History of British Columbia 17921887 Author:Hubert Howe Bancroft General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1887 Original Publisher: The History Co. Subjects: British Columbia History / Canada / General Travel / Canada / General Travel / Canada / Western Provinces Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or m... more »issing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. GENERAL VIEW OF THE NORTHWEST COAST. Eastern Parallels -- Configuration Of North-wester!! America -- Brit- Ish Columbia Coast -- Pcoet Sound -- Vancouver Island -- Queer Charlotte Islands -- Climatic Sections Of The Mainland -- New Caledonia -- Heights Of Land -- The Columbia And Fraser Plateau Basin -- Skeena And Stikeen -- Oregon, Washington, And Idaho -- Northwest Coast Climates -- The Temperature Of Vabious LocalIties -- Fauna And Flora -- The Aborigines -- Attitudes Of The Fub- Traders And Settlers Towakdthe Natives -- Peaceful Regime Undeb The Great Monopoly -- The Chinook Jabgon. Having thus sufficiently refreshed our memory as to the earliest appearance of Europeans in these parts, before proceeding in chronological order with the affairs of British Columbia, I do not regard it time lost to take a general survey of the condition of things at this juncture throughout the north Pacific slope; for although the careful reader of that part of this history entitled the Northwest Coast must have some knowledge of the present state of affairs, another glance, as at a picture of the whole, cannot fail to give a clearer and more lasting idea of the country at the beginning of what may be termed British Columbia history proper. California is opposite Spain; Oregon and Washington are on the parallels of France; British Columbia is in the latitude of Great Britain; as the world is round and revolving, there is no reason why one side of it ...« less