Brendan Sainsbury

Brendan Sainsbury is a British writer who has been a resident of British Columbia, Canada, since 2004. He has written extensively about the province, covering a range of topics – from a Vancouver Island village that bought a local forest to save it from logging to the legacy of the Doukabours, a Russian religious sect that resettled in BC in the early 1900s. An avid trail-runner, Sainsbury has developed a deep affection for Vancouver’s North Shore mountains, which he likes to explore on foot on clear summer weekends. His favourite route is the 29-km-long amalgamation of peaks, ridges and scrambling better known as the Howe Sound Crest Trail. His other BC passions include Whistler, overnight train journeys, and tea and scones in Victoria, an occasional treat that reminds him nostalgically of England. The author of Bradt’s Canada: British Columbia, Sainsbury has contributed to 70-plus travel guidebooks.