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0969107161 240 pages. In June of 1886 the new city of Vancouver bustles with a growing population and increasing opportunities for business and trade. When Amy MacDonald, the school teacher at Hastings Mill, discovers new Winchester '86 rifles are being smuggled through the city she tries to enlist the aid of the earnest but slow-witted provincial policema. She involves the Royal North West Mounted, a curious local newspaperman, a businessman, a knowledgeable woman of the street, and her irrepressible younger borther in her efforts to prevent the contraband from flowing to the Metis rebels in the North West. Vancouver life is complicated by the murder of a Metis and the persecution of the Chinese living in the city. Within the social limits placed on women in Vancouver of 1886, Amy tries to obtain justice. Clean, bright and unmarked. Very light wear. Excellent copy.
Title: A Question of Justice-1886
Categories: Canadian Literature,
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: British Columbia, Crook Publishing: 1985
ISBN Number: 0969107161
ISBN Number 13: 9780969107163
Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Fine
Seller ID: 35801451
Keywords: Crook, Marion A Question of Justice - 1886 240 pages. In June of 1886 the new city of Vancouver bustles with a growing population and increasing opportunities for business and trade. When Amy MacDonald, the school teacher at Hastings Mill, discovers new Winchester '86 rifles are being smuggled through the city she tries to enlist the aid of the earnest but slow-witted provincial policema. She involves the Royal North West Mounted, a curious local newspaperman, a businessman, a knowledgeable woman of the street, and her irrepressible younger borther in her efforts to prevent the contraband from flowing to the Metis rebels in the North West. Vancouver life is complicated by the murder of a Metis and the persecution of the Chinese living in the city. Within the social limits placed on women in Vancouver of 1886, Amy tries to obtain justice. Clean, bright and unmarked. Very light wear. Excellent copy.,