Title:
British Columbia: Victoria, British Columbia, 1878
Hubert Howe Bancroft collection
Creator/Contributor:
Good, John B., 1833-, creator
Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft, Matilda Coley Griffing, interviewer.
Abstract:
Dictation recorded by Mrs. H.H. Bancroft from a missionary who came from England in 1861.
Description of Victoria at the time, including the moral conditions attendant on the Fraser River gold rush: ecclesiastical
pioneering ; qualities of James Douglas; services of the Royal Engineers in the development of British Columbia; growth of
Nanaimo and northern Vancouver Island; early missionary contacts with Indian tribes; growth of the lower Fraser River area;
and the character of interior British Columbia.
With the manuscript are two letters from Good to Hubert Howe and Mrs. Bancroft, 1878.
Date:
1878 (issued)
Subject:
n-cn-bc
Gold mines and mining -- British Columbia
Missions -- British Columbia
Indians of North America -- British Columbia
Or -- Mines et extraction -- Colombie-Britannique
Premières Nations -- Colombie-Britannique
Gold mines and mining
Indians of North America
Missions
Fraser River (B.C.) -- Gold discoveries
Fraser, Fleuve (C.-B.) -- Découvertes d'or
British Columbia
British Columbia -- Fraser River
Good, John B -- 1833- -- Archives
Douglas, James -- 1803-1877
Douglas, James -- 1803-1877
Note:
Also available on microfilm.
Forms part of the Hubert Howe Bancroft Collection.
In English.
Preferred citation: Good, John B., 1833-. British Columbia : Victoria, British Columbia, 1878, BANC MSS P-C 19, The Bancroft
Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
Archives.
Physical Description:
print
106 pages ; 32 cm
partial microfilm reel (65 exposures) : negative (Rich. 107:18) and positive
Language:
English
Origin:
British Columbia