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Book Contact Zones

    Book Details:
  • Author : Myra Rutherdale
  • Publisher : UBC Press
  • Release : 2011-11-01
  • ISBN : 0774840269
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book Contact Zones written by Myra Rutherdale and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As both colonizer and colonized (sometimes even simultaneously), women were uniquely positioned at the axis of the colonial encounter � the so-called "contact zone" � between Aboriginals and newcomers. Aboriginal women shaped identities for themselves in both worlds. By recognizing the necessity to "perform," they enchanted and educated white audiences across Canada. On the other side of the coin, newcomers imposed increasing regulation on Aboriginal women's bodies. Contact Zones provides insight into the ubiquity and persistence of colonial discourse. What bodies belonged inside the nation, who were outsiders, and who transgressed the rules � these are the questions at the heart of this provocative book.

Book Spuzzum

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  • Author : Andrea Lynne Laforet
  • Publisher : UBC Press
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780774806671
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book Spuzzum written by Andrea Lynne Laforet and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living along the banks of the Fraser River in southwestern British Columbia, the Nlaka’pamux people of Spuzzum have ahd a long history of contact with non-Aboriginal peoples. In 1808 they hosted Simon Fraser as an overnight guest. Later they watched as fur traders searched for transport routes through the mountains of the Fraser Canyon, and saw miners, settlers, and merchants flood into their country during and after the gold rush. Since then, the Nlaka’pamux have found themselves in the path of the Cariboo Road, the Canadian Pacific Railway, and virtually every other commercial and province-building initiative undertaken in the region. Spuzzum is about the response of an Aboriginal community to events beginning with Simon Fraser’s visit in 1808 and ending with the Second World War. Based on a long collaboration between ethnologist Andrea Laforet and the late Annie York, a Nlaka’pamux resident of Spuzzum, this book gives voice and shape to the people who created, and re-created, the life of this community during this time. Encounters between Spuzzum people and Europeans are explored through narratives, personal memories, and family albums of Spuzzum people, as well as through missionaries’ journals, explorers’ accounts, and other archival records. In the final chapter Andrea Laforet examines both Nlaka’pamux and European ways of knowing the past in the context of current literature from anthropology, history, and ethnohistory. In the wake of the decisions in the Delgamuukw case, the construction and interpretation of the past in both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal societies has become an issue of vital importance. In examining the history of the community in this light, Spuzzum makes a significant original contribution to the study of First Nations history and ethnohistory.

Book On the Edge of Empire

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  • Author : Adele Perry
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2001-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780802083364
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book On the Edge of Empire written by Adele Perry and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perry examines the efforts of a loosely connected group of reformers to transform a colonial environment into one that more closely adhered to the practices of respectable, middle-class European society.

Book The British Columbia Historical Quarterly

Download or read book The British Columbia Historical Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Vancouver Centennial Bibliography

Download or read book Vancouver Centennial Bibliography written by Frances M. Woodward and published by The Society. This book was released on 1986 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Tour of Duty in the Pacific Northwest

Download or read book A Tour of Duty in the Pacific Northwest written by Edwin A. Porcher and published by Fairbanks, Alaska : University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her commander's numerous duties included official excursions into British Columbia's interior, policing and dispensing the Queen's Justice to the Indians, and attending the numerous social occasions at which a presentable representative of the Royal Navy made a most welcome addition. Porcher faithfully recorded it all, down to the precise amount of coal the vessel consumed.".

Book Canada  an Encyclop  dia of the Country  Rebellion of 1837 and constitutional development  Seigneurial tenure and clergy reserve questions  Provincial educational systems  Waterways  canals  shipping and steamship lines  Mines and minerals  History of the Congregational and Baptist churches

Download or read book Canada an Encyclop dia of the Country Rebellion of 1837 and constitutional development Seigneurial tenure and clergy reserve questions Provincial educational systems Waterways canals shipping and steamship lines Mines and minerals History of the Congregational and Baptist churches written by John Castell Hopkins and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Changing Roles of Women Within the Christian Church in Canada

Download or read book Changing Roles of Women Within the Christian Church in Canada written by Elizabeth Gillan Muir and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canadian religious history has been written with relatively little reference to the role of women. Throughout the years, the church itself has intensified this problem by restricting the options of women -- excluding them from the most valued roles and positions. In the past, Christian women were obliged to find alternative avenues for the expression of their faith and, as a result, their experience has been unusually rich and varied. This pioneering anthology traces the history of Canadian women in the Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Protestant traditions from the early days through the 1960s. Seventeen Canadian scholars tell the stories of individuals who have worked in traditional and non-traditional roles, alone and as members of groups, both within and outside church structures. All of the articles present new or little-known material, relating the faith, determination, and inventiveness of women whose experience has so far been overlooked. The volume includes an introductory overview of women's church work as well as a comprehensive bibliography of papers and books published about women in the Christian church in Canada, both in English and French. The incorporation of feminist analysis and an emphasis on gender issues set this collection apart from all other studies of Canadian church history. A unique and valuable book, it not only fills a void in the chronicles of religion, it adds an important new dimension to Canadian history.

Book Dictionary Catalogue of the Library of the Provincial Archives of British Columbia  Victoria

Download or read book Dictionary Catalogue of the Library of the Provincial Archives of British Columbia Victoria written by Provincial Archives of British Columbia. Library and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Positioning the Missionary

Download or read book Positioning the Missionary written by Brett Christophers and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Positioning the Missionary examines Anglican missionary work in nineteenth-century British Columbia. Its chief protagonists are John Booth Good, an agent of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, and the Nlha7kapmx poeple of southwestern B.C. Asking why the Nkha7kapmx embraced Good, how he sought to evangelize and civilize them, and how they responded, it situates Good's mission at several scales: the local ethnographic literature; histories of contact and conflict in mainland B.C. from the early nineteenth century; the theology and sociology of mission; and the recent critical literature on European colonialism. Christophers rethinks mission work in the light of contemporary theories of colonial discourse and disciplinary power, and speculates about the interpretative potential of such concepts. In addition to Good's encounter with the Nlha7kapmx, Positioning the Missionary also refers to other colonial missions, identifying by turns the peculiarity of Good's experience and the ways in which it conforms to broader patterns of mission history. As a reflection on the ongoing politics of colonialism, this book discusses Good's contribution to the devastation of Nlha7kapmx culture and his duplicitous role in the appropriation of Nlha7kapmx lands.

Book The Year Book of British Columbia and Manual of Provincial Information

Download or read book The Year Book of British Columbia and Manual of Provincial Information written by R. Edward Gosnell and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: