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Author : Julie Lawson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Emily written by Julie Lawson and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julie Lawson
Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 : 9780141002507
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Across the James Bay Bridge written by Julie Lawson and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1896 and Emily pines for a bicycle, the latest craze. On the other side of Victoria's James Bay Bridge is Chinatown and thousands of Chinese immigrants who are looking for a better life in Canada.
Author : Robert Ratcliffe Taylor
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1525547054
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)
Download or read book The Birdcages written by Robert Ratcliffe Taylor and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2020-02-08 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revealing a little-known chapter in the history of Victoria, British Columbia, The Birdcages, the province’s first legislative buildings, were built 1859-1864, the formative, tumultuous time of the Gold Rushes. Constructed on the site of the present Legislature, they were built amid controversy and derided for their style. The brainchild of Governor James Douglas, they resembled, according to journalist/politician Amor de Cosmos, “something between a Dutch toy and a Chinese pagoda.” Readers will discover how civil servants and politicians felt about them as a workplace and what the general public thought about them as civic architecture. The career of their designer, the mysterious Hermann Otto Tiedemann, one of Victoria’s vivid early “characters,” is recounted as are the contributions of local contractors and tradesmen. The site of events of national importance until their demise in 1898, the Birdcages reflected the history, character, and heritage of Victoria and played an important role in the developing political traditions of the province and the young Dominion of Canada. A place for political demonstrations and community celebrations, the House of Assembly was where the MLAs debated joining Confederation, granting the vote to women, and excluding Asian immigrants. Based on personal memoirs and letters, government documents, photographs and plans, this book will interest both students and adults, history buffs and professional historians.
Author : Emily Carr
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Book of Small written by Emily Carr and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Book of Small" by Emily Carr. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Dayle Gaetz
Publisher : Coteau Books
ISBN 13 : 1550505521
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (55 download)
Download or read book Taking the Reins written by Dayle Gaetz and published by Coteau Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel for young readers about two very different pioneer settler girls and how one horse brings them together.
Author : John David Adams
Publisher : TouchWood Editions
ISBN 13 : 9780920663776
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (637 download)
Download or read book Old Square-Toes and His Lady written by John David Adams and published by TouchWood Editions. This book was released on 2001 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the pinnacle of his career, Sir James Douglas, fur trader and colonial governor, was knighted by the order of Queen Victoria, and greatly enjoyed the pomp of his position. Considering his modest beginnings as a mixed-race baby in South America, this lofty status was remarkable. The life of Amelia, companion throughout James' long rise, saw even more surprising changes. Amelia was of mixed blood too, being part-Cree, part-Scot. She never left the northern Canadian forests until she married James, but ended up a respected lady of the Empire. Between them, James and Amelia Douglas knew everybody who was anybody in western North America. Their lives saw astonishing contrasts, from crossing North America by canoe to touring Europe by train, from Native uprisings to frantic gold rushes. They met with grief as well as glory, losing seven of their beloved children. This is an engaging story of courage and companionship - though James Douglas's role as a public figure is well known, this book offers the first real glimpses of him as a private man, husband and father.
Author : Robert R. Taylor
Publisher : TouchWood Editions
ISBN 13 : 1927129273
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (271 download)
Download or read book The Spencer Mansion written by Robert R. Taylor and published by TouchWood Editions. This book was released on 2012 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Built in 1889 and now home to the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, the Spencer Mansion is a magnificent building with a rich and layered history. With detailed research, historian and author Robert Ratcliffe Taylor describes the original appearance of the house, designed by William Ridgway Wilson for Alexander Green and his family, as well as its inhabitants over the decades. Also known as Gyppeswyk, after the village in England where Green wed Theophila Rainer, the house is more commonly referred to as the Spencer Mansion, after later owners David and Emma Spencer. The book also chronicles the brief period when the residence served as BC's Government House and concludes with the story of how the house came to function as an art gallery. A unique book, The Spencer Mansionshowcases a true gem of Victoria's architecture and history.
Author : James Guthrie Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book James Bay written by James Guthrie Scott and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Adams
Publisher : TouchWood Editions
ISBN 13 : 1926971728
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (269 download)
Download or read book Old Square Toes and His Lady written by John Adams and published by TouchWood Editions. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: August 12, 2003, marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Sir James Douglas. Although he played an integral role in British Columbia's history, in many ways Douglas remains misunderstood and an enigma. He is known for his contradictory qualities—he was self-serving, racist, a military hawk, sometimes violent and arrogant. Yet he was also extremely community oriented, a humanitarian, brave and a devoted family member. John Adam's bestseller Old Square-Toes and His Lady: The Life of James and Amelia Douglas serves as an important source of information regarding Douglas's public and private lives. As Adams writes, [the term] old square-toes characterizes him as an unbending, stodgy, boring individual, but nothing could be further from the truth. At the pinnacle of his career, Douglas was knighted by order of Queen Victoria. Considering his modest, mixed-race beginnings in South America, his lofty status is, indeed, remarkable. Equally so is the life of his wife, Amelia. She was also of mixed blood, her mother being Cree and her father Irish. But unlike Douglas, who was educated in Scotland, she never left the northern forests until they married. Their ending up as a knight and lady of the British Empire was an unusual achievement. Old Square-Toes discusses the Douglases' diverse experiences of astonishing contrasts, from crossing North America by canoe to touring Europe by train, from Native uprisings to the frantic gold rush. Besides finding glory, they also faced grief in losing seven of their beloved children. This is a story of the adventure, heartbreak, and devotion that lies at the roots of western Canada.
