Category: History: Canada: British Columbia

Copyright/published Year: 2022 by Hancock House

ISBN: 9780888397416

Binding: Trade Pap

Description: In 1890, Harry and Mary Ann Foote arrived on Coast Salish ì territory and purchased Jedediah - a private island. Starting ì with the simple question "Where am I from?", this narrative ì traces one family across Canada and through hundreds of years to ì share a personal lens on the lived experience of settler ì colonization. Drawing on original letters, transcripts, and oral ì histories, the book weaves connections between the stories of ì specific ancestors and their connection to land, treaties, and ì Indigenous peoples at that time.

Accounts include colourful stories of homesteading on Jedediah ì Island, in what is now known as British Columbia, construction of ì the parliament buildings on Epekwitk (Prince Edward Island), life ì during the so-called "Indian Wars" of the 1700s, and homesteading ì on the shores of Ouentironk (Lake Simcoe). The earliest stories ì go back to the 1600s, when a settler with the unlikely name of ì Peter Rambo was one of the earliest founders of a settlement ì called New Sweden in what we now call Pennsylvania.

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