Verney Papers

Verney Papers
Author: Sir Ralph Verney
Publisher:
Total Pages: 252
Release: 1845
Genre: Great Britain
ISBN:

Verney Papers

Verney Papers
Author: Sir Ralph Verney (bart.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 252
Release: 1845
Genre: Great Britain
ISBN:

The Vancouver Island Letters of Edmund Hope Verney

The Vancouver Island Letters of Edmund Hope Verney
Author: Allan Pritchard
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2011-11-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0774842571

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.'