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Robert Dunsmuir

Laird of the Mines

by (author) Lynne Bowen

Publisher
Dundurn Press
Initial publish date
Jan 1999
Category
Historical, General, General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780968360132
    Publish Date
    Jan 1999
    List Price
    $15.95

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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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