Kilts on the coast : the Scots who built BC
Peterson, Jan, 1937-2018
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When the Hudson's Bay Company decided to establish its new Pacific coast headquarters at Fort Victoria on Vancouver Island in 1843, the Island was a pristine paradise - or an isolated wilderness, depending on one's point of view - that had sustained its First Nations inhabitants for millennia. It was one of the last places to be discovered and settled by Europeans in North America. It was Scots who came to the Island to manage the Company's business in Fort Victoria, engaging in the fur trade and establishing coal-mining ventures around what is now Nanaimo, where 'black diamonds' were found in abundance. From founding father James Douglas and other high-placed Company men to the humble miners from Orkney and Ayrshire who were brought over on harsh voyages around Cape Horn to work Nanaimo's mines, the Scottish influence on the young Colony of Vancouver Island was indelible.
Main title:
Kilts on the coast : the Scots who built BC / Jan Peterson.
Author:
Peterson, Jan, 1937-, author
Imprint:
Victoria : Heritage House, 2018.
Collation:
272 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Series title:
Notes:
Before emigrating to Canada, Jan Petersen (nee Jenny Craig), lived with her parents and siblings at Ryelandside Farm, and was educated at Gilmourton Primary and Strathaven Academy.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781927051276 (pbk)
Dewey class:
971.12020922411971.1202MA820.PETE973
LC class:
F1089.V3
Local class:
971.102
Language:
English
Subject:
Pioneers -- British Columbia -- Vancouver Island -- BiographyScots -- British Columbia -- Vancouver Island -- BiographyImmigrants -- British Columbia -- Vancouver Island -- BiographyMiners -- British Columbia -- Vancouver Island -- BiographyVancouver Island (B.C.) -- Economic conditions -- 19th centuryVancouver Island (B.C.) -- History -- 19th centuryVancouver Island (B.C.) -- BiographyBiography
Index terms:
OrkneyHudson's Bay CompanyStromnessOrcadiansFlett, JohnKirkwallIsbister, WilliamMarwick, JohnFinlay, ChristopherStove, JamesSmith, ThomasMalcolm, JohnFirth, RobertHorne, Adam GrantSabiston, John FlettSabiston, PeterSabiston, JamesPapley, PeterPapley, AlexanderPapley, JosephWork, JohnWork, MargaretWork, James LeaskRitch, William
BRN:
1629426
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