Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Analysing Gender and Race on the Edge of Empire 1
5. Chapter 1. ‘Poor Creatures Are We without Our Wives’: White Men and Homosocial Culture 20
6. Chapter 2. ‘The Prevailing Vice’: Mixed-Race Relationships 48
7. Chapter 3. Bringing Order to the Backwoods: Regulating British Columbia’s Homosocial Culture 79
8. Chapter 4. Marriage, Morals, and Segregation: Regulating Mixed-Race Relationships 97
9. Chapter 5. Land and Immigration, Gender and Race: Bringing White People to British Columbia 124
10. Chapter 6. ‘Fair Ones of a Purer Caste’: Bringing White Women to British Columbia 139
11. Chapter 7. ‘An Unspeakable Benefit?’: White Women in Colonial Society 167
12. Conclusion: Gender, Race, and Our Years on the Edge of Empire 194
13. Notes 203
14. References 251
15. Illustration credits 277
16. Index 279