Ranch in the Slocan

Ranch in the Slocan
Title Ranch in the Slocan PDF eBook
Author Cole Harris
Publisher Harbour Publishing
Pages 308
Release 2018-05-19
Genre History
ISBN 1550178245

Download Ranch in the Slocan Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

In 1888, a prosperous industrial family in Calne, Wiltshire, sent one of its younger sons, a lad judged to have no head for business, to Guelph Agricultural College in Ontario to learn to be a farmer. Joseph Colebrook Harris, the author’s grandfather, didn’t take to Ontario and after visiting a friend on Salt Spring Island, fell in love with BC. Eventually fetching up on the shores of the Slocan Lake, Joe bought 270 acres of hilly land in the Slocan Valley, less than thirty acres of which was really fit for farming, and began clearing the forest to build a ranch. Here is the story of Harris’s life and the next 120 years of the ranch’s, including the discovery of a silver–lead mine on the property, a period as a Japanese internment camp, brushes with American counterculture and the back-to-the-land movement, family conflicts, and an uncertain future. In detail, Ranch in the Slocan is a very particular story, but its elements have repeated themselves across Canada. Settlers lived within bounded space, of which the Harris ranch is an extreme example, and adapted to cultural and social changes. Drawing from letters, diaries, family stories and recollections, photographs, as well as official records, Harris offers a case study in the history of homesteading, and a portrait of his family’s experiences in the Slocan Valley. The Harris ranch produced a little income now and then but was not, and never has been, a commercial success. Its yield was not so much measured by the market as by the more intangible pleasures of living within a diverse local economy in a remarkable place.

The Reluctant Land

The Reluctant Land
Title The Reluctant Land PDF eBook
Author Cole Harris
Publisher UBC Press
Pages 512
Release 2009-01-01
Genre History
ISBN 0774858389

Download The Reluctant Land Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Winner, 2008 K.D. Srivastava Prize for Excellence in Scholarly Publishing, UBC Press The Reluctant Land describes the evolving pattern of settlement and the changing relationships of people and land in Canada from the end of the fifteenth century to the Confederation years of the late 1860s and early 1870s. It shows how a deeply indigenous land was reconstituted in European terms, and, at the same time, how European ways were recalibrated in this non-European space. It also shows how an archipelago of scattered settlement emerged out of an encounter with a parsimonious territory, and suggests how deeply this encounter differed from an American relationship with abundance. The book begins with a description of land and life in northern North America in 1500, and ends by considering the relationship between the pattern of early Canada and the country as we know it today. Intended to illuminate the background of modern Canada, The Reluctant Land is an intelligent discussion of people and place that will be welcomed by scholars and lay readers alike.

Obasan

Obasan
Title Obasan PDF eBook
Author Joy Kogawa
Publisher Penguin
Pages 258
Release 2016-09-13
Genre Fiction
ISBN 073523390X

Download Obasan Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Winner of the American Book Award Based on the author's own experiences, this award-winning novel was the first to tell the story of the evacuation, relocation, and dispersal of Canadian citizens of Japanese ancestry during the Second World War.

Children of the Kootenays

Children of the Kootenays
Title Children of the Kootenays PDF eBook
Author Shirley D. Stainton
Publisher Heritage House Publishing Co
Pages 326
Release 2018-04-23
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1772031860

Download Children of the Kootenays Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

A warm-hearted memoir of a childhood spent living in various mining towns in the Kootenays throughout the 1930s and ’40s. When young Shirley Doris Hall and her family moved to BC’s West Kootenay region in 1927, the area was a hub of mining activity. Shirley’s father, a cook, had no problem finding work at the mining camps, and the family dutifully followed him from town to town as his services were sought after. For Shirley and her brother, Ray—described as both her confidant and her nemesis—mining camps were the backdrop of their youth. The instant close-knit communities that formed around them; the freedom of barely tamed wilderness; and the struggles of the Depression years and the war that followed created an unlikely environment for a happy childhood. Yet Shirley’s memories reveal that it was indeed a magical time and place in which to grow up. Children of the Kootenays paints a lively portrait of this forgotten period in BC history—of mining towns that are now ghost towns—told from the unique perspective of a young girl.

Wrigley's British Columbia Directory

Wrigley's British Columbia Directory
Title Wrigley's British Columbia Directory PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 1346
Release 1922
Genre British Columbia
ISBN

Download Wrigley's British Columbia Directory Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

The Resettlement of British Columbia

The Resettlement of British Columbia
Title The Resettlement of British Columbia PDF eBook
Author Cole Harris
Publisher UBC Press
Pages 338
Release 2011-11-01
Genre History
ISBN 0774842563

Download The Resettlement of British Columbia Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

In this beautifully crafted collection of essays, Cole Harris reflects on the strategies of colonialism in British Columbia during the first 150 years after the arrival of European settlers. The pervasive displacement of indigenous people by the newcomers, the mechanisms by which it was accomplished, and the resulting effects on the landscape, social life, and history of Canada's western-most province are examined through the dual lenses of post-colonial theory and empirical data. By providing a compelling look at the colonial construction of the province, the book revises existing perceptions of the history and geography of British Columbia.

Annual Report of the Minister of Mines for the Year Ending ...

Annual Report of the Minister of Mines for the Year Ending ...
Title Annual Report of the Minister of Mines for the Year Ending ... PDF eBook
Author British Columbia. Department of Mines
Publisher
Pages 1100
Release 1918
Genre Mineral industries
ISBN

Download Annual Report of the Minister of Mines for the Year Ending ... Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle