James Douglas
Father of British Columbia
James Douglas's story is one of high adventure in pre-Confederation Canada. It weaves through the heart of Canadian and Pacific Northwest history when British Columbia was a wild land, Vancouver didn't exist, and Victoria was a muddy village. Part black and illegitimate, Douglas was born in British Guiana (now Guyana) in 1803 to a Scottish plantation owner and a mixed-race woman. After schooling in Scotland, the fifteen-year-old Douglas sailed to Canada in 1819 to join the fur trade. With roads non-existent, he travelled thousands of miles each year, using the rivers and lakes as his highways. He paddled canoes, drove dogsleds, and snowshoed…
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- ISBN: 978-1-77070-564-7
- EAN: 9781770705647
- Produktnummer: 20461021
- Verlag: Dundurn
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'551 KB
- Reihenbandnummer: 25
Über den Autor
Julie H. Ferguson, a successful author and speaker, has been writing about the Canadian submarine service since 1984. Julie's submarine articles have appeared in Legion magazine, Sea Power, USNI Proceedings, and elsewhere; her second submarine book, Deeply Canadian: New Submarines for a New Millennium, was published in 2000.
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