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• Title:The land of heart's delight : early maps and charts of Vancouver Island / Michael Layland.
  
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• Author/Creator:Layland, Michael, 1938-
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Horsdal, Marlyn, editor.
  
• Published/Created:Victoria, BC : TouchWood Editions, [2013]
  

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  • Call Number: GA475.B7 L39 2013
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Cartography--British Columbia--Vancouver Island--History.
  Vancouver Island (B.C.)--Maps.
  
• Description:232 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, 25 x 27 cm
  
• Additional formats:Issued also in electronic formats.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-222) and index.
  
• ISBN:9781771510158
  1771510153
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: ch. One Maps of Speculation and Myth
  ch. Two Maps of Mystery and Intrigue
  ch. Three First European Contact: Spaniards Anchor at San Lorenzo
  ch. Four Makook! With Cook at Nootka
  ch. Five Soft Gold: Sea Otter Traders
  ch. Six Imperial Flashpoint: Nootka, 1789
  ch. Seven "Exploration Will Resolve the Doubts"
  ch. Eight "No Place More Eligible": Anglo-Hispanic Collaboration
  ch. Nine "A Perfect `Eden'": James Douglas Selects a New Fort
  ch. Ten Settling into Fort Victoria: Doubts over Tenuous Tenure
  ch. Eleven "In Free and Common Socage": Colonization by Contract
  ch. Twelve Pemberton and Pearse Survey Vancouver Island's Southeastern Districts
  ch. Thirteen Explosive Growth: Victoria Feels the Impact of the Gold Rush
  ch. Fourteen San Juan Dispute: Cartographic Neglect
  -and a Pig
  -Almost Trigger a War
  ch. Fifteen "Navigating this Boisterous Neighbourhood": George Richards's Hydrography
  ch. Sixteen "The Back of the World": Vancouver Island under the Crown Colonial
  ch. Seventeen Vancouver Island Exploring Expeditions: Brown, Leech, Meade, and Buttle Head Inland
  ch. Eighteen Canada's New Province: To Celebrate, Joseph Trutch Orders a Map
  ch. Nineteen Two-Million-Acre Dowry: The Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway's Land Grant
  ch. Twenty "The Most Perfect Map": Tom Kains's Campaigns
  ch. Twenty-One "Vancouver Island by Land and Water": Reverend William Bolton and The Province Expeditions
  ch. Twenty-Two New Century: The Dominion Comes to the Rescue
  ch. Twenty-Three "A Sea of Mountains": Strathcona Park.