Buy this book on-line Don E. Waite : The Langley Story Illustrated: An Early History of the Municipality of LangleyDon Waite Publishing, U.S.A., 1977 ISBN 0919213618
Book is in excellent condition in every respect with sharp corners, straight, solid binding, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket has several large tears along the folds, heavy chipping at edges. Clean boards in brown cloth, map endpapers. 280pp. Formerly of a private library with two stamps near the front of the book. Many b&w photos, some full page. Maps, tables, charts. Contents include Fur company exploration, First Fort Langley, Hudson's Bay co. , The great Langley prairie, A yuculta attack, Fraser river gold rush, Birth of B.C. Mainland's first church, Collins telegraph, Birth of Langley, Municipal troubles, The great railway, Great flood of '94, The B.C.E. railway, The war years, etc. "Don Waite began the task of collecting the material for this book with day by day interviews with the descendants of the pioneers.The book covers the history of the municipality from the time of the establishment of the Hudson's Bay Company's first Fort Langley in 1827 until the end of the First World War in 1918.". Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Poor Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Don E. Waite : The Langley Story Illustrated: An Early History of the Municipality of Langley. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including used books, livres rares, libri antichi, livres illustrées and out-of-print books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |