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British North America
An article from the Edinburgh Review


This is an article from the Edinburgh Review in which it discusses several books to do with British Columbia and Vancouver Island. While providing the article I have also provided links to download the books that are reviewed in it.

Here is the article

And here are the books reviewed...

1. British Columbia and Vancouver Island. By D. G. F. Macdonald. London: 1862.
2. Four Years in British Columbia and Vancouver Island. By Commander C. Mayne, RN. London: 1862.
3. Vancouver Island and British Columbia; where they are, what they are, and what they may become. By Alexander
Rattray, M.D., R.N. London: 1862.
4. Narrative of the Canadian Red River Exploring Expedition of 1857, and of the Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition of 1858. By Henry Youle Hind, M.A., F.R.G.S. 2 vols. London: 1860.
5. Papers relative to the Exploration by the Expedition under Captain Palliser, of that Portion of British North America which lies between the Northern Branch of the Saskatchewan and the Frontier of the United States, and between the Red River and the Rocky Mountains, and thence to the Pacific Ocean. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, August, 1860.


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