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10-Volume British Columbia History, Biography & Cartography Group with 1956 Resource Atlas

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10-Volume British Columbia History, Biography & Cartography Group with 1956 Resource Atlas
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Mixed group of historical, biographical and cartographic reference works concerning British Columbia, Manitoba and North America. The lot includes historical and biographical volumes of British Columbia by F. W. Howay and E. O. S. Scholefield, the 1956 British Columbia Atlas of Resources, Big Hill Country, Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography and The Story of Manitoba. Bindings include gilt-lettered cloth and leather-bound volumes.

ARTIST / CREATOR BIOGRAPHY
Frederic William Howay (1867-1943) was a Canadian historian, lawyer and jurist whose scholarship centered on British Columbia and the maritime history of the Pacific Northwest. Born near London, Ontario, he came west as a child and was educated in New Westminster. After teaching for several years, he studied law at Dalhousie University and returned to British Columbia, where he became a county court judge in 1907. Ethelbert Olaf Stuart Scholefield (1875-1919) was an English-born Canadian librarian, archivist and historian. He arrived in British Columbia with his family in 1887 and joined the Provincial Library as a young man. Scholefield succeeded R. E. Gosnell as Provincial Librarian and was appointed Provincial Archivist in 1910. His work strengthened the province's institutional collection of books and government records, including material documenting early settlement and Northwest Coast exploration. Howay and Scholefield collaborated on the multivolume British Columbia from the Earliest Times to the Present, combining narrative history with biographical records. Their work reflects an early twentieth-century effort to gather and organize the documentary history of a rapidly developing province. Howay continued writing and editing historical studies for decades, served in Canadian historical organizations and was elected president of the Royal Society of Canada for 1941-1942. Together, their scholarship and collecting helped preserve a substantial record of British Columbia's formative history.

BOOK INVENTORY
British Columbia, Historical Vol. I - F. W. Howay and E. O. S. Scholefield, blue binding
British Columbia, Historical Vol. I - F. W. Howay and E. O. S. Scholefield, brown binding
British Columbia, Historical Vol. II - F. W. Howay and E. O. S. Scholefield, brown binding
British Columbia, Historical Vol. II - F. W. Howay and E. O. S. Scholefield, light brown binding
British Columbia, Biographical Vol. IV - illustrated
British Columbia, Biographical Vol. II - burgundy library binding
Big Hill Country - Friesen
Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. IV, Lodge-Pick
The Story of Manitoba, Vol. I
British Columbia Atlas of Resources - B.C. Natural Resources Conference, 1956
Inventory is a best-effort identification of the lot contents and may not be complete or exact.

Quantity: 10 volumes
Primary subject: British Columbia history, biography and natural resources
Dated work: British Columbia Atlas of Resources, 1956
Condition: As pictured.