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Walter Moberly

and the Northwest Passage by Rail

by (author) Daphne Sleigh

Publisher
Hancock House
Initial publish date
May 2003
Category
General, Adventurers & Explorers, General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780888395108
    Publish Date
    May 2003
    List Price
    $17.95

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Daphne Sleigh was born in Ewell, Surrey, England. She received her master`s degree from Somerville College, Oxford, and was a librarian at the Royal Institute of British Architects. She moved to Vancouver in 1957 and became interested in BC history during the province`s 1971 centennial, for which she co-wrote a history of Maple Ridge. She was the first curator of the Maple Ridge Museum, from 1975 to 1981, and she won the Lieutenant-Governor`s Medal from the BC Historical Federation in 1984 for her book Discovering Deroche. She has written six other books, including a biography of the explorer Walter Moberly. Daphne lives in Deroche, BC, with her husband, Francis.

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