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Author : Sydney Wayne Jackman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780919203396
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Men at Cary Castle written by Sydney Wayne Jackman and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547572484
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)
Download or read book The Man in the High Castle written by Philip K. Dick and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2011 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slavery is back. America, 1962. Having lost a war, America finds itself under Nazi Germany and Japan occupation. A few Jews still live under assumed names. The 'I Ching' is prevalent in San Francisco. Science fiction meets serious ideas in this take on a possible alternate history.
Author : Robert Ratcliffe Taylor
Publisher : TouchWood Editions
ISBN 13 : 1927129281
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (271 download)
Download or read book The Spencer Mansion written by Robert Ratcliffe Taylor and published by TouchWood Editions. This book was released on 2012-09-04 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 Mansion showcases a true gem of Victoria's architecture and history.
Author : Brian Titley
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774841753
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book The Frontier World of Edgar Dewdney written by Brian Titley and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Frontier World of Edgar Dewdney is a biography of a man who played a key role in the events which marked the political, social, and economic transformation of western Canada in the latter half of the nineteenth century. An immigrant adventurer seeking his fortune in the colonies, Dewdney was embroiled in the gold rushes of the 1860s, the B.C. debates on Confederation, the Riel Rebellion of 1885, political evolution in the North-West Territories, and the Klondike gold rush. In following his exploits, we follow the story of a region experiencing breathtaking change.
Author : Rev. Hugh Baird
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Castlecary and the Great Roman Wall written by Rev. Hugh Baird and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Valerie Green
Publisher : TouchWood Editions
ISBN 13 : 1926971639
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (269 download)
Download or read book Above Stairs written by Valerie Green and published by TouchWood Editions. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Fort Victoria was first established in the mid-nineteenth century, eight pioneer families of Europe’s upper class formed the social elite of the modest colony. The self-named aristocracy of this new land, these families shaped a world suited to their proper tastes on the upper floors of the fort, and eventually, in beautiful homes that imitated the height of fashion in Europe. However, between their tea parties and balls, these particular families greatly influenced the progress of the city of Victoria and the province of British Columbia. In Above Stairs, get to know the the Douglases, the Pembertons, the Skinners, the Creases, the O’Reillys, the Trutches, the Rithets and the Barnards. These families made laws, surveyed land, founded businesses and set a standard of social acceptability for all those living in Victoria at the time. Like a kitchen hand sneaking up the servants’ steps to spy on the rich, discover the glamorous, complicated lives of Victoria’s social elite in Above Stairs.
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.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1086 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Kelly's Directory of Somersetshire written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 1086 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Scotland
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Directory to noblemen and gentlemen's seats, villages, etc., in Scotland ... To which are added tables, shewing the despatch and arrival of the mails ... throughout Scotland and transmission of letters. Compiled by A. G. Findlay; corrected and edited by G. Thomson written by Scotland and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Williams Higgins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Mystic Spring written by David Williams Higgins and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Little
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442666994
Total Pages : 611 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Patrician Liberal written by John Little and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-12-06 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrician Liberal examines the life and career of a neglected figure in Canadian history, Sir Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière. This book provides a detailed account of Joly’s political career as Quebec premier, Cabinet minister in the Laurier government, and lieutenant-governor of British Columbia, as well as his public role as a French-speaking Protestant promoter of national unity, a leading spokesperson for the Canadian forest conservation movement, a Quebec seigneur, and father to a large and devoted family. Joly’s life serves as a prism through which author J.I. Little elucidates important themes in Quebec and Canadian society, economy, politics, and culture during the Victorian and Edwardian eras. As Little reveals, Joly’s story is particularly fascinating for how closely the conflicting forces in his life – religious, cultural, and social – mirrored those of a Canadian society straining to forge a cohesive and distinctive national identity.
Author : John Stevens Cabot Abbott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (977 download)
Download or read book Charles Ellet and His Naval Steam Rams written by John Stevens Cabot Abbott and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Harper's New Monthly Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Mills Alden
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 822 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Harper's New Monthly Magazine written by Henry Mills Alden and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harper's informs a diverse body of readers of cultural, business, political, literary and scientific affairs.
Author : Christopher Walters
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459729889
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)
Download or read book London Eh to Zed written by Christopher Walters and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2015-05-23 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover London — and Canada — in one guidebook! Thousands of Canadians visit London, England, every year. But what their popular guidebooks always fail to mention are the over one hundred objects, monuments, and locations in the city associated with their own home and native land. Take for example the statue of half-mad General Charles Gordon standing beside the River Thames. His capture by rebels set in motion a dramatic rescue attempt that became Canada's first overseas military mission. Then there's the world's most famous suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst. Do Canadians know she marched on syphilis in Canada after winning the vote for women in Britain? Or that a cross-eyed doctor from McGill University in Montreal became London's most notorious serial killer after Jack the Ripper? London Eh to Zed is a light-hearted and entertaining walking guide especially for Canadians. Exploring seven neighbourhoods in London, it uncovers 101 fun discoveries about our history, character, passions, and foibles. Along streets in St. James's, Greenwich, and elsewhere, readers will meet men and women like the doomed adventurer Sir John Franklin, the un-amused Queen Victoria, and the tennis-loving but luckless Prince Rupert, first governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, who never collected any HBC Rewards.
Author : Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society written by Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Proceedings written by Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
