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  • By Snowshoe, Buckboard and Steamer

    Women of the British Columbia Frontier

    The vivid, personal accounts of four women who lived and travelled as settlers in early British Columbia "…a cloud passing away from the face of the moon revealed a band of wild horses bearing down upon us at a full gallop. As they came near and saw us they divided into two groups, passing by on either side. Had the moon not come out they would probably have become entangled in our tent ropes, and ... Read more

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  • Henry & Self

    An English Gentlewoman at the Edge of Empire

    An intimate portrait of privilege and struggle, scandal and accolade, from the Old World to the new colonies of Vancouver's Island and British Columbia. At the age of 33, Sarah Crease left her home in England to travel with her young family to a farflung outpost of the British Empire on the Pacific coast of North America. The detailed journals, letters and artwork she created over the next half ... Read more

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  • Phyllis Munday

    Series Book 8 - Quest Biography
    In 1924 Phyllis (Phyl) Munday did what no other woman had done before - reached the summit of Mt. Robson. She climbed close to 100 mountains in her lifetime, many of those first ascents. She honed her outdoor skills as a Girl Guide leader and remained active in Guides throughout her life. During the 1920s and 1930s, Phyl and her partner Don Munday pioneered exploration into the heart of the Coast ... Read more

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  • Canadian Adventurers and Explorers 5-Book Bundle

    David Thompson / Vilhjalmur Stefansson / Samuel de Champlain / George Simpson / Phyllis Munday

    Series series Quest Biography
    Presenting five titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. Canada is a vast land with many remote regions to be explored. Among the intrepid explorers who travelled the wilderness and mapped Canada’s geography are: the French founder of Quebec, Samuel de Champlain; surveyor David Thompson; Arctic explorer Vilhjamur Stefansson; legendary Upper Canada ... Read more

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  • Voices of the Elders

    Huu-ay-aht Histories and Legends

    Series series Amazing Stories
    There is a special place on the southeastern shores of Barkley Sound, on the west coast of Vancouver Island. It is a magnificent landscape of rocky cliffs fronting onto the wild Pacific Ocean, sheltered beaches, lakes, mountains and forests. Since the beginning of time, it has been the ancestral home of the Huu-ay-aht First Nation.Drawing directly from oral history passed down by generations of ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    By Snowshoe, Buckboard and Steamer

    Women of the British Columbia Frontier

    Unabridged

    6 hours 9 min

    The vivid, personal accounts of four women who lived and travelled as settlers in early British Columbia "…a cloud passing away from the face of the moon revealed a band of wild horses bearing down upon us at a full gallop. As they came near and saw us they divided into two groups, passing by on either side. Had the moon not come out they would probably have become entangled in our tent ropes, and ... Read more

    $22.08 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unvarnished

    Autobiographical Sketches by Emily Carr

    by Emily Carr ...
    This highly readable manuscript—edited by Royal BC Museum curator emerita Kathryn Bridge and illustrated with sketches and photographs from the BC Archives—spans nearly four decades, from 1899 to 1944. In an almost stream-of-consciousness outpouring of stories, Carr chronicles her early years as an art student in England, her life-altering sojourn in France and subsequent travels to Indigenous ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus