Echoes Of British Columbia

Author : Robert Budd
Publisher : Harbour Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781550176803

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Echoes of British Columbia by Robert Budd Pdf

In a follow-up to his well-received Voices of British Columbia, Robert Budd returns with more captivating tales of the province’s pioneering past in the very words of the people who lived them. Between 1959 and 1966, the late CBC Radio journalist Imbert Orchard travelled across British Columbia with recording engineer Ian Stephen, conducting interviews with some of the province’s most remarkable and inspiring pioneers. The resulting collection contained 998 conversations totalling 2,700 hours of material—one of the largest oral history collections in the world and a precious treasury of western heritage. In Echoes of British Columbia, author Budd skilfully renders some of the most entertaining and astonishing accounts from the Orchard collection into entrancing prose. There are tales about rawhiding to the Klondike; being rescued by the legendary Chief Capoose; of riding and racing horses standing up; of homesteading, birth and murder. You’ll meet Pattie Halsam, who grew up at remote Cape Beale Lighthouse and travelled to Victoria by canoe. You’ll laugh and cry with Bob Gamman as he transports a frozen corpse via wicker laundry basket and tugboat. You’ll thrill to Thomas Bullman’s eyewitness account of the siege of the murderous McLean Gang’s cabin in Douglas Lake. Combining text, archival photographs and original sound recordings on three CDs, this collection brings the reader (and listener) in intimate contact with British Columbia’s past, deepening our understanding of the characters and events that shaped the province.

Author : Dawn Sparks,Martha Border,Damian Inwood,Deep Cove and Area Heritage Association
Publisher : North Vancouver, B.C. : Deep Cove and Area Heritage Association
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Deep Cove Region (B.C.)
ISBN : 0889259275

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Echoes Across the Inlet by Dawn Sparks,Martha Border,Damian Inwood,Deep Cove and Area Heritage Association Pdf

Author : Robert Budd
Publisher : Harbour Publishing
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781550176216

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Cloudwalker by Robert Budd Pdf

Cloudwalker, describing the creation of the rivers, is the second in a series of Northwest Coast legends by Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd. Their previous collaboration, Raven Brings the Light (2013), is a national bestseller. On British Columbia’s northwest coast lies the Sacred Headwaters—the source of three of British Columbia’s largest salmon-bearing rivers. These rivers are the source of life for all creatures in the area. But what gave life to the rivers themselves? Astace, a young Gitxsan hunter, is intent on catching a group of swans with his bare hands. He is carried away by the birds’ powerful wings and dropped in the clouds. With only a cedar box of water Astace wanders the clouds, growing weaker, stumbling and spilling the contents. When he finally returns to earth he discovers lakes, creeks, and rivers where there were none before. The Gitxsan rejoice at having him home, and name the new river they live alongside Ksien—“juice from the clouds.” Roy Henry Vickers’ vibrant artwork, including 18 new prints, accompany this new retelling of an ancient story—readers of all ages will be captivated.

Author : Robert Harlow
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465315700

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A Gift of Echoes by Robert Harlow Pdf

There is a timeless quality about this powerful, complex novel which is impossible to pin down in a few words. British Book News His comments on the way that people behave toward each other are savagely effective. The Toronto Star After the Second World War John Grandy returns to the village of Onion Lake where he once taught school, and to a job at the Acton lumber mill in northern British Columbia. Old Henry Acton is ill. Son, Nairn, and family have come to learn about the enterprise they will inherit. The destructive element is Velma, a former student of Grandys, whose struggle against her apparent destiny damages everyone. Innocent of intent but guilty of involvement of events, she and Grandy become centra

Author : Gerald A. Rushton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : British Columbia
ISBN : UOM:39015023141974

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Echoes of the Whistle by Gerald A. Rushton Pdf

Author : Robert Budd
Publisher : D & M Publishers
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781553656449

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Voices of British Columbia by Robert Budd Pdf

Between 1959 and 1966, the late CBC Radio journalist Imbert Orchard travelled across British Columbia with recording engineer Ian Stephen interviewing nearly a thousand of the province’s pioneers. The resulting collection — 2,700 hours of audiotapes describing both extraordinary events and everyday experiences — is considered by historians to be one of the best sources of primary information about the province. To the general public, however, the tales in these tapes remain virtually unknown. Combining text, archival photographs and the original sound recordings from the CBC Archives onto three CDs, Voices of British Columbia draws 24 stories from this collection to immerse us in daily life in the early 20th century. You’ll meet Sarah Glassey, a spirited homesteader who carried a rifle and bagged more birds than any man in the Kispiox Valley. You’ll hear Bill LaChance, the sole survivor of the 1910 Glacier Snowslide, describe that tragic avalanche. And you’ll discover how Great Chief Kwah of Fort St. James spared the life of James Douglas, future governor of British Columbia. By turns sad, contemplative, insightful and funny, these stories reveal as much about the spirit and resilience of people as they do about the history of the province.

Author : Oliver Wells
Publisher : Talon Books
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015034352040

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The Chilliwacks and Their Neighbors by Oliver Wells Pdf

Active ethnography through conversations, legends, articles and a naturalist's guide of the Chilliwack Native people and their area.

