BC Bob, a historian and TV host, compiled 50 lesser-known stories about British Columbia in a $25 paperback almanac. One tale covers a 10,000-pound U.S. nuclear bomb allegedly lost in the Inside Passage during the 1950s after a military plane caught fire. The book is available at bcbob.ca and ships across Canada.
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There is a 10,000-pound nuclear bomb that was lost by the US military in Canada and has never been found, and my friend Bob has the whole story. Look, every day on social media, someone posts about how we should be supporting independent Canadian media. It gets thousands of likes and hundreds of shares, and then everyone goes back to watching American YouTube and subscribing to American newsletters and wondering why Canadian culture keeps getting thinner. Bob is trying to fix that. You may know him as BC Bob. Yes, I'll get back to the nuke in a second. Bob is a historian, a storyteller, a journalist, a TV host, and he has spent years digging up the lesser-known corners of British Columbia's past. He has put it all in a kind of Reader's Digest, like a physical, hold-it-in-your-hand collection of BC history and culture. Some of the most fascinating stories ever told in this province. It is $25. You can get it at bcbob.ca. They make great bathroom readers. I bought one for each one of the bathrooms in our guest mansion. As for that nuke, in the 1950s, some US military plane was on its way to Alaska, caught fire, and before they ejected, they dropped the nuke into the Inside Passage. The rest of that incredible story, along with 50 other incredible true stories about BC, are in this thing. We keep complaining that American platforms are eating Canadian culture and Canadian stories do not get told. You know how we change that? We support the people doing something about it. Get it at bcbob.ca. It ships to any Canadian address. Now you know.
