Introduction
1 Voices of Smallpox around the Strait of Georgia
2 Strategies of Power in the Cordilleran Fur Trade
3 The Making of the Lower Mainland
4 The Fraser Canyon Encountered
5 A Population Geography of British Columbia in 1881 / with Robert Galois
6 The Struggle with Distance
7 Industry and the Good Life around Idaho Peak
8 Farming and Rural Life / with David Demeritt
9 Making an Immigrant Society
This book revises existing perceptions of the history and geography of British Columbia.
Cole Harris was born and raised in British Columbia and has been a distinguished member of the Department of Geography at UBC for many years. Currently the co-editor of BC Studies, he is especially well known as the editor of the first volume of the Historical Atlas of Canada: From the Beginning to 1800.
The Resettlement of British Columbia, analyzing the historical
geography of distance, disease, and multiculturalism, demonstrates
how elegantly and gracefully the social sciences can be
written.
*Canadian Literature*
An engaging provocative, introduction to the early history of the
province that only someone of {Harris's] experience and ability
could produce ... The Resettlement of British Columbia is a fine
book. Full of wonderful insights and candid observations, it offers
a nuanced look at the history of Canada's Pacific province ... What
distinguishes the collection, however, is Harris's challenge to the
reader to re-think some common assumptions, beliefs, and
attitudes.
*Western Historical Quarterly*
This is an important book, characterized by its broad, sometimes
breath-taking, intellectual and empirical sweep ... a provocative
and important book by someone who has given a great deal of thought
to the relationship between land and power in Canada.
*BC Studies*
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