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Hobnobbing with a Countess and Other Okanagan Adventures
In 1891, Alice Barrett moved from Port Dover, Ontario, to the Okanagan Valley to keep house for her brother and uncle. She soon married Harold Parke, a former NWMP officer, and …
This Blessed Wilderness
The twenty-five years between 1821 and 1846 were turbulent but important years in the history of the fur trade in the Pacific Northwest: 1821 saw the merger of the Hudson’s Bay …
Fort Langley Journals, 1827-30
These journals comprise one of the principal sources of information on early European settlement in BC and provide a remarkable and unique record of the establishment of Fort …
They Call Me Father
In 1857, the French Roman Catholic religious order, the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, began permanent missionary work among the Native peoples of British Columbia. The …
Overland from Canada to British Columbia
Spurred on by reports of gold in the Cariboo, adventurers from all over the world descended on British Columbia in the mid-1800s. Among them were ambitious easterners who accepted …
The Vancouver Island Letters of Edmund Hope Verney
This previously unknown collection of letters lets us experiencecolonial British Columbia through the eyes of a young British navalofficer who spent three years on Vancouver Island …
Robert Brown and the Vancouver Island Exploring Expedition
Robert Brown, a twenty-one-year-old Scotsman, arrived on Vancouver Island in 1863 for the purpose of collecting seeds, roots, and plants for the Botanical Association of Edinburgh. …
A Pioneer Gentlewoman in British Columbia
“My husband, alarmed, left me and ran to the Indian ranch returning with one of Quinisco’s sisters ... She smoothed up my bed and suggested “whiskey” which I swallowed. I think I …
Alex Lord's British Columbia
Alex Lord, a pioneer inspector of rural British Columbia schools,shares in these recollections his experiences in a province barely outof the stage coach era. Travelling through …