The Art of Storytelling, B.C.'s Wild Pioneers and Finding Common Ground - Lucky Budd

The West Coast Speakeasy · Apr 10, 2026 · 1h 1m

Lucky Budd is a best selling author, oral historian and musician living in Victoria, B.C. His passion about storytelling lead to the creation of Voices of B.C. and Echoes of B.C., two incredible books that draw on 998 interviews from one of the largest oral history collections in the world. A CBC radio series followed where Budd recounted seminal stories from B.C. pioneers, giving us a fascinating glimpse into the provinces past. In 2013, Budd and famed Indigenous artist Roy Henry Vickers began a longstanding creative collaboration, having produced almost 20 books to date, many of them…