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Ranch in the Slocan

Author : Cole Harris
Publisher : Harbour Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1550178245
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Ranch in the Slocan written by Cole Harris and published by Harbour Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-19 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1888, a prosperous industrial family in Calne, Wiltshire, sent one of its younger sons, a lad judged to have no head for business, to Guelph Agricultural College in Ontario to learn to be a farmer. Joseph Colebrook Harris, the author’s grandfather, didn’t take to Ontario and after visiting a friend on Salt Spring Island, fell in love with BC. Eventually fetching up on the shores of the Slocan Lake, Joe bought 270 acres of hilly land in the Slocan Valley, less than thirty acres of which was really fit for farming, and began clearing the forest to build a ranch. Here is the story of Harris’s life and the next 120 years of the ranch’s, including the discovery of a silver–lead mine on the property, a period as a Japanese internment camp, brushes with American counterculture and the back-to-the-land movement, family conflicts, and an uncertain future. In detail, Ranch in the Slocan is a very particular story, but its elements have repeated themselves across Canada. Settlers lived within bounded space, of which the Harris ranch is an extreme example, and adapted to cultural and social changes. Drawing from letters, diaries, family stories and recollections, photographs, as well as official records, Harris offers a case study in the history of homesteading, and a portrait of his family’s experiences in the Slocan Valley. The Harris ranch produced a little income now and then but was not, and never has been, a commercial success. Its yield was not so much measured by the market as by the more intangible pleasures of living within a diverse local economy in a remarkable place.

Ranch in the Slocan

Author : Cole Harris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781550178234
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (782 download)

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Download or read book Ranch in the Slocan written by Cole Harris and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1888, a prosperous industrial family in Calne, Wiltshire, sent one of its younger sons, a lad judged to have no head for business, to Guelph Agricultural College in Ontario to learn to be a farmer. Joseph Colebrook Harris, the author's grandfather, didn't take to Ontario and after visiting a friend on Salt Spring Island, fell in love with BC. Eventually fetching up on the shores of the Slocan Lake, Joe bought 270 acres of hilly land in the Slocan Valley, less than thirty acres of which was really fit for farming, and began clearing the forest to build a ranch. Here is the story of Harris's life and the next 120 years of the ranch's, including the discovery of a silver-lead mine on the property, a period as a Japanese internment camp, brushes with American counterculture and the back-to-the-land movement, family conflicts, and an uncertain future. In detail, Ranch in the Slocan is a very particular story, but its elements have repeated themselves across Canada. Settlers lived within bounded space, of which the Harris ranch is an extreme example, and adapted to cultural and social changes. Drawing from letters, diaries, family stories and recollections, photographs, as well as official records, Harris offers a case study in the history of homesteading, and a portrait of his family's experiences in the Slocan Valley. The Harris ranch produced a little income now and then but was not, and never has been, a commercial success. Its yield was not so much measured by the market as by the more intangible pleasures of living within a diverse local economy in a remarkable place.

The Reluctant Land

Author : Cole Harris
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774858389
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book The Reluctant Land written by Cole Harris and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2008 K.D. Srivastava Prize for Excellence in Scholarly Publishing, UBC Press The Reluctant Land describes the evolving pattern of settlement and the changing relationships of people and land in Canada from the end of the fifteenth century to the Confederation years of the late 1860s and early 1870s. It shows how a deeply indigenous land was reconstituted in European terms, and, at the same time, how European ways were recalibrated in this non-European space. It also shows how an archipelago of scattered settlement emerged out of an encounter with a parsimonious territory, and suggests how deeply this encounter differed from an American relationship with abundance. The book begins with a description of land and life in northern North America in 1500, and ends by considering the relationship between the pattern of early Canada and the country as we know it today. Intended to illuminate the background of modern Canada, The Reluctant Land is an intelligent discussion of people and place that will be welcomed by scholars and lay readers alike.

Sessional Papers

Author : British Colombia. Parliament
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1486 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sessional Papers written by British Colombia. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Children of the Kootenays

Author : Shirley D. Stainton
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
ISBN 13 : 1772031860
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Children of the Kootenays written by Shirley D. Stainton and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2018-04-23 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A warm-hearted memoir of a childhood spent living in various mining towns in the Kootenays throughout the 1930s and ’40s. When young Shirley Doris Hall and her family moved to BC’s West Kootenay region in 1927, the area was a hub of mining activity. Shirley’s father, a cook, had no problem finding work at the mining camps, and the family dutifully followed him from town to town as his services were sought after. For Shirley and her brother, Ray—described as both her confidant and her nemesis—mining camps were the backdrop of their youth. The instant close-knit communities that formed around them; the freedom of barely tamed wilderness; and the struggles of the Depression years and the war that followed created an unlikely environment for a happy childhood. Yet Shirley’s memories reveal that it was indeed a magical time and place in which to grow up. Children of the Kootenays paints a lively portrait of this forgotten period in BC history—of mining towns that are now ghost towns—told from the unique perspective of a young girl.

