British Columbia: A New Historical Atlas
By Derek Hayes.
Description
A colourful and wide-ranging history of Canada's most western province illustrated with over nine hundred contemporary mapsBritish Columbia was among the last temperate places on Earth to appear on the map of the world, a function of its position-remote from Europe. When gold was finally discovered in quantity in 1858, leading to the gold rush that created British Columbia as a new colony, the interior was mostly unknown except for the routes blazed by the fur traders seeking the "soft gold" that characterized the exploration of much of Canada. The efforts of the explorers, t...
ISBN(s)
1926812573, 9781926812571
