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Britannia’s Navy, On the West Coast of North America 1812 – 1914
This handsome volume, published in hardback with a blue and white dust-cover (featuring E. P. Bedwell’s 1862 painting of the steam-sloop HMS Plumper on the front and a photograph of HMCS Rainbow in Esquimalt, January...
BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 139-140
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Vancouver Island’s Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway: The Canadian Pacific, VIA Rail and Shortline Years, 1949-2013
Brimming with stunning photos of trains in the Vancouver Island landscape, Vancouver Island’s Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway: The Canadian Pacific, VIA Rail and Shortline Years, 1949-2013 is a detailed account of both the railway’s day-to-day...
BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 161-62
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Yorke Island and the Uncertain War: Defending Canada’s Western Coast during WWII
The Second World War is fading from living memory, and military veterans of that conflict are now rare. Their average age is 87. Given this situation, the author and Danny Brown, a Campbell River Museum...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 233-234
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The Canadian Pacific’s Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway: The CPR steam years, 1905-1949
While the roundhouses are now mostly silent and only the occasional freight train makes its way up and down the island, the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway (E&N) occupies a prominent place in Vancouver Island’s history....
BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 130-32
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Gateway to Promise: Canada’s First Japanese Community
The authors, Ann-Lee Switzer and Gordon Switzer are both historians and writers with an interest in the Japanese Canadian experience. Gateway to Promise: Canada’s First Japanese Community is a rich history of the Japanese...
BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 180-182
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The Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway: The Dunsmuir Years: 1884-1905
Originally, Robert Dunsmuir, the founder of the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway (E&N), had intended the southern terminus to be Esquimalt and the northern terminus to be Nanaimo, as the name suggests, but before he had...
BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 178-179
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Craigflower Country: A History of View Royal, 1850-1950
Craigflower country was the area of greater Victoria between the waters of the Gorge waterway and Esquimalt harbour. Today it is within the town of View Royal, to the northwest of the city. Craigflower was...
BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 177-178
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Rumble Seat, A Victorian Childhood Remembered
Helen Piddington’s Rumble Seat, A Victorian Childhood Remembered is a collection of 117 brief reminiscences of the author’s childhood on southern Vancouver Island during the Depression and World War Two. Born in 1931, Piddington was...
BC Studies no. 173 Spring 2012 | Page(s) 152-53
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Victoria: Crown Jewel of British Columbia, Including Esquimalt, Oak Bay, Saanich and the Peninsula
This book claims to be a “multi-faceted photo-essay” which combines historical detail with compelling narrative to provide the visitor with new insights into the many wonders of Victoria and its environs. As an extra bonus,...
BC Studies no. 173 Spring 2012 | Page(s) 150-51
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The Private Journal of Captain G. H. Richards: The Vancouver Island Survey (1860-1862)
Captain (later Admiral Sir) George Henry Richards, Royal Navy, is one of the great personages of that unique era in modern history known as Pax Britannica – a period when “Britain Ruled the Waves,” and sometimes, as...
BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 119-23
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Chinese Community Leadership: Case Study of Victoria in Canada
I am particularly interested in this volume, having been born in Vancouver’s Chinatown in 1938 and having a father who was treasurer of a district association. He was a shirt tailor, and I remember in...
BC Studies no. 169 Spring 2011 | Page(s) 158-161
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Resurrecting Dr. Moss: The Life and Letters of a Royal Navy Surgeon, Edward Lawton Moss MD, RN, 1843-1880
Biographies of historical figures of the second rank often supply the foundational material and needed contextual support upon which larger studies are based. That certainly promises to be the case with this highly engaging and...
BC Studies no. 170 Summer 2011 | Page(s) 183-185
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Songhees Pictorial: A History of the Songhees People as Seen by Outsiders, 1790-1912
This is a wonderful addition to the history of Aboriginal peoples in British Columbia and Canada. It is unusual because it takes images as the starting point and valuable because the people upon whom it...
BC Studies no. 146 Summer 2005 | Page(s) 108-10
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McGowan’s War: The Birth of Modern British Columbia on the Fraser River Gold Fields
IN 1858 TENS OF thousands of non-Native goldseekers rushed to the Fraser River in search of gold, a substantial number of them being American citizens who paid little heed to British sovereignty in the region....
BC Studies no. 144 Winter 2004-2005 | Page(s) 144-5
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Train Master: The Railway Art of Max Jacquiard
Train Master: The Railway Art of Max Jacquiard, the new book by the noted transportation historian Barry Sanford, looks at British Columbian railways from 1925 to 1955, as depicted in ninety-nine paintings by Jacquiard. The...