Title:
British Columbia sketches: Victoria, British Columbia, 1878
Hubert Howe Bancroft collection
Abstract:
Biographical sketches of Herbert George Lewis, Michel Muir, and William John Macdonald. Lewis came to Victoria in 1848 and
served the Hudson's Bay Company along the Northwest Coast afterward. Muir arrived at Victoria a year later with his father
and was involved in coal enterprises. Macdonald came out from Scotland in 1851 and remained eight years in the Company's services.
He relates experiences on San Juan Island the first year, and remarks on the controversy over the island.
Date:
1878 (issued)
Subject:
n-cn-bc -- e-uk-st -- n-us-wa
Commerce
Emigration and immigration
Victoria (B.C.) -- Commerce
Scotland -- Emigration and immigration
San Juan Island (Wash.)
Écosse -- Émigration et immigration
San Juan, Île de (Wash.)
British Columbia -- Victoria
Scotland
Washington (State) -- San Juan Island
Hudson's Bay Company.
Hudson's Bay Company.
Lewis, Herbert George
Muir, Michel
Macdonald, William John
MacDonald, Bill -- 1932-2014
Note:
Also available on microfilm.
Forms part of the Hubert Howe Bancroft Collection.
In English.
Preferred citation: British Columbia sketches : Victoria, British Columbia, 1878, BANC MSS P-C 4, The Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley.
Type:
Biographies.
Physical Description:
print
21 pages ; 32 cm
partial microfilm reel (14 exposures) : negative (Rich. 107:16) and positive
Language:
English
Origin:
British Columbia