The Final Voyage of the Valencia By Michael C. Neitzel Heritage House, 2020 $9.95 Paperback The Valencia was far from the first ship to founder on Vancouver Island’s rocky lee shore—according to Neitzel, at least 56 ships and 711 lives had already been lost on the island’s west coast. But the horror of the 1906 Valencia shipwreck caused an international uproar and was tagged as the “most shameful incident in Canada’s maritime history.” The San Francisco-registered Valencia was a 253-foot […]

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