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Bibliography

 


For More on the Pemberton Family in Victoria, See:

Helmcken, John Sebastian.  The Reminiscences of Doctor John Sebastian Helmcken.  Dorothy Blakey Smith, ed.          

            Vancouver: UBC Press, 1975.

Holmes, Pip.  Personal Interview with Benjamin Beresford.  27 March 2006.

Humphreys, Danda.  On The Street Where You Live: Pioneer Pathways of Early Victoria.  Surrey: Heritage House, 1999.

Murdoch, G.  The History of the Municipality of Oak Bay.  <http://www.oakbaybc.org/commun/murdoch.pdf>.

Sampson, Harriet Susan.  "My Father, Joseph Despard Pemberton:1821-93."  British Columbia Historical Quarterly 8(2) 1944,

            111-125.


For More on English Gardens and Gardening in the Victorian Era and Beyond, See:

 

Batey, Mavis, and David Lambert.  The English Garden Tour: A View into the Past.  London: John Murray, 1990.


Bisgrove, Richard.  The National Trust Book of the English Garden.   London: Viking, 1990.


Clark, H. F.  The English Landscape Garden.  Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1980.


Cook, E. T.  Illustrated by Beatrice Parsons.  Gardens of England .  London: A & C, 1908.


Dutton, Ralph.  The English Garden.  London: B.T. Batsford, 1937. 

Hadfield, Miles.  A History of British Gardening.  London: John Murry, 1960.


Helmreich, Anne.  The English Garden and National Identity: The Competing Styles of Garden Design, 1870-1914. 

        Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.


Hugill, Peter J.  "English Landscape Tastes in the United States."  Geographical Review 1986, 408-423.


Hunt, John Dixon, and Peter Willis, eds..  The Genius of the Place: The English Landscape Garden, 1620-1820.  London: 

        Paul Elek, 1975.


McCracken, Donal P.  Gardens of Empire: Botanical Institutions of the Victorian British Empire.  London: Leicester 

        University Press, 1997.


Roberts, Harry.  English Gardens.  London: Adprint, 1944.

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For More on Surveying and Mapping, See:

Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of
       Nationalism. London/New York: Verso, 1991. 

Brace, Laura. “Husbanding the Earth and Hedging out the Poor.” In Land and Freedom:
            Law, Property Rights and the British Diaspora
, edited by A.R. Buck, John McLaren and 
            Nancy E. Wright. Alderdshot England: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2001.

Harris, Cole. “How Did Colonialism Dispossess?  Comments from an Edge of Empire.”  Annals
            of the Assocation of American Geographers
94 (2004): 165-182.

Kain, Roger J. and Elizabeth Baigent. The Cadastral Map in the Service of the State: A
            History of Property Mapping
. Chicago/London: The University of Chicago Press, 1992.
 

Moloney, Pat. “Colonization, Civilization and Cultivation: Early Victorians’ Theories of
            Property Rights and Sovereignty.” In Land and Freedom: Law, Property Rights and the 
            British Diaspora
, edited by A.R. Buck, John McLaren and Nancy E. Wright. Alderdshot 
            England: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2001.
 

Scott, James C. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human
      Condition Have Failed. New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 1998.

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