Sound heritage : voices from British Columbia

Book

Sound heritage : voices from British Columbia / Saeko Usukawa and the editors of the Sound heritage series.

Usukawa, Saeko, 1946- (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0888944438
ISBN: 9780888944436
Physical Description: 276 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm.
Publisher: Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre, ©1984.

Content descriptions

General Note:: "The stories ... in this book are among the best to appear in the Sound Heritage Series"--Jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-276).
Formatted Contents Note:: Pt. I. Those Who Came Before. Legends and History of the Native Peoples: The Flood, A True Story ; How the Animals and Birds Got Their Names ; Underground Homes of the Lillooet ; How We the Native People Lived ; The Meeting of Captain Cook and Chief Maquinna ; Forming Tender Ties: Fur Trader Fred Thornberg -- Now You Are My Brother: Early Missionaries: The "Romantic" Missionary: Robert Tomlinson ; Indian Memories of Mission School ; Nursing Sisters -- Pt. II. Settling the Frontier. Dreams of Freedom: Special Colonies : Into a Wild Country: Norwegians at Bella Coola ; No Paradise, No Utopia: Danes at Cape Scott ; Away from the Outside World: Finns at Sointula ; Toil and Peaceful Life: Doukhobors in the Kootenays -- Pioneer Lives and Times: Ranches on the Open Range ; Grow Fruit and Grow Rich ; Packing Along the Telegraph Trail ; In Search of Silver and Gold ; Andy Daney, a Rough and Ready Man ; Whatever the Weather: Red-Shirt Bill and the Royal Mail ; Free and Fearless: Children of the Backwoods ; Greenhorns, Mudpups and Remittance Men ; The Squire of Saltspring Island ; Dream Isle: Fred tibbs and His Castle ; Swiss Climbing Guides in the Rockies ; Expeditions to Mystery Mountain -- From Settlements to Cities: Victoria: A City of Mud and Dust ; Chinatown and the Chinese ; Chasing Cows and Chickens in the City ; Hobo Jungles and Hopping Freights ; Bootleggers and Gamblers in Hogan's Alley ; The Internment of the Japanese -- Pt. III. Hopes High, Dollars Few, Working People. Men of the Forest: Those Days in the Woods ; Roughhouse Pete and Other Characters ; In and Out of Camp -- Down in the Coal Mines: "The Big Strike" of 1912 ; Sixteen Tons a Day -- Fishing the Seas: Gill netters on the Skeena ; Trolling off the West Coast ; Fighting for Labour: Hunger Marches, Relief Camps and the On-to-Ottawa Trek ; The "Bloody Sunday" of 1938 -- Pt. IV. On Land, Over Water and Through the Air. Day of Steam: The Railways : The Glacier Slide ; Post Office on Wheels ; The CPR Motor Car on Rails -- Navigating the Coast: Swift Water: Upriver by Canoe and Riverboat ; Passengers and Freight of Every Description ; Navigating by Whistle and Echo ; The Life of a Lighthouse Keeper -- Flying Was in Our Blood: Early Aviation: The Spirit of Adventure ; Crash Landing ; Barnstorming to Make a Dollar ; Bush Pilots.