Author : Glen A. Mofford
Publisher : TouchWood Editions
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781771512886

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Along the E&N by Glen A. Mofford Pdf

In 1885, Vancouver Island’s E&N rail service carried coal to smelters and ships, and the towns in the railway’s path prospered as the tracks expanded. Along the E&N celebrates the historic and still-surviving hotels and roadhouses that sprung up near the E&N. Within this carefully researched historical narrative, you’ll find stories of the halfway house in the Esquimalt District, the murder and suicide at the Mt Sicker Hotel, and the iconic Quinsam Hotel in Campbell River, burned down in 2017. Peppered with stories of patrons and proprietors alike, this book chronicles the history of sixty hotels—most long gone, destroyed by fire, or simply demolished. Featuring some of the old hotels remodelled into modern-day neighbourhood pubs—such as the Rod & Gun, the Fanny Bay Inn, the Shady Rest, the Cumberland Pub, and the Waverley Pub—Along the E&N resonates with the haunting echoes of the train’s iconic whistle.

Author : Robert Budd
Publisher : Harbour Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781550178845

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Voices from the Skeena by Robert Budd Pdf

The Skeena, second longest river in the province, remains an icon of British Columbia’s northwest. Called Xsien (“water of the clouds”) by the Tsimshian and Gitksan, it has always played a vital role in the lives of Indigenous people of the region. Since the 1800s, it has also become home to gold seekers, traders, salmon fishers and other settlers who were drawn by the area’s beauty and abundant natural resources. Voices from the Skeena will take readers on a journey inspired directly by the people who lived there. Combining forty illustrations with text selected from the pioneer interviews CBC radio producer Imbert Orchard recorded in the 1960s, the book follows the arrival of the Europeans and the introduction of the fur trade to the Omineca gold rush and the building of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad. Open the pages to meet Robert Cunningham, an Anglican missionary who would later become the founder of the thriving Port Essington. Here too is a man called Cataline, a packer for whom no settlement was too remote to reach, and the indominable Sarah Glassey, the first woman to pre-empt land in British Columbia. At the heart of these stories is the river, weaving together a narrative of a people and their culture. Pairing the stories with Roy Henry Vicker’s vibrant art creates a unique and captivating portrait of British Columbia that will appeal to art lovers and history readers alike.

Author : Robert Budd
Publisher : Harbour Publishing
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781550176940

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Orca Chief by Robert Budd Pdf

Orca Chief is the third in a series of Northwest Coast legends by Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd. Their previous collaborations, Raven Brings the Light (2013) and Cloudwalker (2014), are award-winning national bestsellers. Thousands of years ago in the village of Kitkatla, four hunters leave home in the spring to harvest seaweed and sockeye. When they arrive at their fishing grounds, exhaustion makes them lazy and they throw their anchor overboard without care for the damage it might do to marine life or the sea floor. When Orca Chief discovers what the hunters have done, he sends his most powerful orca warriors to bring the men and their boat to his house. The men beg forgiveness for their ignorance and lack of respect, and Orca Chief compassionately sends them out with his pod to show them how to sustainably harvest the ocean’s resources. Accompanied by almost exclusively new illustrations by Roy Henry Vickers, this next installment of the Northwest Coast Legends will captivate readers young and old with its vivid imagery and remarkable storytelling.

Author : Letitia Youmans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Canadian Woman's Christian Temperance Union--Biography
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CR60119918

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Campaign Echoes by Letitia Youmans Pdf

Author : Cindy Blackstock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1777009138

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Spirit Bear: Echoes of the Past by Cindy Blackstock Pdf

Author : Janet Pavlik,Eileen Smith,Desmond Smith
Publisher : Harbour Publishing Company
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 1550175882

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Echoes Across Seymour by Janet Pavlik,Eileen Smith,Desmond Smith Pdf

Seymour lies between the City of North Vancouver and Indian Arm and includes the communities of Dollarton, Deep Cove, the Tsleil-Waututh First Nation and the popular Mount Seymour winter sports complex. Compiled with the help of knowledgeable Seymour seniors of the Deep Cove Heritage Society, Echoes Across Seymour provides unparalleled insight into the history and character of each of Seymour's nineteen neighbourhoods. Readers will meet the crocodile-rearing Doc Hogan in Riverside East, hear tales of the sea serpent that claims the waters of Indian Arm as its home, play in the Northlands Golf Course that local supporters fought to make a success, and watch wistfully as Deep Cove transforms from a misted primeval forest to a charming suburban community. Each neighbourhood's unique and detailed history is presented in a concise and captivating manner with a focus on facts and stories from the last fifty years. Delightful poems and charming photographs from the community's archives bring Seymour's history to life for newcomers to discover, and allows residents to reminisce about their own fond memories of the area. Echoes Across Seymour reveals a vibrant and modern community working to find the right balance between development and nature, celebrating its triumphs and embracing the challenges still to come.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:918261792

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British Columbia by Anonim Pdf

Author : Roy Henry Vickers,Robert Budd
Publisher : Harbour Publishing
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781550176612

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Raven Brings the Light by Roy Henry Vickers,Robert Budd Pdf

In a time when darkness covered the land, a boy named Weget is born who is destined to bring the light. With the gift of a raven's skin that allows him to fly as well as transform, Weget turns into a bird and journeys from Haida Gwaii into the sky. There he finds the Chief of the Heavens who keeps the light in a box. By transforming himself into a pine needle, clever Weget tricks the Chief and escapes with the daylight back down to Earth. Vividly portrayed through the art of Roy Henry Vickers, Weget's story has been passed down for generations. The tale has been traced back at least 3,000 years by archeologists who have found images of Weget's journey in petroglyphs on the Nass and Skeena rivers. This version of the story originates from one told to the author by Chester Bolton, Chief of the Ravens, from the village of Kitkatla around 1975.