Homesteading and Stump Farming on the West Coast 1880-1930 Homesteading and Stump Farming on the West Coast 1880-1930

Homesteading and Stump Farming on the West Coast 1880-1930

Powell River, Lund, Stillwater & Mysterious Horseshoe Valley

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Publisher Description

Imagine obtaining one hundred and sixty acres of land for FREE! Then comes the real payment: the sweat and toil of living in a remote wilderness and clearing a landscape where the stumps left behind are so large and so numerous the best bet is to use dynamite to remove them. Beginning in 1859 such homesteading typified the arrival of white settlers in British Columbia. The Land Act set out rules by which British subjects could, for agricultural purposes only, pre-empt land. Along the Upper Sunshine Coast, of those who took up the challenge, only some succeeded in carving a life out of this wild land, while many failed. Through prodigious research and the careful cultivation of interviews, Barbara Ann Lambert tells the stories of those resourceful arrivals. Employing the day journals of homesteaders and interviews with their descendants, Lambert conveys the rich history of the Sunshine Coast. From Saltery Bay to Lund, she evokes the struggles and triumphs of those who once lived in this place Lambert calls “paradise”.

GENRE
History
RELEASED
2015
November 13
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
348
Pages
PUBLISHER
FriesenPress
SELLER
FriesenPress Inc
SIZE
76.5
MB
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