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Program Summaries
Glimpses of the Past through description, related books
and internet connections
1956
Interesting
episodes in 40 years of historical research
[January 17, 1956, Bruce A. McKelvie]
History of
the Esquimalt Naval Base
[February 21, 1956, C. Herbert Little, R. C. N.]
(see October 11, 1949 entry)
Historic Sites
and Monuments Board of Canada
[March 13, 1956, Dr. Walter N. Sage]
(see April 30, 1937 entry)
VPL
#18968, no date, Philip Timms, Garibaldi Lake
Historic feats
of mountaineering in Canada
[April 24, 1956, Paddy Sherman]
Mountaineering began in 1885 after the CPR made the mountains
more accessible. Austrian and Swiss guides guided American
and European tourists around the mountains. Various climbers
over time made their mark by climbing the various peaks.
(see Paddy Sherman's Cloud walkers; six climbs on major
Canadian peaks, St. Martin's Press, 1965; and Expeditions
to nowhere, Mountaineers, c.1981; see also http://bcmc.ca/history.asp)
Terminal Steam
Navigation Co.
[May 25, 1956, Capt. Charles W. Cates]
(see Charles W. Cates' Tidal action in British Columbia
waters, Richardson Press, 1952)
White gold
of the Columbia
[September 27, 1956, Leon J. Ladner]
VPL
#18771, Philip Timms, 190-, St. Paul's Anglican Church
altar, Jervis and Pendrell
Religious tensions
in early BC
[October 23, 1956, Rev. F. A. Peake]
(see F. A. Peake's The Anglican Church in British Columbia,
Mitchell Press, 1959; see also Jean Usher's William Duncan
of Metlakatla, a Victorian missionary in British Columbia,
National Museums of Canada, 1974)
)
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