Julie H. Ferguson 
James Douglas [EPUB ebook] 
Father of British Columbia

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James Douglas’s story is one of high adventure in pre-Confederation Canada. It weaves through the heart of Canadian and Pacific Northwest history when British Columbia was a wild land, Vancouver didn’t exist, and Victoria was a muddy village.

Part black and illegitimate, Douglas was born in British Guiana (now Guyana) in 1803 to a Scottish plantation owner and a mixed-race woman. After schooling in Scotland, the fifteen-year-old Douglas sailed to Canada in 1819 to join the fur trade. With roads non-existent, he travelled thousands of miles each year, using the rivers and lakes as his highways. He paddled canoes, drove dogsleds, and snowshoed to his destinations.

Douglas became a hard-nosed fur trader, married a part-Cree wife, and nearly provoked a war between Britain and the United States over the San Juan Islands on the West Coast. When he was in his prime, he established Victoria and secrured the western region of British North America from the Russian Empire and the expansionist Americans. Eventually, Douglas became the controversial governor of the Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia and oversaw the frenzied Fraser and Cariboo gold rushes.

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Julie H. Ferguson, a successful author and speaker, has been writing about the Canadian submarine service since 1984. Julie’s submarine articles have appeared in Legion magazine, Sea Power, USNI Proceedings, and elsewhere; her second submarine book, Deeply Canadian: New Submarines for a New Millennium, was published in 2000.

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Lingua Inglese ● Formato EPUB ● Pagine 240 ● ISBN 9781770705647 ● Dimensione 1.6 MB ● Casa editrice Dundurn ● Città Toronto ● Paese CA ● Pubblicato 2009 ● Scaricabile 24 mesi ● Moneta EUR ● ID 2482686 ● Protezione dalla copia Adobe DRM
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