The Bishop in British Columbia! . . . on horseback, on foot, in a canoe. This diary of Hills' first year in the Columbia Territory is a very important cultural and historical document of the colonial period and, given the rugged geographical and social conditions of 1860, it is an adventure as well.
Most people have expressed their opinion that I am looking altered from the effects of this journey. I certainly have had a rougher time than I ever experienced and I have had to do some amount of hard physical labour. My dress has become tattered, my shoes worn out and my appearance anything but clerical. . . . I was in a coloured woolen shirt, no waistcoat, no neckcloth and my coat was in holes. Yet I have enjoyed my journey very much.
-- From the diary entry dated July 30, 1860
photos, map, 308 pp
ISBN 1-55039-067-8, paper, $21.95
