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Title: Legends of Vancouver

Author: E. Pauline Johnson

Release Date: April 2, 2009 [EBook #28483]

Language: English

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Legends of

Vancouver

By

E. PAULINE JOHNSON

(Tekahionwake)

_Eighth Edition_

ILLUSTRATED

Published by

Saturday Sunset Presses

Vancouver, B. C.

1913

COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY E. PAULINE JOHNSON

These legends are printed by courtesy of the "Vancouver Daily
Province," in which journal they first appeared.

Printed by

SATURDAY SUNSET PRESSES

Vancouver, B. C.

Preface

I have been asked to write a preface to these Legends of Vancouver,
which, in conjunction with the members of the Publication
Sub-committee--Mrs. Lefevre, Mr. L. W. Makovski and Mr. R. W.
Douglas--I have helped to put through the press. But scarcely any
prefatory remarks are necessary. This book may well stand on its own
merits. Still, it may be permissible to record one's glad satisfaction
that a poet has arisen to cast over the shoulders of our grey
mountains, our trail-threaded forests, our tide-swept waters, and the
streets and skyscrapers of our hurrying city, a gracious mantle of
romance. Pauline Johnson has linked the vivid present with the
immemorial past. Vancouver takes on a new aspect as we view it through
her eyes. In the imaginative power that she has brought to these
semi-historical sagas, and in the liquid flow of her rhythmical prose,
she has shown herself to be a literary worker of whom we may well be
proud: she has made a most estimable contribution to purely Canadian
literature.

BERNARD McEVOY

Author's Foreword

These legends (with two or three exceptions) were told to me personally
by my honored friend, the late Chief Joe Capilano, of Vancouver, whom I
had the privilege of first meeting in London in 1906, when he visited
England and was received at Buckingham Palace by their Majest