Helen Edwards has lived in Victoria, BC, Canada, all her life and has worked as a historian there for decades.

Her most recent book is Victoria HarbourCats: Ten Years and Counting, the story of the first decade of this summer college baseball team. It begins with a history of baseball in Victoria, BC. Richly illustrated, it includes details of every game played over the years, selected biographies and interviews with former players, coaches, and others involved with the team.

Her first book, The History of Professional Hockey in Victoria, 1911-2011, was written after seven years of detailed research. Published in 2019, it details every professional hockey game ever played in Victoria and features biographies of selected players. The book was updated with a new cover and more statistics and launched live on Scotiabank Hockey Day in Canada on January 20, 2024, during a live, on-ice interview with Ron MacLean.

Volumes One and Two in The Heritage Detective series tell the stories behind the heritage buildings and the people who lived and worked in them, providing a unique window into the past, full of fascinating details and vivid descriptions that will transport you to the past and give you a sense of the area’s history. Loosely based on articles written over several decades with additional research to bring the stories up to date and rich with photographs, the book tells the tales of ordinary people who lived extraordinary lives. Because, of course, it wasn’t just the mansions that everybody writes about that had exciting histories.

Her older books, Dutchy’s Diaries: Life as a Canadian Naval Officer—in his own Words: 1916-1929 and Dutchy’s Decades: Life as a Canadian Naval Officer, 1930-1950, tell the story of her father-in-law, John Crispo Inglis “Dutchy” Edwards. In the early twentieth century, young naval officers were required to maintain a daily journal. From 1916, when Canada was fighting World War I, to the post-war period, and concluding with the Roaring Twenties, the first book covers both the naval and social history of a key period in Canada’s emergence as a nation. The second book covers the last 20 years of his career when others were writing about him, and he was recognized with the CBE for his lifetime of service.

Next on the agenda is an autobiography.