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category: History
published: Jun 2016
ISBN:9781772031119
publisher: Heritage House Publishing

Britannia's Navy on the West Coast of North America, 1812-1914

by Barry Gough

tagged: canada, great britain, naval
Description

The influence of the Royal Navy on the development of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest was both effective and extensive. Yet all too frequently, its impact has been ignored by historians, who instead focus on the influence of explorers, fur traders, settlers, and railway builders. In this thoroughly revised and expanded edition of his classic 1972 work, naval historian Barry Gough examines the contest for the Columbia country during the War of 1812, the 1844 British response to President Polk’s manifest destiny and cries of “Fifty-four forty or fight,” the gold-rush invasion of 30,000 outsiders, and the jurisdictional dispute in the San Juan Islands that spawned the Pig War. The author looks at the Esquimalt-based fleet in the decade before British Columbia joined Canada and the Navy’s relationship with coastal First Nation over the five decades that preceded the Great War.

About the Author

Barry Gough

Barry M. Gough is a Canadian maritime and naval historian. He has written more than a dozen books, working to recast and reaffirm the imperial foundations of Canadian history. He was educated at the University of British Columbia, the University of Montana, and King’s College London. He taught from 1972 to 2004 at Wilfrid Laurier University. He was also the founding director of Canadian Studies and on retirement was appointed University Professor Emeritus.

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