A whimsical look at the Klondike in the years 1897-1898. Prepared by James B. Stanton former curator of history Vancouver Centennial museum.

Ho for the Klondike: A Whimsical Look at the Years, 1897-1898

STANTON, JAMES B.

Hancock House

Edyth Hembroff-Schleicher was "Her Only Sketching Partner." Includes bibliography and index. Illustrated in black &amp; white. Illustrated in black &amp; white. Publisher's review copy with review information stamped on front end paper.

Emily Carr: The Untold Story

Arts & Photography

Hembroff-Schleicher, Edythe

History & Criticism

Dunmora: a story of a heritage manor house on Vancouver Island

Step back in time and listen to the walls talking as the writer describes a totally different world through almost ten decades in the life of Dunmora, a heritage manor house on the Saanich Peninsula of Vancouver Island. The reader will relish learning about the different owners and the many visitors that came to the house through the years. Numerous anecdotes of neighbours and faithful Chinese staff will be enjoyed as will the plethora of archival and modern photographs of this beautiful home and estate overlooking the Saanich Inlet. A fascinating, undiscovered gem of history makes for a good read. Dunmora tells an intriguing story of a heritage house on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, built in 1922 by the May family who enjoyed a simple, pastoral existence on the peninsula in the days when wealthy families hired faithful Chinese servants, gardeners and nannies. Spanning the years from the 1920s and 30s, through World War II, the turbulent 60s, 70s and 80s and into the Millennium, the book includes tales of the famous visitors who came to Dunmora such as the Lord Mayor of London during WWII; Flt.Lt. Alex Gardner-Medwin who used the house as a base for conducting bombing drills over the Saanich inlet; friend Cecil Meares (adventurer and dog handler for the Robert Falcon Scott Expedition to the South Pole); and Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and his wife Margaret and other Ministers who came for meetings held there during the 1970s when the house was owned by Donald Cormie of the Principal Group notoriety. Dunmora also hosted celebrities such as Jack Nicholson, David Foster, Gordie Howe, Elizabeth Manley, and Jimmy Patterson. Hollywood came to Dunmora and movies were shot there. The reader is taken on a journey of family ups and downs through six ownerships with much of Greater Victoria's history is also intertwined into the evolution of the house.

History

Green, Valerie

Americas

Step back in time and listen to the walls talking as the writer describes a totally different world through almost ten decades in the life of Dunmora, a heritage manor house on the Saanich Peninsula of Vancouver Island. The reader will relish learning about the different owners and the many visitors that came to the house through the years. Numerous anecdotes of neighbours and faithful Chinese staff will be enjoyed as will the plethora of archival and modern photographs of this beautiful home and estate overlooking the Saanich Inlet. A fascinating, undiscovered gem of history makes for a good read. Dunmora tells an intriguing story of a heritage house on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, built in 1922 by the May family who enjoyed a simple, pastoral existence on the peninsula in the days when wealthy families hired faithful Chinese servants, gardeners and nannies. Spanning the years from the 1920s and 30s, through World War II, the turbulent 60s, 70s and 80s and into the Millennium, the book includes tales of the famous visitors who came to Dunmora such as the Lord Mayor of London during WWII; Flt.Lt. Alex Gardner-Medwin who used the house as a base for conducting bombing drills over the Saanich inlet; friend Cecil Meares (adventurer and dog handler for the Robert Falcon Scott Expedition to the South Pole); and Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and his wife Margaret and other Ministers who came for meetings held there during the 1970s when the house was owned by Donald Cormie of the Principal Group notoriety. Dunmora also hosted celebrities such as Jack Nicholson, David Foster, Gordie Howe, Elizabeth Manley, and Jimmy Patterson. Hollywood came to Dunmora and movies were shot there. The reader is taken on a journey of family ups and downs through six ownerships with much of Greater Victoria?s history is also intertwined into the evolution of the house. That evolution through subsequent ownership has enabled the legacy of family love foreseen by the original owners to be maintained and carried into the future. Today, restored to its former glory, Dunmora is valued as ?the grandest early twentieth-century estate home in Central Saanich on Vancouver Island.? Its story is well worth telling.

This title presents a collection of traditional Eskimo recipes in a clear and informative way.

Eskimo Cookbook

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Alexandra

Regional & International

Steelhead: The Supreme Trophy Trout

Science & Math

Thornton, Barry

Biological Sciences

A colorful history of logging and its movement from the Atlantic to the Pacific Coast. Carol tells the story of those colorful, hardworking and hard playing men who left their mark on the lands.

Big Timber Big Men: A History of Loggers in a New Land

Lind, Carol

For everyone from backpackers to backyard harvesters, Wild Harvest is a field guide to wild edibles with their seasons and cooking suggestions.

Wild Harvest: Edible Plants of the Pacific Northwest

Domico, Terry

True stories of a young woman doctor working in Africa. A collection of true stories based on the field notes of a young woman physician working among isolated tribes in east Africa in the early 1960s. Each of the stories introduces the reader to a different aspect of the African scene yet all belong together, unfolding a vivid image of a people's struggle for survival and security in a threatening world, and a young doctor's efforts to help the. We see the author, fresh from medical school, starting out on her African adventure as an awkward, inexperienced newcomer. She takes us on her safaris through the bush to meet the sick and frightened villagers, mothers and children, witch doctors and missionaries. She makes house calls into remote areas of the jungle delivering babies, caring for victims of measles or meningitis and treating mentally disturbed as well as physically ill patients. As a trusted physician and as a woman the author was in a unique position to gain access to secret traditions connected with the intimate sphere of family life, procreation, sickness and death. Thus she came upon the hidden victims of epilepsy and organized a clinic and shelter for these outcasts. As an outcome of her work in Africa, Dr. Jilek-Aall--with her husband, Dr. Wolfgang Jilek--hopes to mobilize international interest for the realization of an epilepsy treatment project in Tanzania.

Call Mama Doctor: African Notes of a Young Woman Doctor.

Biographies & Memoirs

Jilek-Aall, Louise (MD)

Historical

A Field Guide to the Berries of the North West. Color photos &amp; b/w sketches throughout. Wild Berries contains a simple key and nearly 100 magnificent color photographs to guide you quickly to berry identification. Let us look together at the more commonly seen wild berries plants of the Pacific Northwest - roughly the area west of the Rocky Mountains from southern Alaska to the Columbia River of further. We won't cover every last kind, for some may be left out that few of us will ever see. This book is not for the serious botanist, but for the family or individual seeking simple and reliable information about the berries along our roads and trails.Because this is not for the expert, we shall take some other liberties. We'll use the word berry in the popular sense rather than in the more restricted sense applied by the botanist. Also, we shall lump together some closely related kinds of plants.

Northwestern Wild Berries: The Must Have Guide To

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

J. E. (Ted) Underhill

Gardening & Landscape Design

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Ho for the Klondike: A Whimsical Look at the Years, 1897-1898

Emily Carr: The Untold Story

Dunmora: a story of a heritage manor house on Vancouver Island

Dunmora: a story of a heritage manor house on Vancouver Island

Eskimo Cookbook

Steelhead: The Supreme Trophy Trout

Big Timber Big Men: A History of Loggers in a New Land

Wild Harvest: Edible Plants of the Pacific Northwest

Call Mama Doctor: African Notes of a Young Woman Doctor.

Northwestern Wild Berries: The Must Have Guide To