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All Possible Worlds

All Possible Worlds

Utopian Experiments in British Columbia
by Justine Brown
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British Columbia — the last temperate part of the New World to be mapped — has long conjured up images of Utopia, a word that comes from the Greek "no place." Indeed, utopian experiments started springing up soon after the first European explorers passed through. In All Possible Worlds, Justine Brown explores the attraction BC holds for utopian …

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Muddling Through

Muddling Through

The Remarkable Story of the Barr Colonists
by Lynne Bowen
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When two thousand British bank clerks, butchers, housewives, saleswomen, remittance men and ex-Boer War soldiers followed the charismatic but inept Anglican minister, Isaac Barr, to the Canadian prairies in 1903 their rallying cry was "Canada for the British."

Despite the Canadian governmentís expectations and Barrís assurances, however, very few …

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Objects of Concern

Objects of Concern

Canadian Prisoners of War Through the Twentieth Century
by Jonathan F. Vance
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Fifteen thousand Canadians were captured during Canada’s twientieth-century wars. They experienced the bewilderment that accompanied the moment of capture, the humiliation of being completely in the captor’s power, and the sense of stagnating in a backwater while the rest of the world moved forward. Jonathan Vance provides the first comprehensi …

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Tammarniit (Mistakes)

Tammarniit (Mistakes)

Inuit Relocation in the Eastern Arctic, 1939-63
by Frank Tester & Peter Kulchyski
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Through an examination of the roles of relief and relocation in response to welfare and other perceived problems and the federal government's overall goal of assimilating the Inuit into the dominant Canadian culture, this book questions the seeming benevolence of the post-Second World War Canadian welfare state. The authors have made extensive use …

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The Klondike Stampede

by Tappan Adney
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This classic in Yukon gold rush literature was originally published in 1900 and has long been out of print. Tappan Adney, a New York journalist, was dispatched to the Yukon in 1897, at the height of the gold fever, to “furnish news and pictures of the new gold fields.” The pages contain excellent descriptions of the people, places, events, and …

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Gold at Fortymile Creek

Early Days in the Yukon
by Michael Gates
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The book, based on the accounts of dozens of prospectors, follows the first gold-seekers from their arrival in 1873 until the stampede to the Klondike in 1896. Gates captures the essence of these early years of the gold rush, about which very little has been written. He chronicles the trials, hearbreaks, and successes of the unique and hardy indivi …

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Lasagna

Lasagna

The Man Behind the Mask
by Ronald Cross & Hélène Sévigny
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The events at Oka in 1990 saw the might of the Canadian Armed Forces in the service of the governments of both Quebec and Canada confront some 40 armed Mohawk “Warriors” who were defending their local community’s resistance against a further colonial encroachment on their native lands. The events of that summer have etched themselves indelib …

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Ships and Memories

Ships and Memories

Merchant Seafarers in Canada's Age of Steam
by Eric W. Sager
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Canada is a great maritime nation. Although ships and the sea have been part of its history for centuries, very little is known about the men and women who have worked in its coastal and lake fleets. Ships and Memories is a fascinating account of life at sea during the age of steam. In it, seafarers tell ther own stories and remember the good times …

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Yukon

Yukon

The Last Frontier
by Melody Webb
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Covering vast distances in time and space, Yukon: The Last Frontier begins with the early Russian fur trade on the Aleutian Islands and closes with what Melody Webb calls 'the technological frontier'. Colourful and impeccably researched, her history of the Yukon Basin of Canada and Alaska shows how much and how little has changed there in the last …

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The Struggle for Social Justice in British Columbia

The Struggle for Social Justice in British Columbia

Helena Gutteridge, the Unknown Reformer
by Irene Howard
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Helena Gutteridge was born in England in 1879. A militant suffragist, tutored by the Pankhursts, she learned the politics of confrontation early. Emigrating to Vancouver in 1911, she found the suffrage movement there too polite and organized the B.C. Woman's Suffrage League to help working women fight for the vote. And she kept on organizing. As a …

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Malaspina And Galiano

by Donald Cutter
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A Pioneer Gentlewoman in British Columbia

