Tales of a Pioneer Journalist: From Gold Rush to Governement Street in 19th Century Victoria - Softcover

Higgins, David William

9781895811247: Tales of a Pioneer Journalist: From Gold Rush to Governement Street in 19th Century Victoria

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ISBN 10: 1895811244 ISBN 13: 9781895811247

Verlag: Heritage House Pub Co Ltd, 1996

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Rese�a del editor:

David Higgins, a muscular 24-year-old newspaperman from Halifax, via San Francisco, landed in Esquimalt in 1858 and trudged into Victoria amidst a horde of dreamers. After a stint in Yale on the front lines of the gold rush, he returned to Victoria as one of Amor de Cosmos' first employees at the British Colonist. His initial assignment was to cover a battle raging in Victoria's harbour between the Hydah and Stickeen peoples. He started his ownDaily Chronicle, which he soon consolidated with the original de Cosmos publication. Six years later his newspaper was simply known as theColonist. In 1886, Higgins was elected to the provincial legislature and left theColonist behind. He became BC's second Speaker of the House in the 1890s. In retirement he wrote two widely acclaimed books that form the basis of this book.

Biograf�a del autor:

David William Higgins, born in Halifax in 1834, arrived at Fort Victoria on Vancouver Island in 1858. He was among the first of some 30,000 men stampeding to a gold rush on a little-known river called the Fraser. Like virtually all other stampeders, however, he discovered that placer mining involved a maximum of work for a minimum of gold. But unlike the most if the newcomers who left by autumn, he remained in B.C. all of his life, becoming one of the province's best known pioneer residents.

Higgins died in 1917 at 83. In addition to his two books and tens of thousands of words about the province's pioneer people and events, Higgins left another memorial of the pre-1900s era. In 1885 in Victoria he had built one of the city's finest homes called Regent's Park House, it included seventeen rooms, eight fireplaces and a grand staircase.

Fortunately, it has survived. Today it is an official heritage house, open to the public, and a bridge back to the province's gold-rush era that Higgins knew so well.

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