| The Writing on the Wall: Chinese and Japanese Immigration to BC, 1920 The Writing on the Wall is a vivid illustration of the fear and prejudice with which immigrants were regarded in the early twentieth century. Glynn-Ward Hilda : Hilda Glynn-Ward was the literary pseudonym of Mrs Hilda G. Howard (1887-1966). Of Welsh birth, she came to Canada in 1910 and spent most of her life on southern Vancouver Island. She was a prolific writer of prose and poetry, and her best known work is The Glamour of British Columbia, a travel book published in 1926. Roy Patricia :Patricia E. Roy is a professor emeritus of the Department of History at the University of Victoria. |