[.ca] Electrical Code Simplified British Columbia (ISBN 0920312403)

Fantastically useful. It deserves 12 or 50 stars for value.:
This book is THE reference for anyone wanting to do any wiring in their own home. It is so good that electricians use it to study from -- yet it is simple enough that anyone who has zero electrical training can quickly learn how to do basic home wiring SAFELY. The author was an electrical inspector for decades and wrote the book to help out all the home renovators and builders who were botching their work -- and save himself time in coaching and return inspections. Over ONE MILLION copies of this book have been sold! Because there are slight differences in the electrical codes, there are different versions available for 8 Canadian provinces only (not PEI and Quebec -- though PEI might use the Nova Scotia code, you'd have to check). To sell 1,000,000 copies to a total population of about 25,000,000 in the provinces that have editions is amazing -- but that's what this self-published book has accomplished in 30-some years of being on sale, mostly in hardware and building supply stores. I bought an Ontario edition in the 1980s to wire our house there and then bought the BC edition when I moved to the west coast. If anyone asks me about wiring, I say, "Get that book with the red cover, and read it before you do anything else." By writing an understandable book for the amateur renovator, Peter Knight has done more for electrical safety and prevented more house fires than anyone else in Canada -- he deserves the Order of Canada AND the Governor-General's Award for Non-fiction.