Up in Ontario

Frank White, the Literary Years

Stephen Osborne, a favourite here at Up in Ontario central, salutes Frank White, father of Howie White, the founder of Harbour Publishing, a wonder of an enterprise that just keep churning out the books from its offices in Madeira Park, on BC's sunshine coast, north of Gibsons where they filmed The Beachcombers series for so many years and just outside the radius of property-value infection from the lower mainland, where the 1500 square foot condos erected across the street from our apartment are selling starting from $800,000.

Frank White celebrated his ninetieth birthday in May, 2004, at Madeira Park, B.C. Harbour Publishing, which is owned by Howard and Mary White, was founded in 1974 and continues to thrive.