Vancouver Island letters of Edmund Hope Verney 1862-65 / edited by Allan Pritchard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Verney, Edmund Hope, 1838-1910.

Contributor:

Pritchard, Allan.

Series:

Pioneers of British Columbia.

The pioneers of British Columbia, 0847-0537

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vancouver Island (B.C.)--History.

Vancouver Island (B.C.).

Vancouver Island (B.C.)--History--Sources.

Vancouver Island (B.C.)--Social conditions--Sources.

Great Britain. Royal Navy--Officers--Correspondence.

Great Britain.

Verney, Edmund Hope, 1838-1910--Correspondence.

Verney, Edmund Hope.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (325 p.)

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, c1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This previously unknown collection of letters lets us experience colonial British Columbia through the eyes of a young British naval officer who spent three years on Vancouver Island commanding a Royal Navy gunboat during the Cariboo gold rush. A keen observer of life in the new world, Edmund Hope Verney corresponded on a regular basis with his father, a prominent British MP. In his letters, which are filled with lively narration and description, candid commentary, and fascinating personal detail, he talks about having 'the opportunity to observe a colony in [its first] stage of existence' and to 'watch the development of a community.'

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

Letters

Notes to Letters

Index

The Pioneers of British Columbia

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-294) and index.

ISBN:

1-283-13196-X

9786613131966

0-7748-5457-X

OCLC:

180704200