Imperial Vancouver Islands : who was who, 1850-1950

Summary: During the century 1850-1950 Vancouver Island attracted Imperial officers and other Imperials from India, the British Isles, and elsewhere in the Empire. Victoria was the main British port on the north-west Pacific Coast for forty years before the city of Vancouver was founded in 1886 to be the coastal terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway. These two coastal cities were historically and geographically different. The Island joined Canada in 1871 and thirty-five years later the Royal Navy withdrew from Esquimalt, but Island communities did not lose their Imperial character until the 1950s.

Record details

ISBN: 9781450059633 (hc.)
ISBN: 9781450059626 (sc.)
ISBN: 1450059635 (hc.)
ISBN: 1450059627 (sc.)
Physical Description: print
839 pages : ill ; 24 cm.
Publisher: [Bloomington?] : Xlibris Corporation, [2010], 2010.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	A Canadian continental outlook -- The Island in the pax Britannica -- The Island's attractions for imperials -- Officers from India and the British Isles -- -- Exporting the glorious revolution of 1688-1689 -- The Island in the second British Empire.