Voices of Smallpox around the Strait of Georgia

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 3
5. Early Encounters
6. The Fraser Canyon Encountered 21
7. Imagining and Claiming the Land 24
8. Voices of Smallpox around the Strait of Georgia 35
9. Early Settlements
10. Acadia: Settling the Marshlands 51
11. Of Poverty and Helplessness in Petite-Nation 67
12. The Settlement of Mono Township 95
13. The Architecture of Settlement
14. European Beginnings in the Northwest Atlantic 119
15. The Overseas Simplification of Europe 123
16. Creating Place in Early Canada 145
17. Reconfiguring British Columbia
18. The Making of the Lower Mainland 167
19. The Struggle with Distance 172
20. Indigenous Space 185
21. Theorizing Settler Colonialism
22. Making an Immigrant Society 201
23. How Did Colonialism Dispossess? 231
24. Postscript: The Boundaries of Settler Colonialism 265
25. Notes and Further Readings 286
26. Index 327