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Service On The Skeena
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Author : Geoff Mynett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Service On The Skeena written by Geoff Mynett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Clergy categories.
"Horace Wrinch and his wife Alice arrived in Hazelton on the Skeena River in northern British Columbia in 1990. There he built the first hospital in the northern interior, serving both Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities. For the next thirty-years, he became widely respected not only as a doctor and surgeon but also as a Methodist minister, farmer, magistrate, community leader and progressive politician. In 1907, he instituted a form of health insurance for the Hazelton community. In the 1920's, he was a two-term president of the newly established B.C. Hospital Association and a two-term Liberal member of the provincial legislature. Whine in the legislature, he championed publicly funded health insurance. When he died in 1939, the Vancouver Sun called him "the best known and most beloved man in Northern British Columbia." Drawn almost entirely from original and contemporaneous sources, this is the previously untold story of remarkable British Columbian."--Provided by publisher.
Murders On The Skeena
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Author : Geoff Mynett
language : en
Publisher: Caitlin Press
Release Date : 2021-10-08
Murders On The Skeena written by Geoff Mynett and has been published by Caitlin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-08 with History categories.
Part history, part true crime, Murders on the Skeena: True Crime in the Old Canadian West, 1884-1914 contains the true accounts of murders, crimes, and scandals--some of which remain unsolved to this day--in small-town northern British Columbia. With a focus on the victims as much as the cases themselves, award-winning author Geoff Mynett relates untold stories of BC's deadly history while providing both the natural and social history of the region. Hazelton, situated where the Bulkley River joins the Skeena River, was one of the most important sites in the interior of northern BC from 1870-1913. The gold rush, the arrival of the telegraph, and the ability for steam boats to journey upriver increased outside interest in the region. As new modes of transport were built, more non-Indigenous people arrived, and as colonial law and governance increased, so did tensions between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. One such case was that of the murder of Amos "Charley" Youmans in 1884--the escalation of a clash between the laws and customs of the Gitxsan and those of the encroaching traders and settlers. Mynett also recounts the stories of the so-called Skeena River Uprising of 1888, a bank robbery shoot-out, and a deadly dispute between two prospectors. Peeling back historical, social, political, and geographical layers, Murders on the Skeena draws almost exclusively from documents from the time to reveal the fascinating secrets and surprising consequences of these captivating true crime tales.
River Of Mists
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Author : Geoff Mynett
language : en
Publisher: Caitlin Press
Release Date : 2022-09-16
River Of Mists written by Geoff Mynett and has been published by Caitlin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-16 with History categories.
A collection of extraordinary stories about ordinary people from BC's wild frontier. In River of Mists, best-selling author and award-winning historian Geoff Mynett returns to the Skeena River community of Hazelton to shed new light on the wide spectrum of characters who left their mark on the area. Delving as far back in time as the early 1820s, Mynett covers over a century of change in the small community which, due to its location at the forks of the Skeena and Bulkley rivers and proximity to mountain ranges, seems destined to be a hub of activity--always industrious, often prosperous, and occasionally scandalous--while maintaining the charming nature of small town. Here are the stories of those whose lives left some mark on the community--visitors like Hudson's Bay Company trader Simon McGillivray and famed painter Emily Carr; and the lesser known pioneers, prospectors, and residents like HBC agent turned local business owner Thomas Hankin, and Bishop William Ridley and Jane Ridley, founders of the Hazelton Queek, named after the whistling mountain marmot. Combining folksy, small-town charm and meticulous research, Mynett's River of Mists: People of the Upper Skeena, 1821-1930 is a whimsical and informative chronicle of a century in the heart of Northern BC.
Service On The Skeena
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Author : Geoff Mynett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Service On The Skeena written by Geoff Mynett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
His name was Horace Wrinch. It was 1880. He was 14 years old, a farmer's boy from England travelling on his own to Quebec. Twenty years later, a qualified doctor and surgeon, he arrived in Hazelton on the Skeena River in northern British Columbia as a Canadian citizen. At this time the northern interior of the province had no qualified doctors, no surgeons and no hospitals. In 1904 Horace built the first hospital in the northern interior. Over the next thirty-six years he became widely respected as a doctor and surgeon, hospital administrator, medical missionary, Methodist minister, magistrate, farmer, community leader and progressive politician. Ever innovative, he instituted a form of health insurance for the Hazelton community as early as 1908. In the 1920s, he was a two-term president of the newly established British Columbia Hospital Association and a two-term Liberal Member of the Provincial Legislature for the Skeena riding. While in the Legislature, he championed publicly funded health insurance. Upon his death in 1939, he was called "the most influential and best liked man that ever blessed this district with his presence." Drawn almost entirely from original and contemporaneous sources, this is the previously untold story of a remarkable British Columbian.
The Tsimshian
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Author : Margaret Seguin
language : en
Publisher: UBC Press
Release Date : 1993
The Tsimshian written by Margaret Seguin and has been published by UBC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with History categories.
