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Mark Twain once famously said "there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past and can't be restored."  Well, over recent years, The British Library, working with Microsoft has embarked on an ambitious programme to digitise its collection of 19th century books.

There are now 65,000  titles available  (that's an incredible 25 million pages) of material ranging from works by famous names such as  Dickens, Trollope and Hardy as well as many forgotten literary gems , all of which can now be printed on demand and purchased right here on Amazon.

Further information on The British Library and its digitisation programme can be found on The British Library website. ... Read more

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Chapters: St. Paul's Anglican Church (Dawson City, Yukon), Ecclesiastical Province of British Columbia and the Yukon, Prefecture Apostolic of Yukon, Roman Catholic Diocese of Whitehorse, Anglican Diocese of Yukon. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 18. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: St. Paul's Anglican Church is an historic Carpenter Gothic style Anglican church building located on the corner of Front and Church streets in Dawson City, Yukon, Canada. Built of wood in 1902, it once served as the cathedral of the Anglican Diocese of Yukon until the diocesan see was moved to Whitehorse in 1953. Its steep pitched roof, its pointed arch entry through its belfry tower and its lancet windows are typical of Carpenter Gothic churches. St. Paul's is a National Historic Site of Canada as designated by the Government of Canada on June 1, 1989. St. Paul's is still an active parish in the Diocese of Yukon. The Rev. Dr. Lee Titterington is its incumbent priest, while the Rev. Percey Henry is its deacon. ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=25003450 ... Read more

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Chapters: Victoria City, Cariboo, Vancouver East, Vancouver Centre, Vancouver City, Comox, Vancouver-Burrard, Delta, Esquimalt, Lillooet, Alberni, Cowichan-Alberni, Chilliwack, Dewdney, Yale, Atlin, North Vancouver, Rossland-Trail, Prince Rupert, North Okanagan, South Okanagan, Omineca, Saanich, Fort George, Burnaby, Fernie, Similkameen, Revelstoke, Columbia, Cranbrook, Vancouver-Little Mountain, Oak Bay, Cowichan-Newcastle, Salmon Arm, Kaslo-Slocan, Grand Forks-Greenwood, New Westminster City, Kootenay, North Peace River, the Islands, Nanaimo and the Islands, South Peace River, Surrey, Yale-Lillooet, Nanaimo City, Saanich and the Islands, Cowichan-Malahat, West Vancouver-Howe Sound, North Vancouver-Capilano, Columbia River, Bulkley Valley-Stikine, Malahat-Juan de Fuca, Victoria-Hillside, Prince George North, Esquimalt-Metchosin, Richmond, Port Coquitlam-Burke Mountain, Parksville-Qualicum, Burnaby-Willingdon, Cowichan-Ladysmith, Prince George-Mount Robson, Cariboo South, Cassiar, Okanagan South, Prince George-Omineca, South Vancouver, Revelstoke-Slocan, Surrey-Panorama Ridge, Nelson, Rossland City, Nelson City, Esquimalt-Port Renfrew, Abbotsford-Mount Lehman, Ymir, Central Fraser Valley, Shuswap-Revelstoke, Okanagan-Boundary, Alberni-Qualicum, Abbotsford-Clayburn, Coquitlam-Moody, Chilliwhack, Chilliwack-Sumas, Okanagan-Westside, West Kootenay-Boundary, Penticton-Okanagan Valley, North Nanaimo, South Nanaimo, Alberni-Nanaimo, Westminster-Dewdney, Chilliwack-Kent, Nanaimo-Parksville, Burquitlam, Westminster-Delta, North Victoria, Lillooet West, Yale-North, Lillooet East, Yale-East, Westminster-Richmond, Port Moody-Westwood, Westminster-Chilliwhack, South Victoria, Creston, List of British Columbia Provincial Electoral Districts 2001-2009, Yale-West, Surrey-White Rock-Cloverdale, East Kootenay North, Richmond-Point Grey, East Kootenay South, Surrey-Guildford-Whalley, West Kootenay South, Columbia-Revelstoke, West Kootenay-Ne...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3271291 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: The Mount Royal was a sternwheeler that worked on the Skeena River in British Columbia, Canada from 1902 until 1907. She was named after Lord Strathcona who was also known as Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal. The Mount Royal was owned by the Hudson's Bay Company which also owned the Caledonia and the Strathcona. These sternwheelers were used to serve the communities along the river before and during the construction of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. During her six seasons of service, the Mount Royal was piloted by Captain SB Johnson. The Mount Royal was built to run against the Hazelton a privately owned sternwheeler that worked as a passenger and freight steamer for Robert Cunningham. The Mount Royal was built by Alexander Watson in Victoria at Albion Iron Works (VMD). Watson designed her specifically for navigating the treacherous Skeena River. Using fine Douglas fir and Eastern oak, he built one of the fastest, lightest and most luxurious sternwheelers that ever ran on the Skeena. Even with a full load of passengers and cargo, she only sat in 36 inches in the water. On the Mount Royal's launch date of April 9, 1902, she got hung up during the launch, and after two hours was freed, only to get caught up again, this time swinging into the bank. It would be several more days before she was successfully launched into the bay. A bad launch was considered to be an ill omen and, in this case, was one that would be fulfilled. The Hazelton at Kitselas CanyonWhen the Mount Royal arrived at the Skeena, rivalry flared between her and the Robert Cunninghams Hazelton almost immediately, with each captain trying to beat the other's times from Port Essington to Hazelton and back. The standing order from both companie... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=12179088 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Urban History Review, published by Becker Associates on March 22, 2010. The length of the article is 18400 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Unpacking settler colonialism's urban strategies: Indigenous peoples in Victoria, British Columbia, and the transition to a settler-colonial city.(Report)
Author: Penelope Edmonds
Publication: Urban History Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2010
Publisher: Becker Associates
Volume: 38Issue: 2Page: 4(17)

