The Pioneers of British Columbia
The Reminiscences of Doctor John Sebastian Helmcken
Born and brought up in Whitechapel, John Sebastian Helmcken worked his
way through apprenticeships as a chemist and a medical pupil before
gaining admission to Guy's Hospital to complete his training. ...
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 Langley. Although the journals ...
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 memoirs of Father Nicolas ...
The Vancouver Island Letters of Edmund Hope Verney
This previously unknown collection of letters lets us experience
colonial British Columbia through the eyes of a young British naval
officer who spent three years on Vancouver Island commanding a Royal ...
To the Charlottes
Haida-Gwaii (the Queen Charlotte Islands) were still relatively
untouched by European exploration when, in the summer of 1878, a young
geologist name George Dawson arrived there on behalf of the Geological ...
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. Relations with his ...
Letters from Windermere, 1912-1914
Written primarily by Daisy Phillips, with a few by her husband Jack, to
her family in England, these letters describe the creation of a
shortlived English home in the Windermere Valley of southwestern ...
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 challenge of the ...
God's Galloping Girl
What brought Monica Storrs to embark on a wilderness life in the depressed thirties amidst the hardships of B.C.'s Peace River country - the last North American frontier?
Monica Storrs was to stay in the ...
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 Company and the North ...