This volume examines Tsimshian culture from the prehistoric period to the recent past and includes contributions from such diverse perspectives as archaeology, linguistics, and social anthropology. The contributors demonstrate a balance between current fieldwork and careful archival analysis, as they build on the voluminous materials that are a legacy of the scholarship of such major figures as Boas, Barbeau, Tate, and Garfield. The book includes chapters on the crest system and participation of the Tsimshian in the 'non-Native' economy of the region and introduces much original material on shamanism, basket making, and feasting.
Greetings From British Columbia
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Author : Fred Thirkell
language : en
Publisher: Heritage House Publishing Co
Release Date : 2009
Greetings From British Columbia written by Fred Thirkell and has been published by Heritage House Publishing Co this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Antiques & Collectibles categories.
Award-winning popular historians Fred Thirkell and Bob Scullion have assembled an all-new collection of postcard views capturing different communities around British Columbia as they appeared at the turn of the 20th century. Collectively defining the state of affairs in BC a century ago, each one of these images has a story to tell. Once a thriving cannery town, Port Essington is now long gone, abandoned and then destroyed by forest fires. They may have mined millions of dollars in gold at Stout's Gulch, but you'll have trouble finding it on any maps today. Even Kelowna's main street is unrecognizable. With each passing year, it becomes more difficult to find rare and unusual black-and-white printed postcards from this period. Many of the ones Thirkell and Scullion have included in "Greetings from British Columbia" are themselves rare, borrowed from the collection of a pre-eminent postcard dealer without whose cooperation this new collection would not have been possible.
Flower Diary
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Author : Molly Peacock
language : en
Publisher: ECW Press
Release Date : 2021-09-14
Flower Diary written by Molly Peacock and has been published by ECW Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-14 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
“Graceful yet precise, poetic yet deeply rooted in research, this exploration of an overlooked painter is gorgeous — a joy to read. Molly Peacock’s insights and empathy with her subject bring to life both Mary Hiester Reid and her luscious flower paintings.” — Charlotte Gray, author of The Massey Murder Molly Peacock uncovers the history of neglected painter Mary Hiester Reid, a trailblazing artist who refused to choose between marriage and a career. Born into a patrician American family in the middle of the nineteenth century, Mary Hiester Reid was determined to be a painter and left behind women’s design schools to enter the art world of men. After she married fellow artist George Reid, she returned with him to his home country of Canada. There she set about creating over 300 stunning still life and landscape paintings, inhabiting a rich, if sometimes difficult, marriage, coping with a younger rival, exhibiting internationally, and becoming well-reviewed. She studied in Paris, traveled in Spain, and divided her time between Canada and the United States where she lived among America’s Arts and Crafts movement titans. She left slender written records; rather, her art became her diary and Flower Diary unfolds with an artwork for each episode of her life. In this sumptuous and precisely researched biography, celebrated poet and biographer Molly Peacock brings Mary Hiester Reid, foremother of painters such as Georgia O’Keefe, out of the shadows, revealing a fascinating, complex woman who insisted on her right to live as a married artist, not as a tragic heroine. Peacock uses her poet’s skill to create a structurally inventive portrait of this extraordinary woman whom modernism almost swept aside, weaving threads of her own marriage with Hiester Reid’s, following the history of empathy and examining how women manage the demands of creativity and domesticity, coping with relationships, stoves, and steamships, too. How do you make room for art when you must go to the market to buy a chicken for dinner? Hiester Reid had her answers, as Peacock gloriously discovers.
Canada S West Coast
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Author : Chris Cheadle
language : en
Publisher: Heritage House Publishing Co
Release Date : 2008-10-24
Canada S West Coast written by Chris Cheadle and has been published by Heritage House Publishing Co this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-24 with History categories.
This book depicts the west coast of British Columbia in all its glory. The distinctive peeling bark on the trunk of an arbutus tree. Towering Sitka spruce trees. Migrating sandpipers in Clayoquot Sound. A grizzly bear feeding on pink salmon near Knight Inlet Lodge. Author/photographer Chris Cheadle walked the streams of the rainforests, kayaked to remote beaches, sailed the inlets, explored the islands and listened to the wisdom of First Nations elders to capture these striking images.
Skeena River Salmon Management Committee Annual Report 1967
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Author : Canada. Department of Fisheries and Forestry
language : en
Publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : Department of Fisheries and Forestry, Fisheries Service
Release Date : 1970
Skeena River Salmon Management Committee Annual Report 1967 written by Canada. Department of Fisheries and Forestry and has been published by Vancouver, B.C. : Department of Fisheries and Forestry, Fisheries Service this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with categories.
Fruit Growing Possibilities Of Skeena River And Porcher Island Districts Classic Reprint
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Author : Joseph F. Carpenter
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-12-23
Fruit Growing Possibilities Of Skeena River And Porcher Island Districts Classic Reprint written by Joseph F. Carpenter and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-23 with Business & Economics categories.
Excerpt from Fruit-Growing Possibilities of Skeena River and Porcher Island Districts It is reported there is a plentiful supply of water to be had at a reason able distance providing it was required for irrigation purposes. This should not be necessary for ordinary fruit-growing or farming under proper soil treatment. On the whole, the district looks most promising. With the introduction of the right kind of settlers and with sufficient capital for extensive clearing purposes, the district should advance rapidly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.