Bella Coola

Vancouver, B. C.: Mitchell Press Limited , 1974. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Edge and corner wear to the dj; scuffed and scratched; corners are lightly bumped and rubbed; some shelf wear; former owner's name and a date are in ink on the ffep; overall a very crisp and clean used copy! Red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. 296 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical and informative pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and illustrations! "At a lonely channel-end on the deeply-cut mountainous North Pacific Coast of North America the Indians had a settlement of ancient descent they called Bella Coola. In the summer of 1793 they were much in doubt as to what to make of two fascinating yet disturbing white strangers. These were Captain George Vancouver, R. N. and Alexander Mackenzie, explorers. They were encountered separately, one having come in a huge 'canoe' and other arduously by land. They unwittingly made of Bella Coola that year a memorable near meeting place. Two generations later the white men who followed the first explorers were surveying at Bella Coola to see if the pass and harbour would make a terminus of Canada's first Atlantic-to-Pacific railway. Norwegian colonists came to settle and stay in what looked so like their own familiar fjord country....