Pinkerton S And The Hunt For Simon Gunanoot

Author : Geoff Mynett
Publisher : Caitlin Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 177386050X

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Pinkerton's and the Hunt for Simon Gunanoot by Geoff Mynett Pdf

Pinkerton's and the Hunt for Simon Gunanoot throws new light on the extensive manhunt for an accused murderer in northern British Columbia in the early 1900s. After a double murder in 1906, Gitxsan trapper and storekeeper Simon Gunanoot fled into the wilderness with his family. Despite lack of proof, the police pursued Gunanoot for nearly three years, sending search parties and police operatives into the wilds of northern BC. The hunt was covered by numerous newspapers at the time, describing a melodramatic cat-and-mouse chase--a not-entirely-accurate account. Frustrated by Gunanoot's ability to evade capture, the Attorney General of BC asked Pinkerton's National Detective Agency in Seattle to assist in the pursuit. In May 1909, two Pinkerton's operatives disguised as prospectors were sent to Hazelton, BC, to find and apprehend Gunanoot. From 1909-1910, they delivered regular reports to Pinkerton's office in Seattle detailing their progress. Many of these confidential reports, written around campfires on the treks in the wilderness, provided a vivid picture of life in the frontier town, relations of the settlers and prospectors, and of the conflicting loyalties and tensions in both the Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities. One of the most famous fugitives in BC history, Gunanoot's story has taken on the status of legend. Pinkerton's and the Hunt for Simon Gunanoot is a fascinating tale of turn-of-the-century crime-solving techniques, rural politics and backwoods survival, based on never-before published, firsthand accounts of the two undercover operatives.

Author : David Ricardo Williams
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1998-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781554881147

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Call in Pinkerton's by David Ricardo Williams Pdf

Soon after Allan Pinkerton established his legendary detective agency in the United States, Canadians began seeking their services. Call in Pinkerton’s is the history of the agency’s work on behalf of Canadian governments and police forces. During the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, Pinkerton’s operatives hunted legendary train robber Bill Miner in the woods of British Columbia, infiltrated German spy rings during World War I, and helped future prime minister John A. Macdonald to fend off the Fenian raids. They tracked down the Reno Brothers in Windsor, Ontario, and investigated labour unrest in Hamilton. The agency’s detectives countered crimes all over Canada, particularly in the West and British Columbia. Pinkerton’s activities went as far north as the Yukon, where fears were growing of an imminent invasion by a force of Americans from Alaska. Call in Pinkerton’s is the first book to chronicle the agency’s work on behalf of Canadian governments and police forces. This entertaining book provides accounts of actual Pinkerton’s investigations while detailing the day-to-day activities of a private detective at work. Call in Pinkerton’s is a fascinating read for anyone with an interest in crime and espionage.

Author : Robert Galois,Neil J. Sterritt
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774841948

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Tribal Boundaries in the Nass Watershed by Robert Galois,Neil J. Sterritt Pdf

In this book, the Gitksan and Gitanyow present their response to the use of the treaty process by the Nisga'a to expand into Gitksan and Gitanyow territory on the upper Nass River and demonstrate the ownership of their territory according to their own legal system. They call upon the ancient oral history ("adaawk") and their intimate knowledge of the territory and its geographical features to establish, before witnesses, their title to lands in the upper Nass watershed.

Author : Geoff Mynett
Publisher : Caitlin Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1773860674

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Murders on the Skeena by Geoff Mynett Pdf

Part history, part true crime, Murders on the Skeena: True Crime in the Old Canadian West, 1884-1914 contains the true accounts of murders, crimes, and scandals--some of which remain unsolved to this day--in small-town northern British Columbia. With a focus on the victims as much as the cases themselves, award-winning author Geoff Mynett relates untold stories of BC's deadly history while providing both the natural and social history of the region. Hazelton, situated where the Bulkley River joins the Skeena River, was one of the most important sites in the interior of northern BC from 1870-1913. The gold rush, the arrival of the telegraph, and the ability for steam boats to journey upriver increased outside interest in the region. As new modes of transport were built, more non-Indigenous people arrived, and as colonial law and governance increased, so did tensions between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. One such case was that of the murder of Amos "Charley" Youmans in 1884--the escalation of a clash between the laws and customs of the Gitxsan and those of the encroaching traders and settlers. Mynett also recounts the stories of the so-called Skeena River Uprising of 1888, a bank robbery shoot-out, and a deadly dispute between two prospectors. Peeling back historical, social, political, and geographical layers, Murders on the Skeena draws almost exclusively from documents from the time to reveal the fascinating secrets and surprising consequences of these captivating true crime tales.

