The Archive of Place
Unearthing the Pasts of the Chilcotin Plateau
Weaves together a series of narratives about environmental history in British Columbia’s Chilcotin Plateau.
- Copyright year: 2007
The Triumph of Citizenship
The Japanese and Chinese in Canada, 1941-67
This final volume to Patricia E. Roy's pivotal trilogy exploring racial discrimination against Chinese- and Japanese-Canadians examines the removal of all Japanese-Canadians from the BC coast during WWII, while Chinese-Canadians gained the right to vote in 1947.
- Copyright year: 2007
At Home with the Bella Coola Indians
T.F. McIlwraith's Field Letters, 1922-4
- Copyright year: 2003
Beyond the City Limits
Rural History in British Columbia
This wide-ranging collection draws together a distinguished group of contributors to discuss Aboriginal-White settler relations on Vancouver Island, pimping and violence in northern BC, and the triumph of the coddling moth over Okanagan orchardists.
- Copyright year: 1998
Birds of British Columbia, Volume 1
Nonpasserines - Introduction, Loons through Waterfowl
For the first time, the natural history, migration patterns, habitat requirements, reproductive biology, and distribution of the province's birdlife are combined in one publication.
- Copyright year: 1992
Birds of British Columbia, Volume 2
Nonpasserines - Diurnal Birds of Prey through Woodpeckers
This volume completes the nonpasserine species and contains accounts for the diurnal birds of prey through woodpeckers.
- Copyright year: 1997
Undelivered Letters to Hudson's Bay Company Men on the Northwest Coast of America, 1830-57
This collection of correspondence – letters sent to Hudson's Bay Company men by their families and loved ones but never delivered – offers a rare and human history of ordinary people, many of whom were the early settlers of the Pacific Northwest.
- Copyright year: 2002
Indicator Plants of Coastal British Columbia
Indicator Plants of Coastal British Columbia fully discusses how indicator plants are recognized and demonstrates how indicator plants can be used in site diagnosis.
- Copyright year: 1989
Working Girls in the West
Representations of Wage-Earning Women
Examining the eager debate that followed women into the paid workforce in the early twentieth century, this volume uncovers the “working girl” heroines of western Canada’s poetry, prose, and fiction.
- Copyright year: 2008
Creating a Modern Countryside
Liberalism and Land Resettlement in British Columbia
- Copyright year: 2007
At the Far Reaches of Empire
The Life of Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra
The most complete study of Bodega and his epoch yet written, At the Far Reaches of Empire is an absorbing narrative of eighteenth-century empire building.
- Copyright year: 2008
Captain Alex MacLean
Jack London's Sea Wolf
Sealing wars and maritime history are brought into focus in this vivid account of the life of the Alex MacLean, the inspiration for Jack London's Sea-Wolf.
- Copyright year: 2008
Indigenous Storywork
Educating the Heart, Mind, Body, and Spirit
- Copyright year: 2008
Landing Native Fisheries
Indian Reserves and Fishing Rights in British Columbia, 1849-1925
- Copyright year: 2008
Colonial Proximities
Crossracial Encounters and Juridical Truths in British Columbia, 1871-1921
Colonial Proximities traces the encounters between aboriginal peoples, mixed-race populations, Chinese migrants, and Europeans in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century British Columbia.
- Copyright year: 2009
Becoming British Columbia
A Population History
Becoming British Columbia investigates critical moments in the demographic record of British Columbia, including catastrophic epidemics, immigrant rushes, forced migrations, the fertility transition, and the baby boom, in an accessible yet scholarly and provocative way.
- Copyright year: 2009
Treaty Talks in British Columbia, Third Edition
Building a New Relationship
This third edition of a classic brings readers up to date on treaty negotiations in British Columbia and is a valuable resource for those interested in the treaty process both in BC and Canada.
- Copyright year: 2009
Writing British Columbia History, 1784-1958
This sweeping exploration of history writing in British Columbia shows how historians helped to construct Canada's settler society.
- Copyright year: 2009