Seven Shillings a Year: The History of Vancouver Island

Lillard, Charles

History

Touchwood Ed

Continental Dash: The Russian-American Telegraph

In the 1860s, Americans, Russians and Canadians struggled with starvation, rugged terrain and sub-Arctic winters to connect the continents by telegraphthe world's largest building project at that time. The hundreds of miles of telegraph line built in Canada operated for 113 years. Continental Dash tells the remarkable story for the first time from the standpoint of the workers.

NEERING, Rosemary

Science & Math

Seafaring stories in the Horatio Hornblower tradition,Midshipman Kirk, is filled with the rollicking adventures of Midshipman Eric Kirk and the iron screw corvette HMSCalcutta. The Calcutta patrols the Pacific coast in the 1880s and confronts Fenian plots, pirate raids, as well as the hazards of genteel social life in Victoria.

Midshipman Kirk

Literature & Fiction

Westergaard, Ross

Genre Fiction

The stories in Far Pastures take readers to R.M. Patterson's homestead in the Peace River country of northern Alberta. To all-night dances that ended as the northern lights faded in the dawn. To escapades on the Fort Nelson, Liard and South Nahanni rivers. And to a ranch in southern Alberta where he raised cattle during the lean years of the 1930s and entertained dudes on mountaintops. In later years, Patterson helped build a wartime road through the Canadian Northwest to Alaska. And then there's the story of the bear that liked to canoe!

Far Pastures

Patterson, R.M.

Biographies & Memoirs

Reliving the adventures of past explorers. Trail to the Interior is R. M. Patterson's rich account of exploration and personal adventure in the Cassiar district of British Columbia. The trail is the historic track from Wrangell, Alaska, along the Stikine and Dease rivers and across the height of the land into the valleys of the Liard and the Mackenzie. Explorers and traders of the Hudson's Bay Company and the Russian American Company had ventured this river route, and Raymond Patterson followed in their footsteps.

Trail to the Interior

From The Buffalo Head Ranch In The Far Reaches Of The Canadian Rockies Comes This Glowing Account Of Exploration And Discovery.

The Buffalo Head

Patterson, Raymond M.

Adventures on wild waters
In Finlay's River, R. M. Patterson, whose style was described by noted author Bruce Hutchison as a a mixture between Thoreau and Jack London, tells the story of his 1949 trip up this wild river in remote northern British Columbia. Patterson uses his own journey as a framework to recount the adventures of explorers who went there before. All had struggled up the Finlay for different reasons, and all left spirited accounts of that challenging, doomed river, which Patterson brings to vivid life again.
Much of the Finlay, a river of whitewater rapids that flowed through a magnificent country of dense forests and high mountains, disappeared forever under the waters of Williston Lake with the completion of the W. A. C. Bennett Dam in 1968. In this engaging book, Patterson preserves the memory of this wilderness and the long-gone adventurers who first told the world about its existence.

Finlay's River

On Haida Gwaii, human occupation goes back some 9,000 years, with hints of a people there before. Lillard tells the story of these islands, through explorers and settlers to the present day.

Just East of Sundown: The Queen Charlotte Islands

Americas

Beryl Smeeton was that rare combination -- an intrepid traveller and a writer of entertaining prose -- and she made astonishing journeys as a young woman in the 1930s. Going home alone, overland from India, mostly by bus and third class train, she explored Persia (now Iran), where she was greeted with great kindness, and wrangled an unusual trip through southern Russia. She then crossed Russia on the Trans-Siberian Railway with her brother (who, to her disgust, insisted on travelling first class) for a visit to Japan and Hong Kong. From there, on her most extraordinary trek, she roamed by riverboat, bus, train,truck and on foot through China and into Burma.Later, Beryl married Miles Smeeton and brought to their adventures aboard Tzu Hang the same high energy, insatiable curiosity and sense of humour that shine through this, her delightful first book about her solo travels.

Winter Shoes in Springtime

Smeeton, Beryl

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

An internationally renowned photographer, John Vanderpant was a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, which in his day was the highest possible honour. Underlying Vibrations presents the biography of a talented and much-loved man, and for the first time, a portfolio of 58 of his most celebrated images.

Underlying Vibrations: The Photography and Life of John Vanderpant

Salloum, Sheryl

Arts & Literature

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