A Pioneer Gentlewoman in British Columbia
Author: Margaret A. Ormsby
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 144
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A Pioneer Gentlewoman in British Columbia
Author: Margaret A. Ormsby
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2011-11-01
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 0774843535
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1860, at the age of fourteen, Susan Louisa Moir left England for British Columbia. After settling initially at Hope, she lived briefly in both Victoria and New Westminster, then B.C.'s two most important settlements. Returning to Hope, she helped her mother open the community's first school, and in 1868 she married John Fall Allison, riding on her honeymoon over the Allison Trail into the unsettled Similkameen Valley. Her record of the voyage, of Victoria, New Westminster, and Hope as they were in the 1860s, and her memories of the isolated but fulfilling life she, her husband, and their fourteen children led in the Similkameen and Okanagan Valleys provide a unique view of the pioneer mind and spirit.
A PIONEER GENTLEWOMAN IN BRITISH COLUMBIA. EDITED BY MARGARET ORMSB.
Author: Susan Allison
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 210
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Vancouver Island Letters of Edmund Hope Verney
Author: Allan Pritchard
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2011-11-01
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 0774842571
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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 Navy gunboat during the Cariboo gold rush. A keen observer of life in the new world, Edmund Hope Verney corresponded on a regular basis with his father, a prominent British MP. In his letters, which are filled with lively narration and description, candid commentary, and fascinating personal detail, he talks about having 'the opportunity to observe a colony in [its first] stage of existence' and to 'watch the development of a community.'
Canadian History: Confederation to the present
Author: Martin Brook Taylor
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1994-01-01
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780802076762
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In these two volumes, which replace the Reader's Guide to Canadian History, experts provide a select and critical guide to historical writing about pre- and post-Confederation Canada, with an emphasis on the most recent scholarship" -- Cover.
On the Cusp of Contact
Author: Jean Barman
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Published: 2020-03-28
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 1550178970
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“The ways in which we can redress the past are many and varied,” writes Jean Barman, “and it is up to each of us to act as best we can.” The seventeen essays collected here, originally published between 1996 and 2013, make a valuable contribution toward this laudable goal. With a wide range of source material, from archival and documentary sources to oral histories, Barman pieces together stories of individuals and groups disadvantaged in white settler society because of their gender, race and/or social class. Working to recognize past actors that have been underrepresented in mainstream histories, Barman’s focus is BC on “the cusp of contact.” The essays in this collection include fascinating, though largely forgotten, life stories of the frontier—that space between contact and settlement, where, for a brief moment, anything seemed possible. This volume, featuring over thirty archival photographs and illustrations, makes these important and very readable essays accessible to a broader audience for the first time.
British Columbia by the Road
Author: Ben Bradley
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2017-06-07
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 0774834218
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn British Columbia by the Road, Ben Bradley takes readers on an unprecedented journey through the history of roads, highways, and motoring in British Columbia’s Interior, a remote landscape composed of plateaus and interlocking valleys, soaring mountains and treacherous passes. Challenging the idea that the automobile offered travellers the freedom of the road and a view of unadulterated nature, Bradley shows that an array of interested parties – boosters, businessmen, conservationists, and public servants – manipulated what drivers and passengers could and should view from the road. When it came to roads and highways, planners and builders had two concerns: grading or paving a way through “the wilderness” and opening pathways to new parks and historic sites. They understood that the development of a modern road network would lead to new ways of perceiving BC and its environment. Although cars and roads promised freedom, they offered drivers a curated view of the landscape that shaped the province’s image in the eyes of residents and visitors alike.
Place and Practice in Canadian Nursing History
Author: Jayne Elliott
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2009-05-01
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 0774858664
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe close association between nurses and hospitals obscures the diversity and complexity of nursing work in other contexts. This collection looks at nurses and nursing in a wide range of settings from the mid-1800s to the 1970s, including indigenous women on the Canadian prairies; First World War nurses posted overseas; outpost nurses in rural and remote areas of Saskatchewan, Ontario, and Quebec; public health nurses in Winnipeg; and religious congregations in nursing education in New Brunswick. The contributors use feminist and historical perspectives to illustrate how place, understood as both social context and geographic setting, shaped nursing identities and practices. Many nurses found place both liberating and constraining � often simultaneously. Paying attention to place also situates these nurses and their work within larger historical themes of nation-building, war, and political change.
Alex Lord's British Columbia
Author: John Calam
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2011-11-01
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 0774842938
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlex Lord, a pioneer inspector of rural British Columbia schools, shares in these recollections his experiences in a province barely out of the stage coach era. Travelling through vast northern territory, utilizing unreliable transportation and enduring climatic extremes, Lord became familiar with the aspirations of remote communities and their faith in the humanizing effects of tiny assisted schools. En route, he performed in resolute yet imaginative fashion the supervisory functions of a top government educator developing an educational philosophy of his own based on an understanding of the provincial geography, a reverence for citizenship, and a work ethic tuned to challenge and accomplishment. These memoirs invite the reader to experience the British Columbia that Alex Lord knew. Through his words, we endure the difficulties of travel in this mountainous province. We meet many of the unusual characters who inhabited this last frontier and learn of their hopes, fears, joys, sorrows, and eccentricities. More particularly, we are reminded of the historical significance of the one-room rural school and its role as an indispensable instrument of community cohesion. John Calam organizes the memoirs according to the regions through which Lord travelled. Included in the introduction are a biography of Alex Lord, a brief description of the British Columbia he knew, a sketch of the province's public education system and an assessment of the place Lord's writing now occupies among other works on education and society.
Sojourning Sisters
Author: Jean Barman
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780802048776
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on family correspondence, Jean Barman offers a new interpretation of early settlement across Canada in the stories of two young sisters from Pictou County, Nova Scotia, who took the train west to British Columbia in 1886.
