Resettlement of British Columbia

Cole Harris was born and raised in British Columbia and has been a distinguished member of the Department of Geography at UBC for many years. Currently the co-editor of BC Studies, he is especially well known as the editor of the first volume of the Historical Atlas of Canada: From the Beginning to 1800.

The Resettlement of British Columbia, analyzing the historical geography of distance, disease, and multiculturalism, demonstrates how elegantly and gracefully the social sciences can be written. - W.H. New (Canadian Literature) An engaging provocative, introduction to the early history of the province that only someone of {Harris's] experience and ability could produce ... The Resettlement of British Columbia is a fine book. Full of wonderful insights and candid observations, it offers a nuanced look at the history of Canada's Pacific province ... What distinguishes the collection, however, is Harris's challenge to the reader to re-think some common assumptions, beliefs, and attitudes. - Bill Waiser (Western Historical Quarterly) This is an important book, characterized by its broad, sometimes breath-taking, intellectual and empirical sweep ... a provocative and important book by someone who has given a great deal of thought to the relationship between land and power in Canada. - Tina Loo (BC Studies)

• Introduction1 Voices of Smallpox around the Strait of Georgia2 Strategies of Power in the Cordilleran Fur Trade3 The Making of the Lower Mainland4 The Fraser Canyon Encountered5 A Population Geography of British Columbia in 1881 / with Robert Galois6 The Struggle with Distance7 Industry and the Good Life around Idaho Peak8 Farming and Rural Life / with David Demeritt9 Making an Immigrant Society