Overland from Canada to British Columbia
By Mr. Thomas McMicking of Queenston, Canada West
- Copyright year: 1981
On the Northwest
Commercial Whaling in the Pacific Northwest, 1790-1967
On the Northwest is the first complete history of commercial whaling in the Pacific Northwest from its shadowy origins in the late 1700s to its demise in western Canada in 1967.
- Copyright year: 1988
Ships and Memories
Merchant Seafarers in Canada's Age of Steam
An account of life on steamships, this book draws on the experiences of seafarers in peace and war and during the depression.
- Copyright year: 1993
Gold at Fortymile Creek
Early Days in the Yukon
Michael Gatesfollows the first gold-seekers from their arrival in 1873 until the stampede to the Klondike in 1896, capturing the essence of these early years of the gold rush and chronicling the trials and successes of the hardy individualists who searched for gold in the wilderness.
- Copyright year: 1994
The Klondike Stampede
This classic in Yukon gold rush literature was originally published in 1900 and has long been out of print.
- Copyright year: 1994
Making Vancouver
Class, Status, and Social Boundaries, 1863-1913
Explores social relationships in Vancouver from 1863 to 1913.
- Copyright year: 1996
The Emergence of Social Security in Canada
Third Edition
The first and most detailed history of Canadian social security from colonial times to the present, The Emergence of Social Security in Canada has become a standard text in social work and related courses in post-secondary institutions across Canada, since its publication in 1980.
- Copyright year: 1997
Creating Historical Memory
English-Canadian Women and the Work of History
This engaging collection of essays seeks to create an awareness of the contributions made by women to history and the historical profession from 1870 to 1970 in English Canada.
- Copyright year: 1997
Gamblers and Dreamers
Women, Men, and Community in the Klondike
Gamblers and Dreamers tackles some of the myths about the history of the North in the era of the gold rush.
- Copyright year: 1998
The Limits of Labour
Class Formation and the Labour Movement in Calgary, 1883-1929
- Copyright year: 1998
Death So Noble
Memory, Meaning, and the First World War
This book examines Canada’s collective memory of the First World War through the 1920s and 1930s. It is a cultural history, considering art, music, and literature.
- Copyright year: 1999
Telling Tales
Essays in Western Women's History
Telling Tales both challenges founding myths of the region and inspires rethinking of how we tell the story of western Canadian colonization and settlement.
- Copyright year: 2000
Women and the White Man's God
Gender and Race in the Canadian Mission Field
Based on diaries, letters, and mission correspondence, this is the first comprehensive examination of women’s roles in Anglican missions that were active in northern British Columbia, Yukon, and the Northwest Territories between 1860 and 1940.
- Copyright year: 2002
Game in the Garden
A Human History of Wildlife in Western Canada to 1940
This intriguing book identifies the imaginative use of wild animals in early western society and shows how attitudes to wild animals changed according to subsistence and economic needs and how wildlife helped to determine social relations among people.
- Copyright year: 2003
When Coal Was King
Ladysmith and the Coal-Mining Industry on Vancouver Island
The first scholarly history of the Ladysmith miners, the Great Strike of 1912-1914, and the coalmining industry on Vancouver Island.
- Copyright year: 2003
Saints, Sinners, and Soldiers
Canada's Second World War
From labour conflicts to the black market to prostitution, this book examines the moral and social underbelly of Canada’s Second World War.
- Copyright year: 2004
Northern Exposures
Photographing and Filming the Canadian North, 1920-45
Illustrated throughout with archival photographs, this book examines the photographic and film practice of the Canadian government, the Anglican Church of Canada, and the Hudson’s Bay Company, the three major colonial institutions involved in the arctic and sub-arctic.
- Copyright year: 2004
Fight or Pay
Soldiers' Families in the Great War
In Fight or Pay, Desmond Morton turns his eye to the stories of those who paid in lieu of fighting – the wives, mothers, and families left behind when soldiers went to war.
- Copyright year: 2004
Selling British Columbia
Tourism and Consumer Culture, 1890-1970
An entertaining and illustrated account of the development of BC's tourist industry between 1890 and 1970, examining how BC’s history of colonialism was deftly marketed to potential tourists.
- Copyright year: 2004