British Columbia
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| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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 Canada’s Bastions of EmpireHalifax, Victoria and the Royal Navy 1749-1918 |
This book offers a fresh perspective on North American history, and the key role played by Halifax and Victoria in ensuring that Canada emerged as an independent country in the 20th century. … | Bryan Elson | 280 | 2014 | View |
 NEW! Up the CoastOne Family's Wild Life in the Forests of British Columbia |
Kathryn Willcock and her sisters grew up in logging camps on the coast of B.C. in the 1960s when children were set loose to play in the wilderness, women kept rifles next to the wood stove, and … | Kathryn Willcock | 224 | 2022 | View |
 Within the Barbed Wire FenceA Japanese Man's Account of his Internment in Canada |
Takeo Nakano immigrated to Canada from Japan in 1920, later marrying and starting a family in his adopted homeland. Takeo’s passion was poetry, and he cultivated the exquisite form known as … | Leatrice M. Willson Chan; Takeo Ujo Nakano | 144 | 2012 | View |
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From FOREWORD to New Edition and Preface of original edition |
Discusses that the best way to guard human rights today is to arm ourselves with the knowledge of how easily they were taken in the past. Outlines racial injustice. Also discusses the history of … | Leatrice M. Willson Chan | 12 | 2012 | $1.20 Add |
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From Introduction |
explains how the information of Canada’s defenses on the homefront are missing from the historical account of the Great War, outlines some geo-political information of importance to the … | Bryan Elson | 9 | 2014 | $0.90 Add |
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From NEW! PrefaceFrom: Up the Coast |
An introduction to the methodology, maps, and the explanation of “up the coast.” | Kathryn Willcock | 3 | 2022 | $0.30 Add |
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From NEW! Flying InFrom: Up the Coast |
Chapter One focuses on getting up to Oxford Bay, the bush plane the “Beaver”, logging life, passengers on the plane, and the small community up the coast in the 1960’s. | Kathryn Willcock | 6 | 2022 | $0.60 Add |
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From Prologue:Woodfibre days |
Talks about life before Pearl Harbour in Woodfibre BC | Leatrice M. Willson Chan; Takeo Ujo Nakano | 5 | 2012 | $0.50 Add |
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From The Watch Is Set, 1749–1858 |
examines how Britain had made Canada part of its strategic thinking for more than 150 years before war broke out in 1914, with focus on the naval basis in Halifax and Victoria | Bryan Elson | 24 | 2014 | $2.40 Add |
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From NEW! A Normal ChildhoodFrom: Up the Coast |
Chapter Two focuses on the author’s father John Brandon Willcock, leaving North Bay, Ontario for work, hardship during the Great Depression, his father’s (the author’s … | Kathryn Willcock | 10 | 2022 | $1.00 Add |
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From Evacuation from Woodfibre |
January 1942, the evacuation of Japanese from Woodfibre | Leatrice M. Willson Chan; Takeo Ujo Nakano | 4 | 2012 | $0.40 Add |
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From Threat and Response, 1858–1905 |
Mostly dealing with relations with America during this time it analyzes Canadian responses to threats during this period, including the Alaska boundary | Bryan Elson | 50 | 2014 | $5.00 Add |
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From NEW! Fired or DeadFrom: Up the Coast |
Chapter Three focuses on Willcock’s time working in Swanberg’s cook house, Greasy Erickson, getting “Up the hill”, becoming a “Whistle punk”, the risks of logging, and the Schnarr girl’s … | Kathryn Willcock | 14 | 2022 | $1.40 Add |
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From Rumours of War, 1906–1914 |
How Britain involved the Dominion in new defense challenges and the emergency of Germany as a potential enemy, immigration issues during this period | Bryan Elson | 38 | 2014 | $3.80 Add |
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From To Vancouver and on to Yellowhead road camp |
The trip from Vancouver to the work camp | Leatrice M. Willson Chan; Takeo Ujo Nakano | 7 | 2012 | $0.70 Add |
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From Defences, Defenders, and the Coming of War, August 1914 |
Canadian preperations for war, defense of the two fortresses in Halifax and Victoria involved joint army and navy plans | Bryan Elson | 31 | 2014 | $3.10 Add |
