Preface: Tracking Down History IntroductionOne: Multicultural Canada Starts with the Fur Trade WorldThe Colour-Blind CommonwealthBritish Columbia: Refuge for Political Exiles?The Forgotten Context of Canada' s Oldest ChinatownTwo: Early Treaty-Making on the Northwest CoastLost in Translation?The Forgotten Treaty-Making of Chief MaquinnaFort Rupert and the Forgotten Coalfields of SuquashFort Rupert and the Mystery of the Fort Victoria TreatiesThree: Becoming British ColumbiaWar in the New El Dorado and the Birth of British Columbia 70 " The Peculiar Circumstances of British Columbia" " Unembarrassed by a Shilling of Debt" The Alexandra Bridge ControversyJames Douglas' s Secret Mission to Find Gold 105 British Columbia' s Forgotten GovernorFour: British Columbia and the California ConnectionThe Third Great " Devil-Dance" B.C.' s Permeable BorderB.C., Latin America and the Monroe Doctrine" Dead Broke, a Borrowed Coat and Six Squashed Pies" 138 B.C. and the California " Bonanza Kings" Five: Canada on the Pacific SlopeCanada' s Westward Expansion to the Pacific Slope 164 The Battle of the RoutesB.C.

' s First Rural/Urban SplitAn Independent British Columbia?Six: Curious Artifacts and Confounding TalesThe Curious Story of Yale' s Garry Oak GroveThe Return of Chief Tsulpi' multw' s Ceremonial BlanketThe Mysterious Tale of a Lost " Haida" TreasureLost in the Mountains on Christmas DayThe Confounding Tale of a " Phantom City" The Strange Case of the Anomalous Artifact That Fell from the Sky 232 What Is This Gold Rush Curiosity?Seven: Three Extraordinary WomenThe Mysterious TravellerThe Flapper and the PremierMargaret A. Ormsby: A British Columbia InstitutionEight: B.C. Then and NowThe Land as History BookHiking the " Graveyard of the Pacific" " One of General Currie' s Boys!" British Columbia and the Pandemic of 1918 291 The Big One (So Far)The Great British Columbian DelugeBritish Columbia on FireAppendixSelect BibliographyIllustration Credits IndexAbout the Author.