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id: 16541
title: Poor Man''s Rock
author: Sinclair, Bertrand W.
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  Jack MacRae could remember,--old men, fishermen who had shot their MacRae followed Betty Gower across the room to her father. MacRae got him no great store of worldly goods, whereas Horace Gower, For thirty years Gower had made silent war on Donald MacRae MacRae looked at her and at the white cottage, at the great Gulf seas Not long afterward Jack MacRae got old Manuel in a corner and asked him The music began and MacRae and Betty Gower slid away in the one-step, Stubby looked at MacRae a second, at his work-torn hands and weary eyes. channels to a given end Gower had closed the natural markets to MacRae. But there was no law against the export of raw salmon to a foreign mouths on Vancouver Island, straight across from Folly Bay. Still, Gower''s cannery was getting salmon. The man in it told MacRae that Gower would like


id: 28483
title: Legends of Vancouver
author: Johnson, E. Pauline
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  great Tyee was at war with the Upper Coast Indians, those who lived the young men of the tribe and commanded, ''Build fires at sunset on all "''Something dire will happen to the tribe,'' said the old men in council. "But the great Medicine Man said, ''The heart of a child has invisible "But when the tribes-people heard of his choice they arose in great tribes-people, and the most ancient medicine man in all the coast you ignorant tribes-people,'' commanded the Great Tyee. old people and our women shook their heads and said evil would come of "Yes," said my old tillicum, "we Indians have lost many things. had not yet come to the white man; only one great Indian medicine man Men came in the great canoe up over the rim of the Pacific, in that age She said to herself, ''The great medicine man has power, has vast


id: 29588
title: The Spoilers of the Valley
author: Watson, Robert
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  "Getting better, old man?" said the young fellow good-naturedly, "Do you want Phil to-day now this has happened?" asked Jim of Royce With the passing days, Phil found Sol Hanson a man of rugged All this time, Phil saw little or nothing of Mayor Brenchfield, for "Smiler!" inquired Phil, "you see a little man to-day on a brown horse Phil continued down the street, knowing that if the little man on the Jim looked into Phil''s eyes and he saw a determination in them that he Jim looked into his face soberly, then placed his arm on Phil''s "Come on, Phil!" said Jim, "this is no place for the proverbial It was in these silences that Phil got to know Jim for the true Yet, many times, Phil had made up his mind to confide in Jim and tell Brenchfield looked sidelong at Jim, then at Phil; and back again at


id: 28741
title: The Young Alaskans on the Trail
author: Hough, Emerson
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  "I thought you were never coming, Alex," said Jesse, frankly, looking "Now, Moise," said Alex, "you''re to go ahead with the cook-boat. "Well, trot on over, Moise," said Alex, "and I''ll bring the boat. "You''d hardly know it," said Rob, turning to John and Jesse, who now "Plenty good water," said Moise, looking out over the rapid little "The boat goes very fast on a stream like this," said Alex. "It looks like a long way over," said Rob. "Good sheep country," said Alex, after a time. "Come ahead then," said Rob, reluctantly leaving the big bear trail. "Yes," said Rob, "but I''d like to ask you, Alex, do you really believe "It looks like good bear country here," said Rob. "That''s the way we get up a river in this country," said Alex to Rob, "I''ve never been west of the Half Way River," said Alex after a time,


id: 28719
title: Fishing in British Columbia With a Chapter on Tuna Fishing at Santa Catalina
author: Lambert, Thomas Wilson
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  open range abounding in lakes and small streams, that the best fishing Shuswap Lake and Thompson River constitute the best fishing district of in British Columbia--Its Food--Fly-fishing for--Sporting and Squaw Fish--Great Lake Trout--The Silver in Vancouver--Harrison River and Lake--Big Fish in In the different lakes and rivers the fish varies a good deal in size, Fly-fishing for trout in British Columbia may be said to begin in April On the whole there is probably no fishing river in British Columbia to Fishing in Shuswap Lake--Silver-bodied Flies--Streams Running into Riser--Grayling--Chub and Squaw Fish--Great Lake Trout--The Silver all the lakes and rivers where fish can be caught, making therefore good There is good fishing in the lake and in the river At the time I fished this river, in July, the salmon trout fishing for two miles in the river. never been such salmon fishing as this in any other waters, and


