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Book Collection #1 All about B.C. & B.C.authors - $12,345 (coquitlam centre)
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Grizzlies in Their Backyard - Beth Day (softcover) $3
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Grandma Wears Hiking Boots - Laurie Carter (softcover) $3
A personal guide to the Okanagan Valley
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Go Do Some Great Thing - Crawford Kilian (hardcover) $15
The Black Pioneers of British Columbia
Published 1978/No dustcover/stock pic
Off the internet
Living in pre-Civil War Philadelphia, young Black activist Mifflin Gibbs was feeling disheartened from fighting the overwhelming tide of White America’s legalized racism when abolitionist Julia Griffith encouraged him to “go do some great thing.” These words helped inspire him to become a successful merchant in San Francisco, and then to seek a more just society in the new colony of Vancouver Island, where he was to become a prominent citizen and elected official.
The voyage north of some 600 blacks from San Francisco to Victoria during the 1858 Fraser Canyon Gold Rush was one of the most unusual mass migrations in North American history. While the British colonies of the Pacific Northwest were overrun with migrants from all lands on the quest for gold, this black community sought freedom and political enfranchisement as much as fortune.
GO DO SOME GREAT THING describes a history that stands at the crossroads of multiple national narratives—the imperial contest between Britain and the United States, the emergence of Canada as a state, the fate of dozens of First Nations, and the furthest and most unlikely reaches of the global African diaspora.
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Focus on British Columbia - Lyndn Grove (hardcover) $5
Photographs by British Columbians
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The Nature Trust of British Columbia (hardcover) $5
35 years of conservation
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Vancouver From Milltown to Metropolis - Alan Morley (1961 hardcover) $15
1961 1st Edition, no dustcover
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Raincoast Chronicles First Five - Edited by Howard White (softcover) $15
Stories & History of the B.C.Coast
Collector’s Edition, 1989
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Raincoast Chronicles Forgotten Villages of the BC Coast - edited by Howard White (softcover) $10
A fascinating mix of prose, poetry, book reviews, artwork and photographs.
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pending Flying the Frontiers - Shirlee Smith Matheson (softcover) $2
"Flying the Frontiers "brings to life tales from the log books and journals of people for whom aviation is a way of life.
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Timbercruisers - W.Endert (hardcover) $2
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Pacific Spirit The Forest Reborn - Patrick Moore (softcover) $5
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The Living Land - Roderick Haig-Brown (hardcover) $15
Published in 1961. An Account of the natural resources of British Columbia.
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Merritt & the Nicola Valley An Illustrated History (softcover) $15
Published by the Nicola Valley Achives Association
Off the internet
Over 230 photographs, sketches and newspaper advertisements illustrate this history of Merritt and the Nicola Valley - the heart of southwestern British Columbia. Staff and volunteers at the Nicola Valley Museum and Archives researched, wrote and designed this handsome volume. It includes many previously unpublished historical photographs.
The photographs and illustrations are tied together by accounts of the pioneers and life in the Nicola Valley, beginning with the Interior Salish Indians and the fur traders. Coal mining, ranching and logging are also amply illustrated as well as transportation, recreation, sports, culture and the valley communities.