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Victoria underfoot : excavating a city's secrets / edited by Brenda Clark, Nicole Kilburn and Nick Russell.
Penn Museum Library F1089.5.V6 V688 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Victoria (B.C.)--Antiquities.
- Victoria (B.C.).
- Excavations (Archaeology)--British Columbia--Victoria.
- Victoria (B.C.)--History.
- British Columbia--Victoria.
- Physical Description:
- 144 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Madeira Park, BC : Harbour Pub., [2008]
- Summary:
- Victoria Underfoot rolls back the centuries and peels off the layers of history under British Columbia's capital city. Archeologists, anthropologists, historians and heritage researchers sift through the soil to unravel the mysteries below our feet, excavating gardens to garbage dumps! Were there rum-running tunnels under Victoria's sidewalks? Why are fragments of old wine bottles so exciting?
- Ancient artifacts, baskets and burial cairns bring to life the rich heritage of First Nations cultures, while everything from badges to bed knobs helps unravel the history of European and Asian immigrants in the Capital Region.
- Colourfully illustrated with photographs and historical documents, Victoria Underfoot is an intriguing exploration of BC subterranean searches. The authors' fantastic finds illustrate a history-ancient and recent-that is diverse and deep.
- Contents:
- Camas / Nicole Kilburn
- Artifacts Help Interpret Ancient Life: A Prehistory Overview / Grant Keddie 23
- On the Beach: The Wonders of Wet Sites / Morley Eldridge 44
- Getting a Date / Morley Eldridge
- Burial Cairns and Mounds: An Ancient Landscape of the Dead / Darcy Mathews 57
- A Beacon Hill Cairn / Nicole Kilburn
- Old Toolkits Forge New Relationships / Brenda Clark, Nicole Kilburn 64
- Dogs, Best Friends for Millennia / Brenda Clark
- The Old Songhees Village Site: A Case for Historic Archeology / Tom Bown 73
- A Civil War Badge / Tom Bown
- Rodd Hill: Prime Real Estate for Millennia / Ian Sumpter, Parks Canada 83
- Belmont House / Ian Sumpter
- Excavating the Provincial Royal Jubilee Hospital Dump: Taking In the Garbage a Hundred Years Later / Grant Keddie 92
- Buried Pots Recall Early Chinese Immigrants / Grant Keddie 98
- The D'Arcy Island Lepers / Nicole Kilburn
- Six Feet Under at the Old Burying Ground / John Adams 106
- Ground-Penetrating Radar / John Adams
- Between the Tides: Mudlarking in the Gorge / Tom Bown 116
- Mudlarking / Tom Bown
- Junk Helps Restore a Heritage Home / Nick Russell 123
- Ross Bay Villa: Unravelling a Nineteenth-Century Domestic Disaster / Nick Russell
- Under Victoria's Sidewalks / Janis Ringuette 133
- Call Before You Dig! / Bjorn O. Simonsen 137.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-142) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781550174199
- 1550174193
- OCLC:
- 234427737
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