Reminiscences of the West Coast of Vancouver Island

Abstract

"In 1900 the Rev. A.J. Brabant, a pioneer missionary of the Roman Catholic Church, published his reminiscences, dealing with the principal events of his twenty-five years, 1874-1899, amongst the Indians of the west coast of Vancouver Island. The body of this volume is a reprint of that book, which has long been quite unobtainable... Here and there scattered through the diaries the reader catches glimpses of the primitive conditions on the west coast, the dangers that faced the pioneer missionaries and traders, and the flitting movements of the earliest sealing schooners that led the way to pelagic sealing."