Research Catalog

Title

British Columbia : patterns in economic, political and cultural development : selected readings / edited by Dickson M. Falconer.

Publication

Victoria, B.C. : Camosun College, 1982.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Falconer, Dickson M. (Dickson Moses), 1920-
• Camosun College.

Description

xii, 407 pages : maps; 24 cm

Subject

• British Columbia > History
• Colombie-Britannique > Histoire
• British Columbia

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-407).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

I. Historical Overview. Time and Pattern in British Columbia / H. Keith Ralston -- II. British Columbia Rediscovered. James Edward Fitzgerald versus the Hudson's Bay Company: The Founding of Vancouver Island / John S. Galbraith -- Canada and the New British Columbia / Margaret A. Ormsby -- A Critical Growth Cycle for Vancouver, 1900-1914 ; Seattle, Vancouver, and the Klondike / Norbert MacDonald -- Submarines, Princes and Hollywood Commandos, or at Sea in B.C. / J.M.S. Careless -- III. Resource Development. Rossland Camp / Elsie G. Turnbull -- Cominco and the Manhattan Project / D.C. Andrews -- Pioneer Days in the Pulp and Paper / Herbert Carmichael -- H.R. MacMillan 1885-1976 / Derek Pethick -- John Sullivan Deas: A Black Entrepreneur in British Columbia Salmon Canning -- Agricultural Development in British Columbia / Margaret A. Ormsby -- IV. Economics. Introduction: Notes on a Western Viewpoint / A.D. Scott -- Capital Movement, Foreign Ownership and Dependence on "Foreign Investment" in Canada and British Columbia / Philip A. Neher -- How Much Does Foreign Capital Matter? / John Helliwell and Jillian Broadbent -- Responding to the Japanese Challenge / Ezra F. Vogel -- V. Political Challenges. Hon. Amor de Cosmos / Sdney W. Jackman -- Progress, Prosperity and Politics: The Railway Policies of Richard McBride / Patricia E. Roy -- How B.C. Women won the Vote / Elizabeth Forbes -- British Columbia: Politics of Exploitation / Edwin R. Black -- VI. Cultural and Social Evolution. The Ryersonian Influence on the Public School System of British Columbia / F. Henry Johnson -- The Banning of a Book in British Columbia / Charles W. Humphries -- The Community College Concept / John D. Dennison -- Chinese and Canadian Influences on Chinese Politics in Vancouver, 1900-1947 / Edgar Wickberg -- The Japanese / John Norris -- Society Architecture and the Rockland "Set" 1890-1914 / Martin J. Segger -- Spirit and the Land 1929-1933: Emily Carr / Maria Tippett -- The British Columbia Department of Health and Welfare / Gregoire F. Avyot and R.D. Defries -- Information and Incentives: Peculiarities and the Health Care Market / Robert G. Evans.

OCLC

• 15976075
• SCSB-11234302

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library