id: 29183
title: Partners of the Out-Trail
author: Bindloss, Harold
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  the claim, Jake got some money from home, and now Jim knew who had sent One soon gets enough," said Jim. Then he saw Jake''s He stopped when Jim advanced, and Carrie said, "This is Mr. Davies; he was at the Woolsworth store with me." friend of Carrie''s; Jim had not expected her to like that kind of man, There was silence for a moment or two and Carrie''s eyes rested on Jim. He looked tired, and his brown face was thin, but his mouth was firm. "Yes," said Jim, whose face got hard, "that''s what I want. "Stop right there!" said somebody, and Jim saw Carrie standing above Mrs. Winter smiled, but the look Carrie gave Jim was half ironical. "Jake and Carrie don''t look curious," Jim remarked dryly. "I did not," said Jim, with a rather haughty look that Carrie thought "Oh, well," said Carrie, "I think he liked Jim. But we wouldn''t have


id: 29885
title: The Cariboo Trail A Chronicle of the Gold-fields of British Columbia
author: Laut, Agnes C.
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  trappers turned miners and took to the gold-bars. By September ten thousand men were rocking and washing for gold seven dollars a day to the man at the present stage of water. Within two miles of Yale eighty Indians and thirty white men were the coast in disgust, calling the gold stampede ''the Fraser River The miners spelled it ''cariboo,'' and thus gave the great gold area its to-day along the Cariboo Trail, and prospectors found their way through pack-train and canoe up the canyons of the Fraser to learn whence came ''59 to ''71 came twenty-five million dollars in gold from the Cariboo stream; and the Fraser led to the Cariboo gold-diggings. days the party followed the little stream that had come out of the lake the white men continued to follow the wild river canyon north, it would As long as the discovery of gold was confined to the Fraser river-bars, See Fraser river, Gold,


id: 29650
title: The Greater Power
author: Bindloss, Harold
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  "Ah!" said Nasmyth--"a tall girl with a quiet voice, big brown eyes, Nasmyth saw the faint flush in Laura Waynefleet''s face, and said "Miss Waynefleet tells me you are thinking of going away," said the Gordon sat down on a log close by, and looked at Nasmyth. Nasmyth and his men went back to the little log shanty. flood with a big axe in his hand, and when somebody said so, Nasmyth "No," said Nasmyth; "now I come to think of it, I don''t believe I Wisbech said he wished to see Derrick Nasmyth, and the man nodded. He said nothing further for some little time, and Nasmyth, who fancied Nasmyth said nothing, but he saw Mrs. Acton''s face flush with anger "Boys," said Nasmyth, "one or two of you know why Gordon asked you Nasmyth said it was, and Acton sat thinking for several minutes.


id: 16926
title: Skookum Chuck Fables: Bits of History, Through the Microscope
author: Cumming, R. D. (Robert Dalziel)
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  She read it fifty times, placed it next her heart and pranced about like intentions Johnny spent the whole day in idleness at the home of Mrs. Peter; and, as it is no insult among the Indians for a buck to propose Hard Times Hance was living on first principles; but then, if a man is his wife, and Hance had fallen into the trap in the usual man-like Sure Man opened his eyes and his ears and his mouth all at the same time dollars in fifty years, which is not very long to a man if he can start Once upon a time in Ashcroft a very foolish young man married a very Once upon a time in Ashcroft there lived a lady who had the wool pulled short time hubby began to consider her in the light of a "white man''s present, but our time becomes the aggregate days and years.


id: 23389
title: Handbook to the new Gold-fields
author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
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  Bay of San Francisco, contains rich and extensive gold beds. that the country on the Fraser River is rich in gold, and "equal to any writing from Vancouver''s Island on 10th June, says, "The gold exists whole country about Fraser and Thompson Rivers are mere beds of gold, so on Fraser River is one continuous gold bed. into the Gulf of Georgia, not a hundred miles north of Fraser River Fountain''s Diggings (Fraser River, at 51 degrees 30 minutes north), Mountains, near the source of Canoe River, taking a north-west course of that it is not the gold-producing country on the Fraser River alone that country, from Minnesota to the Fraser River gold mines, would appear to River, as the miners would then force a passage into the gold district country, whether by Fraser or the Columbia River. new gold country, there being plenty of good land in the British


id: 31728
title: My Brave and Gallant Gentleman: A Romance of British Columbia
author: Watson, Robert
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  gushing type, George, but she''ll come to it all in good time. purchase of a travelling bag, a good second-hand rifle and a little early days, when she came with me on a trip one time I was looking over As I walked over to the front window, I wondered little that Mrs. Horsfal should have loved the place; and, when I looked away out over "You know, if times are at all good, you can trust the average man who be hard on old Jake when his time comes; and, do you know, sometimes I It''s kind o'' good to know you ain''t ever likely to be a candidate for George,--the way Joe said that, makes me afraid that some day he "George!--you need not tell me,--it was Joe. I know his hand and arm "You know, George,--most of the men like Joe; for he''s good to them


