Awards

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A White Man's Province

British Columbia Politicians and Chinese and Japanese Immigrants 1858-1914

A revealing historical account of the complex racism in early British Columbia and the lives and contributions made to the province by its Chinese and Japanese residents.

Awards

2013, Winner - Patricia E. Roy is the recipient of the Canadian Historical Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award for 2013.

  • Copyright year: 1989
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Life Lived Like a Story

Life Stories of Three Yukon Native Elders

The life stories of three remarkable and gifted women of Athapaskan and Tlingit ancestry who were born in the southern Yukon Territory around the turn of the century - when storytelling provides a customary framework for discussing the past.

Awards

1992, Winner - Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, Canadian Historical Association

  • Copyright year: 1991
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The Railway King of Canada

Sir William Mackenzie, 1849-1923

A dramatic biography of the now-forgotten Canadian entrepreneur, who spearheaded the most technologically advanced projects ever undertaken in the country, and built a business empire that stretched to Brazil, but was virtually bankrupt by the time of this death.

Awards

1992, Winner - Fred Landon Award for the Best Book on Regional History in Ontario

  • Copyright year: 1991
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Our Chiefs and Elders

Words and Photographs of Native Leaders

David Neel presents us with a magnificent series of images of Native chiefs and elders which sharply contrasts with earlier depictions of Natives as “noble savages” or representatives of a “vanishing race.”

Awards

1993, Winner - Alcuin Citation for excellence in book design in Canada, Alcuin Society

  • Copyright year: 1992
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The Struggle for Social Justice in British Columbia

Helena Gutteridge, the Unknown Reformer

Awards

1992, Winner - University of British Columbia Medal for Canadian Biography, UBC

1993, Shortlisted - Vancouver Book Award, City of Vancouver

  • Copyright year: 1992
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Bitter Feast

Amerindians and Europeans in Northeastern North America, 1600-64

By Denys Delâge; Translated by Jane Brierley

The first book to pay serious attention to the European economic and political factors which promoted colonization, this book argues that the prime determinant was the uneven development of agricultural systems in western Europe.

Awards

1986, Winner - Prix Lionel-Groulx

  • Copyright year: 1993
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