Article Type: Report

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This is an adventure book.But an adventure without either fright or special effects.An adventure which took 10 years, which a couple and their dog(s) enjoyed immensely.This book is the recounting of the cruise of a lifetime.It tells the adventures, life lessons and beauty of the first half of a voyage of 26,000 miles by water, all within the territorial waters of America - the United States and Canada.The journey was predominately within inland waterways, but covered most of all four North American "coasts" as well.

The book is entertaining and instructional.Entertaining by providing fascinating, interesting scenic and historical highlights, and "boater tales" gleaned from 10 years of literally almost circumnavigating North America by traversing the vast majority of its navigable waterways and coasts.Instructional to those interested in travel and boating.And informational, relating how to buy and equip a boat, and to plan and execute cruises, both major and minor.Tidbits of information are inserted where intersecting with the entertaining, providing responses to "situations" encountered, enlightening, significant, and humorous.The "tales" range from amusing to hilarious, but they too provide information and instruction useful to those interested in boating and sightseeing cruising by boat.One goal of this book is to illustrate how relaxing, enjoyable, educational and magnificently scenic and satisfying boat travel is within North America.

This book relates a literal voyage thru history - the history of two nations and their first and formative transportation system - coasts, rivers and lakes, and some really old canals.This saga encompasses four boats, thousands of gallons of fuel, hundreds of stops, and the water covered over 10 years at the ideal sightseeing speed of 10 miles per hour.In other words, utilizing the waterways of North America to see what's there, in historic and scenic depth - out of pure Undaunted Curiosity.

After some brief personal boating historical and instructional "stuff", The adventures related in this Volume I encompasses the Colorado River Lakes of California, Arizona, Nevada and Utah; the California Delta; then the Columbia, Willamette and Snake Rivers of Washington, Oregon and Idaho; and all of Puget Sound and most of British Columbia, as well as the Pacific coast, Canada to Catalina. The Journey then shifts to the Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama Gulf of Mexico coast and the internal waterways of those States.Literally traversing the Mississippi and Alabama State line its full north/south length by water opens up to a 38' cruising boat most of those States, and all of Tennessee and Kentucky, deep into the great mountain ranges of the Eastern United States, all by water, not by trailer boat.

Succumbing to the "bigger is better" syndrome, this Volume I relates the transition from 27' to 38' to 54' vessel, the latter with ground transport of two Honda 80 motorscooters.Thus all coasts of Florida from Pensacola to Key West, the Atlantic Intracoastal, across the State via the Okeechobee/Caloosahatchee; then to Disney World via River and boat, are experienced.Moving northward exploring the coasts and side rivers of each of Georgia, South and North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey to New York City are viewed thru the eyes of an explorer of history and scenic beauty. Tampa, Miami, Jacksonville, the "low country coastal islands", Savannah, Charleston, both Wilmingtons, George Washington's Dismal Swamp Canal, and the wonders of the world class harbor of Hampton Roads all are explored in depth. But the real wonderment is secured in the hundreds of small towns and historic sites of the coastal United States that are visited.More history unfolds via the Chesapeake Bay and its scores of inlets, then Washington, Annapolis, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Atlantic City and on into the Big Apple of New York City.That latter port is a guaranteed tear jerker when entered from the Atlantic Ocean, by viewing the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, and the skyline of Manhattan gradually rising into view.

Volume I ends with a week's tour of NYC.Volume II soon will continue the "voyage of curiosity" thru the rest of the Northeastern U.S. and Canada, crossing Ontario by way of canals; the Great Lakes and the Rivers Mississippi, St. Croix, St. Marys, St. Lawrence, St. Clair, Hudson, Missouri, Ottawa, Des Plaines, Illinois, Ohio, Monongahela, Allegheny, Big Sandy, Kaskaskia, Great Kanawha, Muskingum, Kentucky, Arkansas, Verdigris, Green, Red, White, Black, Old, Atchafalaya, and Yazoo.And Canals Rideau, Erie, Oswego, Cheyboygan, Trent-Severn, Cape Cod, Cape Ann, Barkley, and Soo.And many cricks [creeks]. ... Read more

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Traveling the roads and highways through the islands, mountains, and plateaus of British Columbia, Rosemary Neering talks to a fascinating cross-section of people in the small towns she visits. In coffee shops, post offices and living rooms, she gathers their stories with the inquisitive ear of the traveler and sets them down with a storyteller's wisdom. When Rosemary Neering talks to former urbanites used to having the world at their door, they feel that life is more complete in places where people don't lock their doors at night and where everyone knows your life better than you do. But in many resource-based communities where the fisheries, forests, and mines are increasingly controlled by large corporations, there is resentment towards urban approaches to rural problems. As she travels, a compelling portrait is formed of a world often hidden to city dwellers.

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