Author : Geoff Mynett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1553805755

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Service on the Skeena by Geoff Mynett Pdf

His name was Horace Wrinch. It was 1880. He was 14 years old, a farmer's boy from England travelling on his own to Quebec. Twenty years later, a qualified doctor and surgeon, he arrived in Hazelton on the Skeena River in northern British Columbia as a Canadian citizen. At this time the northern interior of the province had no qualified doctors, no surgeons and no hospitals. In 1904 Horace built the first hospital in the northern interior. Over the next thirty-six years he became widely respected as a doctor and surgeon, hospital administrator, medical missionary, Methodist minister, magistrate, farmer, community leader and progressive politician. Ever innovative, he instituted a form of health insurance for the Hazelton community as early as 1908. In the 1920s, he was a two-term president of the newly established British Columbia Hospital Association and a two-term Liberal Member of the Provincial Legislature for the Skeena riding. While in the Legislature, he championed publicly funded health insurance. Upon his death in 1939, he was called "the most influential and best liked man that ever blessed this district with his presence." Drawn almost entirely from original and contemporaneous sources, this is the previously untold story of a remarkable British Columbian.

Author : Bill Miller
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 189438458X

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Wires in the Wilderness by Bill Miller Pdf

This is the tale of how Canada's high northern wilderness was brought into civilization's fold through a frail network of wires laboriously strung between poles and trees for hundreds of desolate miles. The Yukon Telegraph started in 1897, when gold was discovered in the Yukon and the government needed a faster way to communicate with its remote northern territory. The isolated residents, too, wanted a more reliable connection with the outside world. Bill Miller takes readers from the line's conception in 1899 to its abandonment in 1952 through to its status today and its potential for future generations, focusing on the colourful people who lived and worked in the area. His account, enhanced by extensive research and engaging storytelling, reveals a fascinating fragment of Canada's rich history.

Author : Ann Gomer Sunahara
Publisher : Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780995032880

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The Politics of Racism by Ann Gomer Sunahara Pdf

The Politics of Racism: The Uprooting of Japanese Canadians During the Second World War is the first book to fully document the politics behind the 1942 expulsion order that saw 20,000 Japanese Canadians evicted from their homes in British Columbia and sent inland to work camps, detention centres and farms in Alberta and Manitoba. The book details the relationship between racism and political expediency, and shows how political parties and the affairs of the nation were controlled by a small group of politicians who scapegoated minorities to hang on to power. Most alarmingly, The Politics of Racism shows how easily Canadians allowed themselves to be manipulated by a political process that used fear and war hysteria in a very cynical and calculated way. Ann Sunahara has used previously classified government documents and the wartime records of the Liberal government to reveal a startling new portrait of political connivance that shows Mackenzie King bowing to the pressures of a small number of B.C. politicians who saw the “Japanese problem” as a useful tool to enhance their status and win favours in Ottawa. Branded as traitors in the eyes of many of their countrymen, unaware that the military had opposed their uprooting, without political friends and allies except for the CCF, the Japanese Canadians were powerless – a muffled minority within a country at war. Ann Sunahara has woven together her analysis of government documents with the personal memories of victims of that shameful period. The accounts of the victims and the official records provide a poignant and powerful indictment of the politicians who used racism and fear to further their own careers and of a society whose indifference let it happen. Since the 1981 version of The Politics of Racism (POR1981) was published, it has undergone two further editions: an HTML version in 2000 (POR2000) with an additional afterward about Redress; and an e-book edition (POR2020) with an additional photo essay by the author. Both are published at japanesecanadianhistory.ca.

Author : Janet Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Architecture
ISBN : MINN:31951D014322326

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Crown Assets by Janet Wright Pdf

Crown Assets Details the History of the Building programme of the Department of Public Works from 1867 to 1967. One hundred years of government construction generated a broad and diverse network of post offices, federal office buildings, customs houses, drill halls, quarantine stations, government hospitals, experimental farms, research institutions, and many other types of structures. Janet Wright interprets these buildings as a reflection of the forces that shaped their design and construction. Federal buildings mirrored the evolution of Canadian architecture in terms of changing styles and building technologies. They were also the product of a political and bureaucratic process and were shaped by policies, programs, and priorities. It was the interaction of these two forces - external architectural influences and the internal requirements and expectations of government - that defined the unique character and scope of federal building in Canada. Crown Assets is lavishly illustrated with 196 black-and-white illustrations and eight colour plates, richly depicting the federal government's profound impact on the character of the built environment in Canada. It is also available in a French language edition.

