12 Pimping and Courtship: A 1940 Court Case from Northern British Columbia

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations, Figures, and Tables vii
4. Introduction 3
5. Exploring Relations of Power
6. ‘Relating to the Country’: The Lekwammen and the Extension of European Settlement, 1843–1911 17
7. Manifestations of Power: Native Resistance to the Resettlement of British Columbia 33
8. An Early Rural Revolt: The Introduction of the Canadian System of Tariffs to British Columbia, 1871–4 47
9. ‘Lessons in Living’: Film Propaganda and Progressive Education in Rural British Columbia, 1944 62
10. Land and Society
11. Negotiating Rural: Policy and Practice in the Settlement of Saltspring Island, 1859-91 83
12. Domesticating the Drybelt: Agricultural Settlement in the Hills around Kamloops, 1860–1960 102
13. Cougars, Colonists, and the Rural Settlement of Vancouver Island 120
14. The Worm in the Apple: Contesting the Codling Moth in British Columbia 142
15. Gender and Society
16. Invisible Women: Aboriginal Mothers and Mixed-Race Daughters in Rural Pioneer British Columbia 159
17. Bachelors in the Backwoods: White Men and Homosocial Culture in Up-Country British Columbia, 1858–71 180
18. Rurality Check: Demographic Boundaries on the British Columbia Frontier 195
19. Pimping and Courtship: A 1940 Court Case from Northern British Columbia 212
20. ‘You Would Have Had Your Pick’: Youth, Gender, and Jobs in Williams Lake, British Columbia, 1945–75 225
21. Notes 235
22. Contributors 283
23. Index 285