Author: David C. Sutton
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 544

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Category : Iran
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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Vols. for 1963- include the Director's report, 1961/62-

Author: New York Public Library
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1716

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Includes its Report, 1896-1945.

Author: New York Public Library
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 1256

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Category : Lumber trade
Languages : en
Pages : 1378

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Author: Nancy Marguerite Anderson
Publisher: Heritage House Publishing Co
ISBN: 1927051029
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Fifteen years before the 1858 Fraser River gold rush, a Hudson’s Bay Company clerk named Alexander Caulfield Anderson threaded his way through mountain passes and down rapids-filled rivers in search of a safe all-British route through the mountains that separated the HBC fort at Kamloops from Fort Langley on the Pacific coast. Eventually, Anderson discovered four routes, succeeding where Alexander Mackenzie and Simon Fraser before him had failed. Without his explorations, historian Derek Pethick once wrote, British Columbia may never have come into being or become a part of the Dominion of Canada. For Anderson, the cross-country expeditions he undertook were welcome antidotes to a fur-trade life that wasn’t quite what he’d expected it to be. By the time he joined, in 1831, it was in fact a tightly controlled business that was very different from the adventurous trade that had inspired him. But though he may not have had his dream life, his spirit of adventure kept him going. As explorer, map-maker, artist and writer, he created a wealth of information to guide those of his time and far beyond, and his work—first in the fur trade, then in the communities in which he lived, and finally as Fisheries Inspector and Indian Reserve Commissioner for British Columbia—was always aimed at improving the future of the people he lived among.

Author: Helen M. Buss
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774841397
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 513

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In the early nineteenth century, when the Hudson’s Bay Company sent men to its furthest posts along the coast of North America’s Pacific Northwest, the letters of those who cared for those men followed them in the Company’s supply ships. Sometimes, these letters missed their objects – the men had returned to Britain, or deserted their ships, or died. The Company returned the correspondence to its London office and over the years amassed a file of “undelivered letters.” Many of these remained sealed for 150 years and until they were opened by archivist Judith Hudson Beattie, when the Company archives were moved to Canada. These letters tell the fascinating stories of ordinary people whose lives are rarely recounted in traditional histories. Beattie and Helen M. Buss skilfully introduce us to both the lives of the letter writers and their would-be recipients. Their commentaries frame, for contemporary readers, the words of early nineteenth century working and middle class British folk as well as letters to “voyageurs” from Quebec. The stories of their lives – fathers struggling to support a family, widowed mothers yearning to see their sons, bereft sweethearts left behind, and wives raising their children alone – reach out over two centuries to offer rare insight into the varied worlds of men and women in the early nineteenth century, many of whom became settlers in Washington, Oregon, and the new British colony of Vancouver Island.

Author: William Thomas Stead
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 644

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Author: Robert Lister Macneil
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Languages : en
Pages : 632

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