Author: Richard Charles Mayne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : British Columbia
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Four Years in British Columbia and Vancouver Island
Author: Richard Charles Mayne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : British Columbia
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : British Columbia
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
The Naturalist in Vancouver Island and British Columbia
Author: John Keast Lord
Publisher: London : R. Bentley
ISBN:
Category : British Columbia
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Publisher: London : R. Bentley
ISBN:
Category : British Columbia
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Vancouver Island Book of Everything
Author: Peter Grant
Publisher: Macintyrepurcell Publishing, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780978478483
Category : Vancouver Island (B.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From Hudson's Bay outpost to gold rush fever and coal and lumber barons to political scandals Island-style to the mighty Douglas fir and Pacific salmon and profiles of Emily Carr, Cougar Annie and the Dunsmuir clan, no book is more comprehensive than the Vancouver Island Book of Everything. No book is more fun! Well-known Islanders weigh in on their favourite things about Vancouver Island. Robert Bateman shares his five most inspiring island locales; Michael Halleran tells us the five graves you simply must visit at Ross Bay Cemetery; Ian Vantreight tells us his five Island weather complaints; history teacher and Vancouver Island digital archive editor Patrick Dunae gives us his five essential Vancouver Island reads; professor Barbara Helem Whittington gives us her five favorite memories of growing up on the island. From politics to the country's best weather to the origins behind place names, Island slang, serial killers and the First People...it's all here! Whether you are a lifelong resident or visiting for the first time, there's no more complete book about Vancouver Island. If you love Vancouver Island, you'll love the Vancouver Island Book of Everything!
Publisher: Macintyrepurcell Publishing, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780978478483
Category : Vancouver Island (B.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From Hudson's Bay outpost to gold rush fever and coal and lumber barons to political scandals Island-style to the mighty Douglas fir and Pacific salmon and profiles of Emily Carr, Cougar Annie and the Dunsmuir clan, no book is more comprehensive than the Vancouver Island Book of Everything. No book is more fun! Well-known Islanders weigh in on their favourite things about Vancouver Island. Robert Bateman shares his five most inspiring island locales; Michael Halleran tells us the five graves you simply must visit at Ross Bay Cemetery; Ian Vantreight tells us his five Island weather complaints; history teacher and Vancouver Island digital archive editor Patrick Dunae gives us his five essential Vancouver Island reads; professor Barbara Helem Whittington gives us her five favorite memories of growing up on the island. From politics to the country's best weather to the origins behind place names, Island slang, serial killers and the First People...it's all here! Whether you are a lifelong resident or visiting for the first time, there's no more complete book about Vancouver Island. If you love Vancouver Island, you'll love the Vancouver Island Book of Everything!
The Wild Coast III : a Kayaking, Hiking and Recreation Guide for BC's South Coast and East Vancouver Island
Author: John Kimantas
Publisher: North Vancouver, B.C. : Whitecap Books
ISBN: 9781552858424
Category : Hiking
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A well-illustrated guide to BC's South Coast and the east coast of Vancouver Island, including history and geography. 10 distinct areas are identified with attractions, ecology, amenities, place names, landing and camp sites.
Publisher: North Vancouver, B.C. : Whitecap Books
ISBN: 9781552858424
Category : Hiking
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A well-illustrated guide to BC's South Coast and the east coast of Vancouver Island, including history and geography. 10 distinct areas are identified with attractions, ecology, amenities, place names, landing and camp sites.
Vancouver Island
Author: Robert Brown
Publisher: authority of the Government, by Harries
ISBN:
Category : Natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Publisher: authority of the Government, by Harries
ISBN:
Category : Natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Scenes and Studies of Savage Life
Author: Gilbert Malcolm Sproat
Publisher: London : Smith, Elder
ISBN:
Category : Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Publisher: London : Smith, Elder
ISBN:
Category : Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Islands of Truth
Author: Daniel Clayton
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774841575
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
In Islands of Truth, Daniel Clayton examines a series of encounters with the Native peoples and territory of Vancouver Island in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Although he focuses on a particular region and period, Clayton also meditates on how representations of land and people, and studies of the past, serve and shape specific interests, and how the dawn of Native-Western contact in this part of the world might be studied 200 years later, in the light of ongoing struggles between Natives and non-Natives over land and cultural status. Between the 1770s and 1850s, the Native people of Vancouver Island were engaged by three sets of forces that were of general importance in the history of Western overseas expansion: the West's scientific exploration of the world in the Age of Enlightenment; capitalist practices of exchange; and the geopolitics of nation-state rivalry. Islands of Truth discusses these developments, the geographies they worked through, and the stories about land, identity, and empire stemming from this period that have shaped understanding of British Columbia's past and present. Clayton questions premises underlying much of present B.C. historical writing, arguing that international literature offers more fruitful ways of framing local historical experiences. Islands of Truth is a timely, provocative, and vital contribution to post-colonial studies.
