British Columbia : a new historical atlas / Derek Hayes
- Bib ID:
- 6578446
- Format:
- Map
- Author:
- Hayes, Derek, 1947-, author
- Scale:
- Scales differ.
- Description:
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- Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre, [2012]
- ©2012
- 1 atlas (368 pages) : illustrations (some coloured), maps (some coloured) ; 35 cm
- ISBN:
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- 9781926812571 (hardback)
- 1926812573 (hardback)
- Summary:
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Features eye-opening maps, most previously unpublished, of gold seekers, surveyors, real estate promoters, diplomats, and more, alongside illuminating text that brings the province's history to life.
- Full contents:
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- A geographical view of British Columbia's history
- First inhabitants, first nations
- A coast unknown
- Were the Chinese first?
- Juan de Fuca's straight
- Water, water, everywhere
- The Spanish move north
- The world finds British Columbia
- The Spanish return
- British explorers
- New Caledonia
- Fort Langley
- British British Columbia
- The golden colony
- The royal engineers
- Gold field justice
- The Chilcotin massacre
- A northern boundary
- Gold in the Cariboo
- The Cariboo road
- Settlement on Burrard Inlet
- Vancouver Island gold
- Connecting to the world
- The San Juan boundary dispute
- Gold on Wild Horse Creek
- Sam Steele's Fort
- Omineca gold
- Alexander's amazing map
- Metlakatla
- Baillie-Grohman's canal scheme
- The transcontinental connection
- The railway belt
- The city of Emory
- Murder on the Canadian Pacific
- Farwell
- Kamloops
- Streetcars for growth
- Lower Mainland municipalities
- Opening the Okanagan
- Early Kelowna
- Victorian Victoria
- The Island railway
- A mineral bonanza
- More railways for Vancouver
- Northern gold
- The steamboat connection
- The coast-to-Kootenay railway
- Nicola Valley coal
- Island coal
- Fishing for salmon
- A northern treaty
- The Alaska boundary dispute
- The booming Lower Mainland
- Grand Trunk Pacific
- Canberra north
- The mapmaking missionary
- The Doukhobors
- Gentlemen farmers
- Interurbans
- Canadian Northern
- Tunnels through the mountains
- Prince George - eventually
- Railways everywhere
- Surveying British Columbia
- Population and pre-emption
- Settling soldiers
- Marketing the B.C. Rockies
- Roads left and right
- Reclaiming Sumas Lake
- Vancouver between the wars
- Serving the coast
- The Champagne safari
- Provincial parks
- Flying west of the mountains
- Defending the coast
- A highway to Alaska
- Post-war British Columbia
- Kitimat and Kemano
- A mountain of copper
- New treaties.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 356-357) and index.
- Subject:
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