Along Highway 16: A creative meditation on the geography of northwestern British Columbia

The objective of this project is two fold: to produce creatively informed geographic awareness of Northwestern BC and to address a shortage of creative geographic writing concerned with the rural and remote communities in Northwest British Columbia. Thus this thesis responds to the apparent gap between ongoing calls by geographers for the creation of artistic geographic knowledge and the lack of this creative geographic work being produced. The project is situated within the context of interdisciplinary studies and seeks to arrive at a thirdspace wherein new knowledge, real and imagined and more, is created. Strategies for achieving this synthesis of geographic and creative knowledge include situating creative practice in a theoretical and historical context, producing narratives about Northwestern British Columbia, and evaluating the processes involved in creative literary mapping.