Bibliography of British Columbia

Surveys

• Barman, Jean. The West Beyond the West: A History of British Columbia U. of Toronto Press, 1991. 430pp
• Francis, Daniel, ed. Encyclopedia of British Columbia. Madeira Park, B.C.: Harbour, 2000. 806 pp.
• Griffin, Harold. Radical Roots: The Shaping of British Columbia. Vancouver: Commonwealth Fund, 1999.
• Johnston, Hugh, ed. The Pacific Province: A History of British Columbia.. 352 pp.
• McGillivray, Brett. Geography of British Columbia: People and Landscapes in Transition. 235pp
• Ormsby, Margaret A. British Columbia: A History
• Recksten, Terry. The Illustrated History of British Columbia. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2001. 280 pp.
• Woodcock, George. British Columbia: A History of the Province. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1990. 288 pp.
• Walbran, Captain John T. British Columbia Coast Names: 1592-1906 Their Origin and History. Vancouver. Douglas & McIntyre. 1971.

  Prehistory and First Nations

• Boas, Franz Kwakiutl Ethnography. Chicago. University of Chicago Press. 1966.
• Cannon, Aubrey The Economic Prehistory of Namu. Burnaby, BC; Archaeology Press. 1991
• Carlson, Roy L. and Bona, Luke Dalla, eds. Early Human Occupation in British Columbia. Vancouver: U. of British Columbia Press, 1996. 261 pp.
• McDowell, Jim. Hamatsa: The Enigma of Cannibalism on the Pacific Northwest Coast. Vancouver: Ronsdale, 1997. 297 pp.
• Muckle, Robert J. The First Nations of British Columbia. Vancouver: U. of British Columbia Press, 1998. 146pp.
• Stewart, Hilary Looking at Indian Art of the Northwest Coast. Vancouver. Douglas & McIntyre. 1979.
• Suttles, Wayne, ed. Handbook of North American Indians: Volume 7 Northwest Coast. Washington. Smithsonian Institution. 1990.
• Turner, Nancy J. Plant Technology of First Peoples in British Columbia. Vancouver; UBC Press, 1998.

  Empire and Settlement and pre-1871

• Bancroft, Hubert Howe. History of British Columbia
• Harris, Cole. The Resettlement of British Columbia: Essays on Colonialism and Geographical Change.. 314 pp.
• Hayes, Derek. Historical Atlas of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest: Maps of Exploration. Vancouver: Cavendish, 1999. 208 pp.
• Loo, Tina. Making Law, Order, and Authority in British Columbia, 1821-1871. . 239 pp.
• Sterne, Netta. Fraser Gold, 1858! The Founding of British Columbia.. 187 pp.
• Thomas, Edward Harper Chinook: A History and Dictionary. Portland Ore. Bindfords & Mort. 1935.

  Colonization and First Nations

• Brody, Hugh Maps and Dreams: Indians and the British Columbia Frontier. Vancouver. Douglas & McIntyre. 1981.
• Cole, Douglas & Ira Chaiken. An Iron Hand Upon the People: The Law Against the Potlatch on the Northwest Coast. Vancouver/Toronto. Douglas &McIntyre. 1990.
• Harkin, Michael E. The Heiltsuks: Dialogues of Culture and History on the Northwest Coast. Lincoln. University of Nebraska Press. 1997.
• Harris, Douglas C. Fish, Law, and Colonialism: The Legal Capture of Salmon in British Columbia. Toronto. University of Toronto Press. 2001.
• Newell, Diane Tangled Webs of History: Indians and the Law in Canada's Pacific Coast Fisheries. Toronto. University of Toronto Press. 1993.

  Economics, business and labour

• Battien, Pauline. The Gold Seekers: A Two Hundred-Year History of Mining in Washington, Idaho, Montana and Lower British Columbia. Fairfield, Wash.: Ye Galleon, 1989. 265 pp.
• BC Hydro Power Pioneers. Gaslights to Gigawatts: A Human History of BC Hydro and its Predecessor. Vancouver: Hurricane, 1998. 236 pp.
• Drushka, Ken. Tie Hackers to Timber Harvesters: The History of Logging in the BC Interior. Madeira Park, B.C.: Harbour, 1998. 200 pp.
• Drushka, Ken. Working in the Woods: A History of Logging on the West Coast. Madeira Park, B.C.: Harbour, 1992. 304 pp.
• Mackie, Richard Somerset. Trading Beyond the Mountains: The British Fur Trade on the Pacific, 1793-1843. Vancouver: U. of British Columbia Press, 1997. 420 pp.
• Hak, Gordon. Turning Trees into Dollars: The British Columbia Coastal Lumber Industry, 1858-1913. U. of Toronto Press, 2000. 239 pp.
• Kesselman, Amy. Fleeting Opportunities: Women Shipyard Workers in Portland and Vancouver during World War II and Reconversion. Albany: State U. of New York Press, 1990. 192 pp.
• Knight, Rolf. Indians at Work: An Informal History of Native Indian Labour in British Columbia 1858-1930. Vancouver. New Star Books. 1978.
• Leonard, Frank. A Thousand Blunders: The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and Northern British Columbia. Vancouver: U. of British Columbia Press, 1996. 344pp.

  Environment and geography

• Cail Robert E. Land, Man and the Law: The Disposal of Crown Lands in British Columbia, 1871-1913
• Cannings Richard, and Sydney Cannings. British Columbia: A Natural History
• Day, J. C., and Richard Stace-Smith, eds. British Columbia Land For Wildlife: Past, Present, Future
• McGillivray, Brett. Geography of British Columbia: People and Landscapes in Transition. 235pp
• Wilson, Jeremy. Talk and Log: Wilderness Politics in British Columbia, 1965-96

  Political

• Carty, R. K., ed. Politics, Policy, and Government in British Columbia.. 381 pp.
• Clayton, Daniel W. Islands of Truth: The Imperial Fashioning of Vancouver Island. U. of British Columbia Press, 2000. 330 pp.
• Mitchell, David J. Succession: The Political Reshaping of British Columbia. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1987. 201 pp.
• Resnick, Philip. The Politics of Resentment: British Columbia Regionalism and Canadian Unity. Vancouver: U. of British Columbia Press, 2000. 172pp
• Verchere, David R. A Progression of Judges: A History of the Supreme Court of British Columbia. Vancouver: U. of British Columbia Press, 1988. 196pp.

  Regional and cities

• Davis, Chuck, ed. The Greater Vancouver Book: An Urban Encyclopedia. Vancouver: Linkman, 1997. 882 pp.
• Dunford, Muriel Poulton. North River: The Story of BC's North Thompson Valley and Yellowhead Highway 5. Merritt, B.C.: Sonotek, 2000. 384 pp.
• Furniss, Elizabeth. The Burden of History: Colonialism and the Frontier Myth in a Rural Canadian Community. Vancouver: U. of British Columbia Press, 1999. 237 pp.
• Leonard, David W. Delayed Frontier: The Peace River Country to 1909. Calgary, Alta.: Detselig, 1995. 256 pp.
• Sandwell, R. W., ed. Beyond the City Limits: Rural History in British Columbia. Vancouver: U. of British Columbia Press., 1999. 293pp.
• Wynn, Graeme and Oke, Timothy, eds. Vancouver and Its Region. Vancouver: U. of British Columbia Press, 1992. 333pp.

  Society, gender, race

• Belshaw John Douglas. Becoming British Columbia: A Population History
• Creese, Gillian and Strong-Boag, Veronica, eds. British Columbia Reconsidered: Essays on Women. Vancouver: Press Gang; U. of British Columbia, Center for Research in Women's Studies and Gender Relations, 1992. 454 pp.
• Kesselman, Amy. Fleeting Opportunities: Women Shipyard Workers in Portland and Vancouver during World War II and Reconversion. Albany: State U. of New York Press, 1990. 192 pp.
• Norris, John. Strangers Entertained: A History of Ethnic Groups in British Columbia. Vancouver: Evergreen Press, 1971. 254 pp.
• Perry, Adele. On the Edge of Empire: Gender, Race, and the Making of British Columbia, 1849-1871.. 360 pp.
• Roy, Patricia E. A White Man's Province: British Columbia Politicians and Chinese and Japanese Immigrants, 1858-1914.. 327pp.
• Roy, Patricia; Granatstein, J. L.; Iino, Masaka; and Takamura, Hiroko. Mutual Hostages: Canadian and Japanese during the Second World War.. 282 pp.
• Sandwell, R.W. ed. Beyond the City Limits: Rural History in British Columbia, 304 pp
• Thomas, Edward Harper. Chinook: A History and Dictionary. Portland, Ore. Bin fords & Mort. 1935.

  Culture and arts

• Barman, Jean; Sutherland, Neil; and Wilson, J. Donald, eds. Children, Teachers and Schools in the History of British Columbia. Calgary, Alta.: Detselig, 1995. 426 pp.
• Burkinshaw, Robert K. Pilgrims in Lotus Land: Conservative Protestantism in British Columbia, 1917-1981. Montreal: McGill-Queen's U. Press, 1995. 353 pp.
• Christophers, Brett. Positioning the Missionary: John Booth Good and the Confluence of Cultures in Nineteenth-Century British Columbia. Vancouver: U. of British Columbia Press, 1998. 200pp.
• Fleming, Thomas, ed. School Leadership: Essays on the British Columbia Experience, 1872-1995. Mill Bay, BC: Bendall, 2001. 427 pp.
• Inverarity, Robert Bruce Art of the Northwest Coast Indians. Berkeley. University of California Press. 1950.
• Jensen, Doreen & Polly Sargent Robes of Power: Totem Poles on Cloth. Vancouver. University of British Columbia Press. 1986.
• McIntosh, Dale. History of Music in British Columbia, 1850-1950. Victoria, B.C.: Sono Nis, 1989. 296 pp.
• Samuels, Cheryl The Raven's Tail. Vancouver. University of British Columbia Press. 1987.
• Wilson, Lyle Paint: The Painted Works of Lyle Wilson. Maple Ridge Pitt Meadows Arts Council. Maple Ridge, BC. 2012.

  Historiography

• Leir, Mark, 'Wither Labour History? Regionalism, Class and the Writing of BC History'; Bryan Palmer, 'Class and the Writing of History: Beyond BC'; Veronica Strong-Boag, 'Moving Beyond Tired Truths: Or, Let's Not Fight the Old Battles'; Robert A. J. McDonald, 'The West is a Messy Place'; and Mark Leir, "Response to Professors Palmer, Strong-Boag, and McDonald" in : 61-98.
• Reimer, Chad. Writing British Columbia History, 1784-1958, 206pp

  Primary sources

• Hazlitt, William Carew. , described by Reimer as part imperial history, part promotional literature.
• Mayne, Richard. Four Years in British Columbia and Vancouver Island