A resident of West Redonda Island and Vancouver, born in 1940, Williams gleaned information on First Nations aquaculture practices from Elizabeth Harry (Keekus) that led to her book Clam Gardens: Aboriginal Mariculture on Canada's West Coast, the first book-length study of the subject. Also see Alfred Waddington entry.

BOOKS:

High Slack: Waddington's Gold Road and the Bute Inlet Massacre of 1864 (Transmontanus 4, New Star, 1996)

Dynamite Stories (Self-published, 2000; New Star, 2003)

Clam Gardens (New Star, 2006).

[BCBW 2006]