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Title

Vanishing British Columbia / Michael Kluckner.

Author

Kluckner, Michael.

Publication

Vancouver : UBC Press ; Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2005.

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Details

Description

223 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.); 29 cm.

Subject

• Historic sites > British Columbia > Pictorial works
• Historic buildings > British Columbia > Pictorial works
• Cities and towns > British Columbia > Pictorial works
• Watercolor painting > British Columbia
• British Columbia > History, Local > Pictorial works
• British Columbia > History, Local
• Colombie-Britannique > Histoire

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-220) and index.

Contents

Shelter from the storm -- Places of exile and utopia -- Corridors -- Governments and other institutions -- Company towns -- Folkloric landscapes -- The architecture of mobility -- The lower mainland -- Wong's Market -- Dewdney Store -- Howe Sound and union steamships -- Hermit Island -- Gower Point -- Powell River -- Britannia Beach -- Lund -- Savary Island -- The Dewdney Trail and Camp Defiance -- The Great Northern Railway and the Kettle Valley Railway (Hedley, Coalmont and Brookmere) -- Thynne Lake Ranch and a Guichon Ranch house -- The J.M. Robinson towns (Summerland, Naramata and Peachland) -- Kelowna Orchards and Fintry -- Coldstream and Lavington -- Beaverdell Hotel -- Anarchist Mountain and Ingram Mountain ranches -- Greenwood -- Doukhobor villages (Grand Forks and the West Kootenays) -- The Silvery Slocan (Nelson, Salmo, Trail, Blaylock Estate, Ainsworth Hot Springs and Trout Lake City) -- New Denver -- The Japanese-Canadian internment -- Sandon -- Creston, Canal Flats and Wynndel -- Yahk -- St. Eugene's Mission -- Fraser Canyon, Yale and Spuzzum -- Alexandra Lodge, auto camps, motels and Siska Lodge -- North bend -- Spences bridge, toketic, pokhaist and basque -- Walhachin -- The calhoun Farm near Tappen -- Shuswap cabins -- Tranquille -- The Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway -- Victoria, Saanich and Nanaimo -- Galiano, Saltspring and Mayne Islands -- Island motoring (Union Bay) -- Qualicum Beach -- Eaglecrest -- Alert Bay and Sointula -- Denman Island -- Zeballos -- Lillooet -- Bralorne -- Pavilion -- Clinton, the Cariboo Road, roadhouses at Cottonwood, 137 Mile and 183 Mile -- Williams Lake -- Wells -- Blue River Store -- The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (prince George, Dunster, Mcbride, Kitwanga, Prince Rupert, Evelyn and Quick) -- Hagwilget and Gitsegukla -- Burns Lake -- Stewart -- Atlin -- The peace -- The Queen Charlottes -- Environmentalism, heritage preservation, government policies and individual attitudes toward modern British Columbia.

Call Number

JFF 05-2828

ISBN

• 0295984937 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0774811250

LCCN

2004023543

OCLC

56319560

Author

Kluckner, Michael.

Title

Vanishing British Columbia / Michael Kluckner.

Imprint

Vancouver : UBC Press ; Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2005.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-220) and index.

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Research Call Number

JFF 05-2828