A Traveller's Guide to Historic British Columbia
Publisher: Whitecap Books
Published: October 1993
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781551100951
Subjects: Canada - History; Travel; Canada; Travel Guides
First sentence: "Vancouver Island has been not unaptly designated the England of the great Western ocean," wrote Matthew Macfie in the 1860s, "and it is no exaggeration to assert that it only requires a vigorous application of British capital, enterprise and labour in the development of its resources, to secure for it supremacy as a commercial and manufacturing centre in the Western Hemisphere."