Imperial Vancouver Islands

Who was Who, 1850-1950

• Author(s): John Francis Bosher,
• Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
• Pages: 839
• ISBN_10: 1450059643
  ISBN_13: 9781450059640
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / General , History / General , Travel / Canada / Western Provinces (AB, BC) ,

Description:... "During the century 1850-1950 Vancouver Island attracted Imperial officers and other Imperials from India, the British Isles, and elsewhere in the Empire. Victoria was the main British port on the north-west Pacific Coast for forty years before the city of Vancouver was founded in 1886 to be the coastal terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway. These two coastal cities were historically and geographically different. The Island joined Canada in 1871 and thirty-five years later the Royal Navy withdrew from Esquimalt, but Island communities did not lose their Imperial character until the 1950s."--Page 4 of cover.