Co-authored by Charles Lillard and Michael Gregson, Land of Destiny: The Golden Age of British Columbia captures the vibrant, optimistic, and often turbulent era of early 20th-century development in Canada's westernmost province. The book chronicles an age of rapid railway expansion, booming resource extraction, and ambitious town-building that promised to transform the Pacific wilderness into an economic empire. Through rich historical anecdotes, vintage photographs, and archival documents, the authors reconstruct a time when pioneers and speculators viewed the landscape as an unexhausted horizon of boundless wealth. A keen insight drawn from the work is how the cultural obsession with a "golden age" relied on willful blindness toward ecological and human costs; by framing aggressive resource exploitation as a heroic destiny, society masked the rapid depletion of local forests and fisheries behind a glittering facade of unstoppable progress.