Four Years in British Columbia and Vancouver Island. An Account of
Item #56867
MAYNE, R[ichard] C. Four Years in British Columbia and Vancouver Island. An Account of Their Forests, Rivers, Coasts, Gold Fields, and Resources for Colonisation. London: John Murray, 1862. 1st ed. xi, 468 pp. Frontis., illus., maps (1 folding). Orig. pictorial cloth. Some wear to spine and spine ends, front inner hinge starting, else a very good copy. Bibliography of Canadiana 4076, "Mayne, then a lieutenant, on H.M.S. Plummer, was on naval duty in British Columbia and Vancouver Island, 1857-1861. This work is based on his trips along the coast and inland: it includes also extracts from the journals and letters to the Church Missionary Society by William Duncan, a Church of England missionary stationed at Fort Simpson and elsewhere."
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