THE MASONRY WALL AT ENTERPRISE WHARF
Many years ago, I had the pleasure of attending a popular course on geology at UBC. It was mainly about the then newly accepted theories of plate tectonics but also covered the more traditional areas of geological strata or layers formed by sediments. Last week, going down below Wharf Street into the parking lot below […]
The Negro Immigration Into Vancouver Island In 1858
B.C. Historical Quarterly, April, 1939 https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bch/items/1.0190667#p28z-3r0f:%22british%20columbia%20historical%20quarterly%22%20AND%20%22april,%201939%22 The Negro Immigration Into Vancouver Island In 1858. F.W. Howay California was from the beginning a free State. Its constitution provided that there should be no slavery within its boundaries. Its population was a heterogeneous collection of adventurers from every State in the union and every nation of the […]