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This source is a section of the Revelstoke herald newspaper focusing on the local news in the area. This article focuses mainly on small jobs or journeys being carried out by influential locals, but at the bottoms asks about those that have found…

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The source is a model totem pole created in the period 1900-1947 by Henry Young. The totem pole is black and included engraving of animals such as an eagle. The totem pole is a small size meant to replicate the large original totem poles of different…

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The source is a map showing the railway belt across British Columbia.

The map contains a coloured key showing the different areas of the land. For example, Indian reserves, forest reserves and parks and most significantly the land disposed of by…

Memoirs of a Professional Lady nurse.png
The memoirs have been typed and documented then published in a book in order to preserve methods of Nursing during the 19th century. The book also features diagrams and pictures illustrated by hand which offers further primary evidence which have…

A lady’s travels round the world.png
This source is a journal/diary which has been published into a book focusing on the voyages of F.D Bridges and her husband who were both anglo-canadian elites. It provides the reader with greatly detailed insights about the areas and geographical…

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Documents recording the arriving steamships and passengers into the ports of Victoria and Vancouver in January 1925. Recorded for the purposes of controlling the arrival of potential migrants to Canada. The documents offer significant detail on both…

Newspaper advert for Vancouver Island.png
An advertisement in the Daily Colonist newspaper for Vancouver Island in 1941, with illustrations of a cargo train hauling lumber along with cargo steamships. The advertisement was published in the leading newspaper for British Columbia, with a vast…
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