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Pages: 418
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"[Gough's] research...has been thorough, his presentation is scholarly, and his case fully sustained."--The Times Literary Supplement The influence of the Royal
Gunboat Frontier
Language: en
Pages: 334
Authors: Barry M. Gough
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1984 - Publisher: UBC Press

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Gunboat Frontier presents a different interpretation ofIndian-white relations in nineteenth-century British Columbia, focusingon the interaction of West Coast I
Contesting Rural Space
Language: en
Pages: 347
Authors: R.W. Sandwell
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-05-12 - Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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An intriguing mix of African-American, First Nation, Hawaiian, and European, the early residents of Saltspring Island were neither successful farmers nor full-t
Glyphs and Gallows
Language: en
Pages: 260
Authors: Peter Wilton Johnson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: Heritage House Publishing Co

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In 1995, Peter Johnson went looking for a rare set of petroglyphs located on the outer coast of Vancouver Island near an abandoned whaling village. Encouraged b
White Man's Law
Language: en
Pages: 482
Authors: Sidney L. Harring
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-01-01 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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In this sweeping re-investigation of Canadian legal history, Harring shows that Canada has historically dispossessed Aboriginal peoples of even the most basic c