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Birkitts Books presents ... Voices from the Sound : Chronicles of Clayoquot Sound and Tofino, 1899-1929 ISBN: 0969700822 Author: Margaret Horsfield Publisher: SALAL Communications, Limited Release Date: 2008 Seller Category: History Regional US Qty Available: 1 Condition: Used: Very Good Sku: 251028020 Notes: Jacket has minor wear, binding tight, internally clean. Storekeepers and sealers, prospectors and priests, schoolchildren, settlers and native people a?? in the early decades of the twentieth century, their lives intersected in the small world and vast distances of Vancouver Islanda??s remote west coast. Now the voices of these people can be heard once again, in chatty and revealing detail. They come alive, just as cantankerous or eccentric, pitiable or brave as they were in their own lifetimes.Discovered in long-forgotten letters, diaries and scraps of memoir, these a??voicesa? tell their own stories in their own words, revealing in vivid detail what it was like to live on the west coast in the early 1900s.a??Excuse this writing as my only table is a gold pan,a? a prospector cheerfully declares in one letter. a??Send two cats, mice in flour,a? snaps a storekeeper in an ill-tempered order for supplies. a??There is a lull in the war in Tofino,a? a settler remarks cryptically, writing to his fiancee. And a sick boy at the Indian residential school on Meares Island sadly comments, a??I am sorry to say I am spitting blood for three days...a?Set against a background of rapid social and economic change, Voices from the Sound examines the years 1899 to 1929 on the west coast. These years saw the demise of the fur seal trade, the coming of scheduled steamships and the development of commercial whaling, logging and fishing. Zealous missionaries radically altered the lives of native people, while the upstart settlement called Tofino gradually eclipsed nearby Clayoquot as the dominant community in the area.Voices from the Sound is based on thousands of first-hand documents, written by people in the area. When Margaret Horsfield began unearthing all these obscure west coast documents in unlikely locations, she found herself nearly deafened by a cacophony of voices from Clayoquot Sound. She draws us skilfully into their world, allowing these voices be heard, revealing the high hopes, bitter losses, and cockeyed dreams that dominated the lives of many people on the west coast. Don't forget to check out other great deals in our Store!!