The Survival Guide to British Columbia by Ian Ferguson

Ian Ferguson won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour for Village of the Small Houses and is the co-author, with his brother Will Ferguson, of How to Be a Canadian, which was shortlisted for the Leacock and which won the CBA Libris Award for non-fiction. He is a contributor to the Penguin Anthology of Canadian Humour and has been published in the Globe and Mail, National Post, Reader's Digest, Maclean's, and EnRoute, among other publications. For the past ten years, he has worked as a writer and creative director in the film and television industry.