Letters from Readers
New BCH App Hi Andrea I purchased the British Columbia History app from the Apple Store and really enjoy it. I do most of my reading on my iPad so it really works well for me. Regards Mike Yusko Via email Uplands Farm The remnants of “Uplands Farm” (Fall 2019 issue, p. 27) were definitely “magical” if they “slopped gently” into Haro Strait. When Joseph Despard Pemberton laid out the plot of land named “Uplands Farm” he was acting as the Hudson’s Bay Company’s surveyor, not “Surveyor General of Vancouver Island” although the Colonial Office had authorized him to survey the entire island. In the Victoria area, Uplands Farm was the first plot of formerly Songhees land that was allotted by the HBC in 1852. Respectfully, Jim McDowell Corrections Many thanks for publishing Mark Forsythe’s excellent article on…