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Author : Art Downs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : British Columbia
ISBN : OCLC:671874959
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:174769530
Author : Art Downs
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1979-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0969054688
Pioneer Days is a blend of words and photos that proves British Columbia's history is as interesting as that recorded anywhere else in North America. Every article is true, many written or narrated by those who, 100 or more years ago, lived the experiences they relate. Each volume contains 160 pages, plus some 60,000 words of text and over 200 historical photos, many published for the first time.
Author : Art Downs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : British Columbia
ISBN : LCCN:77367414
Author : Alexander Russell Lord
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780774803816
Alex Lord, a pioneer inspector of rural BC schools shares in these recollections his experiences in a province barely out of the stage coach era. Travelling through vast northern territory, utilizing unreliable transportation, and enduring climatic extremes, Lord became familiar with the aspirations of remote communities and their faith in the humanizing effects of tiny assisted schools. En route, he performed in resolute yet imaginative fashion the supervisory functions of a top government educator, developing an educational philosophy of his own based on an understanding of the provincial geography, a reverence for citizenship, and a work ethic tuned to challenge and accomplishment. Although not completed, these memoires invite the reader to experience the British Columbia that Alex Lord knew. Through his words, we endure the difficulties of travel in this mountainous province. We meet many of the unusual characters who inhabited this last frontier and learn of their hopes, fears, joys, sorrows, and eccentricities. More particularly, we are reminded of the historical significance of the one-room rural school and its role as an indispensable instrument of community cohesion. John Calam has organized the memoirs according to the regions through which Lord travelled. He has included in his introduction a biography of Alex Lord, a brief description of the British Columbia he knew, a sketch of its public education system, and an assessment of the place Lord’s writing now occupies among other works on education and society.
Author : Arthur Shelford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1971*
Category : British Columbia, Northern
ISBN : OCLC:28327478
Author : Jarrett Thomas Teague
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0968445357
Author : Kilian Crawford
Publisher : Harbour Publishing
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781550179491
Living in pre-Civil War Philadelphia, young Black activist Mifflin Gibbs was feeling disheartened from fighting the overwhelming tide of White America’s legalized racism when abolitionist Julia Griffith encouraged him to “go do some great thing.” These words helped inspire him to become a successful merchant in San Francisco, and then to seek a more just society in the new colony of Vancouver Island, where he was to become a prominent citizen and elected official. Gibbs joined a movement of Black American emigrants fleeing the increasingly oppressive and anti-Black Californian legal system in 1858. They hoped to establish themselves in a new country where they would have full access to the rights of citizenship and would be free to seek success and stability. Some six hundred Black Californians made the trip to Victoria in the midst of the Fraser River Gold Rush, but their hopes of finding a welcoming new home were ultimately disappointed. They were to encounter social segregation, disenfranchisement, limited employment opportunities and rampant discrimination. But in spite of the opposition and racism they faced, these pioneers played a pivotal role in the emerging province, establishing an all-Black militia unit to protect against American invasion, casting deciding votes in the 1860 election and helping to build the province as teachers, miners, artisans, entrepreneurs and merchants. Crawford Kilian brings this vibrant period of British Columbia’s history to life, evoking the chaos and opportunity of Victoria’s gold rush boom and describing the fascinating lives of prominent Black pioneers and trailblazers, from Sylvia Stark and Saltspring Island’s notable Stark family to lifeguard and special constable Joe Fortes, who taught a generation of Vancouverites to swim. Since its original publication in 1978, Go Do Some Great Thing has remained foundational reading on the history of Black pioneers in BC. Updated and with a new foreword by Adam Rudder, the third edition of this under-told story describes the hardships and triumphs of BC’s first Black citizens and their legacy in the province today. Partial proceeds from each copy sold will be donated to the Hogan's Alley Society.
Author : Thomas William Paterson
Publisher : Langley, B.C. : Stagecoach Publishing Company
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : British Columbia
ISBN : 0889830150
Author : Susan Allison
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0774803924
In 1860, at the age of fourteen, Susan Louisa Moir left England for British Columbia. After settling initially at Hope, she lived briefly in both Victoria and New Westminster, then B.C.'s two most important settlements. Returning to Hope, she helped her mother open the community's first school, and in 1868 she married John Fall Allison, riding on her honeymoon over the Allison Trail into the unsettled Similkameen Valley. Her record of the voyage, of Victoria, New Westminster, and Hope as they were in the 1860s, and her memories of the isolated but fulfilling life she, her husband, and their fourteen children led in the Similkameen and Okanagan Valleys provide a unique view of the pioneer mind and spirit.
Author : The Royal British Columbia Museum,Imbert Orchard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 077267745X
Author : Irene Stangoe
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1895811996
This is Irene Stangoe's third collection of historical stories and great yarns about the people and events that shaped the Cariboo-Chilcotin. Read about: Farwell Canyon's pioneer families and ranches; Chief Anahim, who left the misty Bella Coola Valley for the high Chilcotin country many moons ago; the Lord of 100 Mile House, who moved from a grand mansion in England to a bug-infested stopping house in the Cariboo; the Hub of the Cariboo, tracing 140 years of Williams Lake history, from tiny settlement to modern city; the Great Bank Robbery, and a bank manager's nightmare ride with a gunman wanted for murder; Homer, the basset hound who played the part of a French poodle in a 1920s musical; and other events that could happen only in the Cariboo.
Author : Derek Pethick
Publisher : Langley, B.C. : Sunfire Publications
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Vancouver (B.C.)
ISBN : UCBK:B000125134
Author : Frederic William Howay
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0365562297
David Mattison presents a collection of Web sites relating to the history of British Columbia, a Canadian province. The collection includes information about university history departments, archives, libraries, museums, associations, broadcast media, chronologies, conferences, databases, and exhibitions.
Author : Garnet Basque
Publisher : Langley, B.C. : Sunfire Publications
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : British Columbia
ISBN : 0919531350