British Columbia History Portal

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History Is Where You Stand: A History of the Peace

"The Calverley Collection represents half a lifetime of dedicated work by the late Dorthea Horton Calverley of Dawson Creek, British Columbia. Mrs. Calverley set out to bring together, in an organized...

http://www.calverley.ca/

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Images of a Forgotten War

Several years after a report by former National Archives of Canada moving image archivist Sam Kula to locate and identify all surviving World War One footage depicting Canadian operations, the Nationa...

http://www.nfb.ca/ww1

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John Davidson, the Legacy of a Canadian Botanist

Part of the Virtual Museum of Canada, this detailed virtual looks at the life of John (Botany John) Davidson (1878?1970), a Canadian botanist and educator. Among his most important accomplishments wer...

http://botanyjohn.org/

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Research and Publications Site of Dr. James McDonald

Web site of University of Northern British Columbia professor of anthropology and First Nations Studies, Dr. James Andrew McDonald, who is also a participant in the Kitsumkalum Social History Research...

http://mcdonald.unbc.ca/index.htm

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Socialist History Project

From the About page: "The purpose of the Socialist History Project is to make available key documents, manifestos, reminiscences and essays, by and about the revolutionary socialist movement in Canada...

http://www.socialisthistory.ca

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The Island of the Unclean: Race, Colonialism and Chinese Leprosy in British Columbia, 1891-1924

Refereed article that "explores the links between race, health, and nation through the making of D'Arcy Island, Canada's first and only Chinese leper colony. Located in Haro Strait, off the coast of V...

http://elj.warwick.ac.uk/global/issue/2003-1/mawani.htm

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