Imperial Vancouver Island: Who Was Who, 1850-1950

Imperial Vancouver Island: Who Was Who, 1850-1950
ISBN-10
1450059635
ISBN-13
9781450059633
Category
History
Pages
839
Language
English
Published
2010-04
Publisher
Xlibris Corporation
Author
J. F. Bosher

Description

"During the century 1850-1950 Vancouver Island attracted Imperial officers and other Imperials from India, the British Isles, and elsewhere in the Empire. Victoria was the main British port on the north-west Pacific Coast for forty years before the city of Vancouver was founded in 1886 to be the coastal terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway. These two coastal cities were historically and geographically different. The Island joined Canada in 1871 and thirty-five years later the Royal Navy withdrew from Esquimalt, but Island communities did not lose their Imperial character until the 1950s."--P. [4] of cover.

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