The land of heart's delight : early maps and charts of Vancouver Island

Layland, Michael 1938- (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9781771510158 (hc)
Physical Description: print
232 p. : col. ill., maps (chiefly col.) ; 25 x 27 cm.
Publisher: Victoria, BC : TouchWood Editions, c2013.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-222) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Maps of speculation and myth -- Maps of mystery and intrigue -- First European contact: Spaniards anchor at San Lorenzo -- Makook! With Cook at Nootka -- Soft gold: sea otter traders -- Imperial flashpoint: Nootka, 1789 -- "Exploration will resolve the doubts" -- "No place more eligible": Anglo-Hispanic collaboration -- "A perfect 'Eden'": James Douglas selects a New Fort -- Settling into Fort Victoria: doubts over tenuous tenure -- "In free and common Socage": colonization by contract -- Pemberton and Pearse survey Vancouver Island's Southeastern districts -- Explosive growth: Victoria feels the impact of the gold rush -- The San Juan dispute: cartographic neglect - and a pig - almost trigger a war -- "Navigating this boisterous neighbourhood": George Richards's hydrography -- "The back of the world": Vancouver Island under the crown colonial -- The Vancouver Island exploring expeditions: Brown, Leech, Meade, and Buttle Head Inland -- Canada's new province: to celebrate, Joseph Trutch orders a map -- The two-million-acre dowry: the Esquimalt & Nanaimo railway's land grant -- "The most perfect map": Tom Kains's campaigns -- "Vancouver Island by land and water": Reverend William Bolton and The Province expeditions -- The new century: the dominion comes to the rescue -- "A sea of mountains": Strathcona Park.