Author : Ontario Northland Transportation Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Report Covering Investigations at James Bay written by Ontario Northland Transportation Commission and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : British Columbia
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Sessional Papers written by British Columbia and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Ratcliffe Taylor
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1039184537
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Between Heaven and Balmoral written by Robert Ratcliffe Taylor and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2024-07-18 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1860, Cary Castle was built by George Hunter Cary in Victoria, the bustling Gold Rush capital of Vancouver Island. Cary was the brilliant “Boy Attorney-General,” unethical, unpopular and mentally disturbed—one of the colony’s vivid early characters. In 1865 Governor Arthur Kennedy forced the parsimonious Legislative Assembly to purchase the mansion as Vancouver Island’s Government House. After 1871, it became the vice-regal residence of the new province of British Columbia which it remained until it burned down in 1899. Defectively built and uncomfortable to live in, prone to drafts, fires and water leakage, it nevertheless reflected the character and heritage of Victoria and played an important role in the history of the province and Canada. The venue of elegant social events, as well as personal dramas, the mansion hosted British royalty, governors general, naval officers and local political leaders, and could have become a Canadian historic site. Cary Castle was also a family home for vice-regal couples where babies were born, boys slid down the bannister in the main hall, nasty diseases were endured and the Chinese “help’ was indispensable. Based on personal memoirs and letters, government documents, newspaper articles, photographs and plans, this book recreates how that idiosyncratic mansion looked and even smelled. Professor Martin Segger described Dr. Taylor’s earlier study, The Birdcages. British Columbia’s First Legislative Buildings (Friesen, 2020), as “a significant contribution, [with] fascinating detail, [and] a highly readable writing style.” (Ormsby Review, April 22, 2020) Between Heaven and Balmoral expands the picture of colonial Victoria developed in The Birdcages and will appeal to readers interested in Victoria’s history, especially its early social and architectural development.
Author : Danda Humphreys
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
ISBN 13 : 9781894384094
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (84 download)
Download or read book On the Street where You Live: Victoria's early roads and railways written by Danda Humphreys and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2000 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-1800s, Victoria grew from a fur-trading post into a provincial capital--the jewel in British Columbia's golden crown. Meanwhile, many of the early residents, happy to leave the Hudson's Bay Company behind, followed simple trails from the fort or discovered new routes of their own. In her first book, Danda Humphreys introduced readers to some of the people who forged those pioneer pathways. Now she takes us another step back in time to the roads and railways that connected the original city's core to today's suburbs. From Saanich to Sooke, street names tell stories of intrigue and adventure: Rowland Avenue, named for the farm labourer with a sinister sideline: hangman for the HBC. Joan Crescent, where coal baron Robert Dunsmuir's widow once resided in solitary splendour in a castle called Craigdarroch. Sidney Avenue, close to where the Brethour brothers donated land for the northern terminus of the "Cordwood Express," first train to link the city with the Saanich Peninsula and the islands in the Strait of Georgia. In this second book in her On the Street Where You Live trilogy, Danda once again combines her passion for the past with a penchant for lively prose to bring you stories about Victoria's pioneers. You know the streets; now meet the people--their lives, their loves and the legends they left behind.
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Author : R. Edward Gosnell
Publisher : [Chicago?] : Hill Binding Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 998 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book A History O [sic] British Columbia written by R. Edward Gosnell and published by [Chicago?] : Hill Binding Company. This book was released on 1906 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Allan Pritchard
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774842571
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book The Vancouver Island Letters of Edmund Hope Verney written by Allan Pritchard and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Cariboo gold rush. A keen observer of life in the new world, Edmund Hope Verney corresponded on a regular basis with his father, a prominent British MP. In his letters, which are filled with lively narration and description, candid commentary, and fascinating personal detail, he talks about having 'the opportunity to observe a colony in [its first] stage of existence' and to 'watch the development of a community.'
Author : Dorothy Mindenhall
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459701763
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)
Download or read book Unbuilt Victoria written by Dorothy Mindenhall and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2012-05-12 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unbuilt Victoria celebrates the city that is, and laments the city that could have been. For most people, resident and visitor alike, Victoria, British Columbia, is a time capsule of Victorian and Edwardian buildings. From a modest fur-trading post of the Hudson’s Bay Company it grew to be the province’s major trading centre. Then the selection of Vancouver as the terminus of the transcontinental railway in the 1880s, followed by a smallpox epidemic that closed the port in the 1890s, resulted in decline. Victoria succeeded in reinventing itself as a tourist destination, based on the concept of nostalgia for all things English, stunning scenery, and investment opportunities. In the modernizing boom after the Second World War attempts were made to move the city’s built environment into the mainstream, but the prospect of Victoria’s becoming like any other North American city did not win public approval. Unbuilt Victoria examines some of the architectural plans that were proposed but rejected. That some of them were ever dreamed of will probably amaze, that others never made it might well be a matter of regret.
Author : David Williams Higgins
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
ISBN 13 : 9781895811247
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Tales of a Pioneer Journalist written by David Williams Higgins and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 1996 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selections of chapters from the author's The passing of a race and The Mystic spring.
