The Routes and Mineral Resources of North Western Canada...
The Routes and Mineral Resources of North Western Canada...

Author: E. Jerome Dyer

Publisher: Hardpress Publishing

Published: 2013-12

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9781314907636

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The Routes and Mineral Resources of North Western Canada (Classic Reprint)
The Routes and Mineral Resources of North Western Canada (Classic Reprint)

Author: E. Jerome Dyer

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-12

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9780265201596

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Excerpt from The Routes and Mineral Resources of North Western Canada In my capacity as Honorary Secretary of the Incorporated London Chamber of Mines (with which is affiliated the Canadian Chamber), I have had continuous occasion to remark the need of an abridged hand-book upon the mineral resources of north-western Canada. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Imperial Vancouver Island
Imperial Vancouver Island

Author: J. F. Bosher

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2010-04

Total Pages: 839

ISBN-13: 1450059627

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"During the century 1850-1950 Vancouver Island attracted Imperial officers and other Imperials from India, the British Isles, and elsewhere in the Empire. Victoria was the main British port on the north-west Pacific Coast for forty years before the city of Vancouver was founded in 1886 to be the coastal terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway. These two coastal cities were historically and geographically different. The Island joined Canada in 1871 and thirty-five years later the Royal Navy withdrew from Esquimalt, but Island communities did not lose their Imperial character until the 1950s."--P. [4] of cover.

Klondike
Klondike

Author: Pierre Berton

Publisher: Anchor Canada

Published: 2011-02-11

Total Pages: 498

ISBN-13: 0385673647

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With the building of the railroad and the settlement of the plains, the North West was opening up. The Klondike stampede was a wild interlude in the epic story of western development, and here are its dramatic tales of hardship, heroism, and villainy. We meet Soapy Smith, dictator of Skagway; Swiftwater Bill Gates, who bathed in champagne; Silent Sam Bonnifield, who lost and won back a hotel in a poker game; and Roddy Connors, who danced away a fortune at a dollar a dance. We meet dance-hall queens, paupers turned millionaires, missionaries and entrepreneurs, and legendary Mounties such as Sam Steele, the Lion of the Yukon. Pierre Berton's riveting account reveals to us the spectacle of the Chilkoot Pass, and the terrors of lesser-known trails through the swamps of British Columbia, across the glaciers of souther Alaska, and up the icy streams of the Mackenzie Mountains. It contrasts the lawless frontier life on the American side of the border to the relative safety of Dawson City. Winner of the Governor General's award for non-fiction, Klondike is authentic history and grand entertainment, and a must-read for anyone interested in the Canadian frontier.