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Paul Kane's Great Nor-West

Paul Kane's Great Nor-West

by Sheila Urbanek
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In this beautifully designed and richly illustrated book, Diane Eaton and Sheila Urbanek re-create Paul Kane’s heroic journey across Canada and bring to life the people, places, and events he experienced.

 

Determined to document the lives and customs of the Indians of the Northwest, Paul Kane set out in 1845 to cross the continent “with no compa …

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Taking Control

Taking Control

Power and Contradiction in First Nations Adult Education
by Celia Haig-Brown
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Taking Control is a critical ethnography of the Native Education Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia. It presents an intimate view of the centre, focusing on the ways that people who work there – First Nations students, board members, teachers, and non-Native teachers – talk about and put into practice their beliefs about First Nations contro …

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Physiological Ecology of Pacific Salmon

by Cornelis Groot, edited by Leo Margolis
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Every year, countless juvenile Pacific salmon leave streams and rivers on their migration to feeding grounds in the North Pacific Ocean and the Bering Sea. After periods ranging from a few months to several years, adult salmon enter rivers along the coasts of Asia and North America to spawn and complete their life cycle. Within this general outline …

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Britain and the Origins of Canadian Confederation, 1837-67

by Ged Martin
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In Britain and the Origins of Canadian Confederation, 1837-1867, Ged Martin offers a sceptical review of claims that Confederation answered all the problems facing the provinces, and examines in detail British perceptions of Canada and ideas about its future. The major British contribution to the coming of Confederation is to be found not in the af …

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Roaring Days

Rossland's Mines and the History of British Columbia
by Jeremy Mouat
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In the 1890s, Rossland was the most important mining centre in southeastern British Columbia. In Roaring Days, Jeremy Mouat examines many different aspects of mining, from work underground to corporate strategies. He also brings to life the unique individuals who were a part of this history – the miners who toiled long hours under unimaginable wo …

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Glacial Environments

Glacial Environments

by Michael J. Hambrey
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In earlier geological history, the Earth underwent glaciations of continent-wide extent on several occasions, some of them even more intense than those of the Pleistocene. By examining the processes operating within glacial settings and their resulting products, Glacial Environments provides the foundation for investigation of both the ancient and …

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Decision at Midnight

Decision at Midnight

Inside the Canada-US Free-Trade Negotiations
by Michael Hart, with Bill Dymond & Colin Robertson
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On 2 January 1988, Canada and the United States signed what was then the most comprehensive free trade agreeement the world had ever seen. This book is the story of those FTA negotiations, the preparations for and conduct of the negotiations, as well as the ideas and issues behind them. From their unique perspective as participants, Michael Hart, B …

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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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Indigenous Peoples of the World

Their Past, Present and Future
by Brian Goehring
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How did Pizarro subjugate the Inca Empire with less than 500 men? How did debates in 16th century Spain between de Sepulveda and de Las Casas lay the basis for the legal concept of Aboriginal title? Providing a broad comparison of historical, social, and cultural aspects of Indigenous groups around the world, this slim volume answers these question …

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A Reader in International Relations and Political Theory

edited by Howard Williams; Moorhead Wright & Tony Evans
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This reader has been assembled in response to increasing dissatisfaction among a growing number of international relations scholars with the currently dominant theory of realism as well as in recognition of the large number of newly independent states which are having to write new constitutions and develop foreign relations. The book includes excer …

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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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Twana Narratives

Twana Narratives

Native Historical Accounts of a Coast Salish Culture
by William W. Elmendorf
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The Twana speech community of Coast Salish Indians lived, before 1860, in nine villages in western Washington. Twana Narratives presents first-person, insider accounts of Twana history, society, and religion, as told by natives Frank and Henry Allen to anthropologist William Elmendorf between 1934 and 1940. The Allens were born in the Hood Canal ar …

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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 Early Years of Native American Art History

The Early Years of Native American Art History

The Politics of Scholarship and Collecting
by Janet Catherine Berlo
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This collection of essays deals with the development of Native American art history as a discipline rather than with particular art works or artists. It focuses on the early anthropologists, museum curators, dealers, and collectors, and on the multiple levels of understanding and misunderstanding, appropriation and reappropriation which characteriz …

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Contact and Conflict

Contact and Conflict

Indian-European Relations in British Columbia, 1774-1890 (2nd edition)
by Robin Fisher
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Originally published in 1977, Contact and Conflict has remained an important book, which has inspired numerous scholars to examine further the relationships between the Indians and the Europeans – fur traders as well as settlers. For this edition, Robin Fisher has written a new introduction in which he surveys the literature since 1977 and commen …

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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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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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Ethnic Groups and Marital Choices

Ethnic History and Marital Assimilation, in Canada 1871 and 1971
by Madeline Kalbach
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Using, for the first time, data from the 1871 Census of Canada in conjunction with data from the 1971 Census, Madeline Richard delineates the general patterns of ethnic intermarriage in 1871 and 1971 and specifically considers the trends for the English, Irish, Scotch, French, and Germans. Choosing a number of characteristics, such as level of lite …

