Books Tell You Why, Inc.

An eye-catching first edition / second printing in Very Good+ condition with lightly crushed spine, with bumped head and tail of spine, lightly soiled flyleaf, rubbed lower board edges with a Very Good unclipped dust wrapper with sunned spine, chipped upper and lower edges with stained and rubbed panel creases. Profusely illustrated.

This book is a compilation of essays on the history, culture, and people of British Columbia. The essays are written by experts in their field and cover a wide range of topics, including the early days of the province, the fur trade, the Gold Rush, the railway, and the development of the province's economy. The book is divided into three sections: the first covers British Columbia's history from pre-contact to the early 1900s; the second covers the period from the early 1900s to the late 1940s; and the third covers the years since 1945.; B & W Illustrations and Photographs; 8vo ; 576 pages.