Vanishing British Columbia
By: Michael Kluckner.
Publisher: UBC Press; University of Washington Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Vancouver; Seattle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Historic sites -- British Columbia -- Pictorial works; Historic buildings -- British Columbia -- Pictorial works; Cities and towns -- British Columbia -- Pictorial works; Watercolor painting -- British Columbia; British Columbia -- History, Local -- Pictorial works; British Columbia -- History, Local
Genres: Pictorial works.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-220) and index.
Table of contents: title: Shelter from the storm; title: Places of exile and utopia; title: Corridors; title: Governments and other institutions; title: Company towns; title: Folkloric landscapes; title: The architecture of mobility; title: The lower mainland; title: Wong's Market; title: Dewdney Store; title: Howe Sound and union steamships; title: Hermit Island; title: Gower Point; title: Powell River; title: Britannia Beach; title: Lund; title: Savary Island; title: The Dewdney Trail and Camp Defiance; title: The Great Northern Railway and the Kettle Valley Railway (Hedley, Coalmont and Brookmere); title: Thynne Lake Ranch and a Guichon Ranch house; title: The J.M. Robinson towns (Summerland, Naramata and Peachland); title: Kelowna Orchards and Fintry; title: Coldstream and Lavington; title: Beaverdell Hotel; title: Anarchist Mountain and Ingram Mountain ranches; title: Greenwood; title: Doukhobor villages (Grand Forks and the West Kootenays); title: The Silvery Slocan (Nelson, Salmo, Trail, Blaylock Estate, Ainsworth Hot Springs and Trout Lake City); title: New Denver; title: The Japanese-Canadian internment; title: Sandon; title: Creston, Canal Flats and Wynndel; title: Yahk; title: St. Eugene's Mission; title: Fraser Canyon, Yale and Spuzzum; title: Alexandra Lodge, auto camps, motels and Siska Lodge; title: North bend; title: Spences bridge, toketic, pokhaist and basque; title: Walhachin; title: The calhoun Farm near Tappen; title: Shuswap cabins; title: Tranquille; title: The Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway; title: Victoria, Saanich and Nanaimo; title: Galiano, Saltspring and Mayne Islands; title: Island motoring (Union Bay); title: Qualicum Beach; title: Eaglecrest; title: Alert Bay and Sointula; title: Denman Island; title: Zeballos; title: Lillooet; title: Bralorne; title: Pavilion; title: Clinton, the Cariboo Road, roadhouses at Cottonwood, 137 Mile and 183 Mile; title: Williams Lake; title: Wells; title: Blue River Store; title: The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (prince George, Dunster, Mcbride, Kitwanga, Prince Rupert, Evelyn and Quick); title: Hagwilget and Gitsegukla; title: Burns Lake; title: Stewart; title: Atlin; title: The peace; title: The Queen Charlottes; title: Environmentalism, heritage preservation, government policies and individual attitudes toward modern British Columbia.