Pioneers of British Columbia – serie
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Alex Lord's British Columbia
Recollections of a Rural School Inspector, 1915-1936
Av John Calam
Inbunden, 1991
1026 kr
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Alex Lord, a pioneer inspector of rural British Columbia schools,shares in these recollections his experiences in a province barely outof the stage coach era. Travelling through vast northern territory,utilizing unreliable transportation and enduring climatic extremes,Lord became familiar with the …
Pioneer Gentlewoman in British Columbia
The Recollections of Susan Allison
Häftad, 1991
367 kr
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"My husband, alarmed, left me and ran to the Indian ranch returning with one of Quinisco's sisters ... She smoothed up my bed and suggested "whiskey" which I swallowed. I think I would have swallowed anything to get rid of the pain. About nine o'clock next day my baby was born two months too soon, …
Vancouver Island Letters of Edmund Hope Verney
1862-65
Häftad, 1996
408 kr
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This previously unknown collection of letters lets us experiencecolonial British Columbia through the eyes of a young British navalofficer who spent three years on Vancouver Island commanding a RoyalNavy gunboat during the Cariboo gold rush.A keen observer of life in the new world, Edmund Hope …
This Blessed Wilderness
Archibald McDonald's Letters from the Columbia, 1822-44
Av Jean M. Cole
Häftad, 2001
408 kr
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The twenty-five years between 1821 and 1846 were turbulent but important years in the history of the fur trade in the Pacific Northwest: 1821 saw the merger of the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company, and 1846 saw the signing of the Oregon Treaty, which established the Canada-U.S. …
Alex Lord's British Columbia
Recollections of a Rural School Inspector, 1915-1936
Av John Calam
Häftad, 1991
439 kr
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Alex Lord, a pioneer inspector of rural British Columbia schools,shares in these recollections his experiences in a province barely outof the stage coach era. Travelling through vast northern territory,utilizing unreliable transportation and enduring climatic extremes,Lord became familiar with the …
Overland from Canada to British Columbia
By Mr. Thomas McMicking of Queenston, Canada West
Av Joanne Leduc
Häftad, 1981
397 kr
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Spurred on by reports of gold in the Cariboo, adventurers from all over the world descended on British Columbia in the mid-1800s. Among them were ambitious easterners who accepted the challenge of the shorter but more arduous overland route across the prairies and the Rockies.One such man …
Robert Brown and the Vancouver Island Exploring Expedition
Av John Hayman
Häftad, 1989
416 kr
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Robert Brown, a twenty-one-year-old Scotsman, arrived on Vancouver Island in 1863 for the purpose of collecting seeds, roots, and plants for the Botanical Association of Edinburgh. Relations with his employer quickly deteriorated, however, and when the opportunity arose in 1864 to head the …
They Call Me Father
Memoirs of Father Nicolas Coccola
Häftad, 1988
386 kr
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In 1857, the French Roman Catholic religious order, the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, began permanent missionary work among the Native peoples of British Columbia. The memoirs of Father Nicolas Coccola, a Corsican-born Oblate who arrived in the province in 1880, reveal the complexity of …
Vancouver Island Letters of Edmund Hope Verney
1862-65
Inbunden, 1996
1121 kr
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This previously unknown collection of letters lets us experiencecolonial British Columbia through the eyes of a young British navalofficer who spent three years on Vancouver Island commanding a RoyalNavy gunboat during the Cariboo gold rush.A keen observer of life in the new world, Edmund Hope …
Fort Langley Journals, 1827-30
Inbunden, 1998
469 kr
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These journals comprise one of the principal sources of information on early European settlement in BC and provide a remarkable and unique record of the establishment of Fort Langley. Although the journals record such day-to-day details as weather, trade, and visitors, they also contain a wealth of …
Fort Langley Journals, 1827-30
Av Morag Maclachlan, Morag MacLachlan
Häftad, 1999
408 kr
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These journals comprise one of the principal sources of information on early European settlement in BC and provide a remarkable and unique record of the establishment of Fort Langley. Although the journals record such day-to-day details as weather, trade, and visitors, they also contain a wealth of …
This Blessed Wilderness
Archibald McDonald's Letters from the Columbia, 1822-44
Av Jean M. Cole
Inbunden, 2001
1255 kr
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The twenty-five years between 1821 and 1846 were turbulent but important years in the history of the fur trade in the Pacific Northwest: 1821 saw the merger of the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company, and 1846 saw the signing of the Oregon Treaty, which established the Canada-U.S. …
Hobnobbing with a Countess and Other Okanagan Adventures
The Diaries of Alice Barrett Parke, 1891-1900
Inbunden, 2001
1255 kr
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In 1891, Alice Barrett moved from Port Dover, Ontario, to the Okanagan Valley to keep house for her brother and uncle. She soon married Harold Parke, a former NWMP officer, and spent the next decade recording her experiences in a series of notebooks sent to her Ontario family.Few women's diaries …
Hobnobbing with a Countess and Other Okanagan Adventures
The Diaries of Alice Barrett Parke, 1891-1900
Häftad, 2002
439 kr
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In 1891, Alice Barrett moved from Port Dover, Ontario, to the Okanagan Valley to keep house for her brother and uncle. She soon married Harold Parke, a former NWMP officer, and spent the next decade recording her experiences in a series of notebooks sent to her Ontario family.Few women's diaries …