Obasan

Author : Joy Kogawa
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 073523390X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Obasan written by Joy Kogawa and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the American Book Award Based on the author's own experiences, this award-winning novel was the first to tell the story of the evacuation, relocation, and dispersal of Canadian citizens of Japanese ancestry during the Second World War.

Wrigley's British Columbia Directory

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1346 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wrigley's British Columbia Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Vanishing British Columbia

Author : Michael Kluckner
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774842539
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Vanishing British Columbia written by Michael Kluckner and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The old buildings and historic places of British Columbia form a kind of "roadside memory," a tangible link with stories of settlement, change, and abandonment that reflect the great themes of BC's history. Michael Kluckner began painting his personal map of the province in a watercolour sketchbook. In 1999, after he put a few of the sketches on his website, a network of correspondents emerged that eventually led him to the family letters, photo albums, and memories from a disappearing era of the province. Vanishing British Columbia is a record of these places and the stories they tell, presenting a compelling argument for stewardship of regional history in the face of urbanization and globalization.

Experimental Farms

Author : Canada. Experimental Farms Service
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1414 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Experimental Farms written by Canada. Experimental Farms Service and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Architecture of Confinement

Author : Anoma Pieris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 131651918X
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Architecture of Confinement written by Anoma Pieris and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative account of prisoners of war and internment camps around the Pacific basin during the Second World War. In this comparative and global study, Anoma Pieris and Lynne Horiuchi offer an architectural and urban understanding of the Pacific War approached through spatial, physical and material analyses of incarceration camp environments.

Report of the Dominion Experimental Farms

Author : Canada. Department of Agriculture. Experimental Farms
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 954 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Report of the Dominion Experimental Farms written by Canada. Department of Agriculture. Experimental Farms and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 954 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Long Way to Paradise

Author : Robert A.J. McDonald
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774864745
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book A Long Way to Paradise written by Robert A.J. McDonald and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The political landscape of British Columbia has been characterized by divisiveness since Confederation. But why and how did it become Canada’s most fractious province? A Long Way to Paradise traces the evolution of political ideas in the province from 1871 to 1972, exploring British Columbia’s journey to socio-political maturity. Robert McDonald explains its classic left-right divide as a product of “common sense” liberalism that also shaped how British Columbians met the demands and challenges of a modernizing world. This lively, richly detailed overview provides fresh insight into the fascinating story of provincial politics in Canada’s lotus land.

Sessional Papers

Author : British Columbia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1547 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Sessional Papers written by British Columbia and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 1547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Life of an Ironworker

Author : Joe Irving
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1426993803
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book Life of an Ironworker written by Joe Irving and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joe Irving, the oldest living ironworker, returns after his first book to tell us stories of not just his construction days, but from his entire life. Life of an Ironworker is a collection of stories, memories, opinions and events told from the hand of a 99-year-old man, now retired and living in the Kootenays of British Columbia, Canada. Born in 1911, Joe grew up in the pioneer days in rural B.C. and then joined the Local #97, International Union of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Ironworkers, Machinery Movers, Derickmen and Riggers with whom he had a wonderfully successful career. He later retired and purchased the Rainbow Pines Ranch, in the Slocan Valley, with his wife Sylvia where they lived the better part of forty years farming, ranching, and milling. Joe has travelled the world, graduated high-school at 93 years old, lent a helping hand whenever he could and read and researched his way through thousands of books. His collected works span a lifetime of 99 years and truly show the amazing character that has allowed Joe to survive in the world for the past one hundred years, and still to be alive, healthy and strong, telling those stories today.

The Resettlement of British Columbia

Author : Cole Harris
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774842563
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book The Resettlement of British Columbia written by Cole Harris and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this beautifully crafted collection of essays, Cole Harris reflects on the strategies of colonialism in British Columbia during the first 150 years after the arrival of European settlers. The pervasive displacement of indigenous people by the newcomers, the mechanisms by which it was accomplished, and the resulting effects on the landscape, social life, and history of Canada's western-most province are examined through the dual lenses of post-colonial theory and empirical data. By providing a compelling look at the colonial construction of the province, the book revises existing perceptions of the history and geography of British Columbia.

Annual Report of the Minister of Mines for the Year Ending ...

Author : British Columbia. Department of Mines
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Annual Report of the Minister of Mines for the Year Ending ... written by British Columbia. Department of Mines and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Report of the Minister of Mines; Being an Account of Mining Operations for Gold, Coal, Etc. (varies Slightly)

Author : British Columbia. Department of Mines
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Report of the Minister of Mines; Being an Account of Mining Operations for Gold, Coal, Etc. (varies Slightly) written by British Columbia. Department of Mines and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: