Legends of Vancouver

<p><a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/e-pauline-johnson">Emily Pauline Johnson</a>, who was also known by the Mohawk name Tekahionwake, was a Canadian poet and author born in 1861. Born to a Mohawk father and an English mother, she was known for introducing indigenous culture to a wider North American and European audience.</p> <p>In <i>Legends of Vancouver</i>, perhaps her best-known prose work, Johnson tells stories of the Squamish people, as relayed to her by Chief Joe Capilano, whom she befriended upon moving to Vancouver in 1909. She provides her own framing for these stories, placing them in the context of her relationship with the Squamish people.</p> <p>In 1911, a group of Johnson’s friends collected this series of stories, that had previously been published in the <i>Daily Province</i>, in order to raise funds to support her as she struggled with poverty and health issues. In the intervening years, <i>Legends of Vancouver</i> has become a foundational piece of Vancouver’s literary heritage.</p>

First sentence: YOU can see them as you look towards the north and the west, where the dream-hills swim into the sky amid their ever-drifting clouds of pearl and grey.

Year

1995

Language

English

Publisher

Quarry Press (CN)

Editions

30

Pages

160

ISBN

9781550820256

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