A Pioneer Gentlewoman in British Columbia

The Recollections of Susan Allison
by Margaret A. Ormsby
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In 1860, at the age of fourteen, Susan Louisa Moir left England for British Columbia. After settling initially at Hope, she lived briefly in both Victoria and New Westminster, then B.C.’s two most important settlements. Returning to Hope, she helped her mother open the community’s first school, and in 1868 she married John Fall Allison, riding …

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Sisters

Sisters

by Wendy Lill
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Sisters is a tough, uncompromising look at a convent-run Native residential school. While the play chronicles in graphic detail the by now well documented agenda of cultural genocide which motivated the establishment of Native residential schools in Canada, the daring triumph of this play is that it reveals the far less well documented cultural inf …

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Spilsbury's Coast

Spilsbury's Coast

Pioneer Years in the Wet West
by Howard White & Jim Spilsbury
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When Jim Spilsbury, B.C's most famous pioneer entrepreneur, teams up with master storyteller and literary craftsman Howard White, the result is a spell-binding romp up and down British Columbia's rugged coast; eighty years of fascinating anecdotes and memories distilled into 190 pages.

Jim Spilsbury grew up in a tent on Savary Island, squatting on c …

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The Railway King of Canada

The Railway King of Canada

Sir William Mackenzie, 1849-1923
by R. B. Fleming
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During the first two decades of this century, Sir William Mackenzie was one of Canada’s best known entrepreneurs. He spearheaded some of the largest and most technologically advanced projects undertaken in Canada during his lifetime – building enterprises that became the foundations for such major institutions as Canadian National Railways, Bra …

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Where the Fraser River Flows

The Industrial Workers of the World in British Columbia
by Mark Leier
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White Bears and Other Curiosities

White Bears and Other Curiosities

The First 100 Years of the Royal British Columbia Museum
by Peter Corley-Smith
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Historian Peter Corley-Smith chronicles the provincial museum's accomplishments from 1886, when 30 prominent citizens petitioned the government to establish a provincial museum, to its centenary in 1986. From its modest roots, the museum has grown to become one of the most renowned in North America. But this is a story about the people with the vis …

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A White Man's Province

A White Man's Province

British Columbia Politicians and Chinese and Japanese Immigrants 1858-1914
by Patricia E. Roy
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Patricia E. Roy is the winner of the 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award, Canadian Historical Association.

 

A White Man’s Province examines how British Columbians changed their attitudes towards Asian immigrants from one of toleration in colonial times to vigorous hostility by the turn of the century and describes how politicians responded to popular …

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The Voyage of the Komagata Maru

The Sikh Challenge to Canada's Colour Bar
by Hugh Johnston
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In May 1914, 400 Sikhs left for British Columbia by chartered ship, resolved to claim their right to equal treatment with white citizens of the British Empire and force entry into Canada. They were anchored off Vancouver for over two months, enduring extreme physical privation and harrassment by immigration officials, but defying federal deportatio …

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Robert Brown and the Vancouver Island Exploring Expedition

Robert Brown and the Vancouver Island Exploring Expedition

edited by John Hayman
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Robert Brown, a twenty-one-year-old Scotsman, arrived on Vancouver Island in 1863 for the purpose of collecting seeds, roots, and plants for the Botanical Association of Edinburgh. Relations with his employer quickly deteriorated, however, and when the opportunity arose in 1864 to head the Vancouver Island Exploring Expedition, Brown eagerly accept …

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They Call Me Father

Memoirs of Father Nicolas Coccola
edited by Margaret Whitehead
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In 1857, the French Roman Catholic religious order, the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, began permanent missionary work among the Native peoples of British Columbia. The memoirs of Father Nicolas Coccola, a Corsican-born Oblate who arrived in the province in 1880, reveal the complexity of the work carried out by the ordinary missionary pries …

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On the Northwest

On the Northwest

Commercial Whaling in the Pacific Northwest, 1790-1967
by Robert Lloyd Webb
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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. Whaling in the eastern North Pacific represented a century and a half of exploration and exploitation which involved the entrepreneurs, merchants, politicians, and seamen o …

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Canada in the European Age

Canada in the European Age

by R.T. Naylor
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Indian Education in Canada, Volume 2

