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1 online resource (1 audio file (6hr., 10 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Angela Galanopoulos, Jill Kenton, Yvette Dudley-Neuman, Meaghan Hommy. |
| Summary |
The vivid, personal accounts of four women who lived and travelled as settlers in early British Columbia "...a cloud passing away from the face of the moon revealed a band of wild horses bearing down upon us at a full gallop. As they came near and saw us they divided into two groups, passing by on either side. Had the moon not come out they would probably have become entangled in our tent ropes, and we should not have lived to tell the tale."-Violet Sillitoe, between Osoyoos and Penticton The women in this book were trailblazers. The frontiers they lived on were not only geographical but personal. As they left the drawing rooms of England and eastern Canada for new lives in the far West, social patterns were disrupted, and the status quo dissolved. On the wagon roads and river boats of nineteenth-century British Columbia, they found risks, opportunities and freedoms far beyond those familiar to their more settled contemporaries. By Snowshoe, Buckboard and Steamer tells four extraordinary stories of life on the unruly edge of empire. Winner of the 1998 BC Lieutenant Governor's Medal for Historical Writing. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Women pioneers -- British Columbia -- Biography.
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Women travelers -- British Columbia -- Biography.
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Frontier and pioneer life -- British Columbia.
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British Columbia -- Description and travel.
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British Columbia -- Biography.
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Galanopoulos, Angela.
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Kenton, Jill.
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Dudley-Neuman, Yvette.
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Hommy, Meaghan.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9780772678584 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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0772678588 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12704559 |
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