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“jan peterson”

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  • Kilts on the Coast

    The Scots Who Built BC

    by Jan Peterson ...
    When the Hudson's Bay Company decided to establish its new Pacific coast headquarters at Fort Victoria on Vancouver Island in 1843, the Island was a pristine paradise—or an isolated wilderness, depending on one's point of view—that had sustained its First Nations inhabitants for millennia. It was one of the last places to be discovered and settled by Europeans in North America.It was Scots who ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Starring on Bay Street

    by Jan Peterson Ewen ...
    Adrian Williams is fighting to keep a local theater from taking its final bow. Formerly a professional stage actress, she has now turned her expertise from promoting herself to promoting the aspirations and dreams of a community of larger-than-life characters. The old, 1914 structure that houses the makeshift theater sits on the shores of the beautiful Puget Sound in a small, blue-collar town in ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Port Alberni

    More Than Just a Mill Town

    by Jan Peterson ...
    Any community that has ever been labelled a “mill town” carries both the promise of prosperity and the constant threat of collapse, its fortune hinging on a single industry whose performance is as much related to the whims of a global economy as it is to the abundance of a key natural resource. The people of Port Alberni, located deep in Vancouver Island’s Alberni Valley, know all too well the ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Mark Bate

    Nanaimo's First Mayor

    by Jan Peterson ...
    An insightful look at the first mayor of Nanaimo, BC, drawing heavily on his prolific and insightful written observations.Mark Bate, elected Nanaimo’s first mayor in 1875, was a renaissance man. He loved music, writing, literature, the outdoors, community affairs, and of course politics. Bate served as mayor for sixteen terms—most by acclamation. He retired three times, returning to office after ... Read more

    $4.99 USD