Peter Murray (5) (1928–2016)

[excerpted from ABC Bookworld website]
Peter Murray was born in Vancouver on July 25, 1928 of Scottish-English descent. With 30 years experience in the newspaper business, chiefly with the Victoria Times-Colonist, Peter Murray also edited a volume of the collected columns of Jack Scott, called Great Scott!, and a collection of M.A. Grainger's previously uncollected writing entitled Riding the Skyline. The Vagabond Fleet is Murray's history of West Coast sealing schooners and the dispute between Britain and the United States in the 1880s and 1890s over what is known as "pelagic sealing". Murray's Homesteads and Snug Harbours was the first comprehensive history of all the islands from Saturna to Texada from the 1850s to the 1950s. From Amor to Zalm is a light survey of B.C.'s premiers. Home from the Hill is a 'triography' on biographical materials pertaining to the lives of M.A. Grainger, Clive Phillips-Wolley and Warburton Pike, all of whom were authors who wrote about British Columbia.