Introduction: Finding Rural British Columbia / R.WSandwell
Part 1: Exploring Relations of Power
1. 'Relating to the Country': The Lekwammen and theExtension of European Settlement, 1843-1911 / John Lutz
2. Manifestations of Power: Native Resistance to the Resettlement ofBritish Columbia / Bruce Stadfeld
3. An Early Rural Revolt: The Introduction of the Canadian System ofTariffs to British Columbia, 1871-4 / Daniel P. Marshall
4. 'Lessons in Living': Film Propaganda and ProgressiveEducation in Rural British Columbia, 1944 / Brian Low
Part 2: Land and Society
5. Reading the Land: Policy and Practice in the Settlement ofSaltspring Island, 1859-91 / R.W. Sandwell
6. Domesticating the Drybelt: Agricultural Settlement in the Hillsaround 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 BritishColumbia / David Dendy
Part 3: Gender and Society
9. Invisible Women: Aboriginal Mothers and Mixed-Race Daughters inRural Pioneer British Columbia / Jean Barman
10. Bachelors in the Backwoods: White Men and Homosocial Culture inUp-Country British Columbia, 1858-71 / Adele Perry
11. Rurality Check: Demographic Boundaries on the British ColumbianFrontier / John Douglas Belshaw
12. Pimping and Courtship: A 1940 Court Case from Northern BritishColumbia / David Peterson del Mar
13. 'You Would Have Had Your Pick': Youth, Gender, andJobs in Williams Lake, British Columbia, 1945-75 / Tony F.Arruda
Notes
Contributors
Index