Some Reminiscences of Old Victoria, by Edgar Fawcett. Toronto: William Briggs. 1912. A nicely told personal memoir by Fawcett (1847-1923, immigrated to Victoria 1859). I read his words as accurately detailed, and they… Continue reading
Just to bring alive for you one of the uses we talk about the Jargon having–a “token of pioneer identity”, a “badge of Northwesternness”–I give you the following correspondence, nine letters that were… Continue reading
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
I’ve written about the lexical contributions of Chinook Jargon to our Pacific Northwest English. But here’s a piece about English speakers’ fairly early view of CJ as a kind of slang of its… Continue reading
“The Story of a Stump.” (Click to see it deciphered.) First page: Page 2: Found by a miracle, in Google Books. (“Forest and Stream” magazine, December 5, 1903, pages 438-439, by HG Dulog.)… Continue reading
