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• Title:The new El Dorado, or, British Columbia / by Kinahan Cornwallis ; with a map and illustration by the author.
  
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• Variant Title:British Columbia
  
• Author/Creator:Cornwallis, Kinahan, 1839-1917, author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection.
  
• Published/Created:London : Thomas Cautley Newby, Publisher, 30, Welbeck Street, 1858.
  

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  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: FC3817.1 .C675 1858
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

  • Location:RBSC ASRS - (Confirm availability: email rare.books@ubc.ca) Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: FC3817.1 .C675 1858
    
  • Number of Items:3
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Hudson's Bay Company.
  Gold mines and mining--British Columbia.
  Frontier and pioneer life--British Columbia.
  Indians of North America--British Columbia.
  British Columbia--Description and travel.
  
• Edition:Second edition.
  
• Description:xxviii, 405 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations, colour map ; 20 cm
  
• Additional formats:Available also online.
  
• Local note:UBC copy 3 lacks title page.
  
• Notes:Three pages of publisher's advertisements at end.
  Lithograph frontispiece in three tones showing a camping scene, hand-coloured folding map of British Columbia and Vancouver Island showing the gold field along the Fraser and Columbia Rivers in yellow.
  
• Cited in:Sabin, 16819.
  
• Contents:Appendix. I. An Act to provide for the government of British Columbia, 2d August, 1858
  II. Letter from Gov. Stevens ... Treaty made between the United States and Great Britain in regard to limits westward of the Rocky Mountains, June 15, 1846
  III. Despatch from Washington
  IV. Copies or extracts of correspondence relative to the discovery of gold in the Frazer's River district ... V. Report of a canoe expedition ... VI. Copy of the original charter for incorporating the Hudson's Bay Company ... VII. Extract from the crown grant charter of 1838 ... VIII. Copy of the treaty between Her Majesty Queen Victoria and the United States of America for the settlement of the Oregon boundary ... IX. Free trade with Vancouver Island and upon Frazer River
  X. Rights of the Hudson's Bay Company
  XI. Miscellaneous
  XII. The way there.