Vancouver Island Letters of Edmund Hope Verney, 1862-65 (Pioneers of British Columbia)

This previously unknown collection of letters lets us experience colonial British Columbia through the eyes of a young British naval officer who spent three years on Vancouver Island commanding a Royal Navy gunboat during the Cariboo gold rush. A keen observer of life in the new world, Edmund Hope Verney corresponded on a regular basis with his father, a prominent British MP. In his letters, which are filled with lively narration and description, candid commentary, and fascinating personal detail, he talks about having 'the opportunity to observe a colony in its first] stage of existence' and to 'watch the development of a community.'

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774805544
• ISBN13: 9780774805544
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 323 Pages