Service On The Skeena

Author : Geoff Mynett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Clergy
ISBN : 1553805763

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Service on the Skeena by Geoff Mynett Pdf

"Horace Wrinch and his wife Alice arrived in Hazelton on the Skeena River in northern British Columbia in 1990. There he built the first hospital in the northern interior, serving both Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities. For the next thirty-years, he became widely respected not only as a doctor and surgeon but also as a Methodist minister, farmer, magistrate, community leader and progressive politician. In 1907, he instituted a form of health insurance for the Hazelton community. In the 1920's, he was a two-term president of the newly established B.C. Hospital Association and a two-term Liberal member of the provincial legislature. Whine in the legislature, he championed publicly funded health insurance. When he died in 1939, the Vancouver Sun called him "the best known and most beloved man in Northern British Columbia." Drawn almost entirely from original and contemporaneous sources, this is the previously untold story of remarkable British Columbian."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Geoff Mynett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 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 : Geoff Mynett
Publisher : Caitlin Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,8 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 : Molly Peacock
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781773058399

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Flower Diary by Molly Peacock Pdf

“Graceful yet precise, poetic yet deeply rooted in research, this exploration of an overlooked painter is gorgeous — a joy to read. Molly Peacock’s insights and empathy with her subject bring to life both Mary Hiester Reid and her luscious flower paintings.” — Charlotte Gray, author of The Massey Murder Molly Peacock uncovers the history of neglected painter Mary Hiester Reid, a trailblazing artist who refused to choose between marriage and a career. Born into a patrician American family in the middle of the nineteenth century, Mary Hiester Reid was determined to be a painter and left behind women’s design schools to enter the art world of men. After she married fellow artist George Reid, she returned with him to his home country of Canada. There she set about creating over 300 stunning still life and landscape paintings, inhabiting a rich, if sometimes difficult, marriage, coping with a younger rival, exhibiting internationally, and becoming well-reviewed. She studied in Paris, traveled in Spain, and divided her time between Canada and the United States where she lived among America’s Arts and Crafts movement titans. She left slender written records; rather, her art became her diary and Flower Diary unfolds with an artwork for each episode of her life. In this sumptuous and precisely researched biography, celebrated poet and biographer Molly Peacock brings Mary Hiester Reid, foremother of painters such as Georgia O’Keefe, out of the shadows, revealing a fascinating, complex woman who insisted on her right to live as a married artist, not as a tragic heroine. Peacock uses her poet’s skill to create a structurally inventive portrait of this extraordinary woman whom modernism almost swept aside, weaving threads of her own marriage with Hiester Reid’s, following the history of empathy and examining how women manage the demands of creativity and domesticity, coping with relationships, stoves, and steamships, too. How do you make room for art when you must go to the market to buy a chicken for dinner? Hiester Reid had her answers, as Peacock gloriously discovers.

Author : Fred Thirkell,Bob Scullion
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1894974638

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Greetings from British Columbia by Fred Thirkell,Bob Scullion Pdf

Award-winning popular historians Fred Thirkell and Bob Scullion have assembled an all-new collection of postcard views capturing different communities around British Columbia as they appeared at the turn of the 20th century. Collectively defining the state of affairs in BC a century ago, each one of these images has a story to tell. Once a thriving cannery town, Port Essington is now long gone, abandoned and then destroyed by forest fires. They may have mined millions of dollars in gold at Stout's Gulch, but you'll have trouble finding it on any maps today. Even Kelowna's main street is unrecognizable. With each passing year, it becomes more difficult to find rare and unusual black-and-white printed postcards from this period. Many of the ones Thirkell and Scullion have included in "Greetings from British Columbia" are themselves rare, borrowed from the collection of a pre-eminent postcard dealer without whose cooperation this new collection would not have been possible.

Author : Wade Davis
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781771640237

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The Sacred Headwaters by Wade Davis Pdf

In The Sacred Headwaters, a collection of photographs by Carr Clifton and members of the International League of Conservation Photographers - including Claudio Contreras, Paul Colangelo, and Wade Davis - portray the splendour of the region. These photographs are supplemented by images from other professionals who have worked here, including Sarah Leen of the National Geographic.

Author : Allen Gottesfeld,Ken A. Rabnett
Publisher : Oregon State University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : CHI:088457833

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Skeena River Fish and Their Habitat by Allen Gottesfeld,Ken A. Rabnett Pdf

British Columbia¿s Skeena River is one of the great salmon rivers of the North Pacific. The river and its fish have supported indigenous peoples for thousands of years. More recently, the Skeena has earned world renown for its recreational fishery and magnificent wilderness setting. Yet, over the last century, fish populations have declined from overfishing, habitat alteration and, to an unknown degree, climate change. Development of mining as well as oil and gas resources may also pose threats to fish populations.This book presents the first thorough review of the salmon stocks and freshwater species of the Skeena River. Initial chapters summarize the river¿s environment, fish, and fisheries. The book then examines the physical geography, development history, indigenous use, and major salmon stocks of each of the watershed¿s sub-basins. This volume makes available for the first time¿to researchers, field biologists, fishermen and natural history enthusiasts¿both the published, and largely unpublished, literature on this productive salmon ecosystem.

