Voyages of Hope
by Peter Johnson
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A line of nervous young women got off a ship in Victoria Harbour in 1862 and had to walk the gauntlet between two rows of jostling, eager men. One girl, proposed to on the spot, accepted equally quickly and left town with her new husband. Why did these women leave everything behind in England and come to the west coast? The answers lie in the lusty turmoil of a gold-rush frontier, the horrible disruptions of industrial England and the conflicting aims of earnest Christians and early British show more feminists. show lessTags
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A well researched book about the bride ships that came to Victoria in the 1860's. They books focuses on the social history of what was happening in England and British Columbia that would spawn these four ships.
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Peter Johnson is the author of several books on rugby. He has coached school, university, representative rugby teams and professional rugby clubs. As a former England Academy Manager, and presently as the Manager of the RFU Apprenticeship programme, Peter's career has been at the heart of elite player development.
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- Canonical title
- Voyages of Hope
- Important places
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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