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Around the world in a dugout canoe: The untold story of Captain John Voss and the Tilikum
No full textBook reviewPre-printBook review of "Around the world in a dugout canoe: The untold story of Captain John Voss and the Tilikum" by John M. MacFarlane and Lynn J. Salmon (Madeira Park: Harbour Publishing, 2019).https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/23559/Barney2020.pdf?sequence=3This is an author-supplied version of a book review which was published as: Barney, D. (2020). [Review of the book Around the world in a dugout canoe: The untold story of Captain John Voss and the Tilikum, by J.M. MacFarlane & L.J. Salmon]. British Columbia History, 53(3), 38-39.
British Columbia History is a quarterly magazine published by the British Columbia Historical Federation, more information about the magazine can be found at: https://www.bchistory.ca/magazine/.Pre-print versio
Research can be fun
No full textAudio recording and transcript of author David Ricardo Williams's November 1994 presentation to the Nanaimo Historical Society about amusing and interesting things that happened to him while researching the various books he's written.https://library.viu.ca/libinfo/harmfullanguagestatemen
History of book publishing in B.C.
No full textAudio recording and transcript of Rhonda Bailey's 1995 presentation to the Nanaimo Historical Society about the history of book publishing in both Canada and British Columbia. Bailey also provides an introduction for Bob Harvey, author of The Coast Connection, which was published by Oolichan Books, where Bailey works as the publisher.https://library.viu.ca/libinfo/harmfullanguagestatemen
Blocked mine access at Cavan Street and Victoria Road in Nanaimo, B.C.
No full textPhoto of a blocked mine access located in the City of Nanaimo parking lot at 95 Cavan Street, which is at the corner of Cavan Street and Victoria Road. The access is supposedly to the Douglas Mine, which operated in the Nanaimo downtown area from 1860 to 1883.https://library.viu.ca/libinfo/harmfullanguagestatemen
Here today, here tomorrow: A history of Port Alberni
No full textAudio recording and transcript of Jan Peterson's February 2001 presentation to the Nanaimo Historical Society about the history of Port Alberni. Peterson, an author of multiple books about the Alberni Valley, focuses her talk on the area’s history from 1856, when Adam Grant Horne was the first white person to explore the region, to 1967, when the “twin cities” of Alberni and Port Alberni amalgamated to form a single municipality. Peterson chronicles the region’s long standing involvement with the forestry industry, starting in 1860, when workmen arrived to build the Anderson sawmill. Early settlers, transportation, newspapers, politics, mining, and fishing in the area are also covered. Peterson details several notable event’s in Port Alberni’s history including: the “Great Trek” of 1934, where striking loggers marched from Parksville to Great Central Lake; the June 23, 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake; and the devastating March 27, 1964 tsunami. Peterson discusses the lead up to amalgamation between Alberni and Port Alberni, including the tenure of the first woman mayor on Vancouver Island, Mabel Anderson of Alberni, who opposed the merger. Peterson concludes her talk with a brief update about Port Alberni since amalgamation, focusing on the challenges in the forest industry, including decreased demand and environmental and Indigenous opposition.https://library.viu.ca/libinfo/harmfullanguagestatementhttps://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/21891/PetersonPortAlberniTranscript.pdf?sequence=
100 years of coal monument in Nanaimo, B.C.
No full textPhoto of 100 years of coal (1849-1949) monument in downtown Nanaimo, B.C. The plaque below the monument reads: "In honour of Nanaimo coal mine workers May 2, 1987 U.M.W. of A." The monument is located at the corner of Church and Front Streets, across the street from Dallas Square. The piece of coal which makes up the monument was mined from the Esplanade No.1 Mine, which was located nearby. The monument was put up by the United Mine Workers of America in 1987 as a gift to the city.https://library.viu.ca/libinfo/harmfullanguagestatementMonument is listed in the City of Nanaimo Public Art Inventory at: https://www.nanaimo.ca/public-art-inventory/detail.aspx?id=6
Writing and researching local history
No full textAudio recording and transcript of Jan Peterson's February 1998 presentation to the Nanaimo Historical Society about her experience with researching, writing, and publishing local history books about the Alberni Valley. Peterson begins her talk with an outline of how her first book, “The Albernis: 1860-1922” was published by Oolichan Books in 1992. She discusses how immersed she became in her research and also gives a brief overview of the challenges she faced as a new author attempting to publish a local history book in British Columbia. Peterson then goes on to summarize the topics covered in her second book, “Twin Cities: Alberni - Port Alberni” which covers the years 1922 to 1967 in the Alberni Valley and was published in 1994. Next, Peterson discusses her third book, “Cathedral Grove: MacMillan Park” which was published in 1996. She introduces several of the people who were instrumental in the campaign to preserve the forest around Cameron Lake, including: Dr. James Fletcher, James Robert Anderson, H.R. MacMillan, and Wells Gray, and she also explains the timeline of how the giant trees came to be preserved as a provincial park in 1944.https://library.viu.ca/libinfo/harmfullanguagestatementhttps://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/23185/PetersonTranscript.pdf?sequence=
Nanaimo's Italian community
No full textAudio recording and transcript of Lynne Bowen's presentation in 2006 to the Nanaimo Historical Society about Italian immigration to Nanaimo and other parts of British Columbia. Bowen, an author and historian, outlines how after Italy's unification in the 1870s, widespread unemployment and poverty led many Italian men of the peasant class to leave home to seek employment. Many found themselves working in the isolated, one-industry towns of British Columbia, including Nanaimo. Bowen outlines how the initial Italians who came to Canada were sojourners, who left Italy to find work, but planned to eventually return once they saved enough money to buy land back home. By the start of the 20th century, Italian immigrants were no longer sojourners, but used chain migration to bring families and connections to Canada. This resulted in strong ties between some B.C. towns with individual communities in Italy. As an example of this, Bowen details how Nanaimo had a connection with two Italian villages: Platischis and Tarcetta, which are both in the eastern Italian region of Fruili. Bowen then goes on to summarize the pattern of families' experiences with emigrating from different regions of Italy including those from: Liguria, Piemonte, Lombardia, Calabria, Veneto, and Friuli.https://library.viu.ca/libinfo/harmfullanguagestatemen
Miner's tag
No full textPhoto of a coal miner's tag which was found at the side of Scotchtown Road, near the former adit of the Number 5 Mine in South Wellington.https://library.viu.ca/libinfo/harmfullanguagestatemen
Early school days of Nanaimo
No full textAudio recording and transcript of John G. Parker's October 21, 1969 presentation to the Nanaimo Historical Society about early school days in Nanaimo.https://library.viu.ca/libinfo/harmfullanguagestatementhttps://viuspace.viu.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/194/NanaimoHistoryParker6.pdf?sequence=4Address recorded as presented to the Nanaimo Historical Society on Oct. 21, 1969
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