id: 21495
title: To The West
author: Fenn, George Manville
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  "Yes, sir," I said, and as the door closed again I looked at Esau and "All comes o'' getting into bad company, mother," said Esau, cutting the "It isn''t half so good as I should like to make it, Esau," said the poor "And we do think of going, mother dear," said Esau gently. "Much better have let me had it my way, sir," said Esau, who, ever since "Good-bye," said Esau, defiantly, and then the man turned away. "There, Esau," I said eagerly; "that''s something like a country to come "Look here, Esau," I said angrily; "if you talk any more nonsense like "Which way are you going, sir?" said Esau, after a long silence, during "Well," said Gunson, looking at Esau, "what do you think of the canon?" "Yes, sir," said the man respectfully; and I saw Gunson''s one eye turn "Yes, sir, I''ll be very careful," said Esau, "and I am looking out


id: 3478
title: Legends of Vancouver
author: Johnson, E. Pauline
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  great Tyee celebrates for his daughter, the tribes from far up the great Tyee was at war with the Upper Coast Indians, those who lived turned to all the young men of the tribe and commanded: ''Build fires "''Something dire will happen to the tribe,'' said the old men in "But the great medicine-man said, ''The heart of a child has His medicine-men said he had no human heart in his body; his "But when the tribes-people heard of his choice they arose in great to lay before the tribes-people, and the most ancient medicine-man our old people and our women shook their heads and said evil would "Yes," said my old tillicum, "we Indians have lost many things. The dream had not yet come to the white man; only one great Indian medicine-man knew that some day a great camp for Palefaces would lie She said to herself, ''The great medicine-man has power, has


id: 6976
title: Metlakahtla and the North Pacific Mission of the Church Missionary Society
author: Stock, Eugene
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  or Ten Years'' Work among the Tsimshean Indians," published by the Church on the coast was related some years ago to Mr. Duncan by an old chief:-worked, and the profound stupor which the Indians felt each time come the head chief came to beg me to give up school for a little time. originated, brought home with him a little journal kept, during Mr. Duncan''s absence at Victoria, by one of the Tsimshean boys at Fort "The next day, the 28th May, we arrived at our new home about two p.m. The Indians I had sent on before me with the raft I found hard at work, which it pleased Almighty God to visit the Indians of this coast last before, an Indian from a tribe living thirty miles off had come to Mr. Duncan, and with great emotion confessed himself a murderer, saying


id: 9459
title: Indian Legends of Vancouver Island
author: Carmichael, Alfred
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  Stone Hammer Used by the Indians of Barkley Sound To the lone Indian, who slowly paddles his canoe upon the waters of blue wood smoke of Indian fires hanging like gauze above the little [Illustration: HAND ADZE MADE AND USED BY INDIANS OF BARKLEY SOUND] Toquaht--the home of the Toquaht tribe of Indians, an old great renown, with her two sisters left their home on Village Island. their canoes, it gave great luck in whaling, and thus it came to pass lost all sight and sound of Rainy Bay. He told of the Tsomass land, The Indians called her E-ish-so-oolth. the tree brave Eut-le-ten saw her, he thought himself safe from her [Illustration: STONE HAMMER USED BY THE INDIANS OF BARKLEY SOUND] cedar logs, the home of the dead witch E-ish-so-oolth. from out of the lodge away from the dark house of E-ish-so-oolth Then Eut-le-ten declared himself and said, "I come from that great


id: 9778
title: Vane of the Timberlands
author: Bindloss, Harold
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  reached the water''s edge Vane fancied that the singer hesitated; but Mrs. Marvin laid her hand on the girl''s arm reassuringly, and she got into the Vane looked at Carroll, who was standing in the well. "Yes," answered Vane, conscious that Carroll, who had heard the question, A month after Vane said good-by to Kitty he and Carroll alighted one pointed; but Vane fancied that she had said a meaning thing--one that Carroll laughed, as if this greatly pleased him, but Vane''s face was When Vane and Carroll were left alone, they strolled out, pipe in hand, suddenly blotted out, and Evelyn bade Vane hail Carroll and Mabel, who "Wouldn''t you like this kind of thing, as well?" Vane asked. Carroll came up with Evelyn just then, and Vane spoke to him. ahead, and Vane''s face was hard when he and Carroll got the boat on deck


id: 11402
title: The Sky Line of Spruce
author: Marshall, Edison
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  To Ben Kinney life was like a single pale light in Ben tried to cut in, to ask questions, but the old man''s words Ezram never regretted for a moment his offer to Ben. The young man Ben started to speak, but the doubtful look on Ezram''s face checked him. Suddenly Ben reached and took the wolf''s head between his hands. Then the gray eyes lighted and a smile broke about Ben''s lips. But it was not to be that this journey should hold only delight for Ben. A half-mile down the river he suddenly made a most momentous and Ben smiled, like a man who has come into a great happiness, and forest had a depth and a darkness that even Ben had never seen; the wild But Ray and Chan came all the way here to find Ben. I heard what they


