Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction vii
4. A Usable Past? New Questions, New Directions
5. “A Trading Shop So Crooked A Man Could Jump Through The Cracks” 3
6. Past Lives 21
7. The Orange Devil 39
8. State Of Shock 53
9. “And They May Get It Wrong, After All” 67
10. Unconventional Voices: Fiction Versus Recorded History
11. Windigo Killing 83
12. Telling A Better Story 99
13. The Racialization Of Canadian History 113
14. Turning The Tables 131
15. Literary Histories, Regional Contexts
16. “To Free Itself, And Find Itself” 151
17. “Old Lost Land” 167
18. Imagining Vancouvers 183
19. Too Little Geography; Too Much History 197
20. References 215
21. Contributors 237
22. Index 241