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Katherine Gordon works with First Nations in British Columbia and other governments, from local to federal, to facilitate relationships and to negotiate and reach government to government agreements on matters of common interest. With more than eighteen years’ experience in business law and aboriginal land and resource agreements, Gordon has worked in New Zealand, Ottawa and British Columbia as a lawyer and negotiator, including four years as a Chief Negotiator for B.C.

Gordon is also an author and freelance writer, contributing to publications in Canada and abroad including BC Business, Canadian Geographic, The Globe and Mail, and Te Karaka. Her feature article about climate change, "A Sinking Feeling," published in B.C. Business Magazine in July 2005, gained National Magazine Award recognition.

Her best-selling third book, Made to Measure: A History of Land Surveying in B.C., won the 2007 Roderick Haig-Brown B.C. Book Prize and her second book, The Slocan: Portrait of a Valley was shortlisted for both the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize and the Lieutenant-Governor’s Award for Historical Writing in 2005. Her most recent book, The Garden That You Are, is also a B.C. bestseller. Gordon also writes about First Nations lands and cultural issues in B.C. and New Zealand. Her next book will be a collection of conversations with young First Nations leaders on these matters, set in the context of 21st century British Columbia and aboriginal rights and traditions.

Come join us and listen to Katherine discuss her book Made to Measure: A History of Land Surveying in B.C. There will be plenty of time after the presentation to ask questions of Katherine regarding her work.