Hancock House began publishing under the name and imprint of the Hancock Wildlife Conservation Center in the late 1960s. David Hancock started the publishing venture by building on the distribution system he first initiated to sell his own books that accompanied his documentary film production.
Invest Northwest Publishing Ltd. (INWP) started in 2004 with Business Vancouver Island, a monthly business newspaper focusing on local business news from the Malahat to Port Hardy and cities in between, based in Nanaimo, British Columbia.Publisher Mark and Lise MacDonald were invited to purchase the Business Examiner, which he had worked for since 1990, months earlier, but when the deal was not consummated, started out on their own.