Author : Sage Birchwater
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 198791533X

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Chilcotin Chronicles by Sage Birchwater Pdf

A collection of historical stories about the early indigenous people, settlers, trappers, and adventurers of BC's Cariboo Chilcotin.A compilation of stories that meld both culture and bloodlines, CHILCOTIN CHRONICLES by Sage Birchwater is set in the wild and untamed country of central British Columbia's Chilcotin Plateau. West of the Fraser River, this high country is contained by an arc of impenetrable mountain ranges that separates it from the Pacific Coast. The first inhabitants of this region were fiercely independent, molded by the land itself. Those who came later were drawn to this landscape with its mysterious aura of freedom, where time stood still and where a person could find solace in the wilderness and never be found.Birchwater reaches back to first European contact in British Columbia when the indigenous population spoke forty of Canada's fifty-four languages and seventy of Canada's one hundred dialects. The land known today as the Cariboo Chilcotin Coast was already an entity when Alexander Mackenzie arrived in 1793. Bonds of friendship, mutual support and family ties had long been established between the Dakelh, Tsilhqot'in and Nuxalk, giving cohesiveness to the region.CHILCOTIN CHRONICLES is about the men and women caught in the interface of cultures and the changing landscape. Indigenous inhabitants and white newcomers brought together by the fur brigades, then later by the gold rush, forged a path together, uncharted and unpredictable. Birchwater discovers that their stories, seemingly disconnected, are intrinsically linked together to create a human eco-system with very deep roots. The lives of these early inhabitants give substance to the landscape. They give meaning to the people who live there today.

Author : Caroline Woodward
Publisher : Harbour Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781550177282

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Light Years by Caroline Woodward Pdf

In 2007, Caroline Woodward was itching for a change. With an established career in book-selling and promotion, four books of her own and having raised a son with her husband, Jeff, she yearned for adventure and to re-ignite her passion for writing. Jeff was tired of piecing together low-paying part-time jobs and, with Caroline’s encouragement, applied for a position as a relief lightkeeper on a remote North Pacific island. They endured lonely months of living apart, but the way of life rejuvenated Jeff and inspired Caroline to contemplate serious shifts in order to accompany him. When a permanent position for a lighthouse keeper became available, Caroline quit her job and joined Jeff on the lights. Caroline soon learned that the lighthouse-keeping life does not consist of long, empty hours in which to write. The reality is hard physical labour, long stretches of isolation and the constant threat of de-staffing. Beginning with a 3:30 a.m. weather report, the days are filled with maintaining the light station buildings, sea sampling, radio communication, beach cleanup, wildlife encounters and everything in between. As for dangerous rescue missions or dramatic shipwrecks—that kind of excitement is rare. “So far the only life I know I’ve saved is my own,” she says, with her trademark dry wit. Yet Caroline is exhilarated by the scenic coastline with its drizzle and fog, seabirds and whales, and finds time to grow a garden and, as anticipated, write. Told with eloquent introspection and an eye for detail, Light Years is the personal account of a lighthouse keeper in twenty-first century British Columbia—an account that details Caroline’s endurance of extreme climatic, interpersonal and medical challenges, as well as the practical and psychological aspects of living a happy, healthy, useful and creative life in isolation.

Author : Ralph Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Gold miners
ISBN : 1550390465

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Pioneer Goldseekers of the Omineca by Ralph Hall Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Dejeans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:$B300131

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The Double House by Elizabeth Dejeans Pdf

Author : Susan McLeod O'Reilly,Canadian Museum of Civilization,National Postal Museum (Canada),Canada Post Corporation
Publisher : Hull, Quebec : Canadian Museum of Civilization
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015033104772

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On Track by Susan McLeod O'Reilly,Canadian Museum of Civilization,National Postal Museum (Canada),Canada Post Corporation Pdf

Since the melting of the great ice sheets 12,000 years ago, there have been dramatic changes in climate, landforms, and plant, animal, and human communities in North America. Scientist perceive that midway between the ice age and the present day there was a warm, dry climatic episode in areas such as south-central Saskatchewan. the Gowen sites, formerly located where SaskatoonOs municipal dump now lies, held an important part of the story. Through the study of these sites, as well as by comparisons with 113 other archaeological sites scattered throughout the Plains area, the author seeks to illuminate a poorly understood period in the prehistory of the Northern Plains. Improved understanding of past episodes of climatic warming may even prove useful to researchers considering the implications of climatic warming in our own time.

Author : Barry M. Gough
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : 0774801751

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Gunboat Frontier by Barry M. Gough Pdf

Gunboat Frontier presents a different interpretation ofIndian-white relations in nineteenth-century British Columbia, focusingon the interaction of West Coast Indians with British law andauthority. This authority was exercised by officers, seamen, marines,and ships of the Royal Navy on behalf of the colonial governments ofVancouver Island and British Columbia and, after 1871, of Canada.

Author : Linda Riley
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781772822731

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Marius Barbeau's photographic collection by Linda Riley Pdf

This catalogue features photographs of the Nass River and the Nishga people taken between 1900 and 1950. Most of the collection represents the ethnographic fieldwork done by Marius Barbeau between 1927 and 1929.