Research Catalog

Title

British Columbia : historical readings / compiled and edited by W. Peter Ward and Robert A.J. McDonald.

Publication

Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre, c1981.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ward, W. Peter
• McDonald, Robert A. J., 1944-2019

Description

xii, 692 p. : maps; 22 cm.

Subjects

• History
• British Columbia > History

Genre/Form

• History
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Interpretations -- The writing of British Columbia history / Allan Smith -- The maritime fur trade -- The transient presence: a re-appraisal of Spanish attitudes toward the Northwest coast in the eighteenth century / Christon I. Archer -- Bostonians and Muscovites on the Northwest Coast, 1788-1841 / James R. Gibson -- Indian control of the maritime fur trade and the Northwest Coast / Robin Fisher -- Indian-European relations -- Missions to the Indians of British Columbia / Robin Fisher -- Duncan of Metlakalta: the Victorian origins of a model Indian community / Jean Usher -- Joseph Trutch and Indian land policy / Robin Fisher -- Native rights in Canada: British Columbia / Peter A. Cumming and Neil H. Mickenberg -- Colonial government and society -- Mining society in British Columbia and the Yukon / S.D. Clark -- The character of the British Columbia Frontier / Barry M. Gough --^
• The constitutional development of Colonial Vancouver Island and British Columbia / James E. Hendrickson -- Economic development -- The Lowe Brothers, 1852-70: a study in business relations on the North Pacific Coast / J.M.S. Careless -- Patterns of trade and investment on the Pacific Coast, 1867-1892: the case of the British Columbia Salmon Canning Industry / Keith Ralston -- Company mergers in the Fraser River Salmon Canning Industry / David J. Reid -- European financial capital and British Columbia: an essay on the role of the regional entrepreneur / D.G. Paterson -- The North Pacific seal hunt, 1886-1910: rights and regulations / D.G. Paterson -- Urban growth -- Victoria, Vancouver, and the economic development of British Columbia, 1886-1914 / Robert A.J. McDonald -- The Canadian Pacific Railway and Vancouver's development to 1900 / Norbert MacDonald -- The property industry and land use controls: the Vancouver experience, 1910-1945 / John C. Weaver --^
• Industrial conflict and the labour movement -- Labour radicalism and the western industrial frontier, 1897-1919 / David Jay Bercuson -- The industrial workers of the world in Western Canada, 1905-1914 -- Regional factors in Industrial conflict: the case of British Columbia / Stuart Jamieson -- Politics -- Simon Fraser Tolmie: the last conservative premier of British Columbia / Ian D. Parker -- Dufferin Pattullo and the little new deal / Margaret A. Ormsby -- Ideology, personality and the origin of the CCF in British Columbia / Walter D. Young -- Race and ethnicity -- Class and race in the social structure of British Columbia, 1870-1939 / W. Peter Ward -- The world that British Settlers made: class, ethnicity and private education in the Okanagan Valley / Jean Barman -- Learning on the frontier: Scandinavian immigrants and education in Western Canada / Jorgen Dahlie -- Contrasts in the community organization of Chinese and Japanese in North America / Sanford M. Lyman --^
• British Columbias fear of Asians / Patricia E. Roy -- British Columbia and the Japanese evacuation / W. Peter Ward.

ISBN

0888943032 (pbk.)

OCLC

8094484

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library