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In 1924 Phyllis (Phyl) Munday did what no other woman had done before - reached the summit of Mt. Robson. She climbed close to 100 mountains in her li...
Huu-Ay-Aht Histories and Legends
There is a special place on the southeastern shores of Barkley Sound, on the west coast of Vancouver Island. It is a magnificent landscape of rocky cl...
Marshall McLuhan, Nellie McClung, René Lévesque and many more
This special bundle contains the first thirty-five books in the Quest Biography series, which profiles the lives of Canadians who have had a profound ...
David Thompson / Vilhjalmur Stefansson / Samuel de Champlain / John Franklin / George Simpson / Phyllis Munday
Presenting six titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. Canada is a vast land with many remote regi...
The Private Life of Sarah Crease 1826-1922
Sarah Crease was an extraordinary Englishwoman whose long life and marriage encompassed both privilege and hardship, scandal and accolade, in the old ...
John Franklin / Marshall McLuhan / Phyllis Munday / Wilfrid Laurier / Nellie McClung
Presenting five titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. The important Canadian lives detailed here...
Emma Albani / Emily Carr / George Grant / Jacques Plante / John Diefenbaker / John Franklin / Marshall McLuhan / Phyllis Munday / Wilfrid Laurier / Nellie McClung
Presenting ten titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. The important Canadian lives detailed here ...
The Lives of Don and Phyllis Munday
Don and Phyllis Munday are western Canada's most famous mountaineering couple. Active members of the Alpine Club of Canada, they climbed for almost fo...
Women of the Frontier
Four nineteen century women, Florence Agassiz, Eleanor Fellows, Violet Sillitoe and Helen Kate Woods lived and traveled in British Columbia very much ...
Women of the British Columbia Frontier
"The vivid, personal accounts of four women who lived and travelled as settlers in early British Columbia The women in this volume lived on frontiers ...
An English Gentlewoman at the Edge of Empire
"An intimate portrait of privilege and struggle, scandal and accolade, from the Old World to the new colonies of Vancouver's Island and British Columb...
"Historian Kathryn Bridge takes a fresh look at Emily Carr's time in England. She reveals new evidence that fills in many of the gaps in our knowledge...
Fresh Seeing--French Modernism and the West Coast
In 1911, Emily Carr returned from a sixteen-month trip to France with a new understanding of French Modernism and a radically transformed painting sty...
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