Skookum Chuck Fables
Skookum Chuck Fables

Author: R. D. Cumming

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-11-22

Total Pages: 105

ISBN-13:

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"Skookum Chuck Fables" is a collection of, mainly humorous, sketches of both fictional and non-fictional nature. The earlier sketches are fables of life in the British Columbian province of Canada. The stories range in theme from Native American culture in Canada, the Canadian Gold rush and romance. The later sketches are based on actual historical events. Some of the titles include: 'Of the Rolling Stone', 'Of Cultus Johnny', 'Of the Chief who was Bigger than He Looked', 'Of the High Class Eskimo' and 'Of Joan of Arc'.

British Columbia by the Road
British Columbia by the Road

Author: Ben Bradley

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2017-06-07

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 0774834218

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In 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.

A Voice Great Within Us
A Voice Great Within Us

Author: Charles Lillard

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13:

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Skookum, cultus, hyack, saltchuck, klahowya, tillicum: It is in words like these that the last vestiges of a lost British Columbian language remain. It was known as Chinook. Its use today is mainly confined to colloquialisms, and place names like Boston Bar, Canim Lake, Illahee Mountain, Snass Creek, and Skookumchuck. It began as a trading jargon, but it soon evolved into a distinct West Coast tongue. Down through the years, as many as a quarter of a million people relied on it. Chinook was an everyday necessity.A Voice Great Within Us consists of an introductory essay by Glavin exploring the development and spread of Chinook throughout the West Coast, and the place it continues to have in our history; the Chinook poem, Rain Language; Lillard's own essay on the part that Chinook played in his own life and exploration of British Columbia. In addition, A Voice Great Within Us includes a lexicon containing hundreds of Chinook words and expressions and a map and gazetteer of British Columbia, showing eighty Chinook place names in this province.A Voice Great Within Us is Number 7 in the Transmontanus series of books edited by Terry Glavin.

Skookum Chuck Fables
Skookum Chuck Fables

Author: R D Cumming

Publisher:

Published: 2024-04-09

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789357956925

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Skookum Chuck Fables: Bits of History, Through the Microscope, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.