Physical Description:xxii, 314 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. print
Publisher:Vancouver : UBC Press, c1997.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [276]-307) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction -- Voices of smallpox around the Strait of Georgia -- Strategies of power in the Cordilleran fur trade -- The making of the Lower Mainland -- The Fraser canyon encountered -- A population geography of British Columbia in 1881 / with Robert Galois -- The struggle with distance -- Industry and the good life around Idaho Peak -- Farming and rural life / with David Demeritt -- Making an immigrant society.