Introduction: Finding Rural British Columbia / R.W
Sandwell
Part 1: Exploring Relations of Power
1. ‘Relating to the Country’: The Lekwammen and the
Extension of European Settlement, 1843-1911 / John Lutz
2. Manifestations of Power: Native Resistance to the Resettlement of
British Columbia / Bruce Stadfeld
3. An Early Rural Revolt: The Introduction of the Canadian System of
Tariffs to British Columbia, 1871-4 / Daniel P. Marshall
4. ‘Lessons in Living’: Film Propaganda and Progressive
Education in Rural British Columbia, 1944 / Brian Low
Part 2: Land and Society
5. Reading the Land: Policy and Practice in the Settlement of
Saltspring Island, 1859-91 / R.W. Sandwell
6. Domesticating the Drybelt: Agricultural Settlement in the Hills
around Kamloops, 1860-1960 / Ken Favrholdt
7. Cougars, Colonists, and the Rural Settlement of Vancouver Island
/ Richard Mackie
8. The Worm in the Apple: Contesting the Codling Moth in British
Columbia / David Dendy
Part 3: Gender and Society
9. Invisible Women: Aboriginal Mothers and Mixed-Race Daughters in
Rural Pioneer British Columbia / Jean Barman
10. Bachelors in the Backwoods: White Men and Homosocial Culture in
Up-Country British Columbia, 1858-71 / Adele Perry
11. Rurality Check: Demographic Boundaries on the British Columbian
Frontier / John Douglas Belshaw
12. Pimping and Courtship: A 1940 Court Case from Northern British
Columbia / David Peterson del Mar
13. ‘You Would Have Had Your Pick’: Youth, Gender, and
Jobs in Williams Lake, British Columbia, 1945-75 / Tony F.
Arruda
Notes
Contributors
Index