Pioneers of the Pacific Coast / A Chronicle of Sea Rovers and Fur Hunters
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- The descent of the Fraser River, 1808. From a colour drawing by C. W. Jefferys.
- PIONEERS OF THE PACIFIC COAST
- A Chronicle of Sea Rovers and Fur Hunters
- AGNES C. LAUT
- TORONTO GLASGOW, BROOK & COMPANY 1915
- CONTENTS
- 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
- 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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