Captain Cook in the Pacific
The far west coast
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV016.40.2
- Call Number
- 971 DEN
- Author
- Denton, V. L. (Vernon Llewllyn), 1881-1944
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Publisher
- J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd.
- Publication Date
- 1924
- Printer
- Temple Press
- Physical Description
- ix, 297 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
- Inscription
- "p. 171 - Nootka Chiefs
Maquina
Callicum - ?Qualicum?" [handwritten on front pastedown]
"Gwynne Harries
Compliments of G. J. Spencer
31 May 1946
South America's Story Elsie Spicer Eels. 1931
p. 139 Robt M. McBride + Co. New York
Drake, Voyage Sept 1578-Sept 26 1580
Sailed Pacific North to latitude 480 - Canadian Border.
Discovered San Francisco harbor" [handwritten on first endpaper]
note closed:
"Harries Jr.
I hope you enjoy this as much as I did
S. J. Spencer"
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Cook, James, 1728-1779
- Oceania--Discovery and exploration
- Pacific Coast
- Northwest Coast of North America
- Names
- Vancouver, Captain George
- Notes
- Includes index.
- Author's full name and dates: Denton, Vernon Llewellyn, 1881-1944.
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Nu-tka : Captain Cook and the Spanish explorers on the coast
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Textual Record
- Call Number
- 970 NUT v. 7, no. 1
- Contributor
- Efrat, Barbara S., 1935-2017
- Langlois, W. J., 1949-
- Place of Publication
- Victoria, British Columbia
- Publisher
- Aural History Program, Ministry of Provincial Secretary and Travel Industry, Provincial Archives of B.C.
- Publication Date
- 1978
- Series
- Sound heritage; v. 7, no.1
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Cook, James, 1728-1779
- Nootka Indians--History
- Indigenous peoples--British Columbia--History
- Oral history
- Oral history--British Columbia
- British Columbia--History
- Botany
- Plants, Useful--British Columbia --History
- Periodicals
- Subjects
- Indigenous peoples - British Columbia
- Notes
- "Edited by Barbara S. Efrat and W.J. Langlois." -- title page
- "The editors of this volume have chosen to emphasize the linguistic spelling of the word Nootka. The word NU-TKA means " circling about" and is explained in detail by the excellent account of Mrs. Winifred David on page 55. " -- title page
- "This volume is the first part of a two-part series to commemorate the Captain Cook Bicentennial. It is the intent of the editors that the two volumes should form one unit. The second volume Nu-tka : the history and survival of Nootkan culture will follow in short order . W.J.L. " -- title page
- Includes bibliographical references
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