Salt Spring

SUBTITLED : ` The Story of an Island ' . Page 11 of this 344 page examination suggests that the first written mention of Salt Spring Island was in 1853. Clearly First Nations people were there long before that - perhaps 2000 B.C. READ more about : Island Paddlers, Stuart Margolin, Painters Guild, Ashdown Green, Festival of the Arts, Musgrave Road, fire protection, sea urchins, Klaathem, Cusheon Cove, Vesuvius village, and Saanich Peninsula. Text assisted by b/w photographs and a map on page ten. INDEX, notes and biblio at the back. Cond : Boards are blue with silver gilt lettering at spine. Brown end-papers are regional maps. Blue dust jacket with light blue titling. Volume is decidedly crisp, bright, and collectible. Minimal wear. Author has a short gift inscription on title page. Collectible ! ! QUote (p. 146) : " You could buy groceries and shoe polish, horse harness and blacksmith tools, blankets and furniture or a cemetery lot or ._._._. . ".