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""Now we have seen the Gold and seen the men who dig it, and are satisfied" - thus wrote an on-the-scene observer for American frontier newspapers in April 1858, confirming fabulous rumours about gold strikes in the British possessions. Waves of miners from the American West alr…
Publisher description: Gunboat Frontier presents a different interpretation of Indian-white relations in nineteenth-century British Columbia, focusing on the interaction of West Coast Indians with British law and authority. This authority was exercised by officers, seamen, marin…
"The Politics of Resentment is the first book to examine the role that British Columbia has played in the evolving Canadian unity debate. Philip Resnick explores what makes British Columbia stand apart as a region of Canada. He looks at the views of politicians, opinionmakers, a…
The old buildings and historic places of British Columbia form a kind of "roadside memory," a tangible link with stories of settlement, change, and abandonment that reflect the great themes of our history. With small towns declining and old rural properties changing, so little o…
"The old buildings and historic places of British Columbia form a kind of "roadside memory," a tangible link with stories of settlement, change, and abandonment that reflect on the great themes of our history. With small towns declining and old rural properties changing, so litt…