Author : Chris Cheadle
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1894974581

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Canada's West Coast by Chris Cheadle Pdf

This book depicts the west coast of British Columbia in all its glory. The distinctive peeling bark on the trunk of an arbutus tree. Towering Sitka spruce trees. Migrating sandpipers in Clayoquot Sound. A grizzly bear feeding on pink salmon near Knight Inlet Lodge. Author/photographer Chris Cheadle walked the streams of the rainforests, kayaked to remote beaches, sailed the inlets, explored the islands and listened to the wisdom of First Nations elders to capture these striking images.

Author : Art Downs
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0919214630

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British Columbia-Yukon Sternwheel Days by Art Downs Pdf

Over 300 sternwheelers plied the BC-Yukon waters, a record in North America. In icy northern lakes, rivers and the open sea, these flat-bottomed steamers served for 100 years. Ripped open by rapids, gutted by fire, crushed by ice, they left a memorable wake that altered history forever. This book includes portraits of flamboyant captains and crews, details on how the vessels were constructed and operated, historical background of the communities they served and more.

Author : Bob,R. S. Hooton
Publisher : Frank Amato Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10
Category : Steelhead (Fish)
ISBN : 1571884742

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Skeena Steelhead by Bob,R. S. Hooton Pdf

Skeena Steelhead is a story of one of the world's premiere freshwater game fish. You won't find tales of heroic struggles with world-record summer steelhead. Instead you'll see the events that have conspired to imperil an internationally renowned treasure. The story begins with the Skeena steelhead biology and life history. First Nations fisheries are studied. Commercial fisheries that began 135 years ago are described in detail, showing their cumulative impact on homeward-bound Skeena steelhead. This tragic story could only be told by someone firmly entrenched in the river's fisheries management community. Before his retirement, Bob Hooton was in charge of steelhead management on the Skeena and continues to be an inspirational defender of the Skeena's steelhead. The situation is not hopeless, the Skeena's remarkable steelhead runs can be restored. In Skeena Steelhead Bob Hooton shows us how we can and, more importantly, why we must.

Author : Don MacGillivray
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780774858410

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Captain Alex MacLean by Don MacGillivray Pdf

Alex MacLean was the inspiration for the title character in Jack London's bestselling novel The Sea-Wolf. Originally from Cape Breton, MacLean sailed to the Pacific side of North America when he was twenty-one and worked there for thirty-five years as a sailor and sealer. His achievements and escapades while in the Victoria fleet in the 1880s laid the foundation for his status as a folk hero. But this biography reveals more than the construction of a legend. Don MacGillivray opens a window onto the sealing dispute brought the United States and Britain to the brink of war, with Canadian sealing interests frequently enmeshed in espionage, scientific debate, diplomatic negotiations, and vexing questions of maritime and environmental law.

Author : Geoff Mynett
Publisher : Caitlin Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1773860933

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River of Mists by Geoff Mynett Pdf

A collection of extraordinary stories about ordinary people from BC's wild frontier. In River of Mists, best-selling author and award-winning historian Geoff Mynett returns to the Skeena River community of Hazelton to shed new light on the wide spectrum of characters who left their mark on the area. Delving as far back in time as the early 1820s, Mynett covers over a century of change in the small community which, due to its location at the forks of the Skeena and Bulkley rivers and proximity to mountain ranges, seems destined to be a hub of activity--always industrious, often prosperous, and occasionally scandalous--while maintaining the charming nature of small town. Here are the stories of those whose lives left some mark on the community--visitors like Hudson's Bay Company trader Simon McGillivray and famed painter Emily Carr; and the lesser known pioneers, prospectors, and residents like HBC agent turned local business owner Thomas Hankin, and Bishop William Ridley and Jane Ridley, founders of the Hazelton Queek, named after the whistling mountain marmot. Combining folksy, small-town charm and meticulous research, Mynett's River of Mists: People of the Upper Skeena, 1821-1930 is a whimsical and informative chronicle of a century in the heart of Northern BC.

Author : Molly Absolon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781493027484

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Packrafting by Molly Absolon Pdf

Don’t Be Left Up a River… Without a PackraftPackrafts are lightweight, inflatable boats that can be carried in a backpack, on a bicycle or in a duffel bag. These compact, tough personal watercrafts are used to float rivers, run rapids, cross lakes, and even drop waterfalls, often as part of a broader wilderness expedition that includes backpacking. Packrafting is rapidly gaining in popularity, with increasingly varied options for gear, ranging by size, cost, and function. With the number of guided packrafting trips on the rise, this is the perfect book for the beginner interested in the up-and-coming sport.

Author : Meaghan Marie Hackinen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1988732638

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South Away by Meaghan Marie Hackinen Pdf

"South Away is an adventure story of the author's bicycle trip with her sister from Terrace, BC along the West coast to (almost) the tip of the Baja Peninsula. Meaghan Marie Hackinen experiences apprehension and determination as she camps in the dense forests of northern Vancouver Island and in frigid Mexican deserts; encounters strange men, suicidal highways and monster trucks; strong winds and violent storms; flat ties and broken spokes. Her couch-surfacing adventures provide an insight into the "kindness of strangers" en route. Accompanying the travel memoir is an inner journey, related through flashbacks and memories, as the author begins to better understand her relationship with her parents, grandmother, and sister. In attempting to balance risk with safety, she arrives at a minimalist philosophy of living, which requires "physical stamina and mental ingenuity." The style is engaging and personable; the images of landscape and seascape are imaginative and memorable. South Away is a rare roadtrip story--with a female lead and a female companion, a Canadian Hobbit tale of adventure and miraculous events."--

Author : Lilian Whiting
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783368916718

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Canada, the Spellbinder by Lilian Whiting Pdf