British Columbia: A New Historical Atlas

by Derek Hayes

Book Overview

A colourful and wide-ranging history of Canada's most western province illustrated with over nine hundred contemporary maps

British 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1926812573
• ISBN13: 9781926812571
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 5.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 10.3" x 13.6"