Ray Phillips

From ABC BookWorld, "Ray Phillips grew up in Jervis Inlet but his mother was a member of the pioneering Klein family on the Sunshine Coast. Their homesteading gave rise to Kleindale. His first book, The Little Green Valley: The Kleindale Story (Harbour Publishing, 2011), received the 2012 BC Genealogical Society Family Book History Award. Honourable Mentions went to Whoever Gives Us Bread: the Story of the Italians in British Columbia by Lynne Bowen, and Texada Tapestry a History by Heather Harbord. The presentations were made at the June 13, 2012 meeting of the British Columbia Genealogical Society, at Edmonds Community Centre in Burnaby.

Phillips previously worked as a fisherman, logger and school boat operator."