Geological Survey of Canada

George Mercer Dawson

William Fraser Tolmie

"The vocabularies of Indian languages of British Columbia here printed, were, for the most part, collected by Dr. W.F. Tolmie and the writer [George M. Dawson] in Victoria during the winter of 1875-76. The result aimed at was to obtain a short series of the principal words of all the languages and dialects spoken in the province on a uniform system. ... The map accompanying this publication embraces a large amount of information respecting the distribution of the various tribes, covering an area west of the Rocky Mountains of about 200,000 squre miles, and filling what remained as a gap between Mr. W.H. Dall's ethnological maps of Alaska and Washington Territory. It brings out in a most striking way the singular linguistic diversity which obtains along the coast line of this part of America ..." --

William Fraser Tolmie

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