sun and The Province and became news director at CHEK-TV and later Global News. Now happily semi-retired, he continues to work as a news consultant. His new book, Grandfathered – Dispatches from the Trenches of Modern Grandparenthood, is a sharp, funny, heartfelt memoir.