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Hobnobbing with a Countess and Other Okanagan Adventures
The Diaries of Alice Barrett Parke, 1891-1900
Edited by Jo Fraser Jones
Series The Pioneers of British Columbia
UBC Press
In 1891, Alice Barrett moved from Port Dover, Ontario, to the Okanagan Valley. Few women’s diaries have survived from that time, and Barrett Parke recalls a period of profound transformation in a region newly opened to white... Learn MorePublished: 10th October 2001Hardback | £87.00
Paperback | £31.00
PDF | £30.00
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This Blessed Wilderness
Archibald McDonald's Letters from the Columbia, 1822-44
By Jean M. Cole
Series The Pioneers of British Columbia
UBC Press
This book traces 25 turbulent years (1821-46) in the Pacific Northwest's fur trade through the experiences of Archibald McDonald, a trader, cartographer and literate observer of his times.... Learn MorePublished: 10th February 2001Hardback | £87.00
Paperback | £28.99
PDF | £28.00
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Fort Langley Journals, 1827-30
By Morag Maclachlan
Series The Pioneers of British Columbia
UBC Press
Contains a wealth of information about social and administrative life at Fort Langley.... Learn MorePublished: 27th July 1998Hardback | £87.00
Paperback | £28.99
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The Vancouver Island Letters of Edmund Hope Verney
1862-65
Edited by Allan Pritchard
Series The Pioneers of British Columbia
UBC Press
This previously unknown collection of letters lets us experience colonial British Columbia through the eyes of a young British naval officer who spent three years on Vancouver Island commanding a Royal Navy gunboat during the... Learn MorePublished: 1st January 1996Hardback | £78.00
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The Vancouver Island Letters of Edmund Hope Verney
1862-65
Edited by Allan Pritchard
Series The Pioneers of British Columbia
UBC Press
This previously unknown collection of letters lets us experience colonial British Columbia through the eyes of a young British naval officer who spent three years on Vancouver Island commanding a Royal Navy gunboat during the... Learn MorePublished: 1st January 1996Paperback | £28.99
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Alex Lord's British Columbia
Recollections of a Rural School Inspector, 1915-1936
Edited by John Calam
Series The Pioneers of British Columbia
UBC Press
These memoirs invite the reader to experience the British Columbia that Alex Lord knew. Through his words, we endure the difficulties of travel in this mountainous province.... Learn MorePublished: 1st January 1991Hardback | £78.00
Paperback | £31.00
PDF | £28.00
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A Pioneer Gentlewoman in British Columbia
The Recollections of Susan Allison
By Margaret A. Ormsby
Series The Pioneers of British Columbia
UBC Press
In 1860, at the age of fourteen, Susan Louisa Moir left England for British Columbia. After settling initially at Hope, she lived briefly in both Victoria and New Westminster, then B.C.’s two most important settlements. Returning... Learn MorePublished: 1st January 1991Paperback | £25.99
PDF | £28.00
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Robert Brown and the Vancouver Island Exploring Expedition
Edited by John Hayman
Series The Pioneers of British Columbia
UBC Press
... Learn MorePublished: 1st January 1989Paperback | £28.99
PDF | £28.00
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They Call Me Father
Memoirs of Father Nicolas Coccola
Edited by Margaret Whitehead
Series The Pioneers of British Columbia
UBC Press
These fascinating memoirs of Father Nicolas Coccola, a Corsican-born Oblatean who arrived in British Columbia in 1880, reveal the complexity of the work carried out by ordinary missionary priests.... Learn MorePublished: 1st January 1988Paperback | £28.99
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Overland from Canada to British Columbia
By Mr. Thomas McMicking of Queenston, Canada West
Edited by Joanne Leduc
Series The Pioneers of British Columbia
UBC Press
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... Learn MorePublished: 1st January 1981Paperback | £28.99