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Published from the manuscript copy in the National Archives, Eunice Harrison's memoir of life in British Columbia from 1860 to 1906 offers one of the earliest accounts of the province by a woman. With verve and humour she describes everyday life in early Victoria and Vancouver. As a young woman, she travelled across the Strait in the tugboat Etta White to make music, take part in theatricals and witness a Native ceremonial dance. After her marriage to Eli Harrison, a well known circuit court judge, she travelled the Cariboo road with her husband, recording her impressions of justice being…mehr

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Published from the manuscript copy in the National Archives, Eunice Harrison's memoir of life in British Columbia from 1860 to 1906 offers one of the earliest accounts of the province by a woman. With verve and humour she describes everyday life in early Victoria and Vancouver. As a young woman, she travelled across the Strait in the tugboat Etta White to make music, take part in theatricals and witness a Native ceremonial dance. After her marriage to Eli Harrison, a well known circuit court judge, she travelled the Cariboo road with her husband, recording her impressions of justice being meted out in the rough, pioneer world of the BC Interior. Her account of the social customs of the day, through the eyes of a woman, is both acute and instructive. The memoir concludes with her experience of the catastrophic 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire which she lived through while on a visit to the city with her two young children. Her account of the destruction and chaos she witnessed as she made her way to safety through the burning city makes for gripping reading.
Autorenporträt
Eunice M. L. Harrison was born in 1860 and moved with her family to British Columbia in 1864, first living in New Westminster. Four years later they moved to Victoria, where Harrison attended private school, completing her education at Mrs. Fellows' Finishing School. In 1880, she married promising lawyer Eli Harrison, who became County Court Judge for Cariboo and Lillooet shortly after the marriage. In 1945 Eunice Harrison constructed her memoir, drawing on diaries she had kept over the years, her husband's writings, and other materials. Harrison died in 1950, but her son, Herschel, published the memoir in Northwest Digest as a serial between 1951 and 1953.