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Recommendations for Further Reading

Alder Grove Heritage Society. The Place Between: Aldergrove and Communities, 1860-1939. Aldergrove, BC: Alder Grove Heritage Society, 1993.

British Columbia Legislative Assembly. “BC Sessional Papers.” University of British Columbia Open Collections. https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcsessional.

Colonial Correspondence Index series, GR-1920. Royal BC Museum and Archives, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

The cover of the book, “The Last of the Royal Engineers in British Columbia: Philip Jackman” by Virginia Cooke. The cover has a watercolour bust portrait painting of a bearded elderly man wearing a brown brimmed hat.

The Last of the Royal Engineers in British Columbia: Philip Jackman by Virginia Cooke

Cooke, Virginia. The Last of the Royal Engineers in British Columbia: Philip Jackman. Langley, BC: Township of Langley, 2018.

Evans, Chad. Frontier Theatre: A History of Nineteenth-Century Theatrical Entertainment in the Canadian Far West and Alaska. Victoria, BC: Sono Nis Press, 1983.

Ferguson, Gerry. “Control of the Insane in British Columbia, 1849-78: Care, Cure, or Confinement?” In Regulating Lives: Historical Essays on State, Society, the Individual, and the Law, edited by John McLaren, Robert Menzies, and Dorothy E. Chunn. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press, 2002.

Hall, Winnifred M. “The Royal Engineers in British Columbia 1858-1863.” Bachelor’s thesis, University of British Columbia, 1925.

Hendrickson, James. “The Colonial Despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871.” University of Victoria. https://bcgenesis.uvic.ca/index.htm.

Hill, Beth. Sappers: The Royal Engineers in British Columbia. Ganges, BC: Horsdal & Schubar Publishers Ltd, 1987.

Howay, Frederic W. The Work of the Royal Engineers in British Columbia 1858 to 1863. Victoria, BC: King’s Printer, 1909.

Johnson, Peter. Voyages of Hope: The Saga of the Bride-Ships. Victoria, BC: Touchwood Editions, 2002.

O’Neill, Patrick. “The Royal Engineers, 1858-1863: Theatrical Entertainment for and by the Enlisted Men.” Canadian Theatre Review 101 (2000): 11-14.

Robinson, Noel. Blazing the Trail through the Rockies: The Story of Walter Moberly and his Share in the Making of Vancouver. Vancouver, BC: News-Advertisers, 1915.

Rylatt, R.M. Surveying the Canadian Pacific: Memoir of a Railroad Pioneer. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1991.

Sherritt, Norman. The Post Offices of Langley Municipality & City. Langley, BC: Pacific Northwest Regional Group British North America Philatelic Society, 1998.

Sommer, Warren. Nothing Without Effort: A History of Langley. Langley, BC: Township of Langley, 2008.

Usher, Dale E.A. Policing the Royal City: A History of the New Westminster Police Service. Coquitlam, BC: Dale E.A. Usher, 2000.

Woodward, Frances M. “Influence of the Royal Engineers on the Development of British Columbia.” BC Studies 24 (1974): 3-51.