The company was founded in 1974 and is headquartered on the Sunshine Coast region of British Columbia.
Harbor Publishing is best known for the Rain Coast Chronicles series, a series of anthologies about the history and culture of British Columbia's coast, twenty-four of which have been produced to date.Harbor Publishing is also the publisher of over nine hundred other titles, including landmark volumes such as the Encyclopedia of British Columbia, Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest by Andrew Lamb and Bernard Hanby, Encyclopedia of Rain Coast Place Names by Andrew Scott, and Becoming Vancouver by Daniel Francis.Other well-known Harbor authors include Roy Henry Vickers, a beloved artist of the Tsimshian people and author of numerous children's picture books including Ben the Sea Lion; historian Jane Parman, author of The Stanley Park Secret and On the Edge of Contact; ethnobotanist Nancy J. Turner, author of The Plants of Haida Gwaii; poet Patrick Lane, author of The Quiet Within Me; novelist Sam Webby, author of the Wickland series of detective novels; and Anne and Lawrence Yeadon Jones, authors of the Dreamspeaker Cruising GuidesFamous.
The Canadian Historical Society praised publisher Howard White as “a tireless promoter and creator of high-quality British Columbia history,” acknowledging that Harbor Publishing “has nurtured and produced a remarkable body of work that captures the essence of British Columbia.”Harbor Publishing acknowledges financial support from the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund and the Canada Council for the Arts, and from the Province of British Columbia through the British Columbia Arts Council and the Book Publishing Tax Credit for its publishing activities.
