Harbour Publishing is an award-winning independent book publisher owned and operated by Howard and Mary White.

The company was established in 1974 and is based on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast. Harbour is well known for the Raincoast Chronicles, a series of anthologies on BC coast history and culture, of which twenty have now been produced. Harbour is also the publisher of over four hundred titles, including the bestselling Fishing with John by Edith Iglauer; The Encyclopedia of British Columbia and many BC Book Prize-winning books, most recently A Stain Upon the Sea: West Coast Salmon Farming and Birds of the Raincoast: Habits & Habitat.

Other well-known Harbour authors are Arthur Black, beloved humorist and author of the national bestseller Black and White and Read All Over ; Red Robinson, Canada's first rock and roll DJ, and Greg Potter, co-authors of Backstage Vancouver: A Century of Entertainment Legends; Rafe Mair, legendary broadcaster and author of the BC bestseller Rafe: A Memoir; Mike McCardell, whose memoirs Back Alley Reporter and Chasing the Story God have raised over $16,000 for the Variety Club of BC; Anne Cameron, the bestselling novelist; Meg Hickling, children’s book author; the late Al Purdy, recipient of the Governor General's Award and member of the Order of Canada; and Chris Czajkowski , Canada’s favourite wilderness dweller.

The Canadian Historical Association has cited publisher Howard White as “a tireless promoter and creator of quality British Columbia regional history,” recognizing that Harbour Publishing “has nurtured and brought into being a remarkable range of works that capture the essence of British Columbia.”

White is also an award-winning writer of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, articles and essays. His book Writing in the Rain won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, and he has also been awarded a Canadian Media Club Prize, the Eaton's BC Book Award, the Canadian Historical Society Career Award and the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize, among others. He is a member of the Order of British Columbia and in 2003 received an honorary Doctorate of Laws from the University of Victoria.

 

Harbour Publishing acknowledges financial support from the Government of Canada through the Canada Council for the Arts and the Book Publishing Industry Development Program, and from the Province of British Columbia through the British Columbia Arts Council, for its publishing activities.