BC Studies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook BC Studies write by . This book was released on 1978. BC Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Go Do Some Great Thing
Go Do Some Great Thing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Go Do Some Great Thing write by Kilian Crawford. This book was released on 2020-10-10. Go Do Some Great Thing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Living in pre-Civil War Philadelphia, young Black activist Mifflin Gibbs was feeling disheartened from fighting the overwhelming tide of White America’s legalized racism when abolitionist Julia Griffith encouraged him to “go do some great thing.” These words helped inspire him to become a successful merchant in San Francisco, and then to seek a more just society in the new colony of Vancouver Island, where he was to become a prominent citizen and elected official. Gibbs joined a movement of Black American emigrants fleeing the increasingly oppressive and anti-Black Californian legal system in 1858. They hoped to establish themselves in a new country where they would have full access to the rights of citizenship and would be free to seek success and stability. Some six hundred Black Californians made the trip to Victoria in the midst of the Fraser River Gold Rush, but their hopes of finding a welcoming new home were ultimately disappointed. They were to encounter social segregation, disenfranchisement, limited employment opportunities and rampant discrimination. But in spite of the opposition and racism they faced, these pioneers played a pivotal role in the emerging province, establishing an all-Black militia unit to protect against American invasion, casting deciding votes in the 1860 election and helping to build the province as teachers, miners, artisans, entrepreneurs and merchants. Crawford Kilian brings this vibrant period of British Columbia’s history to life, evoking the chaos and opportunity of Victoria’s gold rush boom and describing the fascinating lives of prominent Black pioneers and trailblazers, from Sylvia Stark and Saltspring Island’s notable Stark family to lifeguard and special constable Joe Fortes, who taught a generation of Vancouverites to swim. Since its original publication in 1978, Go Do Some Great Thing has remained foundational reading on the history of Black pioneers in BC. Updated and with a new foreword by Adam Rudder, the third edition of this under-told story describes the hardships and triumphs of BC’s first Black citizens and their legacy in the province today. Partial proceeds from each copy sold will be donated to the Hogan's Alley Society.
Landscapes and Social Transformations on the Northwest Coast
Landscapes and Social Transformations on the Northwest Coast - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Landscapes and Social Transformations on the Northwest Coast write by Jeff Oliver. This book was released on 2010. Landscapes and Social Transformations on the Northwest Coast available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nordamerika - Kolonialzeit - Landschaft - Raumkonzepte - soziale Konstruktion.
Home Truths
Home Truths - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Home Truths write by Richard Mackie. This book was released on 2012. Home Truths available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. History in BC grows profusely and luxuriantly, but with odd undergrowth," observed historian J.M.S. Careless many years ago. This claim is fully borne out by this impressive anthology of some of the province's most distinguished historians, geographers, and writers gleaned from over forty years of British Columbia's leading scholarly journal, BC Studies. This collection includes fascinating articles on the Fraser Canyon by Cole Harris; on Fort Simpson, Metlakatla, and Port Essington by Daniel Clayton; on Victoria's early Chinese community by Patrick Dunae and others; on the eviction of Kitsilano and Squamish people from Vancouver and Stanley Park by Jean Barman; on early home design styles in Vancouver by Deryck Holdsworth; on the failed utopias of Wallachin and Sointula by Nelson Riis and Mikko Saikku; on life in a 1970s logging camp by Peter Harrison; on fly-fishing and dispossession at Penask Lake by Michael Thoms; and on the perennial lonesome prospector by Megan Davies. The overarching theme is provided by George Bowering in his classic essay, "Home Away," concerning the search for a home on the West Coast--a new one for settlers and an old one for indigenous peoples.
Civilian Internment in Canada
Civilian Internment in Canada - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Civilian Internment in Canada write by Rhonda L. Hinther. This book was released on 2020-02-28. Civilian Internment in Canada available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Civilian Internment in Canada initiates a conversation about not only internment, but also about the laws and procedures—past and present— which allow the state to disregard the basic civil liberties of some of its most vulnerable citizens. Exploring the connections, contrasts, and continuities across the broad range of civilian internments in Canada, this collection seeks to begin a conversation about the laws and procedures that allow the state to criminalize and deny the basic civil liberties of some of its most vulnerable citizens. It brings together multiple perspectives on the varied internment experiences of Canadians and others from the days of World War One to the present. This volume offers a unique blend of personal memoirs of “survivors” and their descendants, alongside the work of community activists, public historians, and scholars, all of whom raise questions about how and why in Canada basic civil liberties have been (and, in some cases, continue to be) denied to certain groups in times of perceived national crises.
