Author: Phylis BowmanPublisher: Prince Rupert, B.C. : P. Bowman
ISBN: 9780969090151
Category : Prince Rupert (B.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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The City of Rainbows!
Author: Phylis BowmanPublisher: Prince Rupert, B.C. : P. Bowman
ISBN: 9780969090151
Category : Prince Rupert (B.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The Punjabis in British Columbia
Author: Kamala Elizabeth NayarPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773540709
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Contrasting immigrant experiences in remote regions and metropolitan centres of Canada.
Hays' Orphan
Author: W. B. M. HickPublisher: Prince Rupert, B.C. : Prince Rupert Port Authority
ISBN: 9780973389401
Category : Harbors
Languages : en
Pages : 237
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The Queen of the North Disaster
Author: Colin HenthornePublisher: Harbour Publishing
ISBN: 1550177249
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Few recent events in British Columbia have seized the public mind like the 2006 sinking of the BC Ferries passenger vessel Queen of the North. Across Canada, it was one of the top news stories of the year. In BC it has attained the status of nautical legend. Ten years later, questions are still being asked. How did a ship that sailed the same course thousands of times fall victim to such an inexplicable error? Was the bridge crew fooling around? Why doesn't anybody in the know come forward and tell the truth? Nobody knew the ship, the crew and the circumstances that fateful March night better than the Queen of the North's long-serving captain, Colin Henthorne, and in this book he finally tells his story. The basic facts are beyond dispute. Just after midnight on March 22, 2006, the Queen of the North—carrying 101 passengers—struck an underwater ledge off Gil Island, 135 kilometres south of Prince Rupert. The impact tore open the ship's bottom and ripped out the propellers. In less than an hour, it sank 427 metres to the bottom of Wright Sound. Despite the crew's skilled evacuation, two passengers went missing and have never been found. Helmswoman Karen Briker was fired. Fourth Mate Karl Lilgert was charged with criminal negligence causing death and sentenced to four years in prison. Captain Henthorne, who was not on watch at the time of the grounding, fought to keep his job and lost. It took him over six years to recover his career. On the tenth anniversary of the tragedy, Captain Henthorne recalls with accuracy and detail that ill-fated voyage and all its terrible repercussions. The Queen of the North Disaster: The Captain's Story dispels rumours about what really happened that night, revealing a fascinating inside look at a modern marine disaster.
The Curve of Time
Author: M. Wylie BlanchetPublisher: Harbour Publishing
ISBN: 1990776795
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
A beloved and bestselling Pacific Northwest classic, now available in paperback from Harbour Publishing! Widowed at the age of thirty-five, Muriel Wylie Blanchet packed up her five children in the summers that followed and set sail aboard the twenty-five-foot Caprice. For fifteen summers, in the 1920s and 1930s, the family explored the coves and islands of the BC coast, encountering settlers and hermits, hungry bears and dangerous tides, and falling under the spell of the region’s natural beauty. Driven by curiosity, the family followed the quiet coastline, and Blanchet—known as Capi, after her boat—recorded their wonder as they threaded their way between the snowfields, slept under the bright stars and wandered through Indigenous winter villages left empty in the summer months. The Curve of Time weaves the story of these years into a memoir that has inspired generations to seek out their own adventures on the wild west coast. First published in 1961, less than a year before the author died, Blanchet’s captivating work has become a classic of travel writing, and one of the bestselling BC books of all time.
Climate of British Columbia
Author: Gumboot Girls
Author: Lou AllisonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781927575475
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book compiles memoirs of 34 women who had migrated from big cities to the rule areas on the north coast of British Columbia.
Birth of A City: Prince Rupert To 1914
Author: Sue Harper RowsePublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1411685180
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
On March 10th, 2010 Prince Rupert will be celebrating its 100th Birthday. Carved from the wilderness, it was envisioned in 1905 by Charles Hays,Manager of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway that this northern BC city would rival that of Vancouver in just a few short years.From the first landing of surveyors on the shores of Kaien Island, to the construction of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway,"Knoxville" wars, building of the townsite on "stilts and planks", development of a huge fishing industry and port. This volume leads you through an era of human struggle, determination and dreams of what the future could bring.It is the amazing story of Prince Rupert and its pioneers between 1905 and 1914,who battled against all odds to develop this unique northern community. Packed with interesting information and early photographs, this volume is a delightful journey through time.
Journals of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia
Author: British Columbia. Legislative AssemblyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : British Columbia
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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The British Columbia Gazette
Author: British ColumbiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : British Columbia
Languages : en
Pages : 1962
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