Imperial Eden
Victoria BC in Verse c. 1858-1920
Imperial Eden is a collection of poems written mainly by citizens of Victoria, British Columbia, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries about that city. Established in 1843 as a Hudson's Bay Company trading post, Victoria became the capital of the province in 1866. Before the opening of the Panama Canal and the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, however, its inhabitants were relatively isolated from the rest of North America. The city's beautiful location and its semi-Mediterranean climate inspired visitors, locals, and poets to describe it as a paradise. But this remote Eden, surrounded by mountains, fore…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4907-5010-1
- EAN: 9781490750101
- Produktnummer: 17308436
- Verlag: Trafford Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D2.2 cm 637 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken mit Schutzumschlag
- Gewicht: 637
Über den Autor
A Native of Victoria BC, Rob Taylor attended school there before going on to the University of Victoria (Victoria College), the University of British Columbia (BA History and English, MA History), Hamburg University, and Stanford University (PhD History). In St. Catharines, Ontario, he taught European History at Brock University, where he is Professor emeritus. He has published on German architecture and on the history of St Catharines and Victoria. He has also co-authored histories of the Welland Canals. Interested in how we react to our built environment, he was a co- founder of the Welland Canals Preservation Association and founding secretary of the Canadian Canal Society, and served on St Catharines Local Architecture Conservation Advisory Committee. He was active in the Niagara Opera Guild and Torch International. He lives in Victoria, where he has worked as a docent at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria....
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