Dictionary of Canadian Biography / Dictionaire Biographique Du Canada

Dictionary of Canadian Biography / Dictionaire Biographique Du Canada
Author: Francess G. Halpenny
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 1346
Release: 1990-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780802034601

These biographies of Canadians are arranged chronologically by date of death. Entries in each volume are listed alphabetically, with bibliographies of source material and an index to names.

Imperial Vancouver Island

Imperial Vancouver Island
Author: J. F. Bosher
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 839
Release: 2010-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 1450059627

"During the century 1850-1950 Vancouver Island attracted Imperial officers and other Imperials from India, the British Isles, and elsewhere in the Empire. Victoria was the main British port on the north-west Pacific Coast for forty years before the city of Vancouver was founded in 1886 to be the coastal terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway. These two coastal cities were historically and geographically different. The Island joined Canada in 1871 and thirty-five years later the Royal Navy withdrew from Esquimalt, but Island communities did not lose their Imperial character until the 1950s."--P. [4] of cover.