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Indian Legends of Vancouver Island (Webster's German Thesaurus Edition)

by Alfred Carmichael

2019-03-28 22:35:07

The unsophisticated aboriginal of British Columbia is almost a memory of the past. He leaves no permanent monument, no ruins of former greatness. His original habitation has long given place to the frame house of sawn timber, and with the exception o ... Read more
The unsophisticated aboriginal of British Columbia is almost a memory of the past. He leaves no permanent monument, no ruins of former greatness. His original habitation has long given place to the frame house of sawn timber, and with the exception of the carvings in black slate made by the Hydah Indians of the Queen Charlotte Islands, and the stone hammers, spear and arrow points, fashioned in the days before the coming of the white man, the mementos of his sojourn in British Columbia are only relics in wood, bark or reeds. Less

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File size562.563 KB
Print pages28
PublisherPublic Domain Books
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780546410990,
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Alfred Carmichael
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Alfred Carmichael was an entrepreneur and a writer in Victoria, B.C. He was involved in the Saseenos Water, Light and Power Company, British Columbia Oil and Coal Development Co., Cameron Lake Timber,...

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