Indian Education in Canada, Volume 2

The Challenge
edited by Jean Barman; Yvonne Hébert & Don McCaskill
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The two volumes comprising Indian Education in Canada present the first full-length discussion of this important subject since the adoption in 1972 of a new federal policy moving toward Indian control of Indian education. Volume 1 analyzes the education of Indian children by whites since the arrival of the first Europeans in Canada. Volume 2 is con …

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A Narrow Vision

A Narrow Vision

Duncan Campbell Scott and the Administration of Indian Affairs in Canada
by Brian Titley
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In A Narrow Vision, Brian Titley chronicles Scott's career in the Department of Indian Affairs and evaluates developments in Native health, education, and welfare between 1880 and 1932. He shows how Scott's response to challenges such as the making of treaties in northern Ontario, land claims in British Columbia, and the status of the Six Nations c …

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Robes of Power

Robes of Power

Totem Poles on Cloth
by Doreen Jensen & Polly Sargent
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The button blanket is eye-catching, prestigious and treasured -- one of the most spectacular embellishments to the Indian culture of the Northwest Coast and a unique form of graphic and narrative art. The traditional crest-style robe is the sister of the totem pole and, like the pole, proclaims hereditary rights, obligations and powers. Unlike the …

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Indian Education in Canada, Volume 1

Indian Education in Canada, Volume 1

The Legacy
edited by Jean Barman; Yvonne Hébert & Don McCaskill
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The two volumes comprising Indian Education in Canada present the first full-length discussion of this important subject since the adoption in 1972 of a new federal policy moving toward Indian control of Indian education. Volume 1 analyzes the education of Indian children by whites since the arrival of the first Europeans in Canada. Volume 2 is con …

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The Fighting Days

The Fighting Days

by Wendy Lill
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The Fighting Days is set in Winnipeg during 1910-1917. The play focuses on the life and work of Francis Marion Beynon, a Manitoba journalist and political activist. When the play opens, Francis is on her way to Winnipeg, leaving behind a sheltered and religious rural childhood. Soon after she arrives she meets Nellie McClung and becomes involved in …

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This Is My Own

This Is My Own

Letters to Wes and Other Writings on Japanese Canadians, 1941-1948
by Muriel Kitagawa, edited by Roy Miki
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This Is My Own: Letters to Wes and Other Writings on Japanese Canadians, 1941–1948 is a collection of letters written by Muriel Kitagawa during this period, as well as statements, essays and manuscripts which arose from Kitagawa’s commitment to write about the injustices of the government’s policies and to educate the Canadian public on the h …

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White Hoods

The Ku Klux Clan in Canada
by Julian Sher
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White Hoods is the first book about the Hooded Empire in Canada. Award?winning journalist and author Julian Sher traces the Canadian Ku Klux Klan from its birth in the early 1920s, through its powerful influence within Saskatchewan's Conservative party in the 1920s and 1930s, to its renaissance under James McQuirter in the 1980s. McQuirter led the …

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Ninstints

Ninstints

Haida World Heritage Site
by George F. MacDonald
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Ninstints, located on Anthony Island, one of the smallest and most southerly of the Queen Charlotte chain, contains the vestiges of the great wooden structures and houses of the Kunghit Haida people who abandoned the village in the late 1800s. George MacDonald combines archival material and scientific and photographic evidence to record what is kno …

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Overland from Canada to British Columbia

Overland from Canada to British Columbia

By Mr. Thomas McMicking of Queenston, Canada West
edited by Joanne Leduc
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Spurred on by reports of gold in the Cariboo, adventurers from all over the world descended on British Columbia in the mid-1800s. Among them were ambitious easterners who accepted the challenge of the shorter but more arduous overland route across the prairies and the Rockies. One such man determined to find his fortune in the West was Thomas McMic …

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Sainte-Marie among the Hurons

Sainte-Marie among the Hurons

by James W. Nichol
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Sainte-Marie Among the Hurons is James W. Nichol’s play concerning the disastrous mission that the Jesuits made to the Huron Indians in the 17th century. The play is about the conscience of a priest who refuses to accept salvation of his soul through the destruction of a proud people.

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No Streets Of Gold

by Helen Potrebenko
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