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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.
2013, Winner - Patricia E. Roy is the recipient of the Canadian Historical Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award for 2013.
- Copyright year: 1989
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.
1992, Winner - Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, Canadian Historical Association
- Copyright year: 1991
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.
1992, Winner - Fred Landon Award for the Best Book on Regional History in Ontario
- Copyright year: 1991
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.”
1993, Winner - Alcuin Citation for excellence in book design in Canada, Alcuin Society
- Copyright year: 1992
The Struggle for Social Justice in British Columbia
Helena Gutteridge, the Unknown Reformer
1992, Winner - University of British Columbia Medal for Canadian Biography, UBC
1993, Shortlisted - Vancouver Book Award, City of Vancouver
- Copyright year: 1992
Bitter Feast
Amerindians and Europeans in Northeastern North America, 1600-64
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.
1986, Winner - Prix Lionel-Groulx
- Copyright year: 1993