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Copyright © 2021 Barry Gough

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Endsheet: “A Chart of the Interior Part of North America Demonstrating the very good probability of an Inland Navigation from Hudsons Bay to the West Coast”, from John Meares’ book, Voyages to the North-West Coast of America (1790) | From the collection of Gary Little

Page vi : Clayoquot Sound aerial | Wilderness Committee Archive

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Title: Possessing Meares Island : a historian's journey into the past of Clayoquot Sound / Barry Gough.

Names: Gough, Barry M., author.

Description: Includes index.

Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20210289899 | Canadiana (ebook) 2021028997X | ISBN 9781550179576 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781550179583 (EPUB)

Subjects: LCSH: Meares Island (B.C.)—History. | LCSH: Clayoquot Sound (B.C.)—History. | LCSH: Indigenous peoples—British Columbia—Meares Island—History. | LCSH: Indigenous peoples—Land tenure—British Columbia—Meares Island—History. | LCSH: Environmental protection—British Columbia—Meares Island—History.

Classification: LCC FC3845.M42 G68 2021 | DDC 971.1/2—dc23