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Alex Lord's British Columbia

Alex Lord's British Columbia

Recollections of a Rural School Inspector, 1915-1936
edited by John Calam
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Alex Lord, a pioneer inspector of rural British Columbia schools, shares in these recollections his experiences in a province barely out of the stage coach era. Travelling through vast northern territory, utilizing unreliable transportation and enduring climatic extremes, Lord became familiar with the aspirations of remote communities and their fai …

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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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Pacific Salmon Life Histories

by Cornelis Groot & Leo Margolis
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Pacific salmon are an important biological and economic resource of countries of the North Pacific rim. They are also a unique group of fish possessing unusually complex life histories. There are seven species of Pacific salmon, five occurring on both the North American and Asian continents (sockeye, pink, chum, chinook, and coho) and two (masu and …

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Chiefs of the Sea and Sky

Chiefs of the Sea and Sky

Haida Heritage Sites of the Queen Charlotte Islands
by George F. MacDonald
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This book is drawn from Haida Monumental Art, the most important work yet published on Haida culture. Chiefs of the Sea and Sky presents an overview of extensive research carried out by archeologist George MacDonald in the 1960s and 1970s to document the history of the Haida villages of the Queen Charlotte Islands.

 

In this abridgement, MacDonald re …

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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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A Consolidated Index to the Canadian Yearbook of International Law

A Consolidated Index to the Canadian Yearbook of International Law

Volumes I-XXV(1962-1987)
edited by David Dunkley
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The Canadian Yearbook of International Law has been published under the auspices of the Canadian Branch of the International Law Association since 1963. Each volume contains articles on important and topical issues as well as book reviews, notes and comments, sections on Canadian practice in international law, a digest of important cases, and comme …

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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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Turn Up the Contrast

Turn Up the Contrast

CBC Television Drama since 1952
by Mary Jane Miller
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From Shakespeare to cop shows, sitcoms to docudramas, for over three decades the CBC has presented viewers with every variety of television drama and has become Canada's closest equivalent to a national theatre. Turn Up the Contrast is the first book to explore the content of Canadian television drama and is both a critical analysis and a survey hi …

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The Athenians and Their Empire

The Athenians and Their Empire

by Malcolm McGregor
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Malcolm McGregor draws on a life-time of scholarship to write a comprehensive account of the most celebrated period in classical Greek history – “The Golden Age” – in which military and political advances of the Athenians coincided with their greatest achievements in art, literature, philosophy, and social theory. McGregor explains how demo …

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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 Subarctic Fur Trade

The Subarctic Fur Trade

Native Social and Economic Adaptations
edited by Shepard Krech III
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The papers in this book focus on themes which have been near the centre of fur trade scholarship: the identification of Indian motivations; the degree to which Indians were discriminating consumers and creative participants; and the extent of Native dependency on the trade. Spanning the period from the seventeenth century up to and including the tw …

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A Sarcee Grammar

A Sarcee Grammar

by Eung-Do Cook
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Likely to become one of the classic works in Amerindian linguistics, this book presents a comprehensive grammar of Sarcee, an Athapaskan language spoken in southern Alberta. Based on the voluminous notes collected by Edward Sapir in 1922 and supplemented by extensive data from Cook's own work with the few remaining speakers of Sarcee, the book not …

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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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Haida Monumental Art

Haida Monumental Art

Villages of the Queen Charlotte Islands
by George F. MacDonald
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During the last quarter of the nineteenth-century, images of the Haida’s immense cedar houses and soaring totem poles were captured by photographers who travelled to then-remote villages such as Masset and Skidegate to marvel at, and record, what they saw there. Haida Monumental Art includes a large number of these remarkable photographs. They de …

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Green Gold

Green Gold

The Forest Industry in British Columbia
by Patricia Marchak
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A comprehensive analysis of the social, political, and economic role of forests as one of the principal single-staple industries in British Columbia, this book explores the history of forestry in the province, legislation and governmental control, labour unions, community and industry structure, employment conditions for men and women, job security …

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As Long as the Sun Shines and Water Flows

As Long as the Sun Shines and Water Flows

A Reader in Canadian Native Studies
by Ian L. Getty, edited by Antoine S. Lussier
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This collection of papers focuses on Canadian Native history since 1763 and presents an overview of official Canadian Indian policy and its effects on the Indian, Inuit, and Metis. Issues and themes covered include colonial Indian policy, constitutional developments, Indian treaties and policy, government decision-making and Native responses reflec …

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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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Strangers in Blood

Strangers in Blood

Fur Trade Company Families in Indian Country
by Jennifer S. H. Brown
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For two centuries (1670-1870), English, Scottish, and Canadian fur traders voyages the myriad waterways of Rupert’s Land, the vast territory charted to the Hudson’s Bay Company and later splintered among five Canadian provinces and four American states. The knowledge and support of northern Native peoples were critical to the newcomer’s survi …

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