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Voices from the Sound : chronicles of Clayoquot Sound and Tofino, 1899-1929 / Margaret Horsfield.

Summary:

"Remarkable characters from Clayoquot Sound jostle for attention in Voices from the Sound. Storekeepers and sealers, prospectors and priests, schoolchildren, settlers and native people - in the early decades of the twentieth century, their lives intersected in the small world and vast distances of Vancouver Island's remote west coast. Now the voices of these people can be heard once again, in chatty and revealing detail. They come alive, just as cantankerous or eccentric, pitiable or brave as they were in their own lifetimes.

Discovered in long-forgotten letters, diaries and scraps of memoir, these "voices" tell their own stories in their own words, revealing in vivid detail what it was like to live on the west coast in the early 1900s.

Set against a background of rapid social and economic change, Voices from the Sound examines the years 1899 to 1929 on the west coast. These years saw the demise of the fur seal trade, the coming of scheduled steamships and the development of commercial whaling, logging and fishing. Zealous missionaries radically altered the lives of native people, while the upstart settlement called Tofino gradually eclipsed nearby Clayoquot as the dominant community in the area.

Voices from the Sound is based on thousands of first-hand documents, written by people in the area. When Margaret Horsfield began unearthing all these obscure west coast documents in unlikely locations, she found herself nearly deafened by a cacophony of voices from Clayoquot Sound. She draws us skilfully into their world, allowing these voices be heard, revealing the high hopes, bitter losses, and cockeyed dreams that dominated the lives of many people on the west coast."--www.voicesfromthesound.com/clayoquot-history/

Record details

ISBN: 9780969700821
ISBN: 0969700822
Physical Description: 365 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 27 cm
Publisher: Nanaimo, B.C. : Salal Books, ©2008.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	1. Up the Coast -- 2. A Hot Time in Ahousat -- 3. Kakawis -- 4. Dear Mr. Dawley -- 5. Priests at Sea -- 6. A Bunch of Boys -- 7. Around the Sound -- 8. Vital Events -- 9. Liquid Dominion -- 10. Hesquiat Days -- 11. A Winter's Tale -- 12. Next Boat -- 13. Dear Father -- 14. A Go-Ahead Little Settlement -- 15. Writing Under Difficulties -- 16. Affliction -- 17. Dearest Girl -- 18. Silences.