Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Figures and Illustrations viii
4. Introduction xi
5. Voices of Smallpox around the Strait of Georgia 3
6. Strategies of Power in the Cordilleran Fur Trade 31
7. The Making of the Lower Mainland 68
8. The Fraser Canyon Encountered 103
9. A Population Geography of British Columbia in 1881 137
10. The Struggle with Distance 161
11. Industry and the Good Life around Idaho Peak 194
12. Farming and Rural Life 219
13. Making an Immigrant Society 250
14. Notes 276
15. Index 308