The Pacific Coast - The Taking and Making of the Lands now known as British Columbia

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This factsheet provides a rich overview and critical history of the processes involved in the colonial takeover of Indigenous lands and the creation of the place now known British Columbia as an English white settler colony /province.

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References

Manuel, Arthur, and Ronald M. Derrickson. "The lay of the Land." Unsettling Canada : a National Wake-up Call. 1-12. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2015.
Perry, A. (2000). "Hardy Backwoodsmen, Wholesomewomen, and Steady Families: Immigration and the Construction of a White Society in Colonial British Columbia, 1849-1871." Historie sociale / Social History 33, no. 66: pp. 343-360. https://hssh.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/hssh/article/view/4570
Sitara, Georgia. "The Lands Currently Called British Columbia." PowerPoint Presentation via the University of Victoria. Victoria, BC, Canada, Dec 3, 2020.
Stanley, T. J. (2016). "John A. MacDonald, 'the Chinese and Racist State Formation in Canada." Journal of Critical Race Inquiry 3, no. 1: pp. 6-34. DOI: 10.24908/jcri.v3i1.5974

Source Authors

Adele Perry, Timothy Stanley

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Keywords

Anti-Asian Racism, Atlantic, British settlers, Canada's Colonial History, Challenging Whiteness, Chinese Settlers, Colonial Exploitation, Colonial Violence, Colonialism, Colony, Confederation, Decolonization, Dispossession, Doctrine of Discovery, Electoral Franchise Act, European Settlers, Fort Victoria, hanging, Head Tax, History of Racism, Hudson's Bay Company, Indian Act, Indigenous Land Claims, Indigenous peoples, Indigenous Sovereignty, Interrupting Colonial Narratives, James, Land and Power, Nuclear family, Ongoing Colonialism, Pacific, peace and friendship agreements, Politics of Citizenship, Province, Racialization, racism, Racist Hierarchies, Racist Legislation, Residential Schools, Settler Colonialism, Settler-Indigenous Relations, Social Ideas and Power, Terra Nullius, Treaty History, Tsilhqot'in, White colonial fantasy, White Supremacy

Key Figures

Arthur Manuel

Locations

British Columbia

Themes

History