On Stormy Seas: The Triumphs and Torments of Captain George Vancouver
Captain George Vancouver completed the world map by charting the mainland coast of western North American from southern California to western Alaska. He did it in two small wooden ships carrying 145 rugged young men. They surveyed an average of 300 miles of coastline by rowboat over three summers. They set the world record that still stands for the longest continuous sea voyage and circumnavigation of the world, sailing from April 1791 to October 1795. Captain Vancouver was charged with completed a delicate diplomatic mission at Nootka Sound, where an international incident between Spain and England in 1789 nearly touched off a global war, and he was to make as thorough an inventory of new plant as animal species as possible. He not only was sick with an increasingly debilitating illness (likely Bright's disease, a kidney ailment), but had on board a psychopathic and highly connected young lord who made the voyage hell, then back in England hounded his former captain to an early, impoverished, and unsung death. On Stormy Seas is told through the voice of George Vancouver's older brother John, an eloquent plea for justice and recognition of work so well done that Vancouver's charts weren't replaced until aerial surveying began in the 1920s, with some small bits only replaced in recent decades. George Vancouver was greatly interested in and cared about the native peoples he encountered, with equal curiousity and respect for women's roles as men's. Brenda spent 10 years researching and writing an 800-page manuscript called NOOTKA: CHRONICLES OF DISCOVERY, about Vancouver's world before starting On Stormy Seas. The book's title was conferred by the late Dr. W. Kaye Lamb, the world's leading Vancouver scholar.

The Riverview Lands: Western Canada's First Botanical Garden
cover by Brenda Guiled Riverview Hospital began in 1904 with the clearing of nearly 2,000 acres of forest and delta lands to make a self-sufficient institution to house several thousand of western Canada's psychiatric patients. It was called Essondale Mental Hospital until 1966, when it was renamed Riverview. Its founders had an enlightened vision, seeing great benefit in surrounding patients with a green oasis similar to Kew Gardens near London. The 144 acres that remain today of the grounds contain a world class arboretum and several other wilder ecosytems. This campus is as impressive as ivy league university grounds. The Riverview lands are under constant threat of subdivision and development, as psychiatric patients are placed in homes in the community and successive provincial governments fail to recognize the natural, recreational, educational, and heritage values of this unique site. Brenda not only edited this book, fitting 600 pages of raw text into 200 final, but prepared it for publication, including designing the cover.

Encore: A Program of Environmental Studies
Brenda Guild spent 10 years developing curriculum materials and teaching environmental and science education to students from kindergarten to high school. Teachers said they knew HOW to teach, but needed help with WHAT to teach in the great outdoors. She and co-author Patricia Keays devised the Encore Program of Environmental Studies, with a province-wide field trip guide and 256 activity cards outlining with things to do before, during, and after outings.
Encore won first prize in a North America-wide contest for the best environmental education program developed in 1975.