id: 6329
title: Catalogue of British Columbia Birds
author: Kermode, Francis
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  Common resident on Vancouver Island; it breeds on lakes close to Common resident throughout the Province; breeds on Vancouver Island Common winter resident along the coast of Vancouver Island and Common winter resident along the coast of Vancouver Island and Common winter resident along the coast of Vancouver Island and A common summer resident in the south-western portions of the Province An abundant resident on Vancouver Island and coast of Mainland. Not common on Vancouver Island; a few specimens have been taken near An abundant resident in this Province; common on Vancouver Island. A common resident west of Coast Range, including Vancouver Island. A very common resident on Vancouver Island, Coast of Mainland and Abundant resident west of Cascade Mountains; very common on Vancouver at Chilliwhack, Ducks and Okanagan, rarely west to Vancouver Island. A common resident on the Mainland, rarely west to Vancouver Island. Hawk, Western Red-tailed 156 Hawk, Western Red-tailed 156


id: 38747
title: Thrice Armed
author: Bindloss, Harold
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  "Well," said Jimmy, with a little laugh, "I don''t quite know. The delicate girl laughed a little, and Jimmy felt his face grow warm, Miss Merril looked at Jimmy with her little disconcerting smile. "Yes, miss," said Jimmy, touching his cap--a thing that is very seldom "I think I asked you to tell me what Merril had done," said Jimmy. "Well," he said, turning to Jimmy, "I don''t want to worry you, but the "Ah!" said Jordan; "that means Jimmy has told you what Merril is doing. Jimmy said nothing, but when he looked around a few moments later he was "Yes," he said, though Jimmy had not spoken, "old man Leeson is right; "A good many things," said Jimmy. Jimmy said nothing, but looked at him with hard, questioning eyes. "I couldn''t come if you offered me treble the usual thing," said Jimmy "Jimmy," he said quietly, "that man had no pity on your father.


id: 47253
title: Sport in Vancouver and Newfoundland
author: Rogers, John Godfrey, Sir
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  got half-way and saw no fish. of that long-hoped-for big fish, who did not come that day, though On August 26th, my last day at the hotel, I started to fish in a heavy McCallister''s Bay. Fish run as early as May. Campbell River is getting we had ideal camping grounds, on the bank of some river or lake, dry Smith went ahead and came back reporting the lake only half-a-mile river left the lake I got a couple of nice cut-throat trout, one about sunset we saw a small stag with a poor head come out of a wood about a about half-a-mile away and quietly said, "That good stag, I think." made a good four miles an hour, reaching our camping ground at the first really good fly-fishing water I had come to, so a few minutes saw a stag with a good-looking head feeding on the shore opposite to


id: 45870
title: Gold, Gold, in Cariboo! A Story of Adventure in British Columbia
author: Phillipps-Wolley, Clive
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  "Guess he is right, Ned. Come along, you lazy old beggar!" cried Chance. "It''s a true bill about Cruickshank, old man," Corbett said. Steve Chance and Ned Corbett, their last dollar invested in a doubtful time Ned floored his man, for though Bub knew very little of the use of As his pack-train wound away along the trail from Douglas, Ned Corbett From noon of the day upon which Ned Corbett and old Roberts strode out "No, old man, I don''t think we can," replied Ned, straining his eyes "I believe you are right, Ned. Come, Phon, one more effort!" and Steve "I say, Ned, this looks more like a Chinese camp than a white man''s, dollars troubled Ned Corbett as little as it troubled Steve Chance. The speakers were our old friends Ned Corbett and Steve Chance, and when like yourself, and Steve looked curiously into Ned''s face.


id: 46289
title: Jack the Young Canoeman: An Eastern Boy''s Voyage in a Chinook Canoe
author: Grinnell, George Bird
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  the deer had taken water in Burnaby Lake, when Jack heard the Indian "Well," said Jack, "I have hunted some with Indians; but the man who water''s edge, when Hugh suddenly said to Jack: "Son, I believe that''s a to be made, but as the boat started on its way down the North Arm, Mr. Fannin assured Jack that at last he had seen a couple of white goats. "Tell me, Mr. Fannin," said Jack, "what game will we be likely to see town, while Fannin, Hugh, and Jack began to get Indians, canoes, and Fannin said: "Well, let''s leave the Indians here and go on a little way "But, Mr. Fannin," said Jack, "these Indians must have a lot of money. "Oh, Hugh!" said Jack, interrupting the talk, "look at those little "I tell you, Hugh," said Jack, "that looks like a good sheep country!"


