University of the Fraser Valley
LIBRARY RESEARCH GUIDE:
History of British Columbia
Books ............................................... 1
Audiobooks..................................... 2
E-books .......................................... 2
DVDs .............................................. 3
Online Databases ........................... 4
Online Journals .............................. 4
Online Newspaper Databases ........ 5
Websites ......................................... 5
LC Subject Headings ...................... 6
Last Updated: April 1, 2014
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Books
Title: British Columbia: A New Historical Atlas
Author: Derek Haynes.
Call Number: G 1171 S1 H39 2012 Location: Reference Collection
This atlas contains 900 maps that were created by Aboriginal peoples,
explorers, gold seekers, fur traders, and railway builders over the course of
British Columbian history. The atlas provides a visual examination of the
exploration of Canada’s westernmost province.
Title: Home Truths: Highlights from BC History
Author: Richard Mackie and Graeme Wynn, editors
Call Number: N/A
Location: Just Received
An anthology of articles gleaned from scholarly journal BC Studies and
written by historians, writers, and geographers. The search for a home in
British Columbia ties the articles together thematically. This resource
includes maps and illustrations.
Title: The West Beyond the West: A History of British Columbia
Author: Jean Barman
Call Number: FC 3811 B36 1996
Location: Stacks
Barman gives a comprehensive overview of British Columbia’s history and
the province’s development by focusing on government leaders, women,
immigrants, and First Nations people.
Title: It Happened in British Columbia: An Illustrated Review of Some
Aspects of British Columbia's First 100 Years as a Canadian Province
Author: British Columbia Centennial ’71 Committee
Call Number: FC 3817.4 I82
Location: Stacks
Published by the BC Centennial Committee of 1971, this resource is a
pictorial review of some of the prominent incidents and people of British
Columbia’s first 100 years.
Title: The Encyclopedia of British Columbia
Author: Daniel Francis
Call Number: FC 3804 E52 2000
Location: Reference Collection
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This resource contains over 4,000 entries and includes hundreds of
photographs, maps, tables and charts, and is a source for authoritative
information on significant British Columbian people, places and things.
Title: First Invaders: The Literary Origins of British Columbia
Author: Alan Twigg
Call Number: FC 3821 T84 2004
Location: Stacks
First Invaders is a collection of entries about British Columbia's earliest
authors and explorers prior to 1800: navigators, settlers, and brides.
Twigg provides entries and bibliographies for more than 50 of the first
people to write about British Columbia and complements them with
extracts, photographs, and images.
Audiobooks
Title: Voices of British Columbia: Stories From Our Frontier
Author: Robert Budd
Call Number: N/A
Location: Just Received
This resource presents interviews conducted between 1959 and 1966 with
British Columbian pioneers. The resource combines text, archival
photographs, and the original interview recordings and is an excellent
source of primary information about British Columbia.
E-books
Note: E-books are accessible through UFV’s library catalogue.
Title: Becoming British Columbia: A Population History
Author: John Douglas Belshaw
This e-book presents a demographic history of British Columbia by
comprehensively addressing the overall demographic narrative, First
Nations depopulation, sex ratios, fertility, immigration and diversity, and
mortality. The author ties pertinent demographic moments and patterns
to social and political issues to demonstrate the shaping of British
Columbia.
Title: Where Mountains Meet the Sea: The History of Coastal British
Columbia
Author: Daniel Francis
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Written by the editor of the Encyclopedia of British Columbia, this e-book is
a narrative history of coastal British Columbia. It covers, among other
subjects, the arrival of the first Europeans, First Nations relations with early
settlers, the salmon fishery, mining, logging, whaling industries, and
significant persons.
Title: Vanishing British Columbia
Author: Michael Kluckner
This e-book is a record of British Columbia’s ‘roadside memory’. It presents
160 of author Michael Kluckner’s original paintings of the province’s old
buildings, historic places, small towns, and rural properties. It includes
historical commentary about each place, supplemented by postcards,
architectural plans, family letters, and photographs.
DVDs
Title: First Nations and First Settlers in the Fraser Valley (1890-1960)
Author: Yarrow Research Committee
Call Number: FC 3845 F73 F47 2003 DVD
Location: Heritage Collection
This resource records a conference held in Abbotsford in 2003. Conference
presenters use a blend of academic research papers, personal histories, and
original studies of the experiences of the First Nations, Japanese, Sikh and
Mennonite settlers to demonstrate the diverse development phases of the
Fraser Valley’s settlement.
Title: Canyon War: The Untold Story
Author: Wunderman Film, Inc.
Call Number: FC 3822.4 C36 2009 DVD
Location: Video Collection
This documentary covers the Fraser River War fought in 1858 between
Natives and non-Natives during the height of the Fraser River Gold Rush.
Based on research by Dr. Daniel Marshall, the documentary, shot on
location, describes the diplomatic efforts of Henry Snyder and Chief
Spintlum of the Nlaka'pamux First Nation, and discusses the war's lasting
legacy.
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Online Databases
Note: Online databases are accessible through UFV Library’s
Research Databases List.
CBCA: Canadian Business and Current Affairs
CBCA indexes articles from Canadian Journal of History, BC Studies,
Canadian Issues, and B.C. Historical News. These peer-reviewed
journals and magazine present book reviews, original research,
government publications, theses, and other articles on a diverse range of
British Columbian issues past and present.
Online Journals
Note: Accessible through UFV Library’s Journals List.
British Columbia Historical Quarterly
This publication has full text and ran from 1937-1958. It includes reports,
government publications, theses, and full text articles relating to the
history of British Columbia, covering political, economic, and social
issues.
British Columbia History
Formerly B.C. Historical News, this journal provides essays, reviews,
memoirs, and articles relating to the political, social, economic, and
cultural history of British Columbia. Available through UFV’s Journals
List, there is coverage from 1986 to present and full text from 1992 to
present.
Online Newspaper
Database
Note: Available through UFV’s Research Databases.
British Columbia Historical Newspapers
This resource consists of digitized full text newspapers from 1865 to 1924.
It gives searchable access to 24 newspapers from different regions in
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British Columbia, including Vancouver, Revelstoke, Merrit, Kelowna, Fort
Steele, Bella Coola, Grand Forks, and Abbotsford.
Globe and Mail: Canada’s History from 1844
This resource gives users access to the digitized full text of The Globe and
Mail from its inception in 1844 to 2010, and provides searchable articles,
classifieds, obituaries, and coverage of events.
Websites:
BC Royal Museum Archives
Royal Museum Archives:
URL: http://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/bcarchives/
British Columbia Archives Genealogy:
URL: http://search.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/sn-4FE275C/
The Royal Museum Archives provides historical information on B.C’s natural
and human history, including fossils, plants, archaeology, ethnology, and
modern history.
BC Local History Bibliography
URL:http://webcat1.library.ubc.ca:7108/vwebv/search?searchCode=GKEY
&limitTo=LOCA=BC+Local+Histories+Bibliography
Provided by UBC, this is an extensive bibliography of publications about the
history of specific towns and regions in B.C. It includes a link to the UBC
historical photographs collection.
Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs: Online Resources
URL: http://www.ubcic.bc.ca/Resources/#axzz2wRWgOKcy
The UBCIC Resource Centre supports land claims research by and for First
Nations in British Columbia. Their online resources include UBCIC
publications and newsletters, conference proceedings, land claim
documentation, memos, and reports, historical timelines, and indigenous
occupancy-and-use map surveys.
British Columbia Historical Photographs Online
URL: http://aabc.ca/resources/historical-photographs/
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Maintained by the Archives Association of British Columbia, this
resource provides online access to thousands of searchable historical
photograph collections, galleries, and databases from towns, cities,
libraries, museums, universities, and archives. An excellent visual
historical resource about British Columbia.
Call Number Range:
Note: Browse for other materials on BC History between these call
numbers in the library stacks.
FC3800—FC3845
LC Subject Headings:
Note: Search the library catalogue using these subject headings to
find more materials on BC History.
British Columbia—Discovery and exploration—Early works to 1800
British Columbia—Discovery and exploration—Maps
British Columbia—Historical geography—Maps
British Columbia—History
British Columbia—History—Sources
Explorers—British Columbia—Biography—Early works to 1800
Frontier and pioneer life—British Columbia
Oral history—British Columbia
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