Thomas Crosby arrived at Nanaimo in the 1860s as a young lay teacher and spent years among the Coast Salish peoples of Vancouver Island and the Fraser River. He describes learning the language, his school, the conflicts over the liquor trade, his encounters with shamans and chiefs, and the long journeys by canoe that his preaching required.
A valuable record of the colonial Northwest, written with a missionary’s certainty and the cultural attitudes of 1907. Download the free EPUB.