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.

Aviculture: A History

A comprehensive overview of the history of bird keeping across the world.
This book discusses the history of aviculture and the cultural extent of keeping and raising birds in captivity for pleasure, companion, ornamental reasons, religious causes or various economic or practical purposes. Since the dawn of mankind, humans have kept birds in captivity. Several species are truly domesticated, while others have simply been bred in captivity for many generations. Today bird-keeping for pleasure appears to be declining in the West, mostly due to bird protection and growing awareness about conservation issues. Although aviculture has had, and still has a deep impact on human beings, it remains a neglected field within humanities and social sciences. Relatively little is published about the cultural and historical aspects of aviculture. This anthology is intended for a general audience of readers and it shows various aspects of keeping birds in captivity for pleasure, ornamental reasons or practical purposes around the world.
It also deals with the great variety and complexity of the practice of keeping birds, and the specific cultures which have developed around it. The first chapter gives a brief introduction to the questions we focus on in the book, together with a historic overview from prehistory to early twenty-first century, including pet birds among natives in South America, Southeast Asia and Africa, sailors and their parrots, birds in religious rituals, primitive domesticates in various peasant societies, etc. The other chapters offer descriptive case studies in pre-modern and early modern ways of bird-keeping in various historical contexts. Modern aviculture in zoological gardens is discussed and specific bird categories within twentieth-century aviculture are described in some chapters. We encounter sophisticated bird-keeping in pre-Columbian societies, Norse trade with falcons, the European craze for songbirds, practices with captive birds used in human habitations to keep vermin under control, and how avicultural expertise is used for trying to save vanishing species by breeding them in captivity.
Together these topics illustrate the great variety and complexities of bird-keeping practice. The authors are specialists in aviculture and most of them hail from the countries about which they write. This book bridges the disciplines of cultural anthropology, ethnobiology, history, natural history and ornithology and is intended to benchmark the development of the subject for a broader audience, which until now has had few possibilities to become acquainted with it.

Aviculture: a history

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Svanberg, Ingvar

Möller, Daniel

Pets & Animal Care

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

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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

Aviculture: a history

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.