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In 1857, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada was the gateway to opportunistic miners from the world over who sought to provision themselves and make their way up to the steep canyons of the Fraser Valley, north and east of the lumber town Vancouver, just across the Juan de Fuca Strait. William Spencer Vickrey was the child of one of the most colorful and successful families in the history of Victoria.
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Read, C. (2016). The Early Life of William Spencer Vickrey. In: The Public Financiers. Great Minds in Finance. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137341341_19
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