Report of the Columbia Mission. London: Rivingtons, Waterloo Place, 1860 [sic]. A record of the doings of Dr. George Hills (hardly mentioned by name in this book!), the first Anglican Bishop of Columbia, on the Northwest… Continue reading
Four Years in British Columbia and Vancouver Island: An Account of Their Forests, Rivers, Coasts, Gold Fields and Resources for Colonisation By Richard C. Mayne. London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1862. More or less a… Continue reading
A “Letter from Frazer River” [sic, the usual spelling back then] takes up parts of columns 3 and 4 on page 2 in the Olympia, Washington Territory Pioneer and Democrat edition of Friday, August… Continue reading
Looking through an antiquarian bookseller’s website, I spied a neat-sounding book that was new to me. They wanted a shocking price, but Google Books had it as a free ebook 🙂 Turns out… Continue reading
Spoiler alert: What is a tea-tea? (Scroll to bottom.) Glauert, Earl T. and Merle H. Kunz (eds.) 1976. Kittitas frontiersmen. Ellensburg, WA: Ellensburg Public Library. FYI about ‘Kittitas’: the pronunciation [KITTittass] is usual… Continue reading
