Biography & Autobiography Historical
Robert Dunsmuir
Laird of the Mines
- Publisher
- Dundurn Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1999
- Category
- Historical, General, General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780968360132
- Publish Date
- Jan 1999
- List Price
- $15.95
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Description
Though he came to the wilds of colonial Vancouver Island as an indentured coal miner, Robert Dunsmuir became a mine owner, a railway builder, and the richest man in British Columbia.
About the author
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Lynne Bowen is the author of five books of Western Canadian history: Robert Dunsmuir, Those Lake People, Muddling Through, Three Dollar Dreams and Boss Whistle. She has won the Lieutenant-Governor's Medal for writing British Columbia history, the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize and the Canadian Historical Association's Regional Certificate of Merit. Bowen was the Rogers Communications Co-Chair of Creative Non-Fiction Writing at UBC from 1992 to 2006. She lives in Nanaimo, BC.
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