Vancouver: News-Advertiser, n.d. c. 1914-15. 117 p. 4to. 43 b&w illus. including "the last spike" on p. 109. Illustrated green paper wraps, chipped at top and bottom of spine, with mark of discolouration and small stain to front cover, bookseller's sticker and inscription on back of rear cover.
One of B.C.'s forgotten heroes, Moberly (1832-1915) experienced the Cariboo Road, snow-covered mountain peaks, meetings with a grizzly bear, Sir John A. MacDonald and Brigham Young, railway building, a fall through the ice while playing "shinny" (hockey), onions for supper, fragile canoes, and life in early Vancouver - and lived to tell the tale. One the more prosaic side, Moberly was a civil engineer who laid out the site for New Westminster in 1859 as well as surveying several roads and trails throughout B.C.