Bertrand S. Sinclair
Works by Bertrand S. Sinclair:
- North of Fifty-Three
- The Inverted Pyramid
- Wild West
- The Land of Frozen Suns: A Western Novel
- Big Timber: A Story of the Northwest
- Poor Man's Rock
- Raw Gold
- The Hidden Places
- Burned Bridges
- Easy Money
- In the Bad Lands
- Gunpowder Lightning
- Pirates of the Plains
- Down the Dark Alley
- Both Sides of the Law
- Room for the Rolling M
- The Man Who Rode By Himself
He immigrated to Canada with his mother in 1889. At age fifteen, he ran away from home to become a cowboy in Montana, after which he returned to Canada, settling in BC where he depicted in numerous novels the lives of loggers, fishermen and ranchers. Sinclair was enormously successful as a novelist; his novel North of ’53 sold 340,000 copies.
After 1922, he made his home in Pender Harbour on the Sunshine Coast and became a commercial fisherman. His VHF radio broadcasts to fishermen, known as “The Sinclair Hour,” were widely known and respected. He did not retire from commercial fishing until age 83.