Beyond This Site

Online Resources:

British Columbia Archives. Access to finding aids, photos, maps, and paintings.

British Columbia History Internet/Web Site by David Mattison

Barkerville Gold Rush Community and Its Newspaper, the Cariboo Sentinel

Further Reading:

Colonial and Provincial Society:

Bagshaw, Roberta L. ed. No Better Land: The 1860 Diaries of the Anglican Colonial Bishop George Hills. Victoria: Sono Nis, 1996.

Bridge, Kathryn. Henry and Self, The Private Life of Sarah Crease, 1826-1922. Victoria: Sono Nis, 1996.

Macfie, Matthew. Vancouver Island and British Columbia. London: Longman, Green, 1865; reprinted Coles, 1972.

Mackie, Richard. The Wilderness Profound: Victorian Life on the Gulf of Georgia. Victoria: Sono Nis, 1995.

Mayne, Richard. Four Years in British Columbia and Vancouver Island. London, 1862; reprinted, 1967.

Perry, Adelle. "'I'm So Sick of the Faces of Men,' Gender Imbalance, Race, Sexuality and Sociality in Nineteenth Century, B.C." BC Studies, 105-6, (Spring/Summer 1995) pp. 27-44.

Sandwell, Ruth. "Rural Reconstruction: Towards a New Synthesis in Canadian History." Histoire Sociale/Social History XXVII, 53 (May 1994) pp. 1-32.

Justice in Colonial British Columbia:

British Columbia, Colony. British Columbia Proclamations and Ordinances. Victoria, 1865.

British Columbia, Colony. British Columbia Laws. Victoria, 1871.

Foster, Hamar. "'The Queen's Law is Better than Yours': International Homicide in Early British Columbia." Essays in the History of Canadian Law. Jim Phillips, Tina Loo and Susan Lethwaite, eds. Toronto: Osgoode Society, 1994, pp. 41-111.

Foster, Hamar. "Killing Mr. John: Law and Jurisdiction at Fort Stikine, 1842-1846." Law for the Elephant, Law for the Beaver. John McLaren, Hamar Foster and Chet Orloff, eds. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Society, 1992, pp. 147-193.

Herbert, R.G. "A Brief History of the Introduction of English Law into British Columbia." U.B.C. Legal Notes 2 (1954), pp. 93-100.

Loo, Tina. "The Road From Bute Inlet: Crime and Colonial Identity in British Columbia." Essays in the History of Canadian Law. Jim Phillips, Tina Loo and Susan Lethwaite, eds. Toronto: Osgoode Society, 1994, pp. 112-142.

Loo, Tina. Making Law, Order and Authority in British Columbia, 1821-1871. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994.

McLaren, John. "The Early British Columbia Judges: The Rule of Law and the 'Chinese Question': The California and Oregon Connection." Law for the Elephant, Law for the Beaver. John McLaren, Hamar Foster and Chet Orloff, eds. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Society, 1992, pp. 237-273.

Salt Spring Island:

Flucke, A.F. "Early Days on Saltspring Island." British Columbia Historical Quarterly. Vol. 15, no.s 3&4, 1951.

Hamilton, Beatrice. Salt Spring Island. Vancouver: Mitchell, 1969.

Hill, Beth et al. Times Past: Salt Spring Island Houses and History Before the Turn of the Century. Ganges: Salt Spring Island Historical Society, 1983.

Reimer, Derek. The Gulf Islanders. Victoria: Aural History Program, 1976.

Roberts, Eric. Salt Spring Saga: An Exciting Story of Pioneer Days. Ganges: Driftwood, c1962.

Toynbee, Richard Mouat. Snapshots of Early Salt Spring and Other Favoured Islands. Ganges: Mouats Trading Co., 1978.

Walter, Margaret. Early Days Among the Gulf Islands of B.C. Victoria, 1946.

Black Settlement on Vancouver Island:

Foner, Philip S. "The Coloured Inhabitants of Vancouver Island." B.C. Studies No. 8. Winter 1970-71. Includes an anonymous Black person's account of Victoria in the mid-1860s.

Gibbs, Mifflin Wistar. Shadow and Light: An Autobiography. New York: Arno Press, 1968. Gibbs' autobiography gives an account of the atmosphere in San Francisco which prompted the Black migration to B.C. Also describes, in a few glimpses, his time in B.C. before returning to the United States.

Howay, F.W. "The Negro Immigration into Vancouver Island in 1858." British Columbia Historical Quarterly. Vol. 3, 1939, pp. 101-113.

Irby, Charles. "Black Settlers on Salt Spring Island in the Nineteenth Century." Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Yearbook. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 1974, pp. 35-44.

Killian, Crawford. Go Do Some Great Thing: The Black Pioneers of B.C. Vancouver: Douglas and McIntyre, 1978.

Pilton, James W. "Negro Settlement in B.C., 1858-1871". Master's Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1951.

Reid. P.H. "Segregation in British Columbia". The Bulletin (United Church of Canada) Vol. 16 (1963), pp. 1-15.

Hawaiian Settlement:

Koppel, Tom. Kanaka, The Untold Story of Hawaiian Pioneers in British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest. Vancouver: Whitecap, 1995.

Lane, M. Melia. "Migration of Hawaiians to Coastal B.C., 1810-1869." Master's Thesis, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, 1985.

Native People:

Chemainus Tribal Council. Legends from the Chemainus Tribe. Chemainus Tribal Council, 1992.

Dolby B. Turner, ed. When the Rains Came, and Other Legends of the Salish People. Victoria: Orca Books, 1992.

Elliot, Dave. Saltwater People. Janet Poth, ed. Saanich, B.C.: Saanich School District 63, 1983.

Fisher, Robin. Contact and Conflict: Indian-European Relations in British Columbia, 1774-1890. University of British Columbia, 1992.

Lutz, John. "After the Fur Trade: The Aboriginal Labouring Class of British Columbia, 1849- 1890." Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 3 (1992), pp. 69-95.

Suttles, Wayne. Coast Salish Essays. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1987.

Suttles, Wayne. Economic Life of the Coast Salish of Haro and Rosario Straits. New York: Garland, 1974.