Untold Tales of Old British Columbia by Marshall, Daniel -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Half Title Page Ronsdale Press Untold Tales of Old British Columbia Frontispiece Contents Preface: Tracking Down History Introduction One: Multicultural Canada Starts with the Fur Trade World

The Colour-Blind Commonwealth British Columbia: Refuge for Political Exiles? The Forgotten Context of Canada’s Oldest Chinatown

Two: Early Treaty-Making on the Northwest Coast

Lost in Translation? The Forgotten Treaty-Making of Chief Maquinna Fort Rupert and the Forgotten Coalfields of Suquash Fort Rupert and the Mystery of the Fort Victoria Treaties

Three: Becoming British Columbia

War in the New El Dorado and the Birth of British Columbia “The Peculiar Circumstances of British Columbia” “Unembarrassed by a Shilling of Debt” The Alexandra Bridge Controversy James Douglas’s Secret Mission to Find Gold British Columbia’s Forgotten Governor

Four: British Columbia and the California Connection

The Third Great “Devil-Dance” B.C.’s Permeable Border B.C., Latin America and the Monroe Doctrine “Dead Broke, a Borrowed Coat and Six Squashed Pies” B.C. and the California “Bonanza Kings”

Five: Canada on the Pacific Slope

Canada’s Westward Expansion to the Pacific Slope The Battle of the Routes B.C.’s First Rural/Urban Split An Independent British Columbia?

Six: Curious Artifacts and Confounding Tales

Seven: Three Extraordinary Women

The Mysterious Traveller The Flapper and the Premier Margaret A. Ormsby: A British Columbia Institution

Eight: B.C. Then and Now

The Land as History Book Hiking the “Graveyard of the Pacific” “One of General Currie’s Boys!” British Columbia and the Pandemic of 1918 The Big One (So Far) The Great British Columbian Deluge British Columbia on Fire

Appendix

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Primary and secondary sources

Primary Archival Sources

Illustration Credits Index About the Author