"Lost in Barkerville is a young reader novel in which two students and their teacher, Miss Reid, are on a school field trip to Yale. Once there in Yale, they travel back in time to Fort Yale in 1866. They then travel up the Cariboo Wagon Road to Barkerville, find work there and live for a time. Then their friend is caught up in a murder trial. At first it is thought that Judge Begbie will sentence him to hang, but one of the boys intervenes and the sentence is changed to life in prison. The second boy then arranges for their friend's brother to come to Barkerville and present new evidence to Judge Begbie and their friend is released. The trio finally return "in time" to Fort Yale and meet up once again with the members of their field trip. The author, Bitten Acherman, has done much research into the gold rush period, and she introduces a great deal of factual information into the novel about the Cariboo gold rush, Fort Yale, the Cariboo Wagon Road and Barkerville, with accounts of many of the larger-than life characters of the time, such as Billy Barker and Judge Begbie, but also many of the lesser-known people of the time."--

This pictorial history tells the stories of the lives involved in this tumultuous but decisive moment in Canadian history.

This time the trio is in historic Barkerville, a gold rush town with a secret. Rusty, Katie and Sheila are sent out of town with Rusty's grandparents to keep them out of trouble. After witnessing what they take to be a ghost in the night, the three friends find themselves involved in a mystery from the past that seems to have a few other people interested as well. New information has come to light about a fortune in missing gold, a centuries-old curse and a missing miner. While the three budding detectives try and figure out which of the aging prospectors they keep running into is actually a ghost, they find they are in a race against time to recover the gold and return it to its rightful owners to avert a tragedy. Will they find the gold in time? Or will they suffer the fate of Three Finger Evans, the missing miner?

Powerful and diligent, Peter O’Reilly played a role in shaping British Columbia in the last quarter of the 1800s. An immigrant from Ireland, O’Reilly landed in Victoria during the height of the Cariboo Gold Rush and was appointed gold commissioner for BC. He held the position of county court judge, and sorted settler and Native disputes, despite often having to function as an assistant land commissioner. From 1880 to 1898, O’Reilly was the federally appointed BC Indian Reserve Lands commissioner. Many of his decisions about the location and size of Native reserves continue to be challenged in the courts to this day. In Peter O’Reilly, we also see the private side of this industrious man, a man who enjoyed the vast wilderness for years, on horseback or by foot, on snowshoes or in a canoe. He had many acquaintances and two close friends, Sir Matthew Baillie Begbie and Edward Dewdney. He lived with his cherished wife, Caroline Trutch O’Reilly, and their children at Point Ellice House in Victoria, BC.

This book describes the experiences of the author's great-uncle, Wilberforce Cooper, who was an Anglican priest ministering to the people of Vancouver's downtown east side during 1921-1952. Reverend Cooper began his ecclesiastical calling in the slums of London and then as a British Army chaplain in the hospitals and trenches of WW1 before moving to Canada - first to the B.C. Cariboo and then to be the rector of St. James Church in Vancouver. During the early-mid 1900s the East End of Vancouver was home to most of the city's poor, homeless, addicted and unemployed, and was a magnet for illegal intoxicants, disreputable venues and prostitution. In addition, the East End was where Chinese and Japanese immigrants had settled and their presence attracted the continuing attention of white racists. And all this vice and prejudice was enabled by a corrupt Civic Administration that depended upon graft. This was the parish that Father Cooper presided over and where he became well known and loved as someone who cared and fought for the physical as well as the spiritual wellbeing of each individual resident. The author has made use of unpublished memoirs as well as stories in newspapers and other writings to document his great-uncle's life and times. While a number of references to Rev. Cooper's religious thought and outreach can be found in the literature, this is the first book to address his work and actions solidly within the context of the social and political milieu of the Lower Mainland during his tenure.

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Presenting the three titles in the acclaimed Barkerville mystery series. This series based in 1860s British Columbia focuses on strange events in the life of teenager Ted MacIntosh. In Moses, Me, and Murder, Ted gets caught up in the mystery of a disappearance and murder in the gold fields. In The Doctor’s Apprentice, Ted is apprenticed to an eccentric doctor who has dark secrets. In the concluding By the Skin of His Teeth, Ted befriends a young Chinese boy despite the intense prejudice seething in the frontier town. Exciting and entertaining, these novels present a unique view on life on the frontier. Includes Moses, Me, and Murder The Doctor’s Apprentice By the Skin of His Teeth