The Project Gutenberg E-text of Pioneers of the Pacific Coast
by Agnes C. Laut
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About this eBook
- Author
- Laut, Agnes C., 1871-1936
- Title
- Pioneers of the Pacific Coast A Chronicle of Sea Rovers and Fur Hunters
- Credits
- Produced by Al Haines
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- F1001: North America local history: Canada
- Subject
- Northwest Coast of North America
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 29886
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29886
- Release Date
- September 1, 2009
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.The descent of the Fraser River, 1808. From a colour drawing by C. W. Jefferys. — PIONEERS OF THE PACIFIC COAST
- 2.A Chronicle of Sea Rovers and Fur Hunters — BY
- 3.AGNES C. LAUT — TORONTO GLASGOW, BROOK & COMPANY 1915
- 4.CONTENTS
- 5.ILLUSTRATIONS — CHAPTER I — THE VOYAGE OF THE GOLDEN HIND — CHAPTER II — VITUS BERING ON THE PACIFIC — CHAPTER III — THE OUTLAW HUNTERS — Routes of Explorers on the Pacific Coast. — CHAPTER IV — COOK AND VANCOUVER — James Cook. From the portrait by Dance in the Gallery of Greenwich Hospital. — The launch of the North-West America at Nootka Sound, 1788. From Meares's Voyages . — Callicum and Maquinna, Chiefs of Nootka Sound. From Meares's Voyages . — George Vancouver. From a painting in the National Portrait Gallery, London. — CHAPTER V — 'ALEXANDER MACKENZIE, FROM CANADA, BY LAND' — CHAPTER VI — THE DESCENT OF THE FRASER RIVER — Simon Fraser. After the portrait in the Parliament Buildings, Victoria, B.C. — CHAPTER VII — THOMPSON AND THE ASTORIANS — CHAPTER VIII — THE PASSING OF THE FUR LORDS — John M'Loughlin. Photographed by Savannah from an original painting. — Fort Vancouver. From a print in the John Ross Robertson Collection, Toronto Public Library. — The fort of the Hudson's Bay Company, Victoria, B.C. From a photograph by Savannah. — BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE — INDEX
- 6.THE CHRONICLES OF CANADA — PART I THE FIRST EUROPEAN VISITORS — PART II THE RISE OF NEW FRANCE — PART III THE ENGLISH INVASION — PART IV THE BEGINNINGS OF BRITISH CANADA — PART V THE RED MAN IN CANADA — PART VI PIONEERS OF THE NORTH AND WEST — PART VII THE STRUGGLE FOR POLITICAL FREEDOM — PART VIII THE GROWTH OF NATIONALITY — PART IX NATIONAL HIGHWAYS
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