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Author: William Chalmers
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2000-01-01
Total Pages: 167
ISBN-13: 1459725905
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDawson worked for the International Boundary Commission and the Geological Survey of Canada. He surveyed the 49th parallel, vast tracts of land in British Columbias Interior, and many rivers in the Yukon. He knew the value of the Klondike gold fields ten years before the rush of 1898.
Author: Lois Winslow-Spragge
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 1993-06-30
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 0920474616
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGeorge Mercer Dawson, famed geologist, includes the surveying of the Yukon and being head of the Geological Survey of Canada among his incredible legacies.
Author: George Mercer Dawson
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780774804158
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDetails geologist Dawson's 1878 exploration of the Queen Charlotte Islands. The editors have extracted comments from his journals on this area and have appended a separate report of Dawson's on the ethnology of the Native people living in the region. Includes 25 photos by Dawson. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: John A. Stevens
Publisher: GeneralStore PublishingHouse
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9781896182469
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Irene M. Spry
Publisher: University of Regina Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780889770614
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Dept. of the Interior was in existence from 1873 to 1936.
Author: John Logan Allen
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1997-01-01
Total Pages: 684
ISBN-13: 9780803210431
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe third volume of North American Exploration, covering 1784 to 1914, charts a dramatic shift in the purpose, priorities, and results of the exploration of North America. As the nineteenth century opened, exploration was still fostered by the growth of empire, but by the 1830s commercial interests came to drive most exploratory ventures, particularly through the fur trade. By midcentury, however, as imperial rivalries lessened and the fur trade declined, exploration was driven by the growing scientific spirit of the age?although the science was often conducted in the service of a search for railroad routes or natural resources linked to military concerns. A clear transition took place as the spirit of the Enlightenment gave way to economic imperatives and to the science of the post-Darwinian age and exploration passed beyond discovery and geographical definition. This volume explores the resultant beginnings of an understanding of the continent and its native peoples.
Author: William Turkel
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2011-11-01
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0774840862
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Archive of Place weaves together a series of narratives about environmental history in a particular location � British Columbia's Chilcotin Plateau. In the mid-1990s, the Chilcotin was at the centre of three territorial conflicts. Opposing groups, in their struggle to control the fate of the region and its resources, invoked different understandings of its past � and different types of evidence � to justify their actions. These controversies serve as case studies, as William Turkel examines how people interpret material traces to reconstruct past events, the conditions under which such interpretation takes place, and the role that this interpretation plays in historical consciousness and social memory. It is a wide-ranging and original study that extends the span of conventional historical research.
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Published: 1901
Total Pages: 800
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes the Proceedings of the Royal geographical society, formerly pub. separately.
Author: John Sutton Lutz
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2009-01-01
Total Pages: 445
ISBN-13: 0774858273
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn Lutz traces Aboriginal people’s involvement in the new economy, and their displacement from it, from the arrival of the first Europeans to the 1970s. Drawing on an extensive array of oral histories, manuscripts, newspaper accounts, biographies, and statistical analysis, Lutz shows that Aboriginal people flocked to the workforce and prospered in the late nineteenth century. He argues that the roots of today’s widespread unemployment and “welfare dependency” date only from the 1950s, when deliberate and inadvertent policy choices – what Lutz terms the “white problem” drove Aboriginal people out of the capitalist, wage, and subsistence economies, offering them welfare as “compensation.”
Author: Ken Mather
Publisher: Heritage House Publishing Co
Published: 2013-04-15
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1927527112
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDespite being neighbouring provinces with long ranching histories, British Columbia and Alberta saw their ranching techniques develop quite differently. As most ranching styles were based on one of the two dominant styles in use south of the border, BC ranchers tended to adopt the California style whereas Alberta took its lead from Texas. But the different practices actually go back much further. Cattle cultures in southwestern Spain, sub-Saharan Africa and the British highlands all shaped the basis of North American ranching. Digging deep into the origins of cowboy culture, Ken Mather tells the stories of men and women on the ranching frontiers of British Columbia and Alberta and reveals little-known details that help us understand the beginnings of ranching in these two provinces.