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774841575
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
In Islands of Truth, Daniel Clayton examines a series of encounters with the Native peoples and territory of Vancouver Island in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Although he focuses on a particular region and period, Clayton also meditates on how representations of land and people, and studies of the past, serve and shape specific interests, and how the dawn of Native-Western contact in this part of the world might be studied 200 years later, in the light of ongoing struggles between Natives and non-Natives over land and cultural status. Between the 1770s and 1850s, the Native people of Vancouver Island were engaged by three sets of forces that were of general importance in the history of Western overseas expansion: the West's scientific exploration of the world in the Age of Enlightenment; capitalist practices of exchange; and the geopolitics of nation-state rivalry. Islands of Truth discusses these developments, the geographies they worked through, and the stories about land, identity, and empire stemming from this period that have shaped understanding of British Columbia's past and present. Clayton questions premises underlying much of present B.C. historical writing, arguing that international literature offers more fruitful ways of framing local historical experiences. Islands of Truth is a timely, provocative, and vital contribution to post-colonial studies.
Facts and Figures Relating to Vancouver Island and British Columbia
Author: Joseph Despard Pemberton
Publisher: London : Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts
ISBN:
Category : British Columbia
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Publisher: London : Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts
ISBN:
Category : British Columbia
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
A Perfect Eden
Author: Michael Layland
Publisher: Touchwood Editions
ISBN: 9781771511773
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
In 1842, when famed world explorer James Douglas first encountered the rugged natural paradise that would become Vancouver Island, he described it as "A perfect Eden." He was just one among many European explorers to experience the intense beauty of the Pacific Northwest, most of whom have left fascinating accounts of their encounters with the terrain and the peoples they found, their exploration and settlement of the land there. Interspersed with maps, illustrations, paintings, and photographs, these first-hand accounts create a captivating tale of discovery and exploration. Starting from before the first known European arrivals, the stories feature Spanish and British naval officers, traders seeking sea otter pelts, colonial surveyors, "Indian” chiefs, soldiers, settlers and adventurers, and end in 1858, when Douglas, by then Sir James, retired as governor of the two colonies -- Vancouver Island and British Columbia. The companion book to Michael Layland’s prizewinning The Land of Heart’s Delight: Early Maps and Charts of Vancouver Island, which traces the cartographic history of this remarkable region, A Perfect Eden paints a vivid picture of what the explorers saw, the people they met, the hazards they faced, and some mysteries, as yet unsolved.
Publisher: Touchwood Editions
ISBN: 9781771511773
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
In 1842, when famed world explorer James Douglas first encountered the rugged natural paradise that would become Vancouver Island, he described it as "A perfect Eden." He was just one among many European explorers to experience the intense beauty of the Pacific Northwest, most of whom have left fascinating accounts of their encounters with the terrain and the peoples they found, their exploration and settlement of the land there. Interspersed with maps, illustrations, paintings, and photographs, these first-hand accounts create a captivating tale of discovery and exploration. Starting from before the first known European arrivals, the stories feature Spanish and British naval officers, traders seeking sea otter pelts, colonial surveyors, "Indian” chiefs, soldiers, settlers and adventurers, and end in 1858, when Douglas, by then Sir James, retired as governor of the two colonies -- Vancouver Island and British Columbia. The companion book to Michael Layland’s prizewinning The Land of Heart’s Delight: Early Maps and Charts of Vancouver Island, which traces the cartographic history of this remarkable region, A Perfect Eden paints a vivid picture of what the explorers saw, the people they met, the hazards they faced, and some mysteries, as yet unsolved.
British Columbia
Author: Margaret Anchoretta Ormsby
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : British Columbia
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : British Columbia
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description