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Livres anciens et modernes

Don E. Waite

The Langley Story Illustrated: An Early History of the Municipality of Langley

Don Waite Publishing, 1977

54,95 €

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(Seattle, États-Unis d'Amérique)

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Détails

Année
1977
ISBN
0919213618
Lieu d'édition
U.S.A.
Auteur
Don E. Waite
Éditeurs
Don Waite Publishing
Edition
First Edition
Description
Poor
Description
H
Jaquette
Oui
Etat de conservation
En excellent ètat
Reliure
Couverture rigide
Dédicacée
Non
Premiére Edition
Oui

Description

Book is in excellent condition in every respect with sharp corners, straight, solid binding, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket has several large tears along the folds, heavy chipping at edges. Clean boards in brown cloth, map endpapers. 280pp. Formerly of a private library with two stamps near the front of the book. Many b&w photos, some full page. Maps, tables, charts. Contents include Fur company exploration, First Fort Langley, Hudson's Bay co. , The great Langley prairie, A yuculta attack, Fraser river gold rush, Birth of B.C. Mainland's first church, Collins telegraph, Birth of Langley, Municipal troubles, The great railway, Great flood of '94, The B.C.E. railway, The war years, etc. "Don Waite began the task of collecting the material for this book with day by day interviews with the descendants of the pioneers.The book covers the history of the municipality from the time of the establishment of the Hudson's Bay Company's first Fort Langley in 1827 until the end of the First World War in 1918."