Kluckner, Michael.

Vanishing British Columbia. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (224 pages)

Intro -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- THEMES & -- VARIATIONS -- Shelter from the storm -- Places of exile and Utopia -- Corridors -- Governments and other institutions -- Company towns -- Folkloric landscapes -- The architecture of mobility -- SOUTHWESTERN MAINLAND -- The Lower Mainland -- Wong's Market -- Dewdney store -- Howe Sound and Union Steamships -- Hermit Island -- Gower Point -- Powell River -- Britannia Beach -- Lund -- Savary Island -- HOPE-PRINCETON & -- TULAMEEN -- The Dewdney Trail and Camp Defiance -- The Great Northern Railway and the Kettle Valley Railway (Hedley, Coalmont and Brookmere) -- Thynne Lake Ranch and a Guichon ranch house -- THE OKANAGAN -- The J. M. Robinson towns (Summerland, Naramata and Peachland) -- Kelowna orchards and Fintry -- Coldstream and Lavington -- Beaverdell Hotel -- BOUNDARY COUNTRY -- Anarchist Mountain and Ingram Mountain ranches -- Greenwood -- Doukhobor villages (Grand Forks and the West Kootenays) -- THE KOOTENAYS -- The Silvery Slocan (Nelson, Salmo, Trail, Blaylock Estate, Ainsworth Hot Springs and Trout Lake City) -- New Denver -- The Japanese-Canadian internment -- Sandon -- Creston, Canal Flats and Wynndel -- Yahk -- St. Eugene's Mission -- FRASER-THOMPSON-SHUSWAP -- Fraser Canyon, Yale and Spuzzum -- Alexandra Lodge, auto camps, motels and Siska Lodge -- North Bend -- Spences Bridge, Toketic, Pokhaist and Basque -- Walhachin -- The Calhounfarm near Tappen -- Shuswap cabins -- Tranquille -- VANCOUVER ISLAND -- The Esquimalt & -- f Nanaimo Railway -- Victoria, Saanich and Nanaimo -- Galiano -- Saltapring -- Mayne islands -- Island Motoring (Union Bay) -- Qualicum Beach -- Eaglecrest -- Alert Bay and Sointula -- Denman Island -- Zeballos -- THE CARIBOO & -- THE CHILCOTIN -- Lillooet -- Bralorne -- Pavilion -- Clinton, the Cariboo Road, madhouses at Cottonwood, 137 Mile and 183 Mile. Williams Lake -- Wells -- Blue River store -- THE NORTH -- The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (Prince George, Dunster, McBride, Kitwanga, Prince Rupert, Evelyn and Quick) -- Hagwilget and Gitsegukla -- Burns Lake -- Stewart -- Atlin -- The Peace -- The Queen Charlottes -- THE FUTURE -- Environmentalism, heritage preservation, government policies and individual attitudes toward modern British Columbia -- BACK MATTER -- Painting Notes -- Additional Notes & -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

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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.


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