From Shetland to Vancouver Island

Eric Duncan is remembered for having written what has been described as “the most important document for the history of the Comox Valley,” From Shetland to Vancouver Island: Recollections of Seventy-Five Years. 

Published in Edinburgh in 1937, it’s a fine read but long out of print. Happily, I’ve had a copy—a first edition, to boot—in my library for years and have read it twice. It was, in fact, one of my earliest antiquarian book finds.

Recently, I scanned it again and found a chapter which I’m sure will please Chronicles readers, “Sketches of Some Pioneers and Old-Timers.”

That’s next week in the BC Chronicles.

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PHOTO: Pioneer Comox Valley chronicler Eric Duncan. —Author’s Collection