Download or read book Vanishing British Columbia written by Michael Kluckner and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The old buildings and historic places of British Columbia form a kind of "roadside memory," a tangible link with stories of settlement, change, and abandonment that reflect the great themes of BC's history. Michael Kluckner began painting his personal map of the province in a watercolour sketchbook. In 1999, after he put a few of the sketches on his website, a network of correspondents emerged that eventually led him to the family letters, photo albums, and memories from a disappearing era of the province. Vanishing British Columbia is a record of these places and the stories they tell, presenting a compelling argument for stewardship of regional history in the face of urbanization and globalization.
Download or read book It Happened in British Columbia B C s First 100 Years written by British Columbia. Centennial '71 Committee and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book It Happened in British Columbia written by British Columbia Centennial '71 Committee and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book It Happened in British Columbia written by British Columbia Centennial '71 Committee and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book It Happened in British Columbia written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Highway of Tears written by Jessica McDiarmid and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the vein of the bestsellers I’ll Be Gone in the Dark and The Line Becomes a River, a penetrating, deeply moving account of the missing and murdered indigenous women and girls of Highway 16, and a searing indictment of the society that failed them. For decades, Indigenous women and girls have gone missing or been found murdered along an isolated stretch of highway in northwestern British Columbia. The corridor is known as the Highway of Tears, and it has come to symbolize a national crisis. Journalist Jessica McDiarmid meticulously investigates the devastating effect these tragedies have had on the families of the victims and their communities, and how systemic racism and indifference have created a climate in which Indigenous women and girls are overpoliced yet underprotected. McDiarmid interviews those closest to the victims—mothers and fathers, siblings and friends—and provides an intimate firsthand account of their loss and unflagging fight for justice. Examining the historically fraught social and cultural tensions between settlers and Indigenous peoples in the region, McDiarmid links these cases to others across Canada—now estimated to number up to four thousand—contextualizing them within a broader examination of the undervaluing of Indigenous lives in the country. Highway of Tears is a piercing exploration of our ongoing failure to provide justice for the victims and a testament to their families’ and communities’ unwavering determination to find it.
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Download or read book The Cariboo Trail written by Agnes C. Laut and published by TouchWood Editions. This book was released on 2013 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agnes C. Laut's The Cariboo Trail is a fascinating history of the Canadian gold rush that began in 1858. When, in early 1849, a group of ragged miners arrived in the sleepy town of Victoria from California, no one would have believed that a little over ten years later a gold rush would hit the Fraser River. Between 1859 and 1871, thousands of miners and prospectors travelled north and east from the headwaters of the Fraser River, with the hopes of striking it rich. And many did--over the course of twelve years, twenty-five million dollars in gold came from the Cariboo country. Originally published in 1920 as part of the Chronicles of Canada series, Laut's exciting and personalized account of the Cariboo gold rush is filled with tidbits gleaned through conversations with "old-timers" still living on the trail and facts acquired on trips in the Rockies guided by prospectors. From the story of the construction of the famous Cariboo road--"one of the wonders of the world"--and the Overlanders' journey across the width of the continent to details about the techniques and machinery used in the mines and life in the camps, the period, the gold rush, and the Cariboo region are brought to life for the reader. Though it had ended by federation with the Canadian Dominion, the "inrush of miners" during the Cariboo gold rush gave birth to the colony of British Columbia. The Cariboo Trail is a more than just a narrative of those events--it is a thoroughly enjoyable and integral part of the history of the region and of Canada.
Download or read book Lost in the Canadian Wilderness written by Vern Seefeldt and published by . This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of the Northern Interior of British Columbia written by Adrien Gabriel Morice and published by Toronto, William Briggs. This book was released on 1905 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of British Columbia written by Ethelbert Olaf Stuart Scholefield and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 5 Twisted Years written by Adrian Raeside and published by . This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Geography of British Columbia Fourth Edition written by Brett McGillivray and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the beginning of time, physical and human processes have altered British Columbia’s landscape. Geographers seek to understand these processes, and this text provides students with the basic tools and techniques of their craft. Completely revised and expanded for the 2020s, the four edition of Geography of British Columbia contains extensive urban content to reflect BC's transition from a resource-dependent economy to a more service-oriented one presents ideas and concepts in a clear and concise way includes a comprehensive glossary of key terms has more than 125 informative maps, diagrams, graphs, tables, and photos includes suggested readings and discussion questions for each chapter. In an era of climate change, it is more important than ever to understand the complex interaction between human influence on the landscape and the earth’s ever-changing physical processes. This book provides students with the tools, techniques, and knowledge they’ll need.
Download or read book Mysterious British Columbia written by Valerie Green and published by Quagmire Press. This book was released on 2012-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crimes never solved, eerie sightings never explained and paranormal events that stretch the limits of the mind--these mysteries continue to baffle British Columbians to this day: * Ogopogo has its roots in Native mythology, and numerous sightings dating back to the 1870s have only fuelled the legend. Could a monster really dwell in Okanagan Lake? * Lindsay Buziak, a young real estate agent from Victoria, was brutally murdered in 2008 after being lured to a home by two people posing as potential clients. Will her killers ever be brought to justice? * In 1991, four-year-old Michael Dunahee was playing only metres away from his parents when he vanished without a trace in Victoria. Even with new leads, will we ever know what happened to him? * Camels in BC? The stuff of legends, especially to Tanas Johnny, who thought he had seen the devil and died of fright. * Dozens of unexplained sightings in recent years have occurred in the Houston-Smithers-Terrace region, creating a BC UFO Triangle. Why is the area the UFO capital of Canada? * Charismatic Doukhobor leader Peter Verigin was killed in a massive train explosion between Castlegar and Grand Forks in 1924. Was his death a tragic accident or a sinister murder plot?
Download or read book The Colonial Present written by Kerry Coast and published by Clarity Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No treaties were made with indigenous nations residing in those territories where now there is a Canadian province called British Columbia. Instead a breathtaking policy of criminalization, assimilation and extinguishment of sovereignty and land rights has been carried out against them. Present day governments continue this approach, now 150 years old, in processes which have recently been re-named and cosmetically improved but remain unconstitutional and are prohibited by the 1948 Genocide Convention. Why do the people of BC seek the dissolution of some thirty distinct indigenous nations? Why do they cry, "One law for all Canadians," in answer to indigenous efforts to exercise their right of self-determination? BC's economy relies on resource extraction from lands and waters that have never been ceded, sold or surrendered to them by their indigenous owners. WhatÆs more: recognition of this fact has given rise to what is called "the uncertainty principle" currently impeding foreign investment, as judicious investors fear doing business with governments and others whose claims to ownership may be proved illegitimate. The indigenous nations have suffered excruciating losses. The ongoing colonization of British Columbia relies on the settler population's indifference to the indigenous peoples' plights and rights. The Colonial Present documents how the interests of resource industries have dominated accounts of indigenous peoples throughout the mainstream media, the academic presses and the courts. This has substantially corrupted and impoverished the non-native understanding of indigenous peoples on whose homelands they live and work, and to which they seem to feel entitled. This book is an exploration of how such a stunning string of events has happened, and British Columbians' continuing attempts to rationalize them. Book jacket.
Download or read book British Columbia written by Margaret Anchoretta Ormsby and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
