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| Title | Facts and Figures Relating to Vancouver Island and British Columbia: Showing what to Expect and how to Get There Collection canadiana de Louis Melzack Collections spéciales Online access with subscription: JISC Historical Texts |
| Author | Joseph Despard Pemberton |
| Publisher | Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 20 Dec 2007 |
| Length | 171 pages |
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