Claiming the Land: British Columbia and the Making of a New El Dorado
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This trailblazing history of early British Columbia focuses on the 1858 Fraser River gold rush. Marshall's detailed account becomes an adventure, prospecting the rich pay streaks of B.C.'s " founding" event and the gold fever that gripped populations all along the Pacific Slope. In doing so, Marshall unsettles many of our romanticized assumptions about the Fraser rush. He shows how foreign miner-militias crossed the 49th parallel, taking the law into their own hands and conducting extermination campaigns against Indigenous peoples. Drawing on new evidence, Marshall explores the three principal cultures of the goldfields: those of the fur trade (both Indigenous and the Hudson's Bay Company); the Californian; and the British. The year 1858 was a year of chaos unlike any other in Pacific Northwest history. It produced not only violence but the formal inauguration of colonialism, Native reserves, and, ultimately, the expansion of Canada to the Pacific Slope -- leaving Indigenous sovereignty waiting for a full resolution.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:155380502X
ISBN13:9781553805021
Release Date:June 2018
Publisher:Ronsdale Press
Length:406 Pages
Weight:1.35 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 5.9" x 8.8"
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