XML FeedsA Bibliography of Work Related to the History of James Bay, Victoria, British Columbia
General History
Books
Anderson, Ben. Surveyor of the Sea: The Life and Adventures of Captain George Vancouver. Toronto: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973.
Barman, Jean. The West Beyond the West: A History of British Columbia. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007.
Begg, Alexander. History of British Columbia from its Earliest Discovery to the Present Time. Toronto: William Briggs, 1894.
Camas Historical Group, Camas Chronicles of James Bay. Victoria, BC, 1978.
Fawcett, Edgar. Some Reminiscences of Old Victoria. Toronto: William Briggs, 1912.
Gosnell, R.E. The Year Book of British Columbia. Victoria: 1897.
Gregson, Harry. A History of Victoria 1842-1970. Vancouver: J.J Douglas Ltd., 1970.
Green, Valerie. Above Stairs: Social Life in Upper Class Victoria 1843-1918. Victoria: Sono Nis Press, 1995.
----. No Ordinary People. Victoria, BC: Beach Holme Publishers. 1992.
Howay, Frederic and Scholefield, E. O. S. British Columbia from the Earliest Times to the Present. Vancouver: S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1914.
Johnston, High J.M, ed. The Pacific Province: A History of British Columbia. Vancouver: Douglas and McIntyre, 1999.
Kluckner, Micheal. Victoria; The Way it Was. North Vancouver: Whitecap Books, 1986.
Lai, David C. The Forbidden City Within Victoria. Victoria: Orca Books, 1991.
Ormsby, Margeret A. British Columbia: A History. Vancouver: The MacMillians in Canada, 1958.
Pethick, Derek. British Columbia Disasters. Langley, BC: Stagecoach Publishing, 1978.
Phillips, Paul. No Power Greater: A Century of Labour in British Columbia. Vancouver: British Columbia Federation of Labour, 1967.
Warburton, Rennie and David Coburn, eds. Workers, Capital, and the State in British Columbia: Selected Papers. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1988.
Williams, David R. ‘…The Man For a New Country’: Sir Matthew Baille Begbie. Sidney, BC: Gray’s Publishing, 1977.
Aboriginal History and Pre-History
Books
Barnett, Homer. Indian Shakers: A Messianic Cult of the Pacific Northwest. Carbondale Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 1957.
-----. The Coast Salish of British Columbia. Eugene: University of Oregon Press, 1955.
Boyd, Robert. The Coming of the Spirit Of Pestilence: Introduced Infectious Diseases and Population Decline among Northwest Cost Indians, 1774-1874. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999.
Carlson, Keith Thor, ed. A Stó:lô Coast Salish Historical Atlas. Chilliwack: Stó:lô Heritage Trust, 2001.
Carlson, Roy L, and Luke D. Bona, eds. Early Human Occupation in British Columbia. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1996.
Cole, Douglas, Captured Heritage: The Scramble for Northwest Coast Artifacts. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1985.
----- and Ira Chaikin, An Iron Hand Upon the People: The Law Against the Potlatch on the Northwest Coast. Vancouver: Douglas and McIntyre, 1990.
Fladmark, Knut. British Columbia Prehistory. Ottawa: National Museums of Canada, 1986.
Fisher, Robin. Contact and Conflict: Indian-European Relations in British Columbia, 1774-1890. Second edition. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1992.
Gough, Barry M. Gunboat Frontier: British Maritime Authority and Northwest Coast Indians, 1846-90. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1984.
Hawthorn, H.B. ed. A Survey of the Contemporary Indians of British Columbia. Berkerley: University of California Press, 1958.
Jenness, Diamond. The Faith of a Coast Salish Indian. Victoria: British Columbia Provincial Museum, 1955.
Matson, R.G. and G. Coupland. The Prehistory of the Northwest Coast. San Diego: Academic Press, 1995.
McMillan, Alan D. Native Peoples and Cultures of Canada: An Anthropological Overview. Vancouver: Douglas and McIntyre, 1988.
Muckle, Robert J. The First Nations of British Columbia. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1998.
Plant, Byron. 'The Most Dreadful Scourge of Which the Human Race is Subject': The 1862 Small Pox Epidemic and Aboriginal People in British Columbia. Honours thesis, University of Victoria, 2001.
Tennant Paul, Aboriginal Peoples and Politics The Indian Land Question in British Columbia, 1849 – 1989. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1990.
Wilson Duff. The Indian History of British Columbia: The Impact of the White Man. Victoria: Royal British Columbia Museum, 1997.
Woodcock, George. Peoples of the Coast: The Indians of the Pacific Northwest. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1977.
Wright, J.V. A History of the Native People of Canada: Volume I (10,000 – 1,000 B.C.). Hull, QC: Canadian Museum of Civilization, 1995.
Young, Terry Ann. Researching the History of Aboriginal Peoples in British Columbia: A Guide to Resources at the British Columbia Archives and Records Service and BC Lands. Victoria: BC Lands, 1992.
Zaffaroni, Irene Genevieve Marie. The Great Chain of Being: Racism and Imperialism in Colonial Victoria, 1858-1871. Master’s thesis, University of Victoria, 1987.
Articles and Papers
Boyd, Robert T. “Demographic History, 1774 – 1874.” in Wayne Suttles. ed. Handbook of North American Indians: Volume 7, Northwest Coast, , Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1990.
Carlson, Roy L. “The First British Columbians.” in High J.M Johnston. ed. The Pacific Province: A History of British Columbia, Vancouver: Douglas and McIntyre, 1999.
Guilmet, George M. et al. "The Legacy of Introduced Disease: The Southern Coast Salish." in American Indian Culture and Research Journal 15:4 (1991): 1-32.
Gunther, Erna. “The Shaker Religion of the Northwest.” in W.M. Smith. ed. Indians of the Northwest, New York: Columbia University Press, 1949.
Harris, Cole. “Voices of Smallpox Around the Strait of Georgia.” in Cole Harris. ed. The Resettlement of British Columbia: Essays on Colonialism and Geographic Change. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1997.
Lane, Barbara S. “The Cowichan Knitting Industry.” in Anthropology in British Columbia, No. 2, 1951.
Suttles, Wayne. “The Early Difussion of the Potato Among the Coast Salish.” in Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 7:3, 1951.
----, “The Plateau Prophet Dance among the Coast Salish.” in Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 13:4, 1957.
----, “The Persistence of Intervillage ties Among the Coast Salish.” in Ethnology 2:4, 1963.
Websites
Thom, Brian. “Coast Salish Culture: an Online Bibliography.” January 2006. http://home.istar.ca/~bthom/salish-rev.htm, Accessed 28 April 2008.
Hudson Bay Company and Gold Rush
Books
Akrigg, G.P.V, and Helen Akrigg. British Columbia Chronicle 1847 – 1871: Gold and Colonists. Vancouver: Discovery Press, 1977.
Dickson, Greg and Forsythe, Mark. The Trail of 1858: British Columbia’s Gold Rush Past. Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publications, 2007.
Lurgin, N. de Bertrand. The Pioneer Women of Vancouver Island, 1843 – 1866. Victoria: Women’s Canadian Club of Victoria, 1928.
Sage, Walter N. Sir James Douglas and British Columbia. Toronto: University of Toronto, 1930.
Architecture
Books
Barratt, A. and Windsor Liscombe, R. Francis Rattenbury and British Columbia: Architecture and Challenge in the Imperial Age. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. 1983.
Franklin, Douglas and Seeger, Martin. Exploring Victoria’s Architecture. Victoria: Sono Nis Press, 1996.
Humphries, Danda. Building Victoria: Men, Myths and Mortar. Surrey, BC: Heritage House, 2004.
Segger, M. and Franklin, D. Victoria: A Primer for Regional History in Architecture. New York: A Pilgrim Guide to Historic Architecture, 1979.
Ward, Robin. Echos of Empire: Victoria and Its Remarkable Buildings. Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, 1996.
Articles and Papers
Hora, Z.D. and Miller, L.B. Dimension Stone in Victoria B.C: A City Guide and Walking Tour. Victoria: BC Geological